Thank god I'm not root. All the _unimportant_ system files that never change and can be easily re-installed from any cd are safe!
Too bad my _important_ personal files read/writable by any infected binary I run.
Linux has really poor security. Currently Linux security consists of lusers repeating the mantra "I don't run as root, so I'm safe." Not running as root offers a little protection to the _other_ lusers on you system, because an infected binary (unless it is suid root, and many of them are) can't take them all out once. That's cold comfort to the person who does have all their files wiped out.
That's right. I remembered they changed it to something that started with a lower case letter to make it sound more eXtream, but I couldn't remember which lower case letter went with which system.
"porn == exploitation" isn't an axiom. It's generally true and that isn't altered based on the observers social leanings.
Does the idealized exploitation free porn market place you fantasize exists actually exist? No. It could exist if there were radical societal shifts, but it doesn't exist today.
Just because someone is paid doesn't mean they aren't being exploited (being made use of selfishly or unethically). The world is more nuanced and complex than you think.
No Doubt. My first job out of college was a subcontract job writing OS code for IBM's OS/400 (which is now called zOS, I think). I didn't need to learn a new language (they use C++), but I had to learn everything else, from how to log in and run a program (where's my tcsh? What the hell is this green screen thing?), to how to write code for the OS. I went to the interview, and they asked me if I had ever heard of the AS/400. I said nope. They hired me and I was trained on the job. Actually, the veteran OS/400 designers/coders were some of the smartest people I've worked with. It was good fun. Too bad Rochester Minnesota isn't good fun. I had to leave.
Now I just work on these half assed PCs. The power cords on these things don't even twist lock into the power outlet, so you can crash it just by tripping over the cord. And the PC next to it doesn't even know its neighbor crashed, so it doesn't even transparently take over its jobs and services and IP and such. Lame.
Is it me, or is Blue Tooth (or BlueTooth, or whatever) becoming the Windows of wireless protocols? I don't have any blue tooth devices, but all I ever read about blue tooth is how it is used as a virus vector, and now a spam vector.
Just because Google's motto is "Don't be evil" doesn't mean they aren't evil. My motto is "I shit gold!", but I don't. Anyway, the high points of their EULA:
By installing GDS you agree to any future version of Google's privacy policy, and they don't have to notify you when the update their privacy policy.
You agree not to hack around on GDS - no reverse engineering, decompiling, etc.
Google can modify the "terms and conditions" at any time, without notice. As long as GDS is still installed on your system you are bound by the new terms and conditions you don't know about.
Google makes no real attept to warn you about these terms and conditons, encouraging you not to read what you are agreeing to by putting a big blue "Agree and Download" button on their GDS page.
Does their desktop search thing index file names yet? Seems like that's a key bit of meta-data they neglected, and the reason I uninstalled it months ago.
Your boss could be right. Transitioning from one platform to another can be incredibly expensive. It doesn't matter what kind of license the software has. Invariably, the new software doesn't do something the old software did, so you have to re-implement existing functionality. Data gets lost in the transition. The customer might see a few delays as you work the kinks out of the new system, costing very valuable customer confidence.
Replacing existing working software is a huge risk. If the transition doesn't go perfectly you've racked up more costs fixing the problems than two or three years of licensing the old product (compare the cost of a few IT people working on a problem full time over a few days to a one year MSDN subscription, for example).
I understand that his answered were cleared by MSFT public relations department...
Really? How did you come to understand this? Did Hilf or anyone involved tell you? Did you observe the process? Or are you guessing based on all the MS flaming on Slashdot?
...but that's not quite the same as saying that the company as a whole feels the same way he does.
Hmm. Could there be a variety of opinions in an organization consisting of thousands of people?
But gaming can be used to train desk workers as well. Mr Prensky's firm has provided simple quiz games for such firms as IBM and Nokia, to test workers' knowledge of rules and regulations, for example.
Noooooo! I don't think I can ever touch a video game again:(
It's obvious to anyone not blinded by the weird google love going around on slashdot that this is the issue. Of course google isn't pissed that Cnet told the world that one of their executives is really rich and likes airplanes.
Besides, if you divide up the work correctly, you won't be using more than a few percent of the functions in a program, and 90% of the time you'll be calling a few percent of that portion.
Right. As I said, once you work on a project where _you_ work on more than a few hundred methods/functions you'll grok why every good code editor has code completion.
I used vim for all my university projects, and the first three years or so of "real world" coding. I switched to IDE's that have code completion because that's the killer feature. VIM and Emacs are superior for every code editing job except for the killer feature - code completion. The Emacs plugin for java is pretty good though. Hopefully vim will have good code completion, and then I can switch back.
If you ever work on a big application where you can't memorize the thousands of function and method signatures, or you have to quickly use code you've never seen before, intellisense will become more valuable to you.
By that line of thinking, our ancestors would never have bothered to develop the wheel, because carrying stuff on our back was "just good enough".
