If you have to sit there and watch the download progress, I don't think your time is worth $20/hr. Realistically you can find and start the download in under a minute. You can then have the CD burned in another ~5 minutes and again, you don't have to watch the progress bar, you can do other things.
I don't use windows on the desktop so I cannot really comment, however I do administer some Linux mail relays that use ClamAV with extremely good results.
I mention this because there is a windows client that uses the same FOSS engine -- ClamWin.
The 9800GX2 may be cheaper but it most certainly is not faster, even considering your links. From Anandtech, the charts show a significant speed increase with the new hardware.
In fact, from the article: The GTX 280 delivered real-world benchmark numbers nearly 50 percent faster than a single GeForce 9800 GTX running on Windows XP, and it was 23-percent faster than that card running on Vista. In fact, it looks as though a single GTX 280 will be comparable to--and in some cases beat--two 9800 GTX cards running in SLI, a fact that explains why Nvidia expects the 9800 GX2 to fade from the scene rather quickly.
I picked up one of these about 1 year ago because it claimed to have a long range (60' as I recall.. I can't seem to find mention of it now...). It was to be used in our small conference room, so the range only had to be about 15' feet. It wouldn't even work reliably at 10'. In fact, at 10' there were tremendous delays and "skipping" with both the mouse and the keyboard. Horrible product. This was not going through walls or in an area with a lot of interference.
Not to mention that in order to get the name of the defendant the RIAA had to file a "John Doe" criminal suit, which was dropped after finding the name of the defendant. In other words, a fishing expedition all the way around.
FTA: The notice states that the dismissal is "without prejudice".
However, Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 (B) states "if the plaintiff previously dismissed any federal-or state-court action based on or including the same claim, a notice of dismissal operates as an adjudication on the merits." It is believed that the plaintiffs learned of the defendant's identity through a prior, "John Doe", proceeding, which it also voluntarily dismissed, so that the dismissal in this case "operates as an adjudication on the merits".
It's 2008, why aren't most websites just using https by default?
Certificates cost money. In order to have an encrypted site that does not pop up a warning about unauthenticated certificates, you have to buy a certificate rather than generate your own. As an example (warning: shameless plug) visit https://pagewash.com/ (in Firefox 3.0 it not only gives a warning, but actually shows an "error" page.
If you do not buy one, many people will view your "safer" site as unsafe and simply not visit it.
If you are using Thunderbird/Mozilla mail this is a fairly common occurence with any virus scanner. Apparently these scanners are smart enough to be able to quarantine single emails from Outlook but cannot do it for a file format that has been used for 10+ years . You can restore the inbox (after making a copy of your current inbox and deleting the associated.msf file). You can then delete the offending email and copy the email from the inbox that was used during the interrum back into your restored inbox.
It is not theft. You have *not* deprived the original owner of his/her property or use. It is copyright infringement. Sheesh.. I thought that was/. 101 stuff.
It has affected me personally by being a pain in the ass to install (back in the day) and more than willing to step on any other Java implementation I may have (more recently - ie blackdown etc...). The main effect this will have on the future is to remove this pain because now the distribution will be able to include it in their repositories, thus accounting for conflicts and dependencies so I don't have to. The only problem is that I now almost never use Java and will actively look for similar programs that are not written in Java to accomplish the same task just so I don't have to deal with Java. Java could have been something 10 years ago. Now, it is too little too late IMHO.
Also, if you read the article, you will see that the new and improved Open Source Java will be missing some features (ie sound). So this isn't so much open-sourcing Java as it is removing the last offending bits that cannot be open-sourced and hoping they will be coded back in.
Most are only limited by what the law allows. Although a company might speak of ethics, don't expect them to actually practice it.
I agree with these two statements 100%, however...
And why bother about security ethics when there are much more important ethical considerations like how they treat staff? Again, most companies screw most of their staff to the limit of the law.
Treatment of staff is a strawman. It has no bearing on whether security is an issue. I was employed in a medical software company that did not treat their staff terribly yet managed to deploy products that were genuinely unsafe. This was in the imaging dept.of a medical records company - imaging handled diagnostic images as well as records for archival. This needed to be 100%+ HIPPA compliant and was nowhere close. While treatment of staff was decent, security with regard to medical records/images was not at all. I believe this to be an area where security is a huge priority over how the staff is treated.
How did a big non-commercial, non-paying community [evolved and actually] evolve into one that produces some of the most respectable Operating Systems and applications packages available?
I am really looking forward to disk based clustering in MySQL. I have tried the NDB clustering, but the hardware requirements can be hefty. I am also curious about performance in this area. Contrary to what one might assume, the in-memory clustering is generally slower than storing the files on disk. I am curious how the disk based clustering fares compared to NDB clustering and a traditional on-disk MySQL DB.
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2nd attempt at bringing James Doohan's ashes to space.
Surely you lawyers have a fancy sounding name for such a document...
I believe the term you are looking for is Amicus Brief.
Your average Joe already paid for Windows. So now for $19.99 he can have the pleasure of doing an OS install?
The last time I checked, Ubuntu is a live CD, thus an OS installation is not necessary to try it out.
If you have to sit there and watch the download progress, I don't think your time is worth $20/hr. Realistically you can find and start the download in under a minute. You can then have the CD burned in another ~5 minutes and again, you don't have to watch the progress bar, you can do other things.
Oops... Like I said, it works really well on my email filter servers.. but I don't do windows :P
I don't use windows on the desktop so I cannot really comment, however I do administer some Linux mail relays that use ClamAV with extremely good results.
