I think it can. I'm not being rude, but it's not a hard thing to do. We're not talking about billions of permutations. You clearly know what's what in your computer, so it's not too far-fetched to code an app that's just that aware. Determining whether a process is good or bad is trivial if you allow your app to update its definitions from the net. Removal would be easier for an app, too. Those dual-processes that watch each other? Easily dealt with in software much faster than any person can do it.
Good software to defend against such things is easily written. Why it hasn't been already is another matter.
You can argue this either way. Obviously, it's not as critical as you said, as this behaviour has been with us since Windows 2.x. I don't have a problem with it, and this has been the first time I've ever even heard someone talk about it. I'm not being argumentative, but I just can't see how you can call it "really crappy UI design". It works for most people, just not you. That's not crappy UI design, but crappy user:-P (j/k;))
Anyway - windows has controls for changing how apps steal focus. Maybe some reading may be in order...;)
I'm not meaning to be argumentative, but that's not really a big problem if you touch-type. I mean, if you're looking at the screen when the msgbox pops up, you see it and don't press anything. The fact you can use "enter" or "esc" for "yes|ok" "no|cancel" means you can navigate around windows without using a mouse very quickly. I guess some people have problems with them, but for me they work well.
Hahahaha! "His subjects" - he's a president, not a king. The people are his boss, not the other way round. I mean, I know a lot of you right-wingers are a bit nuts, but to come on out here and announce it to the world is a big step. I'm proud to have witnessed it.
Every single one of your points shows how ridiculously narrow-minded and shallow your perceptions of not only politics, but the world, really are. It's enlightening and frightening at the same time. That's quite a skill.
Look, I'm 100% OSS when it comes to web technology. I'm a web developer, and I only ever host stuff on Apache because it's by far the best web server in existance. I'm also the fist to admit that Apache's configuration method is archaic and difficult to learn for most people. I mean, how you can possibly argue that a 1,037-line configuration file is an easier method of configuring a web server than a graphical tool is beyond me. Seriously - I'd love to know.
Right... management console vs. httpd.conf - there's absolutely no contest. I'm a web developer, and I only use Apache as my web server, yet I'm the first to admin that IIS is easier to configure for most people than Apache's lengthy and sometimes-confusing httpd.conf file. There's no contest.
You're talking as if Bush and Cheney sat around with boxes of software on their desks, reading-glasses perched on their noses, passing said boxen backwards and forwards, discussing their pros and cons.
Face it - every single political website for a major party is made by an agency. It's hosted on whatever the agency is running. Do you think Bush has installed a Windows 2003 box in the oval office to host his website? Hardly.
Extrapolating a candidate's attitude towards different software methodologies simply by their agency's choice of webserver is truly amazing. I mean, sure - the answers were as we'd hoped, so I suppose letting things like reasoning get in the way would be silly...;)
I remember when a bunch of "environmentalists" released all those mink from that fur farm. They were running around the countryside killing everything they came across. They decimated lots of species around.
Environmentalism is great, but you have to respect everyone else. You can't let your ideology get the better of you (goes for FOSS people too;)). Killing things is not the best way to promote not killing things.
1. 160" plasmas are rather more expensive than a projector (which can give you that size, easily)
2. You can't pick a plasma screen up in one hand and move it out on the veranda to watch movies outside
3. Cheap plasma screens have horrific quality, as the built-in processing is limited
4. Projectors cost 1/4 of the price of a plasma
5. Replacement bulbs for projectors cost about $100
6. Sony's new projector screens mean perfect viewing in light environments
I know where you're coming from, but if you have a screen in your lounge as big as your wall, you simply don't care. I got a projector last year, and I've not looked back (and I'm a stickler for image quality, etc.).
They're using TNT2 cards, which require a lot of work by the CPU to generate the images. Running 4 of those in one box means your games will run very slowly indeed. Latency would be low, but then the game would be running too slowly to tell.
So what are the palestinians supposed to do? They're being opressed by a government that gets a billion dollars a year for military hardware to use against them. Saying they're not playing fair is a bit silly, seeing as they only have basic weapons to fight apache attack helicopters and tanks.
Of course people bash Israel - it gets so much money from the US, yet still acts like a bunch of little kids. That "peace" wall bullshit? How can you even defend a country who thinks that's a good idea. "Operation Rainbow" - genius.
The fact you're baning on about how horrible "liberals" are gives me hope, as you're obviously some sort of twisted right-wing nutter, which adds support for my argument.
