In a hundred years, your grand-grand-grand kids will have fun googling their ancestry and finding that they were driving under influence...
nowait - doesn't the DA know that the internet never forgets? That anyone can find this informatiuon by just googling someone's name? "Hello i'm here for the job interview"- "Oh I see you had a DUI 32 years ago.. sorry we can't employ convicts here"
> So "SATA 6GB" is working fine, but this disk is just too slow to take advantage of its speed increase.
You are forgetting that lots of people are switching to SSD disks with amazing throughputs.. so there is an actual benefit for SATA 6GB. I for one welcome the new SATA 6GB overlord.
It's a component of your OS. Whether it's crucial to you is an entirely different discussion - if you want your OS to be as bare as possible, Windows is not for you. MS has decided that it is needed on every system so they can make certain assumptions on system usage and updates. Would you like to be able to delete, say, your kernel executable? Is that malware too?
> Right, so if the tax on a packet of cigarettes were $100, everyone would just pay that, rather than switching to some other vice?
Let's take an extreme example and say the government added $100 tax to a bottle of water. In the short run it would lower the sales, but the end would cause either massive inflation, or a massive black market, or both. Either way, you just punish the poor and hurt the economy.
I don't have a credit card, and I am not planning to obtain one. It may be surprising to many US readers, but only a minority in Europe has one. SO are we all barred from entering the US now?
Are you for real? Zomg what an absurd elitist behaviour. Wake up call: some users don't visit exclusively triple-a graded security websites. And when you have to click twenty times in your browser just because a certificate is self signed.. is annoying at least. Mildly said.
Oh come on, a self signed certificate is ten times better than no certificate at all. But in the first case, both FF and IE will go berserk with all kind of ways to prevent you from visiting the site. In the second, totally unsecure scenario, the browser won't say a word..
So again, I have a working site. I decide to add a layer of encryption - and the browser starts warning my users that it's unsafe. Illogical at least.. and here you are defending this idiocy.You must be working for verisign or thawte..
He's not in business anymore. Therefore he is replying as a person and not as a business. No need for professionalism, unless there is some rule that persons have to communicate like lawyers and businesses.
Will visiting foreigners (tourists, businessmen, etc)be obligated to install this software at the customs desk at the airport when entering the country? Would be a good reason not to go to China..
> Everything "just works" on a Mac...yeah, except the new headset I bought because > the audio-in jack won't work with an unpowered microphone.
Heh! being both a Windows zealot and owner of a mac mini (and having had many macs since the late eighties), I see the mic port flaw as the biggest annoyance on the mini. It prevents me in using it as a dedicated skype machine:P ftl! In practice it has reduced my mini to a dumb terminal which i only use for browsing while doing real work (tm) on my windows box next to it.
Oh, god, what bullshit is this! Choice is not a problem! If choice was really a problem, then somebody would create a Linux distro with no choices. "Sit down, shut up, and run the software we choose".
Hmmm MacOS, Windows, OpenBSD, all don't offer much choice in apps for the same task... and still they're hugely popular for the specific tasks they do.
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Apple uses this kind of practice all the time. Can't win against Microsoft? File antitrust against them. Can't win against Nokia? same.
Time for a replacement for the CES, I'd say .. never bite the hand that feeds you.
So mediical scans are forbidden now too? what a load of crap.
In a hundred years, your grand-grand-grand kids will have fun googling their ancestry and finding that they were driving under influence ... .. sorry we can't employ convicts here"
nowait - doesn't the DA know that the internet never forgets? That anyone can find this informatiuon by just googling someone's name?
"Hello i'm here for the job interview"- "Oh I see you had a DUI 32 years ago
> So "SATA 6GB" is working fine, but this disk is just too slow to take advantage of its speed increase.
You are forgetting that lots of people are switching to SSD disks with amazing throughputs.. so there is an actual benefit for SATA 6GB. I for one welcome the new SATA 6GB overlord.
It seems to work well .. but wait I suddenly have a splitting headache, be right back ...
> If I can't delete it, it's malware.
