The difference with airports (and this will get me searched 15 ways from Sunday, I'll bet on it, but what the hell) is that if you blow up a small section of the airport itself I guarantee they'll close the airport before the dust has even settled. And if that means an entire day of air traffic both leaving and coming in is disrupted, so be it.
As an agriculture monoculture, PCs were an easy infection target because of their uniformity and number. I wonder if, in an imaginary world where Win, Mac & Linux were split 30/30/30, you would still see 1/3 of the Windows malware? Hopefully not. Hopefully it'd be less.
I hate to break it to you but I remember the days when there was no Windows monoculture and data was usually passed with floppy disks.
Malware existed on all common desktop platforms back then. It couldn't spread as fast, but it certainly existed.
Cars with small, efficient Diesel or rotary engines:GM and Mazda's teething pains gave these technologies a bad rap which hasn't been overcome 2 decades later (at least not in the U.S. market.)
Actually, these are fairly common in Europe. But we commonly pay 2-3 times what the US does for fuel.
Seriously, if you had a device that could duplicate any device you used it on, without affecting the original in any way, would people be trying to say, "You wouldn't duplicate a car, would you?" It would sound completely absurd.
I've discussed this a few times on/., and I'm convinced that if the copies are of any quality at all, the first person to invent such a machine will wake up dead in the morning.
So will the second.
Reason: Our entire society is based around the movement of goods from A to B - and you can think of money as a special form of goods which is easier to carry around than "enough grain to buy a horse".
Governments can't do anything without money coming in.
Businesses can't do anything without money coming in.
But if you can duplicate anything with enough accuracy to be able to use the duplicates in place of the original - the whole system collapses. Who's going to want to give you money for something when they can just point their duplicator at one for free? For that matter, what use is money when anyone who's got £1 can turn it into £1000 with their duplicator?
A few people have suggested this could actually produce a utopian society because all of a sudden nobody would need to work. Myself, I don't think society can cope with the massive change this would introduce.
Here in the UK, the patent office has been issuing software patents for some time in "anticipation" of them becoming legal at some point in the future.
I'm going to have to buy Windows 7 to fix bugs in Vista that make it almost worthless
In any other industry, having to buy Fred's Product B to fix problems with Fred's Product A that shouldn't be there in the first place would be sufficient grounds to return Fred's Product A under consumer law.
The company I worked for immediately after I graduated in 2002 had Linux on all desktops in the branches - and it was already mostly rolled out when I started.
That was something like 2-300 branches and about 1500 staff altogether.
Businesses that "forgot" their backups, police, intelligence agencies, would be standing in line to pay large amounts for their services.
I think the fact that there exist several data recovery companies and they can charge significant amounts of money for data recovery suggests that this is already happening.
Who says you have to use the version of Linux in the BIOS as your main OS? More to the point, who in their right mind is still regularly recompiling their own kernel?
/. has a large number of readers who read "tape" and assume you mean the backup is going to a very expensive audio cassette along with all the speed, quality and reliability you'd associate with that.
Bacula is first and foremost a Unix program (though it has been ported to Windows), so many of those components aren't relevant.
ACLs it does backup and it also supports VSS so in theory you don't need to separately backup the registry. But I've never tried restoring from a Windows backup in this way so how well it would work I don't know.
Most likely scenario if your mother failed to lock her house: Nothing.
Things that can go wrong that locking her house would mitigate: Intruder with some sort of malicious intention. Not much else, really.
Things that can go wrong that taking regular, offline backups would mitigate: Fire, flood, theft, hacking, power surge, lightning strike, user error...
Have you ever even visited the US? Many areas are so thoroughly designed with the car in mind that attempting to walk, cycle or use public transport is downright impossible.
Let's see - Caldera bought the remains of SCO, rebranded themselves SCO and tried to carry on with SCOs business model - which had already been shown to be at deaths' door as it was.
Sounds very similar. What next? SGI sues everyone who uses Linux?
I've written exactly the same type of letter in the UK, and got exactly the same type of response.
IME, the question "So why was it written that way?" seldom gets a sensible answer - 9 times out of 10 the replies I've had are more "pat on the head, don't worry your little head about it" than "Good point - I intend to bring this matter up".
