+3 insightful to defend hostile EULAs and lawyering shenanigans? Wow. Is this slashdot?
Psystar isnt selling you a hacked product (and even if they did it wouldnt be wrong). They are selling hardware/EFI that works with the OS X installer.
Its no wonder we have no consumer rights and no hacker rights when people support abusive companies and support their right to keep us locked out of the products we own.
The countries that are producing kids who have opportunities to hack and make stuff have already started to take over. The west is obsessed with defending all manner of silly IP. Its really time to rethink IP laws. Just because you like Apple products doesnt mean theyre on your side.
>OEMs are getting too much money for time limited crapware AV programs to install this
If security continues to slip then OEMs lose the entire purchase to Apple. This is already happening. If anything OEMs are demanding this. Why would they stick their necks out for Norton or Mcaffee? Its really not worth it.
>I let my nephews play their online games on a spare box and the youngest tried to download a "free" online game that was full of adware/malware crap.
Why did you even let them run as local admin to begin with? Thats the real problem.
The traceroute shows the connection dying before it even hits the trans continental cable. If it was down it would at least get to russia. I think ISPs are blocking it, and rightly so. AT&T DSL btw.
>However, there are plenty of women in the military.
I dont think thats the same. The women I know in the military didnt have much economic choice and went because it was that or waiting tables/min wage forever.
Someone who can afford college and the time college takes is very different. They have more luxuries, time, expectations, and choose against CS. I dont see why thats wrong.
99.99 is being generous. I would think a few more 9's need to be added on there.
Not to mention, life conditions are temporary. You cant count the earth as being conducive to life; only partially so. Life only exists on earth for its very recent history and may not last much longer, especially if you are working with time scales that are typical of astronomy.
If people want to start anthropomorphizing cosmology, the we need to admit the universe is incredibly hostile towards life. Anything other is feel good self-delusion.
Tax the economy? You obama critics are starting to sound like there was no such things as taxes before Jan 20th 2009. The only difference you'll see is rollback of Bush's big handout to the rich and a real middle class tax cut for people who actually need it.
No, Obama cant change the world, but he can implement smart policies to help the middle class. The rich have a huge incentive to keep the middle class happy, afterall we buy all the stuff they produce and keep them profitable.
All the rich people I know were a little surprised by Bush's tax cuts. They didnt ask for it and frankly, didnt need them.
>won't discourage people from risking their money and efforts in that way.
Heh, the econonmy pre-Bush was a lot better. Funny how that works. Something tells me any economic downturn will be traced to the mortgage crisis and not to anything Obama can do.
Ever bought something that you should have spent more money on? I have a snowblower at home that's so underpowered that shoveling takes less time.
Consumers have the right to demand the lowest price possible from businesses. Especially monopolies, if they can. I dont like the idea that the real problem is that people are just too cheap. The real problem here, if there truly is one, is more along the lines of the MS development cycle and vendor greediness, not how much the end user pays.
When you look at markets that consumers have accepted a natural premium, youre really looking at a culture of economic madness and ripoffs. Look at the pricing of the fashion industry or the luxury goods market. Sure, the higher end producers have higher costs, but people dont just pay for that, they pay for branding, emotional attachment, lifestyle, bragging rights, showing off, etc. Id hate to see electronics move toward "lifestyle branding" and "rich corinthian leather" BS. We're already seeing it with Apple and its disgusting.
MS and OEMs need to learn how to use the vast riches they have. Paying more isnt really a solution. We're paying quite a bit as is. Commodity items are a goal for consumers, not something to avoid.
Try the "oops I dropped my Blackberry into the toiler" upgrade. Take a hammer and beat the crap out of your meter. Call the electric company. They'll come by and replace it with one of those new ones with a serial port or one with OCRable rolling number gauges.
IIRC, Norton Security Scan isnt a bloaty realtime scanner. Its like ClamAV or Microsoft's Malicious software remover tool. It has definitions of malware and can do a full scan when the user gets suspicious. Its probably a good idea to keep it in the pack, considering the infection level of your average PC. I wonder how many computers have been saved simply be running this or the MSRT.
Google also has a pretty big incentive to bundle AV scanners. A significant number of issues with its software can be traced to a poorly running PC. PCs free of trojans and viruses means less complaints and support issues.
Exactly. Its also worth a mention that McCain got a big pass on the Keating 5 scandal on the 80s and his sudden move towards anti-abortion right when he started running for president. McCain also didnt take any big foreign trips and didnt command an audience of over 100k. Towards the end he was having a hard time filling small venues.
