As for people being happy with it I can tell you that most aren't once they realize what the problem issue. Working in tech support it took me a bit to figure out that people really didn't understand what it was or what it did.
I find comparing it to dirt and 'ad aware' or 'spybot' to a "vacuum cleaner". You need to vacuum in a house full of kids and the more 'reckless' you are online the more often you need to 'vacuum' your computer. I ask people if they would be happy with a $1,000 carpet stained from lack of vacuuming when vacuuming once a week would keep it 'clean'. More often than not they happily remedy their problem.
When flash eventually becomes cheap enough that I can put my music collection on it I'll consider an alternative. Removing the harddrive from the equation will offer a bit more durability and long term health.
I really don't see any advantage to buying something other then a 'proven' iPod when all other comparable products will cost the same price.
During the Olympics, North America ip addresses were blocked from watching much of what was available to Europeans. This was done so that NBC could retain there rights. This seems to be something that could easily be considered for links to works that are not 'legal' everywhere.
The August 17th article on this pages discusses this. http://ice.citizenlab.org/archives/2004_08. html
MS caters to the masses.....to the people who don't change their own oil. The average users buys a computer to surf. They get windows for ease of use. Windows has, like it or not, as a central feature IE. To ask a user to follow the 6 steps you have outlined is taking away from that ease of use.
Not use one of the central features? Use a firewall and have to figure out once a month why something can't connect? Add the 3 maintenance scans you suggest (updates, anti virus, spyware) and the intimidated user is bowled over.
If the vast majority WILL vote Republican it is even MORE imperative the minority be protected. Which is what the article is about. A person who is a member of any minority often feels pressure to conform. As the grandparent implied - the pressure is strong to vote Republican if your vote is public and the majority around you - the people you require to be your friends if you want to survive are angry at your political beliefs.
I believe most accidents happen in cities, and likely at speeds under 50mph. What good does this do for an insurance company to see that I often drive at 55mph or 60mph when I could quite likely be highway driving.
45mph in a 30mph zone is far more dangerous than 65mph in a 60mph zone. How can the device KNOW the speed limit when compared with the speed driven?
Exactly. And the half the windows users don't know any better neither.
Last time I was in Future shop I watched a guy pay them to remove his spyware AND to wipe his system and reinstall windows.
There's a pretty good chance that someone silly enough to pay to fix a problem (spyware) that will be solved with a wipe/reinstall would be having issues with Linux too.....but it's not an OS issue...it's a user issue........
I might also add that sales people who are making a commission might lean towards windows to sell the user a few $$$$ worth of games/antivirus, etc.......
I've got an older compaq armada 1750. It's a pentium 2 with 128mb of RAM and I use a CATV 10mbit usb network device to connect to my ADSL and local network.
EVERYTHING works fine - touch pad included with a default Mandrake 9 install.
EVERY version of windows I've tried requires me to install drivers for everthing to work fine - and the CATV device is one of those......which means I'm not able to connect to the internet to grab the drivers I need. This includes XP (which runs to slow on it and didnt' last long) win98, and win2000 which resides on there now.
I'm not sure this is an option that the average windows user (and almost anyone sending out spam on their virus laden pc uses windows) would find simple.
Working as a support tech and dealing with mainly connectivity issues, I've learned that the number one issue blocking users from desirable online actities or access itself is a firewall. It used to be that the first troubleshooting step was to check the connections. Now it's become, check for firewalls.
I'm not sure the average windows user would find this a simple solution.
"The point is that you won't necessarily be able to remember why you drove through downtown Pensacola 3 months ago if you visited Pensacola often. And this lack of an alibi will serve to incriminate you in the eyes of many law enforcement individuals. That is the scary part"
You talk of the problem with intro but don't touch the meat. You simply can't recall every non - event in your life. By taking a picture without notification it is a non - event. Then when a person is notified of their offence (or that they were in some Florida town and asked why) they cannot defend themselves or explain why they were there.
The bad thing is that you get a ticket and you "find out" you were caught apparently speeding about 2 months later. This was how photo radar generally worked in Canada.
How can you defend yourself against a charge like that? You may very well not have been speeding but how can you actually recall what speed you were going at 4:15 in the afternoon 42 days ago.
When you are pulled over by a cop you at least know what happened - the possibility that the radar was defective because you damn well know how fast you were going - or that the radar might have been pointed at the car that just passed you.
The point is that you won't necessarily be able to remember why you drove through downtown Pensacola 3 months ago if you visited Pensacola often. And this lack of an alibi will serve to incriminate you in the eyes of many law enforcement individuals. That is the scary part.
In Canada, where we don't have the death penalty, we have used this same logic. How can we send a person to the US to possibly suffer a punishment that we don't feel is just?
The US government is being consistent on this. Their arguement tends to be - you committed (or possibly) a crime in a particular country and you should follow that countries rules.
