6) Do not provide an auto-update mechanism. Let users do it manually via help > update or the ignored tray icon and only in version 9.2 even allow a check box for "Download and install updates automatically."
In Germany exits/onramps are designed for high-speed merging. In the US engineers work around 65-70 mph. I don't think this short-sighted politician asked advice from any traffic engineers. Its unfeasible to have some asshole doing 100mpg in the right lane while a line of cars try to merge.
I also question the logic of having just one car out of many allowed to go fast. The idea with the autobohn is that the fast drivers can take over the left lanes and move relatively quickly. If only one of out 100 drivers was allowed to go fast then he would be swerving in and out of traffic lanes trying to get to a less busy stretch so he can do 100mph.
Oh, I'm sure in some perfect world, the assholes won't be speeding in the right lane or switching lanes line maniacs and will do all sorts of safe driving, but I live in the real world.
I have an EVO with flash. Its a pleasure on sites that don't use youtube video. I press on the little icon to run the flash app and then play the video. Mind you, this video has not been formatted or optimized for a mobile devices, its all configured on the assumption that you're using a big beefy laptop or desktop to run it. Yet it plays well enough and I can watch it. What exactly is the problem here?
Sorry, gigaom and Steve Jobs. The users demand choice and options, not decisions handed down from ivory towers. Heck, I have yet to use a mobile-optimized flash app. I imagine those would work out nicely, but no one is developing them because the market is so small and is also served by native non-crossplatform apps.
Not on laptop stickers. In fact, using the term "sticker" is misleading. They're superglued on badges that are usually impossible to remove without damaging your finish. I've seen intel badges that were practically structural elements.
Seriously, "enemy of freedom?" Oh, I don't know about. Werthan wasn't some power mad dictator who unilaterally banned comics. He reflected the concerns of parents at the time and was an eloquent spokesman for the censorship position. Its important to realize what mainstream American society was in the 1950s and 60s. A lot of media at the time was fairly sanitized, except for comics, which kids bought and often broke down into two categories. Detective stories which may involve adult themes like rape and murder and horror comics that was pretty gruesome.
I don't think we should dismiss the people in the past, even Werthan, as mindless automatons hell-bent of censorship, but people with a political position that may very well be valid. Should comic buyers, especially when most of them were under 14 or so, be exposed to such things? How can a 10 year old process rape, murder, etc? This is what people mean to put him in context of his times, the same way we put George Washington's slave ownership in the context of his time.
The real issue is that the comics code was too encompassing. Instead of the rating system we have for movies and tv, the comics code was really the only rating and it meant that if you wanted to publish enough to make real money that you had to follow it.
I think all human societies must have some level of ratings or censorship. It crops up everywhere and even purposeful experimental societies draw the line somewhere especially when you deal with children. Some nudist societies don't allow children, for instance. A bad implementation is a bad implementation. Shame people didn't care enough to better implement comic ratings.
>There is no "do nothing" option, which I find kind of amusing, since I've usually turned off auto-run for everything.
That's not what people call autorun, especially in the context of USB viruses. Autorun means when the OS just launches the.exe listed in the autorun.inf file automatically. That's how this stuff spreads. Vista and 7 no longer support this and throw a "What would you like to do" screen, which is fine by me.
I think people care, but people are also aware that the only ruling that matters will be SCOTUS. Currently, this is a hot issue in various courts and they all rule differently. SCOTUS will make the call that defines this issue.
There's always some hot new format or item that tech industry goes crazy for. I'm still not certain that there's a real place for these things outside of the home. While I love the idea of taking one of these things to a meeting, I loathe the idea of attempting to use a virtual keyboard for anything but a short message. All of these implementations do not involve a stylus for me to draw with or any kind of handwriting recognition.
The format size is awkward. Everyone I've seen with an ipad has this desperate "how do I properly carry this delicate thing" look in their eyes when they're done using it. Its too big for a pocket and too small for a laptop case. The man-purses I've seen so far look embarrassingly hilarious.
I'll be happy when someone develops one that can do handwriting recognition and lets me draw diagrams and such with the ability to easily print them or display them on a media PC wirelessly (VNC server perhaps?). Right now its a solution looking for a problem.