Its also worth mentioning that his pick of Sarah Palin guaranteed the attention would be on her instead of him. Id like to see this study expand to cover her also.
Lastly, Im so sick of the "liberal media" canard. Lots of conservative politicans get a pass from the media. Bush started a war with Iraq because of false connections between Saddam and 9/11 and WMDs. Its only recently that the press has stood up to this, 5 years late.
>I set my router to not broadcast and to only allow specific MAC addresses access.
You can undo those. Thats just security by obscurity. WPA is what is doing all the work here. If someone gets past your WPA then spoofing the mac and detecting your network is the easy part.
If anything you should just switch from TKIP to AES. You may need to update your XP clients to support WPA2 or install SP3.
Its interesting, but why didnt he just fill out the form and see where he would be redirected to or wait for someone to contact him? I doubt they demand payment before revealing who they are or what they do. It seems like this is a manufactured mystery if not an ad for the author's own company.
"singers and corporate CEOs" did fine with wires not so long ago. Perhaps you should be asking yourself why we should give up huge slices of bandwidth that can do incredible things (look at all the things we do with the ISM band right now) just for the convenience of entertainers? Wires aint so bad.
Granted I could see a small exception for licensed microphones, but it would be a slim piece of the pie and everyone would have to upgrade regardless.
Lets see, there's netflix, cable, satellite, community programing, religious programing, kids channels, ethnc channels, foreign channels, digital delivery, tv ratings, parent controls, etc? What else do you want? Do we need to set society's course by the whims of retirees and children? You should pay more attention to your sig as you are advocating a nanny state.
Re:You do realize the other hobbies are the same?
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Unless her goal in life is an underpaid job in an orchestra that skill is useful for exactly one thing: more playing the piano. Usefulness for any other RL activity: zero.
You also learn music theory and music appreciation. Your world grows a little. Piano lessons as a kid might translate into guitar playing as a teen or becoming a professional musician. Honestly, I hate the attitude of "if it isnt making money then its stupid to do." Why go to college when you can just go to trade school? There's an argument that its worth educating people even if it doesnt translate into dollars.
I'm just saying that essentially games are the _same
Compared to learning a musical instrument or car repair? No way. Not even close.
Lastly, I do some car repair. Ive never "had to take it in because it was worse." Being educated about cars means lots of savings. A better maintained car is a longer running car. Inflated tires is better mpg. Being able to talk to a mechanic with knowledge on your side is power. Replacing worn parts beats paying for the tow and downtime. Heck, knowing whats wrong with a car means I can do the labor most of the time and I can shop around for the best price on parts, even if I cant install it.
He's an odd character. His books are all man vs science and science is always the villain. I think its sad that he will be remembered as the guy who wrote a discredited book on how global warming is a myth. Heck, Rising Sun is just an anti-Japanese screed.
I think of him as something of tragic figure. A sad person who fears science, foreigners, foreign investment, global warming, etc but had a built-in audience that agreed with him. I think at one time, especially in his early works, he was talented but fell pretty hard in the last couple of decades.
People and companies likes flash players because it usually just works. The days of embedding video objects are dying because in practice this is what would happen:
1. WMV files would lock up or you would have to spend 20 minutes at windows update downloading the newest wmp or reinstalling the plug-in.
2. Mac users would complain that WMV files arent working.
3. Realplayer would do the same, except the install would crap up your computer and ruin all your file associations. You would also have to troubleshoot plugin issues.
4. Quicktime files would crash the browser and then you would have to install the newest version usually along with itunes in a 60+ meg download. Windows users would complain how crazppy quicktime is.
5. Someone would embed an avi and no one would be able to play it because end users have no idea what codecs are.
6. Some plugins would work in IE but not in Firefox.
What flash did is put all video in one cross-playform container and player. Turns out people like it this way.
>A dog? You can't really turn that thing off. You'd have to work to train that territorial protection mechanism out of them.
Watch mythbusters or that "break into my home" show. A dog is easily defeated with a nice cut of steak. If youre not home sitting there with your pistol in your pants then anyone can get into your home with a little meat. Id rather have the non-hungry electronic system.
Ive noticed this. Lots of the top 5 search results for the items I usually search are PDFs. I just figured that publishing a pdf is something large organization usually does and large organizations tend to have a higher pagerank. Im not sure if PDF is in itself something that can raise a score.
If hes too old for prison then he's too old for congress. I dont like the idea of congressmen knowing they are immune from the law because of their age.
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+3 insightful to defend hostile EULAs and lawyering shenanigans? Wow. Is this slashdot?
Psystar isnt selling you a hacked product (and even if they did it wouldnt be wrong). They are selling hardware/EFI that works with the OS X installer.
