I hope you understand what a lot of those chips really are.
I do. And your statement was accurate about 10 years ago. Modern "chips" (I put that in quotes because more commonly it's a reflash through the OBD2 port, not a physical chip hooked to the ECU) are much more elaborate. Mine, for example, causes the turbo to spin up sooner, raises the peak boost to 19 psi, and leans out the fuel mixture. The stock map has me running below 10:1 at WOT. Now I run about 11.5:1. Heck, maybe I make fewer emissions now then when it was stock;). My gas mileage improved slightly so it is possible...
It's fear. Whether or not the word "genuine" is being used for its dictionary definition is not really relevant. They want to use terminology ("genuine", "advantage") that communicates to Joe User that a pirated copy of Windows may contain malware, spyware, etc. You have no idea what it has, so you better not install it on your computer. Pay us $$$ so you can be sure you are getting safe software. (and of course, that last bit is a whole 'nother discussion).
strace is more like Solaris's truss, except truss is quite a lot better. IMO dtrace is for more serious debugging, tools like truss & strace are quick and dirty tools for easy to solve problems where just knowing the system call and their return values is enough to diagnose the issue.
This is considerably different than the average "pirate" who downloads software for him/herself and perhaps distributes copies to friends. This guy was *selling* pirated software. That's a whole different ballgame, and it makes him a garden variety criminal in my opinion. Not really news, and certainly not relevant to me in a "Your Rights Online" sort of way.
Or just maybe we recognize that one person is not responsible for Microsoft's security failings. This guy may really know his shit, but if the corporate culture at MS is effectively anti-security it won't matter. Or maybe the codebase is so bad that even with a skilled security wonk at the helm it's just not possible to patch all the leaks.
There are definitely alternatives to the two choices you offer.
I have experienced that as well. In my experience, earlier CFL's lastest a fair lenght of time. Lately, however, with the push to bring the price down, the longevity has been sacrificed. I typically get 6 months to a year from a CFL, about the same as I get from the incandescents I buy.
And there are some things for which CFL is not appropriate yet. The 60w floodlights in my kitchen, for example, cannot be replaced with CFL's. That's not to say you cannot get CFL replacements for the floods, just that they do not work -- for whatever reason, that style of bulb still has the hideous warm up issues. Turn them on, get about 25% of full output for the first 1-2 minutes before they get up to temp. Tried it, gave up, bought regular halogen bulbs a few months back and I'm much happier.
After the last time my lunch was stolen out of the break room fridge, I thought that perhaps next time I would put in a bit of bait food that was laced with blue dye. Food coloring, of course, so it would be harmless. Then for the next couple of days at work we could all easily identify the lunch thief by the blue stains around his mouth. LOL.
You are failing to see this from the point of view of the manufacturer. What you have proposed simply gives you a way to run unsupported software. Where does it actually help the manufacturer? They are still going to get the calls, error light or not. Only now, in addition to providing support, they have to explain why they will not support a particular version of the code.
I agree. I think they will be able to retain the part about online gambling itself being illegal, but they're going to lose the parts of the law that make 'gambling information' illegal. That is clearly a first amemdment issue right there.
I would buy that. When I was in the military, there were some people whose sweat would turn their brown t-shirts orange. Not sure why, though, but it seems reasonable to suspect those people were more corrosive;-).
Thank you for providing an example of doublethink. Now go back to 1984 please.
If the government wants to censor child pornogrophy, terrorist websites, and related things, it's fine with me.
So tell me who gets to define "child pornogrophy [sic]" and "terrorist websites" for the purposes of this censorship that is fine with you. Is Slashdot a terrorist website because of all the free thinking liberals that post here?
It's pretty clear that they already filter. Go to labs.google.com/suggest and be creative, and you can find clear examples of stuff they've filtered out. That further erodes any argument they could make on being neutral.
Easy. We're pretty sure we know the extent of information that can be determined about you by your fingerprints. Not true for DNA. Not only do we not know the complete extent of information that can be determined from your DNA, with what little we do know, it is already too much. More than mere identification, for sure.
What is especially sad to me is that we have allowed the terrorists to win. What they did directly caused a statistically insignificant amount of damage to this country.
What we did to ourselves in response, however, is far more impressive.
Meh. There are a lot of reasons to attempt to compromise a system, and creating a botnet is just one of them. Linux has fewer virii and security exploits primarily because it has better design and better code review. There are more than enough Linux boxes out in the wild to justify real effort from smart people trying to hack them.
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I do. And your statement was accurate about 10 years ago. Modern "chips" (I put that in quotes because more commonly it's a reflash through the OBD2 port, not a physical chip hooked to the ECU) are much more elaborate. Mine, for example, causes the turbo to spin up sooner, raises the peak boost to 19 psi, and leans out the fuel mixture. The stock map has me running below 10:1 at WOT. Now I run about 11.5:1. Heck, maybe I make fewer emissions now then when it was stock ;). My gas mileage improved slightly so it is possible...
