The reason Blackberry became Crackberry is realtime e-mail access. If you want e-mail on your Palm Pilot, be prepared to make it twice as large when you attach the wireless module. And Blackberry's integration with MS Exchange is much better than anything you can do with a Palm Pilot.
I agree, it very much appears to be an attempt at humor. It did not become totally clear to me until the last paragraph, when it became so ridiculous that I realized it HAD to be humor, or some attempt at it. Not very elegantly done, I am not particularly impressed. I'd rather see a Steven Colbert anti-Mac skit...
I bought a house 10 minutes away from where I work. A year and a half later, the company decided to relocate their headquarters to a location that is 25 minutes farther away. It is not really practical to change where you live based on where you are working at any given moment, unless you are renting. And even then...
I am curious, though, do you really believe that sysadmins change passwords and plug in PC's? Where I work, that is done by Helpdesk.
I wrote perl scripts to babysit the servers (all UNIX), and I spend almost 100% of my time working on projects. Usually that means writing web applications and modifying open source software to better fit what our organization (ISP) needs. I bet I write more code than an average "real programmer" does;-). I'd much rather work with open source software than write IT applications in.NET (this is what our applications team does all day).
And that is a roundabout way of pointing out that TFA is bunk. "Best" is a subjective term. I wouldn't trade my UNIX SysAdmin position for a Software Engineer position unless you bumped up my salary a good bit. That's unlikely.
(it used to be an AMD CPU would cook itself to permanent destruction if it was overheating, there is a good video of a few AMD chips lighting on fire at Tom's Hardware demonstrating this).
Yeah, because heatsinks coming unlatched all by themselves and falling off has been shown to be a common occurence.
I tend to agree, although I would be careful extrapolating that to other situations. This was a classic situation of a kid doing what a kid does. It was funny BECAUSE of that. Every person on the planet has done similarly silly things, most of us however did not have them recorded and put on public display. If I were the parents of this boy, I would have suggested he try to be upbeat about it, and remember that the vast majority of people aren't really laughing at him per se, they're laughing at themselves. At a certain point you have to analyze the situation and figure out what the possible outcomes really are. Suing the other kids, while satisfying at the time, should have sent up warning flags when the consequences were considered.
I don't know why telemarketers are respecting the DNC, but the junk faxers are fearless. Maybe junk faxes are less expensive to send, so they're more akin to spam than telemarketing?
I don't think so. Spam can be sent in bulk because the existing mail transport system has many loopholes that allow the individual "connections" to be distributed to someone else. Spam isn't actually inexpensive except for the spammer himself. Junk faxes on the other hand require a point-to-point voice connection just like a telemarketing call. There is no way to proxy the connections (that I know of).
On a related note, the very fact that these connections have to be made individually suggests that junk faxes should be easy to police if we wanted to. The technical foundation for tracing calls is very well established.
Think about this; would something like slashdot be able to work? Obstensibly/. would pay more to provide a better service or those that use are the type of people who'd pay for a faster connection. Would you then really want a fast site with lots of links to slower sites?
Employers are not merely expected to subsidize health care -- they want to. When shopping for insurance, they get lower prices than you do. A lot lower, probably. If they had to pay you competative wages with everyone else so you could choose your insurance provider, then the cost would be higher -- for you, and then by extension, for them.
I disagree beacuse unless you have a wicked awesome home entertainment setup you are not going to rival seeing a film in a theater.
I agree. To rival the movie theater experience I would have to pop some nasty smelling popcorn, pour cocacola on my floor, install uncomfortable seats, and let the movie continue to play while I take a bathroom break. Oh, and I have to charge myself a ridiculous surcharge for anything I eat or drink during the movie. And lest I forget, I have to invite smelly, noisy, rude people to join me in my living room to watch the flick.
Maybe... maybe my screen isn't quite as cool as the big theater screen. But at 47" and 16x9, it comes close enough. And my surround setup, while not perfect, will indeed rattle my ribcage during the lobby scene of the Matrix, so it's good enough as well. When I figure in the comfy recliner, lack of rude annoying smelly people, food at cost, ability to stop the movie while I pee... well, I think I do not want to rival the movie theater experience after all.
If you guessed that I do not watch movies in theaters any more, you'd be right. Even without the aforementioned irritations, paying nearly half the cost of a DVD just to watch a movie one time is not worth it.
Or perhaps the styrofoam peanuts are merely breaking apart into smaller chunks. I do not see how your experiment proves that styrofoam does biodegrade (especially when there is scientific evidence to the contrary). And this article does not suggest that there is any bacteria that can eat styrofoam directly -- it has to be heated and converted back into liquid styrene first.
For public safety, I say we require three things from electronic voting systems:
1. Open source. We need to be able to trust these systems and how can we do that without being able to examine the code behind them? 2. Paper records kept for the government. Just in case there is a trust issue, this is a backup method for the recount. 3. Paper records for the voter. Worst case, every voter has a copy of their own vote. Hard to use for a recount, but could help identify irregularities.
