There's plenty to be learned in the outdoors. More practical too. Show a kid how to make a solar oven or maybe collect moisture from the ground with plastic sheet. These skills will be more practical anyway in the long run.
intriguing is the fact that we are studying the planet as it was 20 years ago, not as it is present day. In roughly 100 years we've managed to screw up this planet to no end. Things could be quite different on gliese 581g at this moment and we would not know it. Assuming we could travel at the speed of light and made it there in 20 years, the inhabitants may have already turned most of the planet to concrete and smog. If it is indeed inhabited.
Go ahead and mod me down, but it's only a matter of time before this happens again. You either accept the liability and put your trust in microsoft for patches, or do something else. It's not a stretch to expect more of the same.
> LibreOffice? Seriously? What a horrid name. We're not French and the percentage of the > population that understands what Libre means is nil.
Oh, c'mon now, what do you mean French? Everyone has seen the movie and knows the reference to Mexican Wrestling. It's quite obvious, I don't see the problem.
As long as one entity is in control of the content being delivered on the platform, you will only get what said entity deems as appropriate. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea has been smoking too much of the Apple kool-aid.
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It's not a stunt, it's lying.
"This doesn't mean the idea behind GOG.com is gone forever. We're closing down the service and putting this era behind us as new challenges await."
What friggin part of "closing down" implies they will be back?
A security mechanism needs to offer proof it is working, and then be able to prove it. regularly.
If you rely on security mechanisms on platforms which are easily compromised, said mechanism is useless.
If the platform you are running the security mechanism on is not *trustworthy*, said mechanism is useless.
Desktop firewalls should be considered a mediocre security mechanism as trust goes down when usability goes up.
The plethora of software usually installed on a Desktop makes it difficult to verify as trustworthy. Physical access cannot be tightly controlled to consider the Desktop a trustworty resource. Laptops are even worse.
Windows and Macintosh exacerbates this problem with local admin, power user, and other nonsense. Having accounts
where users can install/modify software breaks the trust chain.
Ideally...
Desktop are regularly verified by booting from a bootable, trusted (Linux) CDROM and running a checksum (sha1) of all files on the platform, along with malware scans.
If you're a home user wanting to protect your Desktop from the evils of the port scan world, the best thing you can do is get some kind of device you can throw dd-wrt or openwrt on and set that up as your gateway firewall, right behind your USB/DSL modem. A crappy old linksys wrt54g or buffalo wifi router will work fine, just turn off the wifi radio.
If you want to stay safer browsing the net, install vmware, virtualbox or whatever and mark the virtual disk read only. Do all your browsing from the virtual machine. If it gets infected, rebooting cleans it up.
If you're on Linux or other *nix, setup Firefox to run as a different user other than who you are logged in as. If your browser gets smoked, your home directory (your login) is still safe if you have permissions set correctly. It's not that hard: sudo -u webuser/apps/firefox/firefox
If you really want to have better security, use ssh -X to a machine where firefox is installed and run it from there, or use NXClient or VNC over ssh tunnel.
A lot of companies have them. Applications which were written by people who left the company but the app remains at the heart of the business logic. Something like this could at least offer a hardware upgrade while maintaining the compatibility.
We have Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in Windows support. Bert and Ernie (both guys are gay) in the Mac Support dept and then Gonzo and Beaker in Unix/Linux systems department (one of them doubles as Oracle admin). They just hired a new IT manager, promoted from HR, who looks and acts a lot like Miss Piggy.
Games, virus prevention, usability, music & video, cross-platform compatibility, freedom from "constantly dicking with it". Those are the things that matter to most users. And before all you mac boneheads start jostling for the soap-box, forget about it. You're running BSD which just gives you a prettier wrapper around the same old unix problems.
I've been using Linux for almost 15 years on the desktop. The idiotic problems which are inherent and indigenous to windows far outweigh the complexity of managing a linux box, but that's subjective; it's a cinch for *me* to manage a unix box, but other people just haven't the frustration threshold for the learning curve (and seeming ubiquitous elitist attitudes of the community forums).
Windows is just as bad. You have to pay for everything, and constantly deal with performance issues due to spyware, malware, anti-virus and/or hardware conflicts. Then, top it off with the random weird crap that happens (blue screen, no desktop, lockups).
There needs to be a better solution for the general public's computing needs, and it's not apple or linux (yet). I would certainly recommend pushing an open-source solution however. Especially with all the clamoring about privacy lately.