The law makes 100% sense. I'm not sure why we are defending paying 10 or so dollars a month just to be able to fucking play a game without being put into latency hell. This is a service they should be providing regardless! Its like "protection money" to the local Mafioso. Now we need to pay more just to keep the same level of service. Incredible.
If anything, this "service" is exactly why we need neutrality laws. We're just turning the internet into cable tv. Various packages with premium prices for different types of users. The marketers love this. Why just provide good service at a good cost, when they can constantly upsell us?
You won't get that level of write performance from a microSD card and I also assume this will come with much more sophisticated wear-leveling and TRIM support. There's a reason why manufacturers don't just put 8 microSD cards together and call it an SSD drive.
I imagine intel has watched the home AV market get gobbled up by MS Security Essentials and may want to join in the free for home use game.
I'd love to see a shakeup in the AV industry as its pretty terrible right now. I'm sick of seeing machines with horrible infections because the trial of the AV has expired. End users cannot be trusted to maintain subscriptions for something they barely understand. I also imagine intel is so deeply in bed with MS that AV is now their problem as well.
McAfee's enterprise products sell for whatever reason. I imagine those will continue to be expensive.
Sheeva plug as a server? Is this a joke? No raid or redundancy and these things are infamous for blowing caps, overheating, and other hardware issues tells me you need to start doing testing before publicly proclaiming your business plan.
Oh and those "big ol fancy servers" no one needs? You're paying for raid, hardware warranty, same/next day parts, dual power supplies, support, proper engineering, etc. If your company came to me with one of those toys as a "solution" you'd be walking out of my office with that sheeva plug shoved in your own "plug."
Essentially, the malware delivered a popup that looks like a screen from a popular Chinese chat program. I believe it pretends to be an update. So, this is just a trojan. No vulnerability was used, well, other than the one sitting in the chair.
>Wiping a 500gb drive takes several hours at least.
Not really. The problem is that everyone picks some zany wiping scheme. Those Gutmann patterns don't even make sense with any modern drive. All you really need to do is zero the drive once. It doesn't take that long. I have yet to see a recovery from a drive that's been zero'd out. Anything past one pass of zeros is just extra credit.
I hate this neo-luddite position people take when any little thing goes wrong. Your dream car is my nightmare death-trap car. I want airbags, ABS, wireless tire gauges, proximity sensors, ability to pull codes from computer, etc. I suspect most people do. If you want a specialized custom car, then built it yourself, but don't pretend your simplistic car needs speak for anyone else but yourself.
Not to mention its foolish to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I remember people like you when the web started to become popular. "Oh who needs this crap, I already have TV and the newspaper!"
I'm probably older than you and I certainly remember the PITA carburetors were compared to fuel injectors. Heck, my dad had to deal with vapor lock. When was the last time you needed to rebuild a carburetor or wait out vapor lock? I think you're just spoiled by the technology you decry.
Most likely the LCD screen on the back seat or the receipt machine will produce the WPA password. I doubt this company wants to give away its expensive 3G-based broadband to random leeches.
A technological solution to a social problem isn't usually a solution at all.
The problem is that people are taking up too much table time. Joe might do it with wifi, so your receipt scheme will work there. I might do it by tethering my EVO to my laptop. Jane might do it by reading a book on her Nook, etc.
Your solution only addresses one of several scenarios. What management needs to do is put in a policy about how long you can use a table, regardless if you have a wifi laptop or not. I don't see why this is so difficult. Restaurants do it all the time.
If you think this is a rumor then youre out of your mind. Its real, RIM is deploying a server in the UAE and handing over the encryption keys to their horrible theocratic government. Done and done. RIM's end-to-end encryption has been in the thorn in the side of several of these terrible governments, and now they finally pulled the nuclear option. I'm completely justified in criticizing them, you can keep making apologies for these horrible regimes if you like, but youre far from convincing.
>And then, after a few hours, we got an update: No such deal!