I am not sure I totally agree with this. And it is certainly open to abuse. But so are lots of recent US laws.
"New Hampshire is "two-party consent state" -- one of those jurisdictions that requires all parties to a conversation to consent before the conversation can be intercepted or recorded. "
The law is not meaningless as long as you sign an agreement. The law requires that you agree. You are missing the point or did not even read the topic.
It is currently 11:23. Maybe a minute or two later by the time I post this but.......people don't just read slashdot from one time zone.
As for Food online, surely someone has a tale or two about some 'high speed' chili.......
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it's April Fools day, but....... you never know.
If this is true it will be bad for one reason.
The Usenet has always been a place where those in the 'know' could go to grab or share stuff. Making this mainstream will make this a target as well. If this were to ever become the new 'napster' it would only be a matter of time before laws would start to pop up to deal with it.
If you follow the government link you will see the rules are stated differently. The original link contends that "music" must be Canadian. I'm not sure which is correct but I was under the idea (having worked in a volunteer position in sports broadcasting for a local small radio station) that "up to" 35% of the content played on the radio from 6am to midnight" had to be Canadian.
Anyone who listens to daytime radio can verify that a good portion of it isn't music. I can say that one of the reasons that the radio station covered this live sporting event was so that they could air 3 hours of Canadiana per day. That allowed for 6 fulls hours of free playing. It was my understanding as well that locally produced advertising and the DJ's themselves were considered Canadian content. The link that you gave and the link that I gave are confusing on this.
"In general, 35% of the sound recordings played on a radio station between 6 a.m. and midnight must qualify as "Canadian content" as defined by the MAPL system."
Regardless.....we do have laws that force our radio stations to air Canadian content. This is not in doubt.
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At least the first line of the article actually says it's 5 GB.
Or course, reading the article doesn't happen often enough it seems.
And more important....the source is not open....so you don't have the opportunity as an individual or as a community to fix them yourself.
And the Movie studio states clearly that they only uploaded '30 seconds' worth of the information before disconnecting from the torrent.
It is incredibly common for studios to offer samples of their work without compromising their rights to to it.
Azureus doesn't have spyware.
As for people being happy with it I can tell you that most aren't once they realize what the problem issue. Working in tech support it took me a bit to figure out that people really didn't understand what it was or what it did.
I find comparing it to dirt and 'ad aware' or 'spybot' to a "vacuum cleaner". You need to vacuum in a house full of kids and the more 'reckless' you are online the more often you need to 'vacuum' your computer. I ask people if they would be happy with a $1,000 carpet stained from lack of vacuuming when vacuuming once a week would keep it 'clean'. More often than not they happily remedy their problem.
When flash eventually becomes cheap enough that I can put my music collection on it I'll consider an alternative. Removing the harddrive from the equation will offer a bit more durability and long term health.
I really don't see any advantage to buying something other then a 'proven' iPod when all other comparable products will cost the same price.
Where's the advantage?
During the Olympics, North America ip addresses were blocked from watching much of what was available to Europeans. This was done so that NBC could retain there rights. This seems to be something that could easily be considered for links to works that are not 'legal' everywhere.
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The August 17th article on this pages discusses this.
http://ice.citizenlab.org/archives/2004_08
And playing with the Universities bandwidth hurts who?
Not likely anyone who's responsible for the censorship.
The Prime Minister of Canada actually did say "died saving his country".
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Probably just a bit of a slip of the tongue but the quote was correct.
<URL:http://www.google.ca/news?hl=en&ned=ca&q=s
Finally an article that'll get read.
If only they were all cartoons.....
"State elections officials also said Wednesday that they are confident they can protect the system from a decidedly lower-tech threat.
:P
Elections administrator Linda Lamone said" that monkeys will be prevented from accessing the machines during the elections.....
Viruses do mutate.
Just need a little bit of help from humans.
How many mutations of sasser have we seen?
Actually....I'd bet more viruses are mutations then original.
Minimal effort?
MS caters to the masses.....to the people who don't change their own oil. The average users buys a computer to surf. They get windows for ease of use. Windows has, like it or not, as a central feature IE. To ask a user to follow the 6 steps you have outlined is taking away from that ease of use.
Not use one of the central features? Use a firewall and have to figure out once a month why something can't connect? Add the 3 maintenance scans you suggest (updates, anti virus, spyware) and the intimidated user is bowled over.
If the vast majority WILL vote Republican it is even MORE imperative the minority be protected. Which is what the article is about. A person who is a member of any minority often feels pressure to conform. As the grandparent implied - the pressure is strong to vote Republican if your vote is public and the majority around you - the people you require to be your friends if you want to survive are angry at your political beliefs.
Isn't this the very reason votes are private?
How can this work.......