Its no wonder we have no consumer rights and no hacker rights when people support abusive companies and support their right to keep us locked out of the products we own.
The countries that are producing kids who have opportunities to hack and make stuff have already started to take over. The west is obsessed with defending all manner of silly IP. Its really time to rethink IP laws. Just because you like Apple products doesnt mean theyre on your side.
>OEMs are getting too much money for time limited crapware AV programs to install this
If security continues to slip then OEMs lose the entire purchase to Apple. This is already happening. If anything OEMs are demanding this. Why would they stick their necks out for Norton or Mcaffee? Its really not worth it.
>I let my nephews play their online games on a spare box and the youngest tried to download a "free" online game that was full of adware/malware crap.
Why did you even let them run as local admin to begin with? Thats the real problem.
The traceroute shows the connection dying before it even hits the trans continental cable. If it was down it would at least get to russia. I think ISPs are blocking it, and rightly so. AT&T DSL btw.
>However, there are plenty of women in the military.
I dont think thats the same. The women I know in the military didnt have much economic choice and went because it was that or waiting tables/min wage forever.
Someone who can afford college and the time college takes is very different. They have more luxuries, time, expectations, and choose against CS. I dont see why thats wrong.
99.99 is being generous. I would think a few more 9's need to be added on there.
Not to mention, life conditions are temporary. You cant count the earth as being conducive to life; only partially so. Life only exists on earth for its very recent history and may not last much longer, especially if you are working with time scales that are typical of astronomy.
If people want to start anthropomorphizing cosmology, the we need to admit the universe is incredibly hostile towards life. Anything other is feel good self-delusion.
Tax the economy? You obama critics are starting to sound like there was no such things as taxes before Jan 20th 2009. The only difference you'll see is rollback of Bush's big handout to the rich and a real middle class tax cut for people who actually need it.
No, Obama cant change the world, but he can implement smart policies to help the middle class. The rich have a huge incentive to keep the middle class happy, afterall we buy all the stuff they produce and keep them profitable.
All the rich people I know were a little surprised by Bush's tax cuts. They didnt ask for it and frankly, didnt need them.
>won't discourage people from risking their money and efforts in that way.
Heh, the econonmy pre-Bush was a lot better. Funny how that works. Something tells me any economic downturn will be traced to the mortgage crisis and not to anything Obama can do.
Ever bought something that you should have spent more money on? I have a snowblower at home that's so underpowered that shoveling takes less time.
Consumers have the right to demand the lowest price possible from businesses. Especially monopolies, if they can. I dont like the idea that the real problem is that people are just too cheap. The real problem here, if there truly is one, is more along the lines of the MS development cycle and vendor greediness, not how much the end user pays.
When you look at markets that consumers have accepted a natural premium, youre really looking at a culture of economic madness and ripoffs. Look at the pricing of the fashion industry or the luxury goods market. Sure, the higher end producers have higher costs, but people dont just pay for that, they pay for branding, emotional attachment, lifestyle, bragging rights, showing off, etc. Id hate to see electronics move toward "lifestyle branding" and "rich corinthian leather" BS. We're already seeing it with Apple and its disgusting.
MS and OEMs need to learn how to use the vast riches they have. Paying more isnt really a solution. We're paying quite a bit as is. Commodity items are a goal for consumers, not something to avoid.
2k total visits? You need a lot more traffic to make use of ads. I would think something along the lines of 2k a day. Even then its not a lot.
>Maybe instead of bailing out the "big three", we should dump all that money into NASA to make cars.
Or you could just replace your spark plug wires.
Try the "oops I dropped my Blackberry into the toiler" upgrade. Take a hammer and beat the crap out of your meter. Call the electric company. They'll come by and replace it with one of those new ones with a serial port or one with OCRable rolling number gauges.
Think so. I have a patched XP client with an unpatched NT4 server and both are able to communicate over SMB.
IIRC, Norton Security Scan isnt a bloaty realtime scanner. Its like ClamAV or Microsoft's Malicious software remover tool. It has definitions of malware and can do a full scan when the user gets suspicious. Its probably a good idea to keep it in the pack, considering the infection level of your average PC. I wonder how many computers have been saved simply be running this or the MSRT.
Google also has a pretty big incentive to bundle AV scanners. A significant number of issues with its software can be traced to a poorly running PC. PCs free of trojans and viruses means less complaints and support issues.
Exactly. Its also worth a mention that McCain got a big pass on the Keating 5 scandal on the 80s and his sudden move towards anti-abortion right when he started running for president. McCain also didnt take any big foreign trips and didnt command an audience of over 100k. Towards the end he was having a hard time filling small venues.