How do you know that's what happened? In my opinion, its more likely the NYTimes jumped on a rumor for ad impressions. They got their ads, attention, and Google had to drive its PR into overtime to fight the FUD. Its suicidal for google to embrace the tiered non-neutral net. The deal never made any sense to begin with and surprise surprise it turned out to be false. Prove me wrong. Show me proof that this deal was even in the orks.
RIM is just empowering these pre-enlightenment horrible theocracies and deserves our criticism.
>but if the overwhelming majority of the population chooses to ignore it/them
That's not whats being said. He is taking this on a personal level. There is a mechanism for protesting these laws - appeals, lawsuits, higher courts, legislation, etc.
The real issue that the majority is a mob mentality. If 51% of people think it a good idea to expel all minorities then suddenly its justified? I doubt MLK would be approving of that. Don't appeal to "the majority," youre just setting yourself up for a fall.
Checks and balances exist for a reason. Not to mention this is a fringe issue. No majority here.
Because people aren't interested in facts or truth or have any interest in WWII outside of History channel programs like "Did Jesus defeat Hitler? Nostradamus's writings suggest so."
The real question is why does shit like this get posted here? I see "OMG READ UFOES!!" stories on slashdot and io9 more often than I like. Actually, I'd like it to be never. Unfortunately, conspiracy theories and wishful thinking get ad impression from morons. Considering there's no shortage of paranormal shows on television and that the "History" channel is little more than the conspiracy theory channel, we might be entering a new age of ignorance and superstition. So much for the whole information age revolution. Turns out the information most people crave is almost always bullshit that appeals to their existing biases and general craziness.
Who gets to decide what the unjust laws are? You? How convenient!
I think you're failing to understand the basic purpose of laws, order, and society. If some asshole thinks I'm too rich to own my laptop, does he have the right to take it? Or if someone thinks that those pesky age of consent laws are too troublesome to follow? Or that honor killings are justified? etc.
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6) Do not provide an auto-update mechanism. Let users do it manually via help > update or the ignored tray icon and only in version 9.2 even allow a check box for "Download and install updates automatically."
In Germany exits/onramps are designed for high-speed merging. In the US engineers work around 65-70 mph. I don't think this short-sighted politician asked advice from any traffic engineers. Its unfeasible to have some asshole doing 100mpg in the right lane while a line of cars try to merge.
I also question the logic of having just one car out of many allowed to go fast. The idea with the autobohn is that the fast drivers can take over the left lanes and move relatively quickly. If only one of out 100 drivers was allowed to go fast then he would be swerving in and out of traffic lanes trying to get to a less busy stretch so he can do 100mph.
Oh, I'm sure in some perfect world, the assholes won't be speeding in the right lane or switching lanes line maniacs and will do all sorts of safe driving, but I live in the real world.
I have an EVO with flash. Its a pleasure on sites that don't use youtube video. I press on the little icon to run the flash app and then play the video. Mind you, this video has not been formatted or optimized for a mobile devices, its all configured on the assumption that you're using a big beefy laptop or desktop to run it. Yet it plays well enough and I can watch it. What exactly is the problem here?
Sorry, gigaom and Steve Jobs. The users demand choice and options, not decisions handed down from ivory towers. Heck, I have yet to use a mobile-optimized flash app. I imagine those would work out nicely, but no one is developing them because the market is so small and is also served by native non-crossplatform apps.
Not on laptop stickers. In fact, using the term "sticker" is misleading. They're superglued on badges that are usually impossible to remove without damaging your finish. I've seen intel badges that were practically structural elements.
Seriously, "enemy of freedom?" Oh, I don't know about. Werthan wasn't some power mad dictator who unilaterally banned comics. He reflected the concerns of parents at the time and was an eloquent spokesman for the censorship position. Its important to realize what mainstream American society was in the 1950s and 60s. A lot of media at the time was fairly sanitized, except for comics, which kids bought and often broke down into two categories. Detective stories which may involve adult themes like rape and murder and horror comics that was pretty gruesome.
