what if the host where i log in is compromised? Even if it could not do Man in the middle attack because the session is secured from the smart card to the destination, it could intercept and pilot mouse and keyboard events and screen display so your bank withdrawal becomes 100$ to you and 900$ to the hacker.
The trust put in the system and its centralized nature would turn any security breach into a nightmare.
Besides, how much you trust your government with access to all your money and movement and online activity? Judging from how they make laws pertaining to IT E-voting and even intellectual property, I'd depend from the governments as little as possible.
> I'm still waiting for the game about Vietnam where the Vietcong are portrayed as covert freedom fighters...
That would be perfect counter-propaganda.
But instead of countering, I'd see Vietcongs as people fighting for their land, simply. Sure, many fight for freedom, democracy, the communist ideals. On both sides. Then all the ideals brought forth always clash against people who look for power and obtain it no matter what, no matter what kind of society they are in. And we applaud and defend them. Ooopsie.
VCs fought for their land. South Vietnamese people did the same. If my country were under an oppressive regime, and fighters from a country the other side of the globe, with whom I share nothing culturally, came to restore democracy, even without the brutality and the economic interests, I'd be pissed because it is still My fscking land.
> I find it difficult to believe that MS would release this solution in any state that is less functional than what currently exists under Vista.
technically speaking, yes. Commercially speaking, the longer people keep using XP, the longer they will hold onto old hardware and apps, which means less sales.
Anyway the support lifecycle of linux distros is way less of a nightmare because under linux it is
Easy to try out new iterations before deploying. Easy to switch to a different distro. Easy to work with your old hardware, usually making it faster. Easy to keep the applications that were working on the previous iteration, and keeping them updated. Easy to keep the old peripherals since drivers are not binary blobs depending on a vendor which obsoletes stuff intentionally. Easy to keep using old filesystems and data.
Besides, some excellent distros like debian switch OS version by simple upgrades. Remote, even.
eventually? so he spread other false alarms right? or you criticize him being off by a whole week, huh? he really an amateur. As opposed to your perfectly timed trolling.
There is no conspiracy, all is in the open and the message is clear: no matter what your reasons may be,dear isp, if we like to, we pull the plug on you... punish 1 to educate 100. I`d call this soft terrorism.
It would be a conspiracy if tomorrow some national security guy went knocking at other isps saying: you wanna avoid such incidents? let us snoop into your traffic without warrant, and we promise we won`t give you trouble.
What if GPL code suddenly turned to BSD code and Microsoft (or anyone else) could steal it? History has shown that private forks of open source software generally don't work.
The open source development model is superior to the closed source development model. When People (or companies) do need to fork open source software, they quickly find their branch out of date and inferior to the mainline. It's easier and more economical to work on the main branch than to keep a closed fork.
You are talking about forks by companies with limited resources, this does not apply when you are microsoft. The guy mentioning apple hit the nail on the head. Nobody prevents you to develop for Darwin, but once apple shifts his weight on the closed source xnu or whatever the name, Darwin does not survive - pun intended. MS needs to fight rails and django, if next iteration of their framework becomes proprietary, the free implementations will likely have a hard time lagging behind. my 2c.
As the AC post assumes correctly, I am a christian and speaking for the religion I chose (or, better, that was taught to me and which I accepted). I can't speak for not criticize in any way other people's choices, at least not in this context.
and there's ie net renderer http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ which is faster... until some idiot posts the link on slashdot:)
> The product has one genuine innovation â" a built-in tool for overlaying the rendering from one browser over another to compare (referred to as 'onion skins')
net renderer has had this 'genuine' innovation for quite a while.
Fools don`t get good ranking in a backstabbing game like politics. We are just witnessing the end of usefulness of what we consider ideals like freedom of expression. For the ruling class they were simply propaganda to push for a globalized and media controlled world. Once served their purpose they are discontinued.
BTW any Christian that takes advantage of such law seems a traitor of the word and example of Jesus IMO.
> People will not give up their cash without a fight
We gave up our gold and silver for paper.
"...But after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." -- Goering
> So you're saying it's more important to show respect to God, than to actually follow his/her/its teachings?
In some scenario it makes sense.
What about this: God has no probs in putting us all in paradise, that is to be one with him/her/it. Nirvana blah blah. For that not to be "annihilation", we likely retain our individuality. But even if it would be all milk and honey blah blah and his presence would permeate us, some of us would HATE being second to the supreme being. How much the haters disrespected and followed god in the previous life has no importance. How they cope with the afterlife has. One could live an egocentric life which is sinless (working to become the best gamer in the universe:D).
To be one with god means Love him with all your soul blah blah ( Luke 10:27 He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' ; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' ")
About giving intelligence, and reason, most of the teaching of most religions AND atheism are aimed at making one see the Big Picture. If your perspectives are narrower, your reason will evaluate something cosmically bad as an advantage. Pollution.
That seems an interesting topic. Only, it depends on the assumption that god exists.
We haven't far surpassed God's moral standards, nor we are worse:
If a cellular automata simulation yielded virtual artificial life (only a matter of time, I say), would virtual artificial creatures have the right to judge you when you think some of them are doing things in loops leading nowhere and decide to erase them? Yes? no?