Go to their electronics department and make DAMNED SURE that everything on their shelves, especially all in one printers, work in Linux. because what Linux needs right now is the infrastructure that Windows users enjoy.
This bit is a mite difficult when Lexmark categorically refuse to release any information about how to write a driver for their printers. Though I did like the idea mentioned elsewhere of a winprinter wrapper similar to ndiswrapper - I wonder if some of the code from Wine could be co-opted to such a purpose.
There remain a few types of hardware which tend to have somewhat patchy support - if any - in Linux.
The absurdly cheap £25-printer-which-takes-£30-cartridges market is one of them. While you could say "well of you buy a £25 printer what do you expect?", the target market here would expect at least basic functionality.
Of course you can let people go if times are bad - though there's normally a certain amount of severance enforced.
Every company of any size has ways to make you resign - be it relocating you 200 miles away (oh, your family doesn't want to move? Tough), changing your job description enough that you get fed up of it but not enough that it's constructive dismissal, putting someone who's known to be almost impossible to work with in a new role as your line manager - but these days it's very rare for a company to openly tell you "We're sacking you for this illegal reason".
What should have happened is his manager should have contacted the HR department (who would either have said "you can't sack him" or helped him cook up some spurious reason to do so, depending on their own ethics). Clearly that didn't happen here...
Brown's just as bad as Blair. In fact, given that he was chosen by Blair, given some of the laws that have been passed over the last 12 years and given that most of the current scandal regarding MP expenses unravelling right now has been going on for years, I'd say the entire Labour party are all as bad as each other.
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The difference with airports (and this will get me searched 15 ways from Sunday, I'll bet on it, but what the hell) is that if you blow up a small section of the airport itself I guarantee they'll close the airport before the dust has even settled. And if that means an entire day of air traffic both leaving and coming in is disrupted, so be it.
As an agriculture monoculture, PCs were an easy infection target because of their uniformity and number. I wonder if, in an imaginary world where Win, Mac & Linux were split 30/30/30, you would still see 1/3 of the Windows malware? Hopefully not. Hopefully it'd be less.
I hate to break it to you but I remember the days when there was no Windows monoculture and data was usually passed with floppy disks.
Malware existed on all common desktop platforms back then. It couldn't spread as fast, but it certainly existed.
Erm... what?!
The iPhone is available right now in the UK free on a £35/month tariff. OK, it's only the 8GB model but the 16GB model is about £50.
There are other reasons for it - some of the South Pacific islanders in Vanuatu have explained their motivation for cannibalism as "people are tasty"
Exactly. If the JuJu had meant us not to eat people, he wouldn't have made us of meat.
And what else are you going to do with Windows 98 OSR 50.2.4.6.A-4 in Swahili?
Mbaya kopo tafadhali nataka baridi ita daktari.
Cars with small, efficient Diesel or rotary engines:GM and Mazda's teething pains gave these technologies a bad rap which hasn't been overcome 2 decades later (at least not in the U.S. market.)
Actually, these are fairly common in Europe. But we commonly pay 2-3 times what the US does for fuel.
Seriously, if you had a device that could duplicate any device you used it on, without affecting the original in any way, would people be trying to say, "You wouldn't duplicate a car, would you?" It would sound completely absurd.
I've discussed this a few times on /., and I'm convinced that if the copies are of any quality at all, the first person to invent such a machine will wake up dead in the morning.
So will the second.
Reason: Our entire society is based around the movement of goods from A to B - and you can think of money as a special form of goods which is easier to carry around than "enough grain to buy a horse".
Governments can't do anything without money coming in.
Businesses can't do anything without money coming in.
But if you can duplicate anything with enough accuracy to be able to use the duplicates in place of the original - the whole system collapses. Who's going to want to give you money for something when they can just point their duplicator at one for free? For that matter, what use is money when anyone who's got £1 can turn it into £1000 with their duplicator?
A few people have suggested this could actually produce a utopian society because all of a sudden nobody would need to work. Myself, I don't think society can cope with the massive change this would introduce.
Here in the UK, the patent office has been issuing software patents for some time in "anticipation" of them becoming legal at some point in the future.
No, I don't understand that either.
