The best approach would be to let the mods do their work and it'd be -1 Troll in no time. Sadly, there are enough winshills with mod points to abuse that it'll be more likely to hit +5 Informative.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft explicitly allows their devs to read slashdot at work and to gain mod points for precisely this purpose... whole battalions of window fanatics poised to mod truly insightfull anti-microsoft posts into oblivion or mod up anti-linux posts
Can we blame Microsoft for having the spot it does? No. I don't think so. Millions have been paying for Windows to be their system of choice.
bollocks... millions have never had a choice... they're victims of Microsoft's monopolistic abuses in the OEM market... OEMS forced to pay for windows even though they were shipping OS2 on machines... cliff-tiered pricing for OEM copies that made it completely uneconomical to put anything else on the machines... kickbacks in the form of market development funds for OEMs promoting only windows on machines... why else do all the PC makers have that XXX reccomends Microsoft Windows XP on their machines??? they get paid for it and if they promote any other OS actively they lose the market development funds... why else do you find the Dell Linux machines well buried in the website with no direct links to them... you have to actively search for them.
It is a wise one: it keeps the screeners from getting to bored with their jobs. Since something they have to react to comes up moderately often, they will stay alert enough to react to it.
does it heck... they'll still be bored to tears...just petrified of missing one of the random tests... can you imagine driving along the highway minding your own business when software in the car does an awareness check on you by popping up an image of a kid running across the road??? well this is similar...
they've got devices coming out for cars and trucks that test driver awareness far more subtly than just popping up a test picture at random... the software actually monitors the drivers eye movements and other parameters... so there shouldn't be anything stopping them from doing something similar for this x-ray scanner application...
Then again, perhaps it would be better to dump the human out of the loop altogether and rely on AI to determine if an item of luggage warrants further attention... but these days it's still cheaper to use people to do it and pay them peanuts at the same time...
you can have a world of fun with a clapped out secondhand Mirror dinghy, but if you want to consistently finish up in the chocolates (the first three places) at national level then you have to have a new boat and several suits of sails every year and that requires serious money and dedication...
Me? I just try to make sure I'm somewhere in the middle of the field... I have plenty of fun anyway... plus people are amazed my boat is still out there every year
If you want to see the real gap between the haves and the have nots, look at yachting...
And let's be honest, there've been a few lawsuits lately where the patent holder purposefully sues MS and MS only, leaving smaller companies and OSS to 'infringe' on the patent as they please. That's ridiculous, no matter how much one hates MS.
a Patent, unlike a Trademark, can be selectively enforced. A trademark has to be enforced against all infringement or else you lose it.
You are right about the stupidity of some of these patents... I blame allowing business methods and software patents in in the first place... of course the judge responsible for this debacle was a patent lawyer by profession and they never ever make any effort to reduce their potential workload... oh nosirree... any chance to expand and they gladly take it...
if he was running a valid criticism site, then he should use a domain name like fallwellsucks.com... then falwell can go and take a running jump as there is prior case law covering that type of site. Calling it fallwell.com is cyber squatting, pure and simple.
Most stars rotate and therefore it is expected that most black holes in nature are rotating black holes."
I think you'll find it a given that ALL stars rotate..., even if some rotate very slowly or they're too far away for us to detect the rotation signature in their spectra, but they ALL rotate
The future England presented in the novel is one where Soviet domination has succeeded by first appealing to youth.
the future England is now... Tony Blair's England an absolute nightmare for decent law abiding folk as gangs of youths run rampage in the streets knowing there's an miniscule chance of ever being caught and if they are, they'll only get a slap on the wrist at most... the Police ignore crime happening in front of their own noses as it would require hours of paperwork for a caution at most... meanwhile they hammer ordinary folk for driving at 33 in a 30 zone... (that one's easy as they've got these marvelous cameras that never lie...)
and a feature yet to be included will have it nagging you for having non-free stuff installed...
Future versions of vrms will include an option to also display text from the public writings of RMS and others that explain why use of each of the installed non-free packages might cause moral issues for some in the Free Software community. This functionality is not yet included.
scary especially if it's run automatically every boot up...
ha ha... WINE will run the validation program you can download using the alternative validation method link and generate a code that when cut and pasted into the microsoft web form allows you to get at the download page for whatever it is they're trying to protect...
ext2 format existing on the partition visible via the debian partitioning tool... plus the device is completely self contained in that you can use it to make copies of documents with the scanner printer combo and the built in card reader allows you to print photos off the cards without having to hook it up to a computer either... It's running Linux... live with it
Pretty common military security procedure. The hard-drives with classified information must be stored and often accessed on a secure area. Using USB drives enables reusing the PC for other purposes, thus reducing cost
No it bloody doesn't... once classified data has been processed on the PC (whether it was on a USB disk or not) that PC is classed as classified itself. That's because temporary files get stored on the local hard disk... that's why machines used to process secret data have to have their hard disks in removeable caddies so that the hard disks can be secured when the PC is not in use... it's a bit impractical to secure the PC's themselves in secure cabinets, but you can at least lock the hard disks away...