A built in laser pointer! Not the red or green kind, but one of those purple ones that can set a cat on fire if you hold it there long enough. Then it has a built in gyro-tron gps that links to your bing account and shows you a little bouncing paperclip on the screen to help you navigate through city streets, yeah! And it's waterproof too, did we mention that! Yeah, to.. 500 feet! And the battery doubles as a shuriken in case you are ever attacked by ninjas in japan (lookin' at you Steve, baby!). We plan to start shipping in..uh.. Oh hey! Look! Who let that elephant in here!?
He sounds a little like an egomaniac windbag that hasn't grown out of adolescence yet (like a lot of geeks). I find it hard to beleive that anyone who wears a "Free the Mallocs" and "I Love toxic waste" t-shirts isn't going to keep tight-lipped about freaking someone out with his "m4d l33t 5k11z".
Or maybe TSA didn't get the memo? At what point did he think bringing a pointed/sharp object on a plane was a good idea anyway? Some Shuriken have a chisel point which certainly could be used as a cutting weapon (and the pointed ones aren't any less painful). I wouldn't want some un-medicated postal worker to carry them on my flight, or some 12 year old that wants to loosen the screws in something, or goof off with them just for laughs. Steve Jobs, or any other celebrity for that matter should be held to the same rules.
you only need to follow a few simple rules to increase your profit and maintain market share:
- embrace extend and re-market, or extinguish - patent the crap out of everything; sue for infringement - sue competition to bankrupt them - lock-in with EULA, lock-down with DMCA - implement proprietary systems for everything; interoperability to be limited or broken - collect demographic info for targeted marketing or sales
> I don't really know, perhaps someone can explain better, but I just get this bad feeling the way they are going about this.
Because the information could be taken out of context and open to subjective interpretation. And the friggin news media does not need much to make a mountain-out-of-a-mole-hill.
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> most people experience anxiety, extreme agitation, loss of appetite, and even nightmares for several days afterwards.
Quitting is a bit hard on the stoners too.
There's plenty to be learned in the outdoors. More practical too. Show a kid how to make a solar oven or maybe collect moisture from the ground with plastic sheet. These skills will be more practical anyway in the long run.
intriguing is the fact that we are studying the planet as it was 20 years ago, not as it is present day. In roughly 100 years we've managed to screw up this planet to no end. Things could be quite different on gliese 581g at this moment and we would not know it. Assuming we could travel at the speed of light and made it there in 20 years, the inhabitants may have already turned most of the planet to concrete and smog. If it is indeed inhabited.
Go ahead and mod me down, but it's only a matter of time before this happens again. You either accept the liability and put your trust in microsoft for patches, or do something else. It's not a stretch to expect more of the same.
"At the same time, the company said it would not patch Windows because doing so would cripple existing applications."
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3236953/microsoft-confirms-unpatched-vulnerabilities-in-key-enterprise-programs/
"The security firms also notified Microsoft of two other unpatched bugs that the Stuxnet worm exploited"..."Microsoft said last week. It has not set a timetable for the fixes, however."
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/361843/microsoft_confirms_it_missed_stuxnet_print_spooler_zero-day
"was first identified by information security researchers in June"
http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=207166&ref=g_homelink
> LibreOffice? Seriously? What a horrid name. We're not French and the percentage of the
> population that understands what Libre means is nil.
Oh, c'mon now, what do you mean French? Everyone has seen the movie and knows the reference to Mexican Wrestling. It's quite obvious, I don't see the problem.
Slashdot: the one place you can, at any time, discuss the meaning of irony and not be modded off-topic.
As long as one entity is in control of the content being delivered on the platform, you will only get what said entity deems as appropriate. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea has been smoking too much of the Apple kool-aid.
It's not a stunt, it's lying. "This doesn't mean the idea behind GOG.com is gone forever. We're closing down the service and putting this era behind us as new challenges await." What friggin part of "closing down" implies they will be back?
problem is there's more money to be made on MJ - he basically got marketing-martyred when he died.
Desktop firewalls should be considered a mediocre security mechanism as trust goes down when usability goes up.
Ideally...
If you're a home user wanting to protect your Desktop from the evils of the port scan world, the best thing you can do is get some kind of device you can throw dd-wrt or openwrt on and set that up as your gateway firewall, right behind your USB/DSL modem. A crappy old linksys wrt54g or buffalo wifi router will work fine, just turn off the wifi radio.