Not really, as China's power and size almost guarantees that one day they're going to create a standard that is better than anything the "west" has come up with. When that happens, they'll be in the driving seat, and the "west" will have to pay royalties to China. I mean, what gives the west the right to declare what is a standard, anyway?
In Britain, some guy texted some Clash lyrics to his friend (they are both in a Clash cover band). The text of the message was: "How about this for Tommy Gun? Ok - So let's agree about the price and make it one jet airliner for ten prisoners". The guy was at work the next day, and special branch turned up to ask him some questions. Needless to say, they let him go within minutes, rather sheepishly. You can read about it here. My point - this goes on all over the world, in places we usually think of as being "good". China does it, and suddenly everyone's up in arms. China's got its issues, but the western world has far more logging and scanning than the rest of the world put together. Echelon springs to mind, and GCHQ does too. Let's not take the piss out of the Chinese when we're worse. It's not cool.
Oh, and when your government stops killing people for money and wiping their asses on the constitution, I'll start to respect them. As that's never going to happen, fuck 'em. dumb monkey-faced bush and his evil cronies. fuck 'em to hell.
The US army is only good at blowing the crap out of something, not sneaking around and looking without being seen. Look at Iraq - if ever a theatre demanded tact and subtlety, this was it. How did they act? Terribly. Tens of thousands of innocent lives lost, and all that was gained was tunrning a country on its head, endangering everyone in the process.
First sentence tells us Microsoft respects and recognises CERT in a professional dimension. Second tells us that the media misreported something CERT said.
There's no more to it than that. Of course, if you're hell-bent on throwing objectivity out the window to join the crowds in shouting at microsoft, of course you could read into that whatever you want.
Yeah - outlook is a fine email client. It's easy to keep safe, and has a range of features far beyond anything else. Discounting it because it's the cool thing to do is a real pity on your end users.
RFIDs just give off a number. It's that simple. Being scared of RFIDs is like being scared of barcodes. If you have RFIDs in the products you buy - remove them. They're not permanent, and are easily removed/destroyed. The real fear people (especially on/.) have is about the RFID readers being linked by government authorities, which clearly puts the scare-factor with the government, not RFIDs (and is also a good demonstration of a paranoid streak;)).
RFIDs are as inherently dangerous as barcodes. If people choose to make them more threatening in their own minds, so be it. That's why we have asylums:-P
Have you listened to what you're saying? You're jumping to some conclusions here - the main one being that RFID tags, like price tags, are removable from clothes and products. They're exactly the same as barcodes - small, unique identifiers for objects. Why aren't barcodes so evil? They aren't. You're showing you're worried about inter-cooperation of people with the scanners, which is rather more paranoid than simply being wary of RFIDs.
The RFID tracking won't make anyone safer - that's not the point. Like barcodes, they identify. They don't detect whether the wearer is a terrorist or Republican (and explode accordingly) - they just give off a number when asked.
Everyone on slashdot who has a problem with RFID really has problems with the authorities using the technology, not the technology itself.
I know RFIDs aren't a threat to privacy. I mean - they just give off a number.
Small planes aren't much use in transatlantic crossings, or flying from one side of the world to another. Neither are maglev trains come to think of it. Our current system is the only one with the flexibility the fickle market desires.
Remember - most of the rest of the world has passports, and isn't afraid to use them;)
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Good software to defend against such things is easily written. Why it hasn't been already is another matter.
Anyway - windows has controls for changing how apps steal focus. Maybe some reading may be in order... ;)
I'm not meaning to be argumentative, but that's not really a big problem if you touch-type. I mean, if you're looking at the screen when the msgbox pops up, you see it and don't press anything. The fact you can use "enter" or "esc" for "yes|ok" "no|cancel" means you can navigate around windows without using a mouse very quickly. I guess some people have problems with them, but for me they work well.
No - it installs relatively quickly, considering it's over 200megs in size. Even quicker when it's streamlined into the bootable install media...
They've got some work to do, yet. I just installed firefox again, and the setup crashed... not a great start :)
Every single one of your points shows how ridiculously narrow-minded and shallow your perceptions of not only politics, but the world, really are. It's enlightening and frightening at the same time. That's quite a skill.
Look, I'm 100% OSS when it comes to web technology. I'm a web developer, and I only ever host stuff on Apache because it's by far the best web server in existance. I'm also the fist to admit that Apache's configuration method is archaic and difficult to learn for most people. I mean, how you can possibly argue that a 1,037-line configuration file is an easier method of configuring a web server than a graphical tool is beyond me. Seriously - I'd love to know.