Also, any USB stick/drive that is connected to the PC at the time that secret data is being processed must also be treated a classified afterwards. If you print off any classified data to a printer, that printer could be classed as classified afterwards as well... An awfull lot of real printers (not crappy winprinters) use hard disks to store the temporary data while printing the pages. My HP PSC1310 actually is running some form of Linux on an internal hard disk... I found this out cos when installing Debian the other day, I had the printer connected and switched on and the debian installer saw the ext2 partitioned disc via USB and gave me the option to install Debian to it...
the boot process is being worked on for the Dapper release. On my boxes, I can see a distinct improvement in the boot time in Dapper compared to that of Breezy.
But boot time has never really worried me as my boxes are on 24/7 and only get rebooted for a kernel upgrade. Even my daughter's laptop has got some 40+ days of uptime at the moment...
If you stick with a known supplier of quality products, such as Microsoft, you can sit back and relax. Go with open sores stuff and who knows when they'll get a real job and quit doing their hobby?
you can't sit back and relax with Microsoft... didn't you know, you have to bend over, grasp your ankles and brace... and don't forget the upgrade treadmill... who else would call their own customers dinosaurs for sticking with Office 97. It's Office 97 users being ridiculed in those commercials... their own customers, whose only fault is sticking with a version of Office that fits their needs. Apparently Microsoft didn't make it buggy enough for the customers to want to upgrade...
Imagine if you had to go to the maker of your car for servicing no matter how old it gets, and independent mechanics could not exist.
Worse, imagine that your car (Car 97), even though perfectly working as far as you're concerned, developes a fault after six years (say it leaks oil everwhere you go) and the garage says that they don't produce parts for those anymore, you have to upgrade to the latest model of Car (Car 2003)...
if you include "Dirty" bombs in the Nuclear category, then things are far, far simpler... some radioactive material(ground up into small particles), some explosives, a fuse, and a timing device are all you require to strike absolute terror into any major city... Sensible terrorists will NOT use this option as they know they will be hunted down and terminated with extreme predjudice... however, there are some absolutely fanatics out there now who WILL use this if they believe it suits their ends...
erm... we're talking about Open Standards here, NOT Open Source Software... if your software, (whether OSS or CSS) supports Open Standards, then your data cannot be locked in.
If the standard is Closed (ie proprietary), then the owner of the standard can change it and you are stuffed unless you stick with the software provided by the owner of the standard... this, of course, leaves you open to your data being held hostage subject to you remaining on the upgrade treadmill...
if you are using Open Standards and the supplier of your closed source software software goes belly up, then your data isn't held hostage or lost because someone else is highly likely to already support that same Open Standard
Not just DSL, but it should be more of a 'roll your own' thing for a machine like this. The Linux kernel 2.2 is still be actively maintained, and would be well-suited to lower end hardware like this, especially customized to support only the included hardware.
course it's not difficult, after all, they run Linux on phones with everything stripped out except what's actually needed for the phones' hardware... actually I'm getting worried about this $100 laptop thing... I think something's happening behind the scenes and the bloody thing's gonna end up with WinCE on it with a super triffic no cost at all deal from Microsoft...
no-one's expecting you to install all of Debian on them, just get the basics on. Sheesh, DSL is great for low powered machines with small hard disks...
sheesh, and there I was thinking slavery had been abolished... welcome to the new slavery... it goes by the name of wage-slavery... they've got you by the short and curlies... and all you can do is keep on working to pay the bills.
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I'm pretty sure Microsoft explicitly allows their devs to read slashdot at work and to gain mod points for precisely this purpose... whole battalions of window fanatics poised to mod truly insightfull anti-microsoft posts into oblivion or mod up anti-linux posts
bollocks... millions have never had a choice... they're victims of Microsoft's monopolistic abuses in the OEM market... OEMS forced to pay for windows even though they were shipping OS2 on machines... cliff-tiered pricing for OEM copies that made it completely uneconomical to put anything else on the machines... kickbacks in the form of market development funds for OEMs promoting only windows on machines... why else do all the PC makers have that XXX reccomends Microsoft Windows XP on their machines??? they get paid for it and if they promote any other OS actively they lose the market development funds... why else do you find the Dell Linux machines well buried in the website with no direct links to them... you have to actively search for them.
does it heck... they'll still be bored to tears...just petrified of missing one of the random tests... can you imagine driving along the highway minding your own business when software in the car does an awareness check on you by popping up an image of a kid running across the road??? well this is similar...
they've got devices coming out for cars and trucks that test driver awareness far more subtly than just popping up a test picture at random... the software actually monitors the drivers eye movements and other parameters... so there shouldn't be anything stopping them from doing something similar for this x-ray scanner application...
Then again, perhaps it would be better to dump the human out of the loop altogether and rely on AI to determine if an item of luggage warrants further attention... but these days it's still cheaper to use people to do it and pay them peanuts at the same time...