So easy. I am all for having the convenience and speed of electronic voting, but I cannot for the life of me understand why we must give up the benefits of paper ballots at the same time, and even improve on them (as in the paper copy for the voter).
Ahh, okay now I get it. I did not even really think about it from that point of view... which explains why I did not get the joke;-). Thank you for clarifying.
The million dollar question -- is paint a "device." It seems obvious to me that it is not, at least not in the spirit of the regulation that was quoted.
There are several examples, and some that have already been given by others. Another that comes to mind for me is DirecTV. Granted, there is some hardware involvement there, but at the heart it is software. And ever since the release of the P5 DirecTV card, it has remained uncracked. There is an incredible amount of money that was being made in the theft of DirecTV service, and so there remains a huge amount of incentive to make that theft possible again. The fact that nobody has yet succeeded (it would be very public by now if they had, despite rumors) suggests that DirecTV managed to put together a technology that was for all practical purposes uncrackable.
There have always been incredibly smart people on both sides of issues like these, but the advantage always lies on the side of the encrypter, not the one attempting to break it. Technology and experience is making it possible for newer DRM methods to reliably accomplish their goals. There has been success breaking DRM in the past, but that was primarily due to inexperience on the part of the implementors.
The only real hope for avoiding a DRM world in the future is in outright rejection by the majority of consumers. To count on technology saving us from technology is naive.
And despite the fact that people routinely say "everything gets cracked," there is evidence to contradict that. DRM is going to get "Good Enough" that for all practical purposes it will not be crackable.
Hydropower, wind, solar, tidal, etc. There are lots of possibilities. I doubt there is any magic one size fits all solution, but there are plenty of existing non-nuclear technologies if we want to use them.
I'd say IBM wants to slam dunk this case, to show any future SCO-types that they won't lie down for this kind of crap. The profit motive is in clearing the way for smooth sailing for Linux, since IBM has staked a lot on it.
If you are a fanboy for any operating system after having been exposed to the other available choices, then the proper term is dumb.
You can take that however you want:-). I also suggest that you continue broadening your horizons. If you think Windows is better than MacOSX as a desktop, then you have not spent any significant time using MacOSX. And if you think Linux is the best server OS... well, try Solaris sometime and get back to me.
Exactly WHY is MacOSX safer than Windows? Because of it's small marketshare?
Errr... no. Market share has nothing to do with it. MacOSX is safer than Windows because it has fewer bugs. If it were market share related, there would be a LOT more vulnerabilities. Even 1% of Windows bugs would mean tons more than there are.
A locked down XP system, is as secure as MacOSX, if not MORE secure, as who knows what other gotchas are waiting in OSX to be exploited, whereas XP has had been constantly improving things...
No, again. No matter how locked down Microsoft has made Windows, it continues to be exploited more than MacOSX. I would be careful suggesting that XP has been constantly improving -- patching is not necessarily improvement. And besides, Apple releases updates for their software regularly. I just got 10.4.5 last week, so I'd say Apple is "constantly improving things" at least as much as Microsoft is.
You really ought to gain some exposure to other software, and broaden your horizons. Only someone who has used Microsoft software exclusively for his entire life could be such a fanboy.
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The reason Blackberry became Crackberry is realtime e-mail access. If you want e-mail on your Palm Pilot, be prepared to make it twice as large when you attach the wireless module. And Blackberry's integration with MS Exchange is much better than anything you can do with a Palm Pilot.
I agree, it very much appears to be an attempt at humor. It did not become totally clear to me until the last paragraph, when it became so ridiculous that I realized it HAD to be humor, or some attempt at it. Not very elegantly done, I am not particularly impressed. I'd rather see a Steven Colbert anti-Mac skit...
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I bought a house 10 minutes away from where I work. A year and a half later, the company decided to relocate their headquarters to a location that is 25 minutes farther away. It is not really practical to change where you live based on where you are working at any given moment, unless you are renting. And even then...
I am curious, though, do you really believe that sysadmins change passwords and plug in PC's? Where I work, that is done by Helpdesk.
I wrote perl scripts to babysit the servers (all UNIX), and I spend almost 100% of my time working on projects. Usually that means writing web applications and modifying open source software to better fit what our organization (ISP) needs. I bet I write more code than an average "real programmer" does ;-). I'd much rather work with open source software than write IT applications in .NET (this is what our applications team does all day).
And that is a roundabout way of pointing out that TFA is bunk. "Best" is a subjective term. I wouldn't trade my UNIX SysAdmin position for a Software Engineer position unless you bumped up my salary a good bit. That's unlikely.
Yeah, because heatsinks coming unlatched all by themselves and falling off has been shown to be a common occurence.
I tend to agree, although I would be careful extrapolating that to other situations. This was a classic situation of a kid doing what a kid does. It was funny BECAUSE of that. Every person on the planet has done similarly silly things, most of us however did not have them recorded and put on public display. If I were the parents of this boy, I would have suggested he try to be upbeat about it, and remember that the vast majority of people aren't really laughing at him per se, they're laughing at themselves. At a certain point you have to analyze the situation and figure out what the possible outcomes really are. Suing the other kids, while satisfying at the time, should have sent up warning flags when the consequences were considered.
