A lot of the time it seems people would rather not know, or be dismissive of their risk because they just simply cannot comprehend the details or do not want to. There is nothing else you can do for them. Someone once said about people: you can explain it to them, they will understand it, and then they will ignore it.
Nothing to get your panties in a twist over. I'm sure Gnome/KDE/XFWM will still be available from the repos no matter what canonical does. Besides, it's not like you can't still download Xubuntu, or Kubuntu and install Gnome there.
I tried vmware and it just pissed me off everytime there was an OS kernel update. Would have to recompile the vmware modules and half the time they wouldn't work. The last straw with vmware was clock skew problems on the guests. I had to practically sync the clock every *minute* in order to keep the guest clock from getting out of whack. Even using Chrony didn't keep it synced well. VMware had a lot of messages on it's forum about the problem but never did anything about it.
I use Linux KVM now and will never go back to closed source crap. They can keep their black boxes, I don't want them. If you install Linux virt-manager, you get a nice gui for managing your guests (if GUI is your gig) and if you are CLI crackhead, then you can use virsh or numerous other command line utils to manage things.
Frankly, there's no reason I can see to use closed source virtualization. It's just too much of a headache.
"Apple Computer supplies their own version of Java. "
This is just Apple ensuring you will never run android apps on any of their stuff. If they cripple the java interpreter, they maintain control over what you run on the platform. Welcome to iWorld.
Or enough for 100 people who wouldn't otherwise have.8 gals of water a day to drink.
TFA written by a Windows magazine editor?
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I figured microsoft had more to worry about right now than FUD'ing up the linux arena with Paid-for blogging*, but meh.
Desktop Linux works for me, and has been since 1997. If you don't like it, don't use it. Be thankful you have alternatives. If it weren't for *nix, you probably wouldn't.
so they plan on unzipping every zip zile, decoding every pdf and docx, sfw and every other crap-laden file format 'export to' option? Not to mention parsing email attachments in god-knows-what format (can't trust the mimetype header)? And where is the cpu time coming from? Do you expect users to sit there while their laptop turns into a george foreman grill? I just don't see how any of this is possible given most infrastructures.
You won't find a lot of democrats. Many people have, or still do, eat squirrel and don't be surprised if things close down early for the Deer season. Employee pot-lucks are common and usually the older of the female office staff have a hand in organizing things as well as cooking most of the stuff. It will be rare that you encounter co-workers with any sort of a degree. Most have gotten where they are by moving through the ranks. There are a lot of family owned businesses run in peculiar ways. Everyone knows someone who used to own a farm and had to sell it to some Corn King out of California because they couldn't compete. People are generally friendly and pretty easy-going and christmas bonuses are generally in the form of Walmart or local store-owner gift certificates. I wouldn't want to go back to it unless I had to. It's too monoculture-y for me.
Most people wielding power eventually turn into corrupt bastards. If you set-out to be a corrupt bastard right from the get-go, you save a lot of wasted time.
depends if god is actively influencing the soccer players/puppet. Free will is like when your 4-year-old says they want to choose between ice cream or cookies for dessert and then they bitch about wanting ice cream after they ate the cookies. Free will is about uninfluenced choice. Knowing the outcome along doesn't necessarily influence choice.
The last thing corporate interest wants is a video format which is open and available to everyone. Expect the barrage of crap over HTML5 to continue. The article says nothing about the details of what's so "bad" about HTML5. The best they could come up with is:
"which large amounts of data can be collected and stored on the user's hard drive while online. Because of that process, advertisers and others could, experts say, see weeks or even months of personal data. That could include a user's location, time zone, photographs, text from blogs, shopping cart contents, e-mails and a history of the Web pages visited."
How is this any different than the current 150MB of cache sitting on everyone's comp? The best source they could come up with was an out-of-context quote from someone at the World Privacy Forum and some freelance programmer from New York?? Sorry, but the security issues with HTML5 are going to be in the implementation layer -- just like Flash, Silverlight, or Active-X. With security, it's rarely the technology which is at fault, it's the way the technology is used in the codebase.