Me? I just try to make sure I'm somewhere in the middle of the field... I have plenty of fun anyway... plus people are amazed my boat is still out there every year
If you want to see the real gap between the haves and the have nots, look at yachting...
a Patent, unlike a Trademark, can be selectively enforced. A trademark has to be enforced against all infringement or else you lose it.
You are right about the stupidity of some of these patents... I blame allowing business methods and software patents in in the first place... of course the judge responsible for this debacle was a patent lawyer by profession and they never ever make any effort to reduce their potential workload... oh nosirree... any chance to expand and they gladly take it...
if he was running a valid criticism site, then he should use a domain name like fallwellsucks.com... then falwell can go and take a running jump as there is prior case law covering that type of site. Calling it fallwell.com is cyber squatting, pure and simple.
I'm running XP on VMware... what's stopping you from running Ubuntu then?
I think you'll find it a given that ALL stars rotate..., even if some rotate very slowly or they're too far away for us to detect the rotation signature in their spectra, but they ALL rotate
the future England is now... Tony Blair's England an absolute nightmare for decent law abiding folk as gangs of youths run rampage in the streets knowing there's an miniscule chance of ever being caught and if they are, they'll only get a slap on the wrist at most... the Police ignore crime happening in front of their own noses as it would require hours of paperwork for a caution at most... meanwhile they hammer ordinary folk for driving at 33 in a 30 zone... (that one's easy as they've got these marvelous cameras that never lie...)
scary especially if it's run automatically every boot up...
ha ha... WINE will run the validation program you can download using the alternative validation method link and generate a code that when cut and pasted into the microsoft web form allows you to get at the download page for whatever it is they're trying to protect...
ext2 format existing on the partition visible via the debian partitioning tool... plus the device is completely self contained in that you can use it to make copies of documents with the scanner printer combo and the built in card reader allows you to print photos off the cards without having to hook it up to a computer either... It's running Linux... live with it
No it bloody doesn't... once classified data has been processed on the PC (whether it was on a USB disk or not) that PC is classed as classified itself. That's because temporary files get stored on the local hard disk... that's why machines used to process secret data have to have their hard disks in removeable caddies so that the hard disks can be secured when the PC is not in use... it's a bit impractical to secure the PC's themselves in secure cabinets, but you can at least lock the hard disks away...
Also, any USB stick/drive that is connected to the PC at the time that secret data is being processed must also be treated a classified afterwards. If you print off any classified data to a printer, that printer could be classed as classified afterwards as well... An awfull lot of real printers (not crappy winprinters) use hard disks to store the temporary data while printing the pages. My HP PSC1310 actually is running some form of Linux on an internal hard disk... I found this out cos when installing Debian the other day, I had the printer connected and switched on and the debian installer saw the ext2 partitioned disc via USB and gave me the option to install Debian to it...
no... never... /sarcasm_tag = "on" what was the very first security patch for Vista then??? it was for the WMF hole... legacy code dating back to win 3
But boot time has never really worried me as my boxes are on 24/7 and only get rebooted for a kernel upgrade. Even my daughter's laptop has got some 40+ days of uptime at the moment...
first define "best"... then we can help you... :)
you can't sit back and relax with Microsoft... didn't you know, you have to bend over, grasp your ankles and brace... and don't forget the upgrade treadmill... who else would call their own customers dinosaurs for sticking with Office 97. It's Office 97 users being ridiculed in those commercials... their own customers, whose only fault is sticking with a version of Office that fits their needs. Apparently Microsoft didn't make it buggy enough for the customers to want to upgrade...
Worse, imagine that your car (Car 97), even though perfectly working as far as you're concerned, developes a fault after six years (say it leaks oil everwhere you go) and the garage says that they don't produce parts for those anymore, you have to upgrade to the latest model of Car (Car 2003)...
if you include "Dirty" bombs in the Nuclear category, then things are far, far simpler... some radioactive material(ground up into small particles), some explosives, a fuse, and a timing device are all you require to strike absolute terror into any major city... Sensible terrorists will NOT use this option as they know they will be hunted down and terminated with extreme predjudice... however, there are some absolutely fanatics out there now who WILL use this if they believe it suits their ends...
If the standard is Closed (ie proprietary), then the owner of the standard can change it and you are stuffed unless you stick with the software provided by the owner of the standard... this, of course, leaves you open to your data being held hostage subject to you remaining on the upgrade treadmill...
if you are using Open Standards and the supplier of your closed source software software goes belly up, then your data isn't held hostage or lost because someone else is highly likely to already support that same Open Standard
course it's not difficult, after all, they run Linux on phones with everything stripped out except what's actually needed for the phones' hardware... actually I'm getting worried about this $100 laptop thing... I think something's happening behind the scenes and the bloody thing's gonna end up with WinCE on it with a super triffic no cost at all deal from Microsoft...
no-one's expecting you to install all of Debian on them, just get the basics on. Sheesh, DSL is great for low powered machines with small hard disks...
sheesh, and there I was thinking slavery had been abolished... welcome to the new slavery... it goes by the name of wage-slavery... they've got you by the short and curlies... and all you can do is keep on working to pay the bills.
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