I believe most accidents happen in cities, and likely at speeds under 50mph. What good does this do for an insurance company to see that I often drive at 55mph or 60mph when I could quite likely be highway driving.
45mph in a 30mph zone is far more dangerous than 65mph in a 60mph zone. How can the device KNOW the speed limit when compared with the speed driven?
Exactly. And the half the windows users don't know any better neither.
Last time I was in Future shop I watched a guy pay them to remove his spyware AND to wipe his system and reinstall windows.
There's a pretty good chance that someone silly enough to pay to fix a problem (spyware) that will be solved with a wipe/reinstall would be having issues with Linux too.....but it's not an OS issue...it's a user issue........
I might also add that sales people who are making a commission might lean towards windows to sell the user a few $$$$ worth of games/antivirus, etc.......
I've got an older compaq armada 1750. It's a pentium 2 with 128mb of RAM and I use a CATV 10mbit usb network device to connect to my ADSL and local network.
EVERYTHING works fine - touch pad included with a default Mandrake 9 install.
EVERY version of windows I've tried requires me to install drivers for everthing to work fine - and the CATV device is one of those......which means I'm not able to connect to the internet to grab the drivers I need. This includes XP (which runs to slow on it and didnt' last long) win98, and win2000 which resides on there now.
Absolutely.
I'm not sure this is an option that the average windows user (and almost anyone sending out spam on their virus laden pc uses windows) would find simple.
Working as a support tech and dealing with mainly connectivity issues, I've learned that the number one issue blocking users from desirable online actities or access itself is a firewall. It used to be that the first troubleshooting step was to check the connections. Now it's become, check for firewalls.
I'm not sure the average windows user would find this a simple solution.
My argument was
"The point is that you won't necessarily be able to remember why you drove through downtown Pensacola 3 months ago if you visited Pensacola often. And this lack of an alibi will serve to incriminate you in the eyes of many law enforcement individuals. That is the scary part"
You talk of the problem with intro but don't touch the meat. You simply can't recall every non - event in your life. By taking a picture without notification it is a non - event. Then when a person is notified of their offence (or that they were in some Florida town and asked why) they cannot defend themselves or explain why they were there.
The bad thing is that you get a ticket and you "find out" you were caught apparently speeding about 2 months later. This was how photo radar generally worked in Canada.
How can you defend yourself against a charge like that? You may very well not have been speeding but how can you actually recall what speed you were going at 4:15 in the afternoon 42 days ago.
When you are pulled over by a cop you at least know what happened - the possibility that the radar was defective because you damn well know how fast you were going - or that the radar might have been pointed at the car that just passed you.
The point is that you won't necessarily be able to remember why you drove through downtown Pensacola 3 months ago if you visited Pensacola often. And this lack of an alibi will serve to incriminate you in the eyes of many law enforcement individuals. That is the scary part.
In Canada, where we don't have the death penalty, we have used this same logic. How can we send a person to the US to possibly suffer a punishment that we don't feel is just?
The US government is being consistent on this. Their arguement tends to be - you committed (or possibly) a crime in a particular country and you should follow that countries rules.
I am not sure I totally agree with this. And it is certainly open to abuse. But so are lots of recent US laws.
Something tells me that if they oust Darl he'll.......
Sue.
"New Hampshire is "two-party consent state" -- one of those jurisdictions that requires all parties to a conversation to consent before the conversation can be intercepted or recorded. "
The law is not meaningless as long as you sign an agreement. The law requires that you agree. You are missing the point or did not even read the topic.
It is currently 11:23. Maybe a minute or two later by the time I post this but.......people don't just read slashdot from one time zone.
As for Food online, surely someone has a tale or two about some 'high speed' chili.......
it's April Fools day, but....... you never know.
If this is true it will be bad for one reason.
The Usenet has always been a place where those in the 'know' could go to grab or share stuff. Making this mainstream will make this a target as well. If this were to ever become the new 'napster' it would only be a matter of time before laws would start to pop up to deal with it.
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/pubs/can-con/can_ con.html
If you follow the government link you will see the rules are stated differently. The original link contends that "music" must be Canadian. I'm not sure which is correct but I was under the idea (having worked in a volunteer position in sports broadcasting for a local small radio station) that "up to" 35% of the content played on the radio from 6am to midnight" had to be Canadian.
Anyone who listens to daytime radio can verify that a good portion of it isn't music. I can say that one of the reasons that the radio station covered this live sporting event was so that they could air 3 hours of Canadiana per day. That allowed for 6 fulls hours of free playing. It was my understanding as well that locally produced advertising and the DJ's themselves were considered Canadian content. The link that you gave and the link that I gave are confusing on this.
"In general, 35% of the sound recordings played on a radio station between 6 a.m. and midnight must qualify as "Canadian content" as defined by the MAPL system."
Regardless.....we do have laws that force our radio stations to air Canadian content. This is not in doubt.