I don't think so. Spam can be sent in bulk because the existing mail transport system has many loopholes that allow the individual "connections" to be distributed to someone else. Spam isn't actually inexpensive except for the spammer himself. Junk faxes on the other hand require a point-to-point voice connection just like a telemarketing call. There is no way to proxy the connections (that I know of).
On a related note, the very fact that these connections have to be made individually suggests that junk faxes should be easy to police if we wanted to. The technical foundation for tracing calls is very well established.
That's what we have now with Slashdot ;-)
Employers are not merely expected to subsidize health care -- they want to. When shopping for insurance, they get lower prices than you do. A lot lower, probably. If they had to pay you competative wages with everyone else so you could choose your insurance provider, then the cost would be higher -- for you, and then by extension, for them.
Thank you for so eloquently explaining why government should have direct control over the Internet.
I agree. To rival the movie theater experience I would have to pop some nasty smelling popcorn, pour cocacola on my floor, install uncomfortable seats, and let the movie continue to play while I take a bathroom break. Oh, and I have to charge myself a ridiculous surcharge for anything I eat or drink during the movie. And lest I forget, I have to invite smelly, noisy, rude people to join me in my living room to watch the flick.
Maybe... maybe my screen isn't quite as cool as the big theater screen. But at 47" and 16x9, it comes close enough. And my surround setup, while not perfect, will indeed rattle my ribcage during the lobby scene of the Matrix, so it's good enough as well. When I figure in the comfy recliner, lack of rude annoying smelly people, food at cost, ability to stop the movie while I pee... well, I think I do not want to rival the movie theater experience after all.
If you guessed that I do not watch movies in theaters any more, you'd be right. Even without the aforementioned irritations, paying nearly half the cost of a DVD just to watch a movie one time is not worth it.
Nice try though.
1. Open source. We need to be able to trust these systems and how can we do that without being able to examine the code behind them?
2. Paper records kept for the government. Just in case there is a trust issue, this is a backup method for the recount.
3. Paper records for the voter. Worst case, every voter has a copy of their own vote. Hard to use for a recount, but could help identify irregularities.
So easy. I am all for having the convenience and speed of electronic voting, but I cannot for the life of me understand why we must give up the benefits of paper ballots at the same time, and even improve on them (as in the paper copy for the voter).
Ahh, okay now I get it. I did not even really think about it from that point of view ... which explains why I did not get the joke ;-). Thank you for clarifying.
I take by your "(Sorry, it had to be said.)" comment, that this was intended to be funny. But I don't get the joke...? I want to laugh too, please!
Are there not wired phones inside auditoriums, theaters, and other buildings? What ever did we do before the invention of cellular phones?
The million dollar question -- is paint a "device." It seems obvious to me that it is not, at least not in the spirit of the regulation that was quoted.
So I'm thinking it depends on what distribution you choose and which desktop manager.
There have always been incredibly smart people on both sides of issues like these, but the advantage always lies on the side of the encrypter, not the one attempting to break it. Technology and experience is making it possible for newer DRM methods to reliably accomplish their goals. There has been success breaking DRM in the past, but that was primarily due to inexperience on the part of the implementors.
The only real hope for avoiding a DRM world in the future is in outright rejection by the majority of consumers. To count on technology saving us from technology is naive.
And despite the fact that people routinely say "everything gets cracked," there is evidence to contradict that. DRM is going to get "Good Enough" that for all practical purposes it will not be crackable.
Hydropower, wind, solar, tidal, etc. There are lots of possibilities. I doubt there is any magic one size fits all solution, but there are plenty of existing non-nuclear technologies if we want to use them.
I'd say IBM wants to slam dunk this case, to show any future SCO-types that they won't lie down for this kind of crap. The profit motive is in clearing the way for smooth sailing for Linux, since IBM has staked a lot on it.
If you are a fanboy for any operating system after having been exposed to the other available choices, then the proper term is dumb.
You can take that however you want :-). I also suggest that you continue broadening your horizons. If you think Windows is better than MacOSX as a desktop, then you have not spent any significant time using MacOSX. And if you think Linux is the best server OS ... well, try Solaris sometime and get back to me.
Errr... no. Market share has nothing to do with it. MacOSX is safer than Windows because it has fewer bugs. If it were market share related, there would be a LOT more vulnerabilities. Even 1% of Windows bugs would mean tons more than there are.
A locked down XP system, is as secure as MacOSX, if not MORE secure, as who knows what other gotchas are waiting in OSX to be exploited, whereas XP has had been constantly improving things...
No, again. No matter how locked down Microsoft has made Windows, it continues to be exploited more than MacOSX. I would be careful suggesting that XP has been constantly improving -- patching is not necessarily improvement. And besides, Apple releases updates for their software regularly. I just got 10.4.5 last week, so I'd say Apple is "constantly improving things" at least as much as Microsoft is.
You really ought to gain some exposure to other software, and broaden your horizons. Only someone who has used Microsoft software exclusively for his entire life could be such a fanboy.