I don't subscribe to the Apple kool-aid, but in all fairness there are plenty of phones out there that just simply suck for design reasons. I'm on my fifth Palm Pre in one year (lucky I have insurance). One with slider problems, two the power button stopped working, and the last one the modem went to hell on it. Seems like these gadgets are not made to last long.
they are taking down a website which violated their TOS. Maybe we don't agree with their subjectivity but they are taking much more appropriate measures instead of getting all fundamental extremist over it.
"Almost all SCADA systems are -- for safety reasons -- standalone: not connected to a network, let alone the Internet."
should actually read:
"In theory, almost all SCADA systems are -- for safety reasons -- standalone: not connected to a network, let alone the Internet."
Basically, whenever you get successful, someone is going to sue you for something. Litigation, in the USA anyway, has turned into a business strategy. It's a pretty extravagant burden on taxpayers these days since the economy is already screwed. Look how long the SCO debacle has dragged on: Mar, 6th 2003. I Wonder how much just that one case has cost taxpayers. And no, I don't think SCO will not pay those costs if they file (have filed?) for bankruptcy. These stupid lawsuits gotta stop.
A lot can change on a planet in 180,000 years. In only 100 or so, we've pretty well toasted this one. Besides, putting all the money, effort and resources into a trip which will take that long just isn't worth the risk vs. cost. There is too much we don't know about the universe to embark on something like that with our current knowledge level.
Why not just use the encryption based on gpg or some other existing open source encryption method? Anytime you give a bunch of programmers a chance to reinvent the wheel, you need to go through the exact same evolutionary process that the existing wheels went through. So why is it that companies keep doing so and ending up shooting themselves in the foot?
rich people with money to burn. Just like every other cool piece of tech that promises insane fuel economy, or can go 100 miles on just lemon juice and tinfoil. Wake me up when the auto manufacturers come up with something under 20k.
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Because it will affect their monopoly, which is anti-capitalist. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto,_Genetic_Pollution_and_Monopolism
A lot of the time it seems people would rather not know, or be dismissive of their risk because they just simply cannot comprehend the details or do not want to. There is nothing else you can do for them. Someone once said about people: you can explain it to them, they will understand it, and then they will ignore it.
Hmm TFA is a day newer than that link though.
Perhaps Iran is the only one infected who made it public knowledge.
However the article may be in both precise, as well as imprecise, states at the same time.
Nothing to get your panties in a twist over. I'm sure Gnome/KDE/XFWM will still be available from the repos no matter what canonical does. Besides, it's not like you can't still download Xubuntu, or Kubuntu and install Gnome there.
I tried vmware and it just pissed me off everytime there was an OS kernel update. Would have to recompile the vmware modules and half the time they wouldn't work. The last straw with vmware was clock skew problems on the guests. I had to practically sync the clock every *minute* in order to keep the guest clock from getting out of whack. Even using Chrony didn't keep it synced well. VMware had a lot of messages on it's forum about the problem but never did anything about it.
I use Linux KVM now and will never go back to closed source crap. They can keep their black boxes, I don't want them. If you install Linux virt-manager, you get a nice gui for managing your guests (if GUI is your gig) and if you are CLI crackhead, then you can use virsh or numerous other command line utils to manage things.
Frankly, there's no reason I can see to use closed source virtualization. It's just too much of a headache.
"Apple Computer supplies their own version of Java. "
This is just Apple ensuring you will never run android apps on any of their stuff. If they cripple the java interpreter, they maintain control over what you run on the platform. Welcome to iWorld.
> maybe enough for ten people if you are careful.
Or enough for 100 people who wouldn't otherwise have .8 gals of water a day to drink.
I figured microsoft had more to worry about right now than FUD'ing up the linux arena with Paid-for blogging*, but meh.
Desktop Linux works for me, and has been since 1997. If you don't like it, don't use it. Be thankful you have alternatives. If it weren't for *nix, you probably wouldn't.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/strohmy/315871552/
so they plan on unzipping every zip zile, decoding every pdf and docx, sfw and every other crap-laden file format 'export to' option? Not to mention parsing email attachments in god-knows-what format (can't trust the mimetype header)? And where is the cpu time coming from? Do you expect users to sit there while their laptop turns into a george foreman grill? I just don't see how any of this is possible given most infrastructures.