I mention this because there is a windows client that uses the same FOSS engine -- ClamWin.
You are absolutely right. I would never trust a company whose site goes down.
The 9800GX2 may be cheaper but it most certainly is not faster, even considering your links. From Anandtech, the charts show a significant speed increase with the new hardware.
In fact, from the article:
The GTX 280 delivered real-world benchmark numbers nearly 50 percent faster than a single GeForce 9800 GTX running on Windows XP, and it was 23-percent faster than that card running on Vista. In fact, it looks as though a single GTX 280 will be comparable to--and in some cases beat--two 9800 GTX cards running in SLI, a fact that explains why Nvidia expects the 9800 GX2 to fade from the scene rather quickly.
Which leads me to the question, are you trolling?
I picked up one of these about 1 year ago because it claimed to have a long range (60' as I recall.. I can't seem to find mention of it now...). It was to be used in our small conference room, so the range only had to be about 15' feet. It wouldn't even work reliably at 10'. In fact, at 10' there were tremendous delays and "skipping" with both the mouse and the keyboard. Horrible product. This was not going through walls or in an area with a lot of interference.
Not to mention that in order to get the name of the defendant the RIAA had to file a "John Doe" criminal suit, which was dropped after finding the name of the defendant. In other words, a fishing expedition all the way around.
FTA:
The notice states that the dismissal is "without prejudice". However, Fed. R. Civ. P. 41 (B) states "if the plaintiff previously dismissed any federal-or state-court action based on or including the same claim, a notice of dismissal operates as an adjudication on the merits." It is believed that the plaintiffs learned of the defendant's identity through a prior, "John Doe", proceeding, which it also voluntarily dismissed, so that the dismissal in this case "operates as an adjudication on the merits".
Perma-death. If your character dies, you start over.
Yes there is. However, from what I understand the bigger problem is that GIMP doesnt understand CMYK color formats.. though I could be wrong there.
It's 2008, why aren't most websites just using https by default?
Certificates cost money. In order to have an encrypted site that does not pop up a warning about unauthenticated certificates, you have to buy a certificate rather than generate your own. As an example (warning: shameless plug) visit https://pagewash.com/ (in Firefox 3.0 it not only gives a warning, but actually shows an "error" page.
If you do not buy one, many people will view your "safer" site as unsafe and simply not visit it.
Sony, the dirty bastards that they are, will offer you a crapware-free machine for the measly sum of $50.
You learn something new every day :) Thanks for the tip!
If you are using Thunderbird/Mozilla mail this is a fairly common occurence with any virus scanner. Apparently these scanners are smart enough to be able to quarantine single emails from Outlook but cannot do it for a file format that has been used for 10+ years . You can restore the inbox (after making a copy of your current inbox and deleting the associated .msf file). You can then delete the offending email and copy the email from the inbox that was used during the interrum back into your restored inbox.
...and MacOS is the only commercial OS that has never had a zero day exploit in the wild
Wow... I cannot believe you said that out loud.
Actually, in GP's example, Verizon enjoys common carrier status. If they were to filter based on anything, they would lose that status.
"The actus reus of theft is usually defined as an unauthorised taking, keeping or using of another's property which must be accompanied by a mens rea of dishonesty and/or the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use ."
/. 101 stuff.
It is not theft. You have *not* deprived the original owner of his/her property or use. It is copyright infringement. Sheesh.. I thought that was
Well... farts smell so that deaf people can enjoy them as well; I am not sure what that has to do with a blind person though.
It has affected me personally by being a pain in the ass to install (back in the day) and more than willing to step on any other Java implementation I may have (more recently - ie blackdown etc...). The main effect this will have on the future is to remove this pain because now the distribution will be able to include it in their repositories, thus accounting for conflicts and dependencies so I don't have to. The only problem is that I now almost never use Java and will actively look for similar programs that are not written in Java to accomplish the same task just so I don't have to deal with Java. Java could have been something 10 years ago. Now, it is too little too late IMHO.
Also, if you read the article, you will see that the new and improved Open Source Java will be missing some features (ie sound). So this isn't so much open-sourcing Java as it is removing the last offending bits that cannot be open-sourced and hoping they will be coded back in.
Just my $0.02.
Most are only limited by what the law allows. Although a company might speak of ethics, don't expect them to actually practice it.
I agree with these two statements 100%, however...
And why bother about security ethics when there are much more important ethical considerations like how they treat staff? Again, most companies screw most of their staff to the limit of the law.
Treatment of staff is a strawman. It has no bearing on whether security is an issue. I was employed in a medical software company that did not treat their staff terribly yet managed to deploy products that were genuinely unsafe. This was in the imaging dept.of a medical records company - imaging handled diagnostic images as well as records for archival. This needed to be 100%+ HIPPA compliant and was nowhere close. While treatment of staff was decent, security with regard to medical records/images was not at all. I believe this to be an area where security is a huge priority over how the staff is treated.
My guess:
How did a big non-commercial, non-paying community [evolved and actually] evolve into one that produces some of the most respectable Operating Systems and applications packages available?
I am really looking forward to disk based clustering in MySQL. I have tried the NDB clustering, but the hardware requirements can be hefty. I am also curious about performance in this area. Contrary to what one might assume, the in-memory clustering is generally slower than storing the files on disk. I am curious how the disk based clustering fares compared to NDB clustering and a traditional on-disk MySQL DB.
...but then I remember the Sony's "NGE"...
Cringe.. twitch...
Now I feel _dirty_.