/apps/firefox/firefox
If you want to stay safer browsing the net, install vmware, virtualbox or whatever and mark the virtual disk read only. Do all your browsing from the virtual machine. If it gets infected, rebooting cleans it up.
If you're on Linux or other *nix, setup Firefox to run as a different user other than who you are logged in as. If your browser gets smoked, your home directory (your login) is still safe if you have permissions set correctly. It's not that hard:
sudo -u webuser
If you really want to have better security, use ssh -X to a machine where firefox is installed and run it from there, or use NXClient or VNC over ssh tunnel.
> "...Bushehr is a plausible target,
Bushehr... hmmm.. Bush error... coincidence?
A lot of companies have them. Applications which were written by people who left the company but the app remains at the heart of the business logic. Something like this could at least offer a hardware upgrade while maintaining the compatibility.
We have Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in Windows support. Bert and Ernie (both guys are gay) in the Mac Support dept and then Gonzo and Beaker in Unix/Linux systems department (one of them doubles as Oracle admin). They just hired a new IT manager, promoted from HR, who looks and acts a lot like Miss Piggy.
You should too.
..running stuxnet? That's what I really want to know.
Not surprising that testosterone affects high stakes decisions. The decision to "stop and break out the condom or not" is proof.
Games, virus prevention, usability, music & video, cross-platform compatibility, freedom from "constantly dicking with it". Those are the things that matter to most users. And before all you mac boneheads start jostling for the soap-box, forget about it. You're running BSD which just gives you a prettier wrapper around the same old unix problems.
I've been using Linux for almost 15 years on the desktop. The idiotic problems which are inherent and indigenous to windows far outweigh the complexity of managing a linux box, but that's subjective; it's a cinch for *me* to manage a unix box, but other people just haven't the frustration threshold for the learning curve (and seeming ubiquitous elitist attitudes of the community forums).
Windows is just as bad. You have to pay for everything, and constantly deal with performance issues due to spyware, malware, anti-virus and/or hardware conflicts. Then, top it off with the random weird crap that happens (blue screen, no desktop, lockups).
There needs to be a better solution for the general public's computing needs, and it's not apple or linux (yet). I would certainly recommend pushing an open-source solution however. Especially with all the clamoring about privacy lately.
A built in laser pointer! Not the red or green kind, but one of those purple ones that can set a cat on fire if you hold it there long enough. Then it has a built in gyro-tron gps that links to your bing account and shows you a little bouncing paperclip on the screen to help you navigate through city streets, yeah! And it's waterproof too, did we mention that! Yeah, to.. 500 feet! And the battery doubles as a shuriken in case you are ever attacked by ninjas in japan (lookin' at you Steve, baby!). We plan to start shipping in ..uh.. Oh hey! Look! Who let that elephant in here!?
He sounds a little like an egomaniac windbag that hasn't grown out of adolescence yet (like a lot of geeks). I find it hard to beleive that anyone who wears a "Free the Mallocs" and "I Love toxic waste" t-shirts isn't going to keep tight-lipped about freaking someone out with his "m4d l33t 5k11z".
when I wasd type. Not sure wasd about decisiveness though.
A dual personality seems fitting:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/06/29/1618205/Dell-Selling-Faulty-PCs
Or maybe TSA didn't get the memo? At what point did he think bringing a pointed/sharp object on a plane was a good idea anyway? Some Shuriken have a chisel point which certainly could be used as a cutting weapon (and the pointed ones aren't any less painful). I wouldn't want some un-medicated postal worker to carry them on my flight, or some 12 year old that wants to loosen the screws in something, or goof off with them just for laughs. Steve Jobs, or any other celebrity for that matter should be held to the same rules.
Wonder how that slice got taken out of it in the pic - and where it went!
you only need to follow a few simple rules to increase your profit and maintain market share:
- embrace extend and re-market, or extinguish
- patent the crap out of everything; sue for infringement
- sue competition to bankrupt them
- lock-in with EULA, lock-down with DMCA
- implement proprietary systems for everything; interoperability to be limited or broken
- collect demographic info for targeted marketing or sales
> I don't really know, perhaps someone can explain better, but I just get this bad feeling the way they are going about this.
Because the information could be taken out of context and open to subjective interpretation. And the friggin news media does not need much to make a mountain-out-of-a-mole-hill.