Nope. By your "fusion will save us, even though we haven't made it work in the last 50 years, and it is always 50 years in the future, and we could have used that time to build solar sites, and wind sites, and tidal energy sites, and..." line of thinking our ancestors would have a few wheels scattered around. But nobody would ever connect two with an axel to make a cart, because a few of them thought they might be able to make a hover car powered by farts, which is way better than a cart, and all the rest would just sit around waiting for the fart powered hover car. We would still be carrying stuff around on our backs, and anyone who suggested we just use a cart in the interim would be admonished for not just waiting for the fart powered hover cars.
Greenpeace is fighting these pie in the sky red herrings because the power industry uses them as excuses to continue burning fossile fuels. Of course clean fusion power would be a great thing, but we probably won't see it before we burn up all the fossile fuels (why would the energy industry want to make all the remaining oil unprofitable?).
What greenpeace wants is for people to take steps to reduce fossil fuel usage now, using technology we have now (higher gas milage in cars, insulating houses, solar, wind) and by making behavioural changes we can make now (walk or bike, rather than drive, for example). We can't wait for clean fusion energy. That's what the energy industry wants you to do. Because while you are waiting you are buying their gas.
Living in Boulder, I can say you really don't need a bunch of crunchy hippy (but rich and driving SUVs at the same time for some reason) pot smokers with "super duper AI Blog Scanning technology" to tell you that people don't like to pay when they go over their minutes, and they don't like to pay for unsolicited calls. Customers don't even need to be teens to not like that stuff.
You know what else they want with their phone service? Let me check my eHALadulator-j.net 5000 blog scanner... Ah ha! - Better reception, longer battery life, no long term contracts, built in iPods, light sabers, new nude pix of <insert favorite celebrity here> uploaded to their phones daily (with user selectable 'hard core' levels), and FREE EVERYTHING!!!! Where's my $10,000?
It's about time we have some objective, fact based information about computer security on the web. Thank god for companies like AT&T, who clearly have no financial reason to skew any of their security coverage. And thank god for slashdot for advertising for AT&T. That poor little good hearted company probably can't afford any ads at all. And all the ads are probably blocked anyway. Poor old AT&T, and poor old doubleclick.
As the objective, linked to article says - "This sounds like something pretty innovative to me. Personally, I'd check it out". Then I think it said "And boy oh boy, do I love these fruity Trix! They aren't just for kids you know!"
Bennie Smith is entirely correct -- if ad blocking becomes standard in popular browsers, that will be the end of free content on the web.
Right. If I'm remembering my early days on the internet correctly, there were all these adds all over, and no content at all. Then, slowly, content emerged. First there was just a little content at the top of the page. Then the content would pop-up over the ads. Then there was flash based content. Now there's content floating around on top of the ads. So you're right there couldn't be any free content without ads.
Oh, wait. I might have something backward, but I can't put my finger on it...
Rockets are a much better way of getting big stuff up there than the shuttle. But really we won't be able to get anything significant built up there until the space elevator is built. Realistically you'll need to move small loads into and out of space to swap out personnel, replacement parts and tools, etc. You can't launch a Saturn V, or even a shuttle, just to bring Bob the plumber and the length of pipe you forgot up to the construction site.
At the earliest the space elevator will not be done until 2015. So no base for you until at least 2030.
The last time I was at the airport it was 99% fat bastards, and.999999% skinny wankers, with the remainder being attractive people. Nobody wants to look at that much skanky unwashed airport ass to see one hot chick or hot guy. These things wont make it out of testing.
This idea that big government leads to tyranny is complete bull shit. The mystical "founders" of the U.S. government were a bunch of white supremacist misogynistic wankers where were wrong far more than they were right. Quoting them is usually a bad idea.
Get yourself a world map, and stick a pin in the place you most don't want to live. Then read up on that place. I'm sure you'll find that place has no real government now, and never had "big government".
Now stick a pin in the country you would most like to live in. Odds are it has a "big government" (whatever that is) that is involved in the daily lives of nearly all its citizens.
Now ask any non-white or non-straight or non-Christian or non-male person in the U.S. if they think the U.S. is a worse place to live now than it was 50 years ago when the government was smaller, or 75 years ago when the government was smaller, or 150 years ago when the government was smaller. It may not be much better. But it sure as hell isn't worse.
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Too bad my _important_ personal files read/writable by any infected binary I run.
Linux has really poor security. Currently Linux security consists of lusers repeating the mantra "I don't run as root, so I'm safe." Not running as root offers a little protection to the _other_ lusers on you system, because an infected binary (unless it is suid root, and many of them are) can't take them all out once. That's cold comfort to the person who does have all their files wiped out.
That's right. I remembered they changed it to something that started with a lower case letter to make it sound more eXtream, but I couldn't remember which lower case letter went with which system.
Does the idealized exploitation free porn market place you fantasize exists actually exist? No. It could exist if there were radical societal shifts, but it doesn't exist today.
Just because someone is paid doesn't mean they aren't being exploited (being made use of selfishly or unethically). The world is more nuanced and complex than you think.