I don't think we should dismiss the people in the past, even Werthan, as mindless automatons hell-bent of censorship, but people with a political position that may very well be valid. Should comic buyers, especially when most of them were under 14 or so, be exposed to such things? How can a 10 year old process rape, murder, etc? This is what people mean to put him in context of his times, the same way we put George Washington's slave ownership in the context of his time.
The real issue is that the comics code was too encompassing. Instead of the rating system we have for movies and tv, the comics code was really the only rating and it meant that if you wanted to publish enough to make real money that you had to follow it.
I think all human societies must have some level of ratings or censorship. It crops up everywhere and even purposeful experimental societies draw the line somewhere especially when you deal with children. Some nudist societies don't allow children, for instance. A bad implementation is a bad implementation. Shame people didn't care enough to better implement comic ratings.
>There is no "do nothing" option, which I find kind of amusing, since I've usually turned off auto-run for everything.
That's not what people call autorun, especially in the context of USB viruses. Autorun means when the OS just launches the .exe listed in the autorun.inf file automatically. That's how this stuff spreads. Vista and 7 no longer support this and throw a "What would you like to do" screen, which is fine by me.
I think people care, but people are also aware that the only ruling that matters will be SCOTUS. Currently, this is a hot issue in various courts and they all rule differently. SCOTUS will make the call that defines this issue.
There's always some hot new format or item that tech industry goes crazy for. I'm still not certain that there's a real place for these things outside of the home. While I love the idea of taking one of these things to a meeting, I loathe the idea of attempting to use a virtual keyboard for anything but a short message. All of these implementations do not involve a stylus for me to draw with or any kind of handwriting recognition.
The format size is awkward. Everyone I've seen with an ipad has this desperate "how do I properly carry this delicate thing" look in their eyes when they're done using it. Its too big for a pocket and too small for a laptop case. The man-purses I've seen so far look embarrassingly hilarious.
I'll be happy when someone develops one that can do handwriting recognition and lets me draw diagrams and such with the ability to easily print them or display them on a media PC wirelessly (VNC server perhaps?). Right now its a solution looking for a problem.
>"Umm, I don't know? Foxfire?" "The E?"
You know, that one that's named after the movie where Clint Eastwood steals that plane that only flies if you think in Russian!
The law makes 100% sense. I'm not sure why we are defending paying 10 or so dollars a month just to be able to fucking play a game without being put into latency hell. This is a service they should be providing regardless! Its like "protection money" to the local Mafioso. Now we need to pay more just to keep the same level of service. Incredible.
If anything, this "service" is exactly why we need neutrality laws. We're just turning the internet into cable tv. Various packages with premium prices for different types of users. The marketers love this. Why just provide good service at a good cost, when they can constantly upsell us?
Or you could have simply disabled USB or unpluged them from the motherboard. Now you've got heat issues to worry about.
You won't get that level of write performance from a microSD card and I also assume this will come with much more sophisticated wear-leveling and TRIM support. There's a reason why manufacturers don't just put 8 microSD cards together and call it an SSD drive.
I imagine intel has watched the home AV market get gobbled up by MS Security Essentials and may want to join in the free for home use game.
I'd love to see a shakeup in the AV industry as its pretty terrible right now. I'm sick of seeing machines with horrible infections because the trial of the AV has expired. End users cannot be trusted to maintain subscriptions for something they barely understand. I also imagine intel is so deeply in bed with MS that AV is now their problem as well.
McAfee's enterprise products sell for whatever reason. I imagine those will continue to be expensive.
Sheeva plug as a server? Is this a joke? No raid or redundancy and these things are infamous for blowing caps, overheating, and other hardware issues tells me you need to start doing testing before publicly proclaiming your business plan.
Oh and those "big ol fancy servers" no one needs? You're paying for raid, hardware warranty, same/next day parts, dual power supplies, support, proper engineering, etc. If your company came to me with one of those toys as a "solution" you'd be walking out of my office with that sheeva plug shoved in your own "plug."
Brian Krebs has a better writeup:
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/08/networksolutions-sites-hacked-by-wicked-widget/
Essentially, the malware delivered a popup that looks like a screen from a popular Chinese chat program. I believe it pretends to be an update. So, this is just a trojan. No vulnerability was used, well, other than the one sitting in the chair.
