Not to bash theories of global warming, but there are also theories out there that we are heading toward another ice age (ice ages go in cycles) and the global warming will soften the impact.
*Insert Plethora of Pro-Linux, Anti-MS Comments Here*
Mod me down and bury your head in the sand if you can't take the truth, but...
Every time some manufacturer has linux somewhere and it makes the Slashdot news there are always the same comments, but the main hold back for wide adoption of Linux isn't getting manufacturers to sell PCs with it or public recognition. The main hold up is the mantra of any highschool composition class, "Who is your audience?" Who is the audience? Geeks? No, Geeks can and do already use linux. The audience that needs to be targeted is the average user, and no it is not 'joe six-pack', or at least not entirely. The primary audience for wide-adoption consists of your parents, your grand parents, your neighbors and friends who call you to fix their systems, children, etc. People who want to use their computer with a minimum of fuss, and who DO freak out when they get an unexpected pop-up, and DO run anything sent to them in an email, and DO use their first name as their password. Advances in Linux performance and functionality are great, but for wide adoption to ever succeed usability and intuitive design must take precedence. And as long as there is anything that requires a text file to be edited in linux, Windows will remain king.
"They could stop sucking up to M$ and also recommend that home users consider another OS."
Yes, because obviously a different OS would stop a user from manualy executing something they shouldn't.
Depending where you live, it can be legal to shoot a car jacker. Here in louisiana we have "shoot the car jacker" laws where you're allowed to shoot to kill when someone tries to steal your car. As for theft, we also have "shoot the burglar" laws too for when a thief enters your home.
It is more than likely the program does not compare the entire bill, but rather certain flag markers. Similarly fingerprint biometrics systems do not compare the entire fingerprint, but rather certain key markers (I think 7-9 of them? Something along those lines.) I don't think they would include a complete copy of currency at all (and if I'm not mistaken, it's illegal to do so unless the image is 50% smaller, or 150% larger than an actual bill.)
I think the pseudo-slang term you are looking for to describe what they did is, "Social Engineering." Unfortunately, the weakest link in any system of security (real or virtual) is the user. A parallel can easily be drawn from what was done here to the old days of AOL (maybe the current days too, been years since I used AOL) where script kiddies and wanabe hackers would 'phish' (compromise) accounts by impersonating AOL employees and asking people for their passwords over Instant Messages. Of course people FELL for that even with "AOL will NEVER ask for your password" plastered on every IM box on the system.
We should be able to trust our fellow man, and on many levels we want to trust people. Because of our predisposition to trusting people (when meeting them face to face, obviously on the internet it is a tad different) the unscrupulous take advantage of that trust. On one hand we're too trusting and get taken advantage of, on the other hand we're too untrusting and our society becomes overly unfriendly. Rock and a hard place.
The thought of the UN trying to 'govern' the internet gives me the shivers. The delegates obviously do not understand the internet is not a single 'thing', it isn't something they can control. Can you imagine the UN trying to enforce its 'powers' over U.S. based ISPs? And you know they would try just to justify the UN's slipping significance.
Can you imagine a conglomerate of government departments/staff from a multitude of countries, with DMV-style attitudes, sub-par technical skills, and differing political agendas establishing policies over the internet? We'd probably end up having to submit hard copy HTTP requests in triplicate, plus a $15 processing fee, 2-4 weeks in advance, to visit/.
*gets out the tinfoil hat*
Keeping track of who used which computer at what time isn't treating users like criminals, it does the opposite in fact. When something "goes wrong" on the network or one of the workstations, it lets you narrow down the list of who could have done it; that way you can scrutinize a select few instead of treating all your users as a criminal or being forced to remove/limit access. When I was in high school the network manager had a horrible problem with one of the students installing sub 7 on various machines trying to get into the administrative side of the network. While the malicious script kiddy wasn't so bright being that the administrative computers were on a completely different physical network from the student machines, it did create a lot of trouble as far as cleaning up the mess. She had some monitoring packages installed so when the kiddy installed it again she got paged and caught him in the act. While this isn't always possible to find the one person responsible the first try, if you had something go wrong every day at 4pm you could and likely would pay more attention to who is using the systems at that time and try to find the culprit through a process of elimination.
From the standpoint of the movies, the Saruman plot is finished, over, and done with. The seven minute scene you refer to is NOT important to the overall plot of the move: getting the ring to Mordor. You can argue all you want, but I remember hearing the same things when people complained about the removal of Tom from the Fellowship. But that hardly ruined the film.
Lord of the Rings is not like other books. The greatness of the book cannot be distilled into a simple plot of ring is found, ring journeys, ring is destroyed. The book is an epic tale with multiple plot lines, and MUST be taken in as an overall story. This book is the progenitor of the fantasy genre, and those of us who loved the book long before the movies were even on the drawing board recognize the overall importance of it in its entirety. If you consider getting the ring to Mordor to be the most important part of LotR, you just don't understand it at all.
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But wouldn't this come under my right to privacy? After all, my Cat5, my choice!
