I'm not the grandparent poster, but... The property of termination is undecidable, but the question "Is there a program which for any program P will determine whether or not P halts" is not undecidable: the answer is "No".
I don't do #1 either. Cash and ATMs are more secure than either #1 or #2 and I don't find them particularly inconvenient since I pass an ATM on the way to work each morning.
This is why I don't use my credit card on the Web. I'd rather be paranoid and have to buy everything in shops than try persuading my credit card company that I didn't make those purchases totalling whatever my current credit limit is.
The D-lock only works if you have an actual rack to lock up against (as opposed to a lamp-post, say), and even then it can be difficult to get it through wheel, frame and rack. If you opt instead for a chain-and-padlock, then firstly get a "chain" which has many strands of wire twisted together, making it harder to go through with a hacksaw than solid metal, and secondly get a brass padlock rather than a steel one with rubber coating. The latter can be opened by peeling off the rubber coating and hitting them. Also, it's worth spending a bit on a good lock, because a cheap lock will stop working after about a month.
it's easier to attack small things than big things.
And since a casual perusal of/. shows it's easy to attack such big things as Microsoft and the entire USA, there's really no limit on what you can attack.
When you say "old PCs", do you mean "but new enough to have CD burners"? Otherwise it's a question of whether the people who supply the PCs also supply an install disc (or, perhaps more to the point, what they install before supplying). I wouldn't want to run XP on an old PC either, especially as most people don't have anywhere near as much RAM as they should.
Which part of "United Kingdom's National Health Service" do you think relates to the military? (And while I'm at it, we don't have a "Homeland Defense" or even a "Homeland Defence" department).
However, network effects need not lead to market dominance by one firm, when there are standards which allow multiple firms to interoperate, thus allowing the network externalities to benefit the entire market.
Part of the reason for MS's dominant position is their embrace-and-extend approach to standards.
Looses what? Please say it's not the genetically engineered vampire bats! Actually, forget I mentioned them. There are no such things as....AWERXNXC[Connection lost]
A quote from my Natural Language Processing lectures (lectured by Ted Briscoe, before anyone accuses me of lack of attribution):
The official policy was that all translation of official French at conferences and things had to be more verbose and worse. That's roughly what the law said, which was seen as a good thing for machine translation.
The deputy elections supervisor in Broward County is quoted as saying a manual recount would take a week. Why? Plenty of countries use paper ballots and manage to count and recount in a day.
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I'm not the grandparent poster, but... The property of termination is undecidable, but the question "Is there a program which for any program P will determine whether or not P halts" is not undecidable: the answer is "No".
Or maybe they were taught English by Englishmen and spell it "paedophilia".
Why stop at making a Taco Bell run when you could try getting it to throw a discus?
I don't do #1 either. Cash and ATMs are more secure than either #1 or #2 and I don't find them particularly inconvenient since I pass an ATM on the way to work each morning.
This is why I don't use my credit card on the Web. I'd rather be paranoid and have to buy everything in shops than try persuading my credit card company that I didn't make those purchases totalling whatever my current credit limit is.
Does this mean people with ferromagnetic dentures will have to stop eating McDonalds cheeseburgers?
I realise my degree is in CompSci, which is fairly mathematical, but that doesn't mean I'm incapable of all trivial arithmetic.
I think your Step 2 is "Produce some of the product before it becomes obsolete". Tough one to pull off, though.
Anyone know how close Howl's Moving Castle is to the book?
I'm more disturbed by the claim that he's been on the job for three decades. I thought he was only about 20.
Or simply deny being a psychosassic vampire bat.
The D-lock only works if you have an actual rack to lock up against (as opposed to a lamp-post, say), and even then it can be difficult to get it through wheel, frame and rack. If you opt instead for a chain-and-padlock, then firstly get a "chain" which has many strands of wire twisted together, making it harder to go through with a hacksaw than solid metal, and secondly get a brass padlock rather than a steel one with rubber coating. The latter can be opened by peeling off the rubber coating and hitting them. Also, it's worth spending a bit on a good lock, because a cheap lock will stop working after about a month.
See #2.
In the mean time we do have a workaround.
Cuba has a wired phone network.
When you say "old PCs", do you mean "but new enough to have CD burners"? Otherwise it's a question of whether the people who supply the PCs also supply an install disc (or, perhaps more to the point, what they install before supplying). I wouldn't want to run XP on an old PC either, especially as most people don't have anywhere near as much RAM as they should.
Aargh. Couldn't you have posted a link to goatse instead of that distressing mental image?
The plural of child is children.
The deputy elections supervisor in Broward County is quoted as saying a manual recount would take a week. Why? Plenty of countries use paper ballots and manage to count and recount in a day.