I'm pretty freaking tired of all this "advice" that you need this protection for Windows machines.
Why should I have a firewall? I have a NAT router (hardware firewall). Why should I have antispyware? I know what I'm downloading. Why should I have antivirus? - I don't download cracks. When I DO need to use a crack I upload it to virustotal and then run it in a virtual machine. - I run IE7 and Firefox. Although neither are perfectly secure I don't make it a habit to go to Russian warez sites.
Dear god, SOMEONE explain to me why any reasonable user should need this resource-hogging crap?
> If they had any real ballz they would have permanently dis-barred her, especially given her past abuses.... oh wait the law really doesn't apply to those who are supposed to enforce it...
Lawyers are not charged with enforcing the law. They are charged with bending it to their own purposes, should that be getting an innocent man out of jail or extorting money from large amounts of people.
I agree that this SHOULD be grounds for disbarment or worse.
Of course, I am not a lawyer but if I used my knowledge of computers to scare payments out of people I would probably go to jail or have a huge fine. Then the company I work for would find out and I would be fired ASAP.
How is this different? Isn't this some kind of extortion? Someone please clue me in.
Is it just me or are the comics in newspapers COMPLETELY devoid of any humor? I haven't smiled at a comic in years. It's like the newspapers demand trash and get it.
I love PBF and other online comics. They can do or say anything they like without censorship. PBF wouldn't be the same if it couldn't use explicit material.
"Intel was unwilling to work cooperatively with OLPC on software development. Over the entire six months it was a member of the association, Intel contributed nothing of value to OLPC: Intel never contributed in any way to our engineering efforts and failed to provide even a single line of code to the XO software efforts - even though Intel marketed its products as being able to run the XO software. The best Intel could offer in regards to an "Intel inside" XO laptop was one that would be more expensive and consume more power - exactly the opposite direction of OLPC's stated mandate and vision."
I WISH TO RETRACT THE ABOVE POST IN RELATION TO THIS STORY
Reason: Unbeknownst to me, Archos has a content portal where you can rent movies and other content. This changes the environment of my post since I was under the assumption they just made MP3 players and did nothing else. With this licensed content they are probably under contract to protect it.
However, I still believe my post stands on its own when talking about other consumer devices. If anyone has any comments please post
I never understood why companies wanted to make their gadgets unhackable until I read your theory. For some reason it makes me pretty irritated.
These devices are mini COMPUTERS! If your MP3 player has screen or WiFi then it's obvious it can do more. It's more common that embedded devices just use a processing chip to do all their functions - no more paying for an MP3 decoder chip, MPEG decoder chip, etc. This makes it "easy" to do so much more with them. SO LET US DAMN IT.
Example: The DS. It should have come with a browser from day one. It's freaking obvious with the two screens. Top screen is for reading and the bottom is to move the magnifying glass around the page.
If someone who you don't have to pay wants to expand the market for your device why the hell would you stop them?
The only reason I bought an Xbox 1 was to play videos over my LAN. Of course, I can also play pirated games on it. This is a legit reason a company would want to lock down their hardward. However that is of no concern to Archos -
they don't SHOULDN'T care what the heck people do with their products as long as they buy them.
Primahealth: How are they secure with open standards? You can't have security without obscurity! THIS IS MADNESS!!! Stallman: This is GNU/SPARTAAAAA!!!!
Even worse: I run a Core2 Duo overclocked to 3.4GHz and 2 gigs of PC6400 RAM. The start menu program folders take a bit to open. How the hell do you make opening a start menu folder SLOWER on a FASTER machine?
(If any of this is incorrect or someone has any tips they are welcome!)
> It aways makes me feel kinda bad for the Microsoft developers that worked for years on Vista... Truth is, its not horrible, just lackluster. But it still has to burn a little to have the reason you came to work for the past 5 years be labeled "The Most Disappointing Product of the Year"
The first heartfelt comment I've seen for a long time on Slashdot.
> Am I the only one that notices that Apple's response to every problem is a swift "let's delete this topic and pretend the problem doesn't exist"?.. Seems like bad business practise to me.
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I'm pretty freaking tired of all this "advice" that you need this protection for Windows machines.
Why should I have a firewall? I have a NAT router (hardware firewall).
Why should I have antispyware? I know what I'm downloading.
Why should I have antivirus?
- I don't download cracks. When I DO need to use a crack I upload it to virustotal and then run it in a virtual machine.
- I run IE7 and Firefox. Although neither are perfectly secure I don't make it a habit to go to Russian warez sites.
Dear god, SOMEONE explain to me why any reasonable user should need this resource-hogging crap?
> If they had any real ballz they would have permanently dis-barred her, especially given her past abuses.... oh wait the law really doesn't apply to those who are supposed to enforce it...
Lawyers are not charged with enforcing the law. They are charged with bending it to their own purposes, should that be getting an innocent man out of jail or extorting money from large amounts of people.
ONLY A 6 MONTH BAN - WHAT???
I agree that this SHOULD be grounds for disbarment or worse. Of course, I am not a lawyer but if I used my knowledge of computers to scare payments out of people I would probably go to jail or have a huge fine. Then the company I work for would find out and I would be fired ASAP.