Ashcroft downloaded xxxx-hot-britany-spears-xxxx-slut.mpg and got goats.ex instead...
now instead of kicking a machine for your $0.65 snack getting stuck, you can get really mad when your $60 game gets stuck!
Not to bash theories of global warming, but there are also theories out there that we are heading toward another ice age (ice ages go in cycles) and the global warming will soften the impact.
Russia holds the record for most vetoed.
Call me when FusionSE is released and it's small enough to power my laptop.
I'd make the stripped down version, and only sell it direct via snail mail order. </EVIL>
Mod me down and bury your head in the sand if you can't take the truth, but...
Every time some manufacturer has linux somewhere and it makes the Slashdot news there are always the same comments, but the main hold back for wide adoption of Linux isn't getting manufacturers to sell PCs with it or public recognition. The main hold up is the mantra of any highschool composition class, "Who is your audience?" Who is the audience? Geeks? No, Geeks can and do already use linux. The audience that needs to be targeted is the average user, and no it is not 'joe six-pack', or at least not entirely. The primary audience for wide-adoption consists of your parents, your grand parents, your neighbors and friends who call you to fix their systems, children, etc. People who want to use their computer with a minimum of fuss, and who DO freak out when they get an unexpected pop-up, and DO run anything sent to them in an email, and DO use their first name as their password. Advances in Linux performance and functionality are great, but for wide adoption to ever succeed usability and intuitive design must take precedence. And as long as there is anything that requires a text file to be edited in linux, Windows will remain king.
...will be called e-Cows, now with twice as much ugly.
"I'm sorry mr. firefighter, only a certified volvo firefighter is allowed to put out this fire"
Like rain on your wedding day!
It depends on your state, some states have open primaries where you can vote in EITHER (but only one) of the primaries.
"They could stop sucking up to M$ and also recommend that home users consider another OS." Yes, because obviously a different OS would stop a user from manualy executing something they shouldn't.
Depending where you live, it can be legal to shoot a car jacker. Here in louisiana we have "shoot the car jacker" laws where you're allowed to shoot to kill when someone tries to steal your car. As for theft, we also have "shoot the burglar" laws too for when a thief enters your home.
It is more than likely the program does not compare the entire bill, but rather certain flag markers. Similarly fingerprint biometrics systems do not compare the entire fingerprint, but rather certain key markers (I think 7-9 of them? Something along those lines.) I don't think they would include a complete copy of currency at all (and if I'm not mistaken, it's illegal to do so unless the image is 50% smaller, or 150% larger than an actual bill.)
We should be able to trust our fellow man, and on many levels we want to trust people. Because of our predisposition to trusting people (when meeting them face to face, obviously on the internet it is a tad different) the unscrupulous take advantage of that trust. On one hand we're too trusting and get taken advantage of, on the other hand we're too untrusting and our society becomes overly unfriendly. Rock and a hard place.
The thought of the UN trying to 'govern' the internet gives me the shivers. The delegates obviously do not understand the internet is not a single 'thing', it isn't something they can control. Can you imagine the UN trying to enforce its 'powers' over U.S. based ISPs? And you know they would try just to justify the UN's slipping significance. Can you imagine a conglomerate of government departments/staff from a multitude of countries, with DMV-style attitudes, sub-par technical skills, and differing political agendas establishing policies over the internet? We'd probably end up having to submit hard copy HTTP requests in triplicate, plus a $15 processing fee, 2-4 weeks in advance, to visit /.
*gets out the tinfoil hat*
Keeping track of who used which computer at what time isn't treating users like criminals, it does the opposite in fact. When something "goes wrong" on the network or one of the workstations, it lets you narrow down the list of who could have done it; that way you can scrutinize a select few instead of treating all your users as a criminal or being forced to remove/limit access. When I was in high school the network manager had a horrible problem with one of the students installing sub 7 on various machines trying to get into the administrative side of the network. While the malicious script kiddy wasn't so bright being that the administrative computers were on a completely different physical network from the student machines, it did create a lot of trouble as far as cleaning up the mess. She had some monitoring packages installed so when the kiddy installed it again she got paged and caught him in the act. While this isn't always possible to find the one person responsible the first try, if you had something go wrong every day at 4pm you could and likely would pay more attention to who is using the systems at that time and try to find the culprit through a process of elimination.
From the standpoint of the movies, the Saruman plot is finished, over, and done with. The seven minute scene you refer to is NOT important to the overall plot of the move: getting the ring to Mordor. You can argue all you want, but I remember hearing the same things when people complained about the removal of Tom from the Fellowship. But that hardly ruined the film.
Lord of the Rings is not like other books. The greatness of the book cannot be distilled into a simple plot of ring is found, ring journeys, ring is destroyed. The book is an epic tale with multiple plot lines, and MUST be taken in as an overall story. This book is the progenitor of the fantasy genre, and those of us who loved the book long before the movies were even on the drawing board recognize the overall importance of it in its entirety. If you consider getting the ring to Mordor to be the most important part of LotR, you just don't understand it at all.
This seems to be more or less a digital version of plugging an audio device playing DRM'ed media into a computer via audio-out/audio-in.