It's fear. Whether or not the word "genuine" is being used for its dictionary definition is not really relevant. They want to use terminology ("genuine", "advantage") that communicates to Joe User that a pirated copy of Windows may contain malware, spyware, etc. You have no idea what it has, so you better not install it on your computer. Pay us $$$ so you can be sure you are getting safe software. (and of course, that last bit is a whole 'nother discussion).
strace is more like Solaris's truss, except truss is quite a lot better. IMO dtrace is for more serious debugging, tools like truss & strace are quick and dirty tools for easy to solve problems where just knowing the system call and their return values is enough to diagnose the issue.
This is considerably different than the average "pirate" who downloads software for him/herself and perhaps distributes copies to friends. This guy was *selling* pirated software. That's a whole different ballgame, and it makes him a garden variety criminal in my opinion. Not really news, and certainly not relevant to me in a "Your Rights Online" sort of way.
Or just maybe we recognize that one person is not responsible for Microsoft's security failings. This guy may really know his shit, but if the corporate culture at MS is effectively anti-security it won't matter. Or maybe the codebase is so bad that even with a skilled security wonk at the helm it's just not possible to patch all the leaks. There are definitely alternatives to the two choices you offer.
RTFM. This was a rental. The owner has his own hose a few kilometers away.
I have experienced that as well. In my experience, earlier CFL's lastest a fair lenght of time. Lately, however, with the push to bring the price down, the longevity has been sacrificed. I typically get 6 months to a year from a CFL, about the same as I get from the incandescents I buy. And there are some things for which CFL is not appropriate yet. The 60w floodlights in my kitchen, for example, cannot be replaced with CFL's. That's not to say you cannot get CFL replacements for the floods, just that they do not work -- for whatever reason, that style of bulb still has the hideous warm up issues. Turn them on, get about 25% of full output for the first 1-2 minutes before they get up to temp. Tried it, gave up, bought regular halogen bulbs a few months back and I'm much happier.
After the last time my lunch was stolen out of the break room fridge, I thought that perhaps next time I would put in a bit of bait food that was laced with blue dye. Food coloring, of course, so it would be harmless. Then for the next couple of days at work we could all easily identify the lunch thief by the blue stains around his mouth. LOL.
Haven't tried it yet, though.
Not true. Three days ago my new HR10-250 DirecTiVo was installed. It is just as much of a Tivo as my old SD DirecTivo (an HDVR2).
You are failing to see this from the point of view of the manufacturer. What you have proposed simply gives you a way to run unsupported software. Where does it actually help the manufacturer? They are still going to get the calls, error light or not. Only now, in addition to providing support, they have to explain why they will not support a particular version of the code.
"I could not care less" is a very good attempt at burning the bridge behind him.
I think I have established unequivocally that I do not have enough neurons to understand what the heck they said with that sentence. Yikes.
Dotslashed? What's that?
I agree. I think they will be able to retain the part about online gambling itself being illegal, but they're going to lose the parts of the law that make 'gambling information' illegal. That is clearly a first amemdment issue right there.
I would buy that. When I was in the military, there were some people whose sweat would turn their brown t-shirts orange. Not sure why, though, but it seems reasonable to suspect those people were more corrosive ;-).
Anybody who has to enter it on a web page (i.e. college, bank, whatever) and has it stored in their cache.
If the government wants to censor child pornogrophy, terrorist websites, and related things, it's fine with me.
So tell me who gets to define "child pornogrophy [sic]" and "terrorist websites" for the purposes of this censorship that is fine with you. Is Slashdot a terrorist website because of all the free thinking liberals that post here?
The key is not the license. That sparkly hologram thingy is. So just using an alternate activation key is not itself illegal.
Even better, it's not *nix, it is UNIX. The Real Deal :)
It's pretty clear that they already filter. Go to labs.google.com/suggest and be creative, and you can find clear examples of stuff they've filtered out. That further erodes any argument they could make on being neutral.
It also cuts legitimate e-mail by a good percentage, too.
Easy. We're pretty sure we know the extent of information that can be determined about you by your fingerprints. Not true for DNA. Not only do we not know the complete extent of information that can be determined from your DNA, with what little we do know, it is already too much. More than mere identification, for sure.
What we did to ourselves in response, however, is far more impressive.
Meh. There are a lot of reasons to attempt to compromise a system, and creating a botnet is just one of them. Linux has fewer virii and security exploits primarily because it has better design and better code review. There are more than enough Linux boxes out in the wild to justify real effort from smart people trying to hack them.
Without a PowerPC chip inside... keeping the PowerBook name would have been a bit silly.