It's a component of your OS. Whether it's crucial to you is an entirely different discussion - if you want your OS to be as bare as possible, Windows is not for you. MS has decided that it is needed on every system so they can make certain assumptions on system usage and updates. Would you like to be able to delete, say, your kernel executable? Is that malware too?
I'm sure that you have thoroughly searched everyones bags!
> any exchange/trading house/equity firm/etc that is using Windows is insane IMHO
Imagine those pesky traders would use Access databases and Excel sheets! Unthinkable, the financial world would be a giant mess. Uh..
> Right, so if the tax on a packet of cigarettes were $100, everyone would just pay that, rather than switching to some other vice?
Let's take an extreme example and say the government added $100 tax to a bottle of water. In the short run it would lower the sales, but the end would cause either massive inflation, or a massive black market, or both. Either way, you just punish the poor and hurt the economy.
I don't have a credit card, and I am not planning to obtain one. It may be surprising to many US readers, but only a minority in Europe has one. SO are we all barred from entering the US now?
Are you for real? Zomg what an absurd elitist behaviour. Wake up call: some users don't visit exclusively triple-a graded security websites. And when you have to click twenty times in your browser just because a certificate is self signed .. is annoying at least. Mildly said.
Oh come on, a self signed certificate is ten times better than no certificate at all. But in the first case, both FF and IE will go berserk with all kind of ways to prevent you from visiting the site. In the second, totally unsecure scenario, the browser won't say a word ..
So again, I have a working site. I decide to add a layer of encryption - and the browser starts warning my users that it's unsafe. Illogical at least .. and here you are defending this idiocy.You must be working for verisign or thawte ..
He's not in business anymore. Therefore he is replying as a person and not as a business. No need for professionalism, unless there is some rule that persons have to communicate like lawyers and businesses.
Will visiting foreigners (tourists, businessmen, etc)be obligated to install this software at the customs desk at the airport when entering the country? Would be a good reason not to go to China..
Wasn't Jon Katz fired after that story he made up, about an afghan boy e-mailing him with him commodore 64 which was buried in his backyard for years?
aha here it is: http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/17/204207
even the NY times wrote about the fraud: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/technology/afghan-e-mail-seen-as-too-geek-to-be-true.html
So no, slashdot was as bad then as it is today. Maybe the trolls were better..? (anyone remember netcraft?)
> I read the article
You must be new here?
Voting in the US using commercially developed machines: Evil! Unreliable! What is the world coming to! US elections unfair! Dictatorship coming soon!
Voting in Brasil using open source el cheapo machines: Profit!! Democratic wonder! Fantastic solution! US could learn from this!
How do you mean, Slashdot is biased..
USD 400 is pretty cheap for europeans, resembling, what, 3 or 4 euro lately? :P
> Everything "just works" on a Mac...yeah, except the new headset I bought because
:P ftl!
> the audio-in jack won't work with an unpowered microphone.
Heh! being both a Windows zealot and owner of a mac mini (and having had many
macs since the late eighties), I see the mic port flaw as the biggest annoyance
on the mini. It prevents me in using it as a dedicated skype machine
In practice it has reduced my mini to a dumb terminal which i only use for
browsing while doing real work (tm) on my windows box next to it.
Oh, god, what bullshit is this! Choice is not a problem! If choice was really a problem, then somebody would create a Linux distro with no choices. "Sit down, shut up, and run the software we choose".
Hmmm MacOS, Windows, OpenBSD, all don't offer much choice in apps for the same task... and still they're hugely popular for the specific tasks they do.
..to drive a statistical website that was written in the 60's
...
talking about anachronisms
Not exactly: if you split 0 dollar among 10 people, they all
get the same part: 0 dollar. Which is 100% of the original
amount. So 0/10 = 1....
All MMORPGs will be based in tax-friendly countries like Switzerland, Cayman islands or Tongo.... so how are they going to value the assets then?
And, even more important, will I, as a EU citizen, be required to pay taxes to the IRS for playing in a US RPG?
Yeah, why should Aljazeera be biased towards evolution and science in general? I believe all their stories all the time </sarcasm>