Right... management console vs. httpd.conf - there's absolutely no contest. I'm a web developer, and I only use Apache as my web server, yet I'm the first to admin that IIS is easier to configure for most people than Apache's lengthy and sometimes-confusing httpd.conf file. There's no contest.
Face it - every single political website for a major party is made by an agency. It's hosted on whatever the agency is running. Do you think Bush has installed a Windows 2003 box in the oval office to host his website? Hardly.
Extrapolating a candidate's attitude towards different software methodologies simply by their agency's choice of webserver is truly amazing. I mean, sure - the answers were as we'd hoped, so I suppose letting things like reasoning get in the way would be silly... ;)
No, you were right first time :-P
Environmentalism is great, but you have to respect everyone else. You can't let your ideology get the better of you (goes for FOSS people too ;)). Killing things is not the best way to promote not killing things.
1. 160" plasmas are rather more expensive than a projector (which can give you that size, easily)
2. You can't pick a plasma screen up in one hand and move it out on the veranda to watch movies outside
3. Cheap plasma screens have horrific quality, as the built-in processing is limited
4. Projectors cost 1/4 of the price of a plasma 5. Replacement bulbs for projectors cost about $100
6. Sony's new projector screens mean perfect viewing in light environments
I know where you're coming from, but if you have a screen in your lounge as big as your wall, you simply don't care. I got a projector last year, and I've not looked back (and I'm a stickler for image quality, etc.).
They're using TNT2 cards, which require a lot of work by the CPU to generate the images. Running 4 of those in one box means your games will run very slowly indeed. Latency would be low, but then the game would be running too slowly to tell.
Of course people bash Israel - it gets so much money from the US, yet still acts like a bunch of little kids. That "peace" wall bullshit? How can you even defend a country who thinks that's a good idea. "Operation Rainbow" - genius.
The fact you're baning on about how horrible "liberals" are gives me hope, as you're obviously some sort of twisted right-wing nutter, which adds support for my argument.
Not really, as China's power and size almost guarantees that one day they're going to create a standard that is better than anything the "west" has come up with. When that happens, they'll be in the driving seat, and the "west" will have to pay royalties to China. I mean, what gives the west the right to declare what is a standard, anyway?
Oh, and when your government stops killing people for money and wiping their asses on the constitution, I'll start to respect them. As that's never going to happen, fuck 'em. dumb monkey-faced bush and his evil cronies. fuck 'em to hell.
The US army is only good at blowing the crap out of something, not sneaking around and looking without being seen. Look at Iraq - if ever a theatre demanded tact and subtlety, this was it. How did they act? Terribly. Tens of thousands of innocent lives lost, and all that was gained was tunrning a country on its head, endangering everyone in the process.
All from 20 feet away? All you need is a building with a point 20 feet from the nearest walls, and the technology is rendered useless.
It would be funny if it weren't so freakin' horrible. Ladies and gentlemen - your tax dollars at work.
First sentence tells us Microsoft respects and recognises CERT in a professional dimension. Second tells us that the media misreported something CERT said.
There's no more to it than that. Of course, if you're hell-bent on throwing objectivity out the window to join the crowds in shouting at microsoft, of course you could read into that whatever you want.
Absolutely pathetic.
Yeah - outlook is a fine email client. It's easy to keep safe, and has a range of features far beyond anything else. Discounting it because it's the cool thing to do is a real pity on your end users.
RFIDs are as inherently dangerous as barcodes. If people choose to make them more threatening in their own minds, so be it. That's why we have asylums :-P
Have you listened to what you're saying? You're jumping to some conclusions here - the main one being that RFID tags, like price tags, are removable from clothes and products. They're exactly the same as barcodes - small, unique identifiers for objects. Why aren't barcodes so evil? They aren't. You're showing you're worried about inter-cooperation of people with the scanners, which is rather more paranoid than simply being wary of RFIDs.
The RFID tracking won't make anyone safer - that's not the point. Like barcodes, they identify. They don't detect whether the wearer is a terrorist or Republican (and explode accordingly) - they just give off a number when asked.
Everyone on slashdot who has a problem with RFID really has problems with the authorities using the technology, not the technology itself.
I know RFIDs aren't a threat to privacy. I mean - they just give off a number.
RFIDs ate my baby!
- Cell phones
- Loyalty cards
- People in the street looking at you
If you want privacy, don't go into public. it's that simple :)
Remember - most of the rest of the world has passports, and isn't afraid to use them ;)