Well it doesn't matter.
Because humans do wrong to each other in the thing called reality, which is NOT their own world which they have total ownership. So to judge if god is like us, you would have to evaluate what he does to his peers and what we (will) do to our simulations of life. Keep me informed:D
I'm in the "should use Linux" case you describe. Every year, I try to install Linux. Every year, I run into a hardware compatibility/driver roadblock, and fail to solve it after a handful of hours. I'm motivated to keep trying, even went as far as requesting advice on which components to use (cpu, gpu, sound...) for an easy Ubuntu install on a couple of Ubuntu forums: no useful answer.
that's strange because that worked for me.
- first time
- with debian
- on a powerpc
- in 2002
and later, with various pcs, for all stuff that is reported to work, hdspa modem, printers, camera, dtv tuner, wireless.
Yep, this seems more of a demonstration of people not caring if somebody gets into YOUR pc.
It's like a guy entering your house through an open windows, and standing there without stealing or ruining anything. Is it ok or it is more ok to tell him "Get The F*k Out"? You decide, sheep;D
> I have a hard time understanding how MP3 distortion can be seen as favorable.
MP3 artifacts suck. Audio compression may favour mp3s. But 'file compression' could make the mp3 decoded signal easier to decode for the brain too, it removes what we filter out but filtering may stress youngsters. While ogg and aac tend to reduce distortion so they get similar to source material.
People of my age heard uncompressed music for decades, through tape hiss, wow and flutter. And more nature sounds possibly. So maybe it's like discussing why people without teeth may prefer soft foods.
> It's still the same operating system, same applications, same API, etc.
nope, it's a refined OS, or one with unrefined but new functionality that tries not to break too many older stuff. The same apps run more reliably or faster. The API gets extended instead of changed.
What you call higher standards are artificial barriers. You live in them for some time, you forget about them.
To get to MS higher standards Apple and linux should instead reinvent the wheel every iteration, changing the GUIs, getting performance problems in things like file copy...
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I'm Italian, I may know about allied troops in Sicily, 1944. Of course that maybe was the mafia entering the US and not the other way round :D
what if the host where i log in is compromised? Even if it could not do Man in the middle attack because the session is secured from the smart card to the destination, it could intercept and pilot mouse and keyboard events and screen display so your bank withdrawal becomes 100$ to you and 900$ to the hacker.
The trust put in the system and its centralized nature would turn any security breach into a nightmare.
Besides, how much you trust your government with access to all your money and movement and online activity? Judging from how they make laws pertaining to IT E-voting and even intellectual property, I'd depend from the governments as little as possible.
> I'm still waiting for the game about Vietnam where the Vietcong are portrayed as covert freedom fighters...
That would be perfect counter-propaganda.
But instead of countering, I'd see Vietcongs as people fighting for their land, simply. Sure, many fight for freedom, democracy, the communist ideals. On both sides. Then all the ideals brought forth always clash against people who look for power and obtain it no matter what, no matter what kind of society they are in. And we applaud and defend them. Ooopsie.
VCs fought for their land. South Vietnamese people did the same. If my country were under an oppressive regime, and fighters from a country the other side of the globe, with whom I share nothing culturally, came to restore democracy, even without the brutality and the economic interests, I'd be pissed because it is still My fscking land.
> I find it difficult to believe that MS would release this solution in any state that is less functional than what currently exists under Vista.
technically speaking, yes. Commercially speaking, the longer people keep using XP, the longer they will hold onto old hardware and apps, which means less sales.
But.. What about people who bought XP yesterday?
Anyway the support lifecycle of linux distros is way less of a nightmare because under linux it is
Easy to try out new iterations before deploying.
Easy to switch to a different distro.
Easy to work with your old hardware, usually making it faster.
Easy to keep the applications that were working on the previous iteration, and keeping them updated.
Easy to keep the old peripherals since drivers are not binary blobs depending on a vendor which obsoletes stuff intentionally.
Easy to keep using old filesystems and data.
Besides, some excellent distros like debian switch OS version by simple upgrades. Remote, even.
eventually? so he spread other false alarms right? or you criticize him being off by a whole week, huh? he really an amateur. As opposed to your perfectly timed trolling.
There is no conspiracy, all is in the open and the message is clear: no matter what your reasons may be,dear isp, if we like to, we pull the plug on you... punish 1 to educate 100.
I`d call this soft terrorism.
It would be a conspiracy if tomorrow some national security guy went knocking at other isps saying: you wanna avoid such incidents? let us snoop into your traffic without warrant, and we promise we won`t give you trouble.
What if GPL code suddenly turned to BSD code and Microsoft (or anyone else) could steal it? History has shown that private forks of open source software generally don't work.
The open source development model is superior to the closed source development model. When People (or companies) do need to fork open source software, they quickly find their branch out of date and inferior to the mainline. It's easier and more economical to work on the main branch than to keep a closed fork.
You are talking about forks by companies with limited resources, this does not apply when you are microsoft.