Now I just work on these half assed PCs. The power cords on these things don't even twist lock into the power outlet, so you can crash it just by tripping over the cord. And the PC next to it doesn't even know its neighbor crashed, so it doesn't even transparently take over its jobs and services and IP and such. Lame.
Is it me, or is Blue Tooth (or BlueTooth, or whatever) becoming the Windows of wireless protocols? I don't have any blue tooth devices, but all I ever read about blue tooth is how it is used as a virus vector, and now a spam vector.
By installing GDS you agree to any future version of Google's privacy policy, and they don't have to notify you when the update their privacy policy.
You agree not to hack around on GDS - no reverse engineering, decompiling, etc.
Google can modify the "terms and conditions" at any time, without notice. As long as GDS is still installed on your system you are bound by the new terms and conditions you don't know about.
Google makes no real attept to warn you about these terms and conditons, encouraging you not to read what you are agreeing to by putting a big blue "Agree and Download" button on their GDS page.
Does their desktop search thing index file names yet? Seems like that's a key bit of meta-data they neglected, and the reason I uninstalled it months ago.
Replacing existing working software is a huge risk. If the transition doesn't go perfectly you've racked up more costs fixing the problems than two or three years of licensing the old product (compare the cost of a few IT people working on a problem full time over a few days to a one year MSDN subscription, for example).
Sorry. Just not reading the article like a good slashdotter. Guess it backfired.
Really? How did you come to understand this? Did Hilf or anyone involved tell you? Did you observe the process? Or are you guessing based on all the MS flaming on Slashdot?
Hmm. Could there be a variety of opinions in an organization consisting of thousands of people?
Noooooo! I don't think I can ever touch a video game again :(
Screw google and use http://www.scroogle.org/.
Right. As I said, once you work on a project where _you_ work on more than a few hundred methods/functions you'll grok why every good code editor has code completion.
I used vim for all my university projects, and the first three years or so of "real world" coding. I switched to IDE's that have code completion because that's the killer feature. VIM and Emacs are superior for every code editing job except for the killer feature - code completion. The Emacs plugin for java is pretty good though. Hopefully vim will have good code completion, and then I can switch back.
If you ever work on a big application where you can't memorize the thousands of function and method signatures, or you have to quickly use code you've never seen before, intellisense will become more valuable to you.
I shorten it to "thx". So I'll be able to watch the south park movie!
Nope. By your "fusion will save us, even though we haven't made it work in the last 50 years, and it is always 50 years in the future, and we could have used that time to build solar sites, and wind sites, and tidal energy sites, and ..." line of thinking our ancestors would have a few wheels scattered around. But nobody would ever connect two with an axel to make a cart, because a few of them thought they might be able to make a hover car powered by farts, which is way better than a cart, and all the rest would just sit around waiting for the fart powered hover car. We would still be carrying stuff around on our backs, and anyone who suggested we just use a cart in the interim would be admonished for not just waiting for the fart powered hover cars.
What greenpeace wants is for people to take steps to reduce fossil fuel usage now, using technology we have now (higher gas milage in cars, insulating houses, solar, wind) and by making behavioural changes we can make now (walk or bike, rather than drive, for example). We can't wait for clean fusion energy. That's what the energy industry wants you to do. Because while you are waiting you are buying their gas.
You know what else they want with their phone service? Let me check my eHALadulator-j.net 5000 blog scanner... Ah ha! - Better reception, longer battery life, no long term contracts, built in iPods, light sabers, new nude pix of <insert favorite celebrity here> uploaded to their phones daily (with user selectable 'hard core' levels), and FREE EVERYTHING!!!! Where's my $10,000?
As the objective, linked to article says - "This sounds like something pretty innovative to me. Personally, I'd check it out". Then I think it said "And boy oh boy, do I love these fruity Trix! They aren't just for kids you know!"
Right. If I'm remembering my early days on the internet correctly, there were all these adds all over, and no content at all. Then, slowly, content emerged. First there was just a little content at the top of the page. Then the content would pop-up over the ads. Then there was flash based content. Now there's content floating around on top of the ads. So you're right there couldn't be any free content without ads.
Oh, wait. I might have something backward, but I can't put my finger on it...
At the earliest the space elevator will not be done until 2015. So no base for you until at least 2030.
Some people don't have their other hand free when using firefox.
The last time I was at the airport it was 99% fat bastards, and .999999% skinny wankers, with the remainder being attractive people. Nobody wants to look at that much skanky unwashed airport ass to see one hot chick or hot guy. These things wont make it out of testing.
Get yourself a world map, and stick a pin in the place you most don't want to live. Then read up on that place. I'm sure you'll find that place has no real government now, and never had "big government".
Now stick a pin in the country you would most like to live in. Odds are it has a "big government" (whatever that is) that is involved in the daily lives of nearly all its citizens.
Now ask any non-white or non-straight or non-Christian or non-male person in the U.S. if they think the U.S. is a worse place to live now than it was 50 years ago when the government was smaller, or 75 years ago when the government was smaller, or 150 years ago when the government was smaller. It may not be much better. But it sure as hell isn't worse.