Its also worth mentioning that his pick of Sarah Palin guaranteed the attention would be on her instead of him. Id like to see this study expand to cover her also.
Lastly, Im so sick of the "liberal media" canard. Lots of conservative politicans get a pass from the media. Bush started a war with Iraq because of false connections between Saddam and 9/11 and WMDs. Its only recently that the press has stood up to this, 5 years late.
Maybe a little more that a tutting. My favorite queue jumping story is here:
http://ask.metafilter.com/104881/Standing-In-Line#1516290
>I set my router to not broadcast and to only allow specific MAC addresses access.
You can undo those. Thats just security by obscurity. WPA is what is doing all the work here. If someone gets past your WPA then spoofing the mac and detecting your network is the easy part.
If anything you should just switch from TKIP to AES. You may need to update your XP clients to support WPA2 or install SP3.
Its interesting, but why didnt he just fill out the form and see where he would be redirected to or wait for someone to contact him? I doubt they demand payment before revealing who they are or what they do. It seems like this is a manufactured mystery if not an ad for the author's own company.
"singers and corporate CEOs" did fine with wires not so long ago. Perhaps you should be asking yourself why we should give up huge slices of bandwidth that can do incredible things (look at all the things we do with the ISM band right now) just for the convenience of entertainers? Wires aint so bad.
Granted I could see a small exception for licensed microphones, but it would be a slim piece of the pie and everyone would have to upgrade regardless.
Lets see, there's netflix, cable, satellite, community programing, religious programing, kids channels, ethnc channels, foreign channels, digital delivery, tv ratings, parent controls, etc? What else do you want? Do we need to set society's course by the whims of retirees and children? You should pay more attention to your sig as you are advocating a nanny state.
Unless her goal in life is an underpaid job in an orchestra that skill is useful for exactly one thing: more playing the piano. Usefulness for any other RL activity: zero.
You also learn music theory and music appreciation. Your world grows a little. Piano lessons as a kid might translate into guitar playing as a teen or becoming a professional musician. Honestly, I hate the attitude of "if it isnt making money then its stupid to do." Why go to college when you can just go to trade school? There's an argument that its worth educating people even if it doesnt translate into dollars.
I'm just saying that essentially games are the _same
Compared to learning a musical instrument or car repair? No way. Not even close.
Lastly, I do some car repair. Ive never "had to take it in because it was worse." Being educated about cars means lots of savings. A better maintained car is a longer running car. Inflated tires is better mpg. Being able to talk to a mechanic with knowledge on your side is power. Replacing worn parts beats paying for the tow and downtime. Heck, knowing whats wrong with a car means I can do the labor most of the time and I can shop around for the best price on parts, even if I cant install it.
He's an odd character. His books are all man vs science and science is always the villain. I think its sad that he will be remembered as the guy who wrote a discredited book on how global warming is a myth. Heck, Rising Sun is just an anti-Japanese screed.
I think of him as something of tragic figure. A sad person who fears science, foreigners, foreign investment, global warming, etc but had a built-in audience that agreed with him. I think at one time, especially in his early works, he was talented but fell pretty hard in the last couple of decades.
People and companies likes flash players because it usually just works. The days of embedding video objects are dying because in practice this is what would happen:
1. WMV files would lock up or you would have to spend 20 minutes at windows update downloading the newest wmp or reinstalling the plug-in.
2. Mac users would complain that WMV files arent working.
3. Realplayer would do the same, except the install would crap up your computer and ruin all your file associations. You would also have to troubleshoot plugin issues.
4. Quicktime files would crash the browser and then you would have to install the newest version usually along with itunes in a 60+ meg download. Windows users would complain how crazppy quicktime is.
5. Someone would embed an avi and no one would be able to play it because end users have no idea what codecs are.
6. Some plugins would work in IE but not in Firefox.
What flash did is put all video in one cross-playform container and player. Turns out people like it this way.
>A dog? You can't really turn that thing off. You'd have to work to train that territorial protection mechanism out of them.
Watch mythbusters or that "break into my home" show. A dog is easily defeated with a nice cut of steak. If youre not home sitting there with your pistol in your pants then anyone can get into your home with a little meat. Id rather have the non-hungry electronic system.
Ive noticed this. Lots of the top 5 search results for the items I usually search are PDFs. I just figured that publishing a pdf is something large organization usually does and large organizations tend to have a higher pagerank. Im not sure if PDF is in itself something that can raise a score.
If hes too old for prison then he's too old for congress. I dont like the idea of congressmen knowing they are immune from the law because of their age.