The guy mentioning apple hit the nail on the head. Nobody prevents you to develop for Darwin, but once apple shifts his weight on the closed source xnu or whatever the name, Darwin does not survive - pun intended.
MS needs to fight rails and django, if next iteration of their framework becomes proprietary, the free implementations will likely have a hard time lagging behind. my 2c.
me too me too... hmmmmm encrypted debian-based raid cluster... rebuilding.... hmmmmmmm
> putting a large sticker "I'm completely insecure" on one's laptop...
Err.. the windows logo sticker means exactly that.
As the AC post assumes correctly, I am a christian and speaking for the religion I chose (or, better, that was taught to me and which I accepted). I can't speak for not criticize in any way other people's choices, at least not in this context.
and there's ie net renderer :)
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/
which is faster... until some idiot posts the link on slashdot
> The product has one genuine innovation â" a built-in tool for overlaying the rendering from one browser over another to compare (referred to as 'onion skins')
net renderer has had this 'genuine' innovation for quite a while.
Fools don`t get good ranking in a backstabbing game like politics. We are just witnessing the end of usefulness of what we consider ideals like freedom of expression. For the ruling class they were simply propaganda to push for a globalized and media controlled world. Once served their purpose they are discontinued.
BTW any Christian that takes advantage of such law seems a traitor of the word and example of Jesus IMO.
> Some people are so overzealous in their damnation of anything MS...
Zeal = avoiding a convicted monopolist's product for fears that it will pull similar stunts at your expense in the future...
I am cashless already, you insensitive clod!
> People will not give up their cash without a fight
We gave up our gold and silver for paper.
"...But after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." -- Goering
> So if you die an early death, then chances are you are more likely to have not messed things up.
The logicity of your "then" depends on the unrealistic assumption that you do only bad things in life, and nothing good can make up for them.
> So you're saying it's more important to show respect to God, than to actually follow his/her/its teachings?
In some scenario it makes sense.
What about this: God has no probs in putting us all in paradise, that is to be one with him/her/it. Nirvana blah blah. For that not to be "annihilation", we likely retain our individuality. But even if it would be all milk and honey blah blah and his presence would permeate us, some of us would HATE being second to the supreme being. How much the haters disrespected and followed god in the previous life has no importance. How they cope with the afterlife has. One could live an egocentric life which is sinless (working to become the best gamer in the universe :D).
To be one with god means Love him with all your soul blah blah ( Luke 10:27
He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' ; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' ")
About giving intelligence, and reason, most of the teaching of most religions AND atheism are aimed at making one see the Big Picture. If your perspectives are narrower, your reason will evaluate something cosmically bad as an advantage. Pollution.
> Use yours to the best of your ability in this life.
I'm a sadist. then what? :D
> He regularly committed and/or ordered genocide.
That seems an interesting topic. Only, it depends on the assumption that god exists.
We haven't far surpassed God's moral standards, nor we are worse:
If a cellular automata simulation yielded virtual artificial life (only a matter of time, I say), would virtual artificial creatures have the right to judge you when you think some of them are doing things in loops leading nowhere and decide to erase them? Yes? no?
Well it doesn't matter.
Because humans do wrong to each other in the thing called reality, which is NOT their own world which they have total ownership. So to judge if god is like us, you would have to evaluate what he does to his peers and what we (will) do to our simulations of life. Keep me informed :D
*applause*
posting to undo accidental moderation.
I'm in the "should use Linux" case you describe. Every year, I try to install Linux. Every year, I run into a hardware compatibility/driver roadblock, and fail to solve it after a handful of hours. I'm motivated to keep trying, even went as far as requesting advice on which components to use (cpu, gpu, sound...) for an easy Ubuntu install on a couple of Ubuntu forums: no useful answer.
that's strange because that worked for me.
- first time
- with debian
- on a powerpc
- in 2002
and later, with various pcs, for all stuff that is reported to work, hdspa modem, printers, camera, dtv tuner, wireless.
Yep, this seems more of a demonstration of people not caring if somebody gets into YOUR pc.
It's like a guy entering your house through an open windows, and standing there without stealing or ruining anything. Is it ok or it is more ok to tell him "Get The F*k Out"? You decide, sheep ;D
> I have a hard time understanding how MP3 distortion can be seen as favorable.
MP3 artifacts suck. Audio compression may favour mp3s. But 'file compression' could make the mp3 decoded signal easier to decode for the brain too, it removes what we filter out but filtering may stress youngsters. While ogg and aac tend to reduce distortion so they get similar to source material.
People of my age heard uncompressed music for decades, through tape hiss, wow and flutter. And more nature sounds possibly. So maybe it's like discussing why people without teeth may prefer soft foods.
> It's still the same operating system, same applications, same API, etc.
nope, it's a refined OS, or one with unrefined but new functionality that tries not to break too many older stuff. The same apps run more reliably or faster. The API gets extended instead of changed.
What you call higher standards are artificial barriers. You live in them for some time, you forget about them.
To get to MS higher standards Apple and linux should instead reinvent the wheel every iteration, changing the GUIs, getting performance problems in things like file copy...