>Wiping a 500gb drive takes several hours at least.
Not really. The problem is that everyone picks some zany wiping scheme. Those Gutmann patterns don't even make sense with any modern drive. All you really need to do is zero the drive once. It doesn't take that long. I have yet to see a recovery from a drive that's been zero'd out. Anything past one pass of zeros is just extra credit.
I hate this neo-luddite position people take when any little thing goes wrong. Your dream car is my nightmare death-trap car. I want airbags, ABS, wireless tire gauges, proximity sensors, ability to pull codes from computer, etc. I suspect most people do. If you want a specialized custom car, then built it yourself, but don't pretend your simplistic car needs speak for anyone else but yourself.
Not to mention its foolish to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I remember people like you when the web started to become popular. "Oh who needs this crap, I already have TV and the newspaper!"
I'm probably older than you and I certainly remember the PITA carburetors were compared to fuel injectors. Heck, my dad had to deal with vapor lock. When was the last time you needed to rebuild a carburetor or wait out vapor lock? I think you're just spoiled by the technology you decry.
Most likely the LCD screen on the back seat or the receipt machine will produce the WPA password. I doubt this company wants to give away its expensive 3G-based broadband to random leeches.
A technological solution to a social problem isn't usually a solution at all.
The problem is that people are taking up too much table time. Joe might do it with wifi, so your receipt scheme will work there. I might do it by tethering my EVO to my laptop. Jane might do it by reading a book on her Nook, etc.
Your solution only addresses one of several scenarios. What management needs to do is put in a policy about how long you can use a table, regardless if you have a wifi laptop or not. I don't see why this is so difficult. Restaurants do it all the time.
If you think this is a rumor then youre out of your mind. Its real, RIM is deploying a server in the UAE and handing over the encryption keys to their horrible theocratic government. Done and done. RIM's end-to-end encryption has been in the thorn in the side of several of these terrible governments, and now they finally pulled the nuclear option. I'm completely justified in criticizing them, you can keep making apologies for these horrible regimes if you like, but youre far from convincing.
>And then, after a few hours, we got an update: No such deal!
How do you know that's what happened? In my opinion, its more likely the NYTimes jumped on a rumor for ad impressions. They got their ads, attention, and Google had to drive its PR into overtime to fight the FUD. Its suicidal for google to embrace the tiered non-neutral net. The deal never made any sense to begin with and surprise surprise it turned out to be false. Prove me wrong. Show me proof that this deal was even in the orks.
RIM is just empowering these pre-enlightenment horrible theocracies and deserves our criticism.
>but if the overwhelming majority of the population chooses to ignore it/them
That's not whats being said. He is taking this on a personal level. There is a mechanism for protesting these laws - appeals, lawsuits, higher courts, legislation, etc.
The real issue that the majority is a mob mentality. If 51% of people think it a good idea to expel all minorities then suddenly its justified? I doubt MLK would be approving of that. Don't appeal to "the majority," youre just setting yourself up for a fall.
Checks and balances exist for a reason. Not to mention this is a fringe issue. No majority here.
Because people aren't interested in facts or truth or have any interest in WWII outside of History channel programs like "Did Jesus defeat Hitler? Nostradamus's writings suggest so."
>Kinda different.
The real question is why does shit like this get posted here? I see "OMG READ UFOES!!" stories on slashdot and io9 more often than I like. Actually, I'd like it to be never. Unfortunately, conspiracy theories and wishful thinking get ad impression from morons. Considering there's no shortage of paranormal shows on television and that the "History" channel is little more than the conspiracy theory channel, we might be entering a new age of ignorance and superstition. So much for the whole information age revolution. Turns out the information most people crave is almost always bullshit that appeals to their existing biases and general craziness.
Who gets to decide what the unjust laws are? You? How convenient!
I think you're failing to understand the basic purpose of laws, order, and society. If some asshole thinks I'm too rich to own my laptop, does he have the right to take it? Or if someone thinks that those pesky age of consent laws are too troublesome to follow? Or that honor killings are justified? etc.