You won't find a lot of democrats. Many people have, or still do, eat squirrel and don't be surprised if things close down early for the Deer season. Employee pot-lucks are common and usually the older of the female office staff have a hand in organizing things as well as cooking most of the stuff. It will be rare that you encounter co-workers with any sort of a degree. Most have gotten where they are by moving through the ranks. There are a lot of family owned businesses run in peculiar ways. Everyone knows someone who used to own a farm and had to sell it to some Corn King out of California because they couldn't compete. People are generally friendly and pretty easy-going and christmas bonuses are generally in the form of Walmart or local store-owner gift certificates. I wouldn't want to go back to it unless I had to. It's too monoculture-y for me.
Most people wielding power eventually turn into corrupt bastards. If you set-out to be a corrupt bastard right from the get-go, you save a lot of wasted time.
depends if god is actively influencing the soccer players/puppet. Free will is like when your 4-year-old says they want to choose between ice cream or cookies for dessert and then they bitch about wanting ice cream after they ate the cookies. Free will is about uninfluenced choice. Knowing the outcome along doesn't necessarily influence choice.
The last thing corporate interest wants is a video format which is open and available to everyone. Expect the barrage of crap over HTML5 to continue. The article says nothing about the details of what's so "bad" about HTML5. The best they could come up with is:
"which large amounts of data can be collected and stored on the user's hard drive while online. Because of that process, advertisers and others could, experts say, see weeks or even months of personal data. That could include a user's location, time zone, photographs, text from blogs, shopping cart contents, e-mails and a history of the Web pages visited."
How is this any different than the current 150MB of cache sitting on everyone's comp? The best source they could come up with was an out-of-context quote from someone at the World Privacy Forum and some freelance programmer from New York?? Sorry, but the security issues with HTML5 are going to be in the implementation layer -- just like Flash, Silverlight, or Active-X. With security, it's rarely the technology which is at fault, it's the way the technology is used in the codebase.
there's this great app called the internet, perhaps you've heard?
I don't subscribe to the Apple kool-aid, but in all fairness there are plenty of phones out there that just simply suck for design reasons. I'm on my fifth Palm Pre in one year (lucky I have insurance). One with slider problems, two the power button stopped working, and the last one the modem went to hell on it. Seems like these gadgets are not made to last long.
Patent System: A system put in place to be manipulated to protect corporate IP while stifling competitive innovation.
Legal System: A corporate asset which is manipulated to keep innovative products from being competitive.
they are taking down a website which violated their TOS. Maybe we don't agree with their subjectivity but they are taking much more appropriate measures instead of getting all fundamental extremist over it.
cool hack though, especially if you don't partake in Apple's elitism.
"Almost all SCADA systems are -- for safety reasons -- standalone: not connected to a network, let alone the Internet."
should actually read:
"In theory, almost all SCADA systems are -- for safety reasons -- standalone: not connected to a network, let alone the Internet."
Basically, whenever you get successful, someone is going to sue you for something. Litigation, in the USA anyway, has turned into a business strategy. It's a pretty extravagant burden on taxpayers these days since the economy is already screwed. Look how long the SCO debacle has dragged on: Mar, 6th 2003. I Wonder how much just that one case has cost taxpayers. And no, I don't think SCO will not pay those costs if they file (have filed?) for bankruptcy. These stupid lawsuits gotta stop.
A lot can change on a planet in 180,000 years. In only 100 or so, we've pretty well toasted this one. Besides, putting all the money, effort and resources into a trip which will take that long just isn't worth the risk vs. cost. There is too much we don't know about the universe to embark on something like that with our current knowledge level.
Why not just use the encryption based on gpg or some other existing open source encryption method? Anytime you give a bunch of programmers a chance to reinvent the wheel, you need to go through the exact same evolutionary process that the existing wheels went through. So why is it that companies keep doing so and ending up shooting themselves in the foot?
rich people with money to burn. Just like every other cool piece of tech that promises insane fuel economy, or can go 100 miles on just lemon juice and tinfoil. Wake me up when the auto manufacturers come up with something under 20k.