I'm going to have to buy Windows 7 to fix bugs in Vista that make it almost worthless
In any other industry, having to buy Fred's Product B to fix problems with Fred's Product A that shouldn't be there in the first place would be sufficient grounds to return Fred's Product A under consumer law.
The company I worked for immediately after I graduated in 2002 had Linux on all desktops in the branches - and it was already mostly rolled out when I started.
That was something like 2-300 branches and about 1500 staff altogether.
Businesses that "forgot" their backups, police, intelligence agencies, would be standing in line to pay large amounts for their services.
I think the fact that there exist several data recovery companies and they can charge significant amounts of money for data recovery suggests that this is already happening.
Who says you have to use the version of Linux in the BIOS as your main OS? More to the point, who in their right mind is still regularly recompiling their own kernel?
/. has a large number of readers who read "tape" and assume you mean the backup is going to a very expensive audio cassette along with all the speed, quality and reliability you'd associate with that.
Bacula is first and foremost a Unix program (though it has been ported to Windows), so many of those components aren't relevant.
ACLs it does backup and it also supports VSS so in theory you don't need to separately backup the registry. But I've never tried restoring from a Windows backup in this way so how well it would work I don't know.
Most likely scenario if your mother failed to lock her house: Nothing.
Things that can go wrong that locking her house would mitigate: Intruder with some sort of malicious intention. Not much else, really.
Things that can go wrong that taking regular, offline backups would mitigate: Fire, flood, theft, hacking, power surge, lightning strike, user error...
I run my own mail server and you know what? I honestly have not the remotest idea why some people find it so difficult.
(Famous last words!)
Have you ever even visited the US? Many areas are so thoroughly designed with the car in mind that attempting to walk, cycle or use public transport is downright impossible.
My employer used to do that and believe me, you do NOT want to do that.
DNS was invented for a reason.
Let's see - Caldera bought the remains of SCO, rebranded themselves SCO and tried to carry on with SCOs business model - which had already been shown to be at deaths' door as it was.
Sounds very similar. What next? SGI sues everyone who uses Linux?
I've written exactly the same type of letter in the UK, and got exactly the same type of response.
IME, the question "So why was it written that way?" seldom gets a sensible answer - 9 times out of 10 the replies I've had are more "pat on the head, don't worry your little head about it" than "Good point - I intend to bring this matter up".
What, does he expect "Big Brotherism" to spring up instantaneously? It could not. It would take a lot of these little, intermediate steps.
Indeed, and Orwell describes Big Brother as having come to be in exactly these terms.
You'd hope someone correcting the meaning of "Big Brother" would know this...
Go to their electronics department and make DAMNED SURE that everything on their shelves, especially all in one printers, work in Linux. because what Linux needs right now is the infrastructure that Windows users enjoy.
This bit is a mite difficult when Lexmark categorically refuse to release any information about how to write a driver for their printers. Though I did like the idea mentioned elsewhere of a winprinter wrapper similar to ndiswrapper - I wonder if some of the code from Wine could be co-opted to such a purpose.
I don't imagine Intel sent a sales rep in one day to speak to anyone that lowly.
Far more likely that these deals were agreed on the golf course by senior executives.
Hate to say it, but GP is right and you're wrong.
There remain a few types of hardware which tend to have somewhat patchy support - if any - in Linux.
The absurdly cheap £25-printer-which-takes-£30-cartridges market is one of them. While you could say "well of you buy a £25 printer what do you expect?", the target market here would expect at least basic functionality.
Of course you can let people go if times are bad - though there's normally a certain amount of severance enforced.
Every company of any size has ways to make you resign - be it relocating you 200 miles away (oh, your family doesn't want to move? Tough), changing your job description enough that you get fed up of it but not enough that it's constructive dismissal, putting someone who's known to be almost impossible to work with in a new role as your line manager - but these days it's very rare for a company to openly tell you "We're sacking you for this illegal reason".
What should have happened is his manager should have contacted the HR department (who would either have said "you can't sack him" or helped him cook up some spurious reason to do so, depending on their own ethics). Clearly that didn't happen here...
Brown's just as bad as Blair. In fact, given that he was chosen by Blair, given some of the laws that have been passed over the last 12 years and given that most of the current scandal regarding MP expenses unravelling right now has been going on for years, I'd say the entire Labour party are all as bad as each other.