How is this different? Isn't this some kind of extortion? Someone please clue me in.
I guess people still do value high-quality (as in encoded) music.
Sure hope they didn't artificially compress the range and fk it up.
Alinabi,
I love you.
The server has always been really slow. Recently a change in design made it much more tolerable. Of course, still couldn't take a slashdot beating.
This isn't to say that PBF relies on solely adult material. Far from it.
However, some of his best stuff is for adults. Too bad the website crashed so I can't show you an example.
Epic:
"The Man with No Penis"
Is it just me or are the comics in newspapers COMPLETELY devoid of any humor? I haven't smiled at a comic in years. It's like the newspapers demand trash and get it.
I love PBF and other online comics. They can do or say anything they like without censorship. PBF wouldn't be the same if it couldn't use explicit material.
NEXT TIME ON 24!
Bill Buchanan: The Sun is going to destroy Los Angeles if we don't stop it!
Jack Bauer: Get me on a plane to the moon.
"Intel was unwilling to work cooperatively with OLPC on software development. Over the entire six months it was a member of the association, Intel contributed nothing of value to OLPC: Intel never contributed in any way to our engineering efforts and failed to provide even a single line of code to the XO software efforts - even though Intel marketed its products as being able to run the XO software. The best Intel could offer in regards to an "Intel inside" XO laptop was one that would be more expensive and consume more power - exactly the opposite direction of OLPC's stated mandate and vision."
> You diversify into other businesses.
What are they going to do? Sell books of lyrics? =D
I didn't know that concept even existed. I thought businesses just eventually died out and didn't have a way to "give up".
I thought they went to bankruptcy and then either liquidate their holdings or have their worth so low a competitor buys them out.
Could you show me any examples of a company doing this? (not just a division) I find this pretty interesting.
It's just a QWERTY keyboard with a second shift key and Nigerian letters painted in purple.
Not kidding.
MOD PARENT UP.
These are freaking QWERTY keyboards with PURPLE PAINT ON THEM and a second shift key. That's it.
See this image from their site http://www.konyin.com/products/NIG/KB-201PW-NG(Large).jpg
What the hell? I could understand if it's some novel layout...but a painted QWERTY keyboard? Jesus.
Do you know of any places where I can read more about Nigeria's challenges? (other than randomly picking books from Amazon)
Is it bad that I missed the New Years countdown because I was busy reading an old Slashdot story about visualizing log files? ...Somebody end it now :(
I WISH TO RETRACT THE ABOVE POST
IN RELATION TO THIS STORY
Reason: Unbeknownst to me, Archos has a content portal where you can rent movies and other content. This changes the environment of my post since I was under the assumption they just made MP3 players and did nothing else. With this licensed content they are probably under contract to protect it.
However, I still believe my post stands on its own when talking about other consumer devices. If anyone has any comments please post
Sorry, this was not the final draft - I was playing with the HTML tags and hit submit instead.
These devices are mini COMPUTERS! If your MP3 player has screen or WiFi then it's obvious it can do more. It's more common that embedded devices just use a processing chip to do all their functions - no more paying for an MP3 decoder chip, MPEG decoder chip, etc. This makes it "easy" to do so much more with them. SO LET US DAMN IT.
Example: The DS. It should have come with a browser from day one. It's freaking obvious with the two screens. Top screen is for reading and the bottom is to move the magnifying glass around the page.
If someone who you don't have to pay wants to expand the market for your device why the hell would you stop them?
The only reason I bought an Xbox 1 was to play videos over my LAN. Of course, I can also play pirated games on it. This is a legit reason a company would want to lock down their hardward. However that is of no concern to Archos -
they don't SHOULDN'T care what the heck people do with their products as long as they buy them.
Primahealth: How are they secure with open standards? You can't have security without obscurity! THIS IS MADNESS!!!
Stallman: This is GNU/SPARTAAAAA!!!!
Deeq,
If you find it can you do me a favor and reply to this message? Thank you!
Thank you for the great tip. It will help me out, but I still have too many programs so they don't all fit. Even though I'm running 1200x1600.
Thank you!
The reason I don't like Vista (even though I choose to run it):
The Start Menu.
The instant search feature is great. Having to SCROLL THROUGH MY PROGRAMS is not. Plus, there's no way to go back to XP-style Start Menu. It's Windows NT or nothing.
http://img441.imageshack.us/my.php?image=slowstartmenukb9.png
Even worse: I run a Core2 Duo overclocked to 3.4GHz and 2 gigs of PC6400 RAM. The start menu program folders take a bit to open. How the hell do you make opening a start menu folder SLOWER on a FASTER machine?
(If any of this is incorrect or someone has any tips they are welcome!)
> It aways makes me feel kinda bad for the Microsoft developers that worked for years on Vista... Truth is, its not horrible, just lackluster. But it still has to burn a little to have the reason you came to work for the past 5 years be labeled "The Most Disappointing Product of the Year"
The first heartfelt comment I've seen for a long time on Slashdot.
Go forth, my brother, and touch more.
> Am I the only one that notices that Apple's response to every problem is a swift "let's delete this topic and pretend the problem doesn't exist"? .. Seems like bad business practise to me.
0H N0ES U DIDNT APPLE IS TEH PERFECT