"Crappy" doesn't even begin to tell it like it is. I once left MOO3 running on auto-everything for a couple days by accident and came back home to find that I was way ahead of the pack. Lame, pure lame.
As a European, you've probably grown up under an oppressive nanny-type government and have very little (if any) notion of how free (in the real sense) US citizens were a mere 50 years ago, and still are, despite repeated encroachments upon their rights by successive abusive far-right governments. There are a couple good technical solutions to the problem of authentication, but a unique state-mandated uniform ID is not one of them. For the unique id is a single point of failure, and it's very, very weak.
What ties you to your precious govt-issued ID, pray tell? Does it store (in a secure manner) data about something you are, like a DNA sample or a fingerprint? Or perhaps something you and only you know, like a passphrase? Both, maybe? Not likely. All it does is constitute a a search key for data mining and no, the photo don't cut it - they're trivially easy to fake and biometrics don't really work yet.
There will be no such crack. AES is solid. The TPM concept is solid. Together, they mean that you will no longer control the hardware and software you buy - unless, that is, you forgo big-business media and software. Is that so bad?
The 80/20 rule, you say. You're in management, right? Newsflash: the 20% with skill and motive act as enablers for the other 80% who are basically harmless citizens, dig? Mom gets pirated Windows from PFY son, Dad goes out and buys a shiny new computer for a bargain price which comes with windows pre-installed from a no-name shop or from some website... try to think beyond step one.
> we will be able to offer specific information to the user about whatever didn't seem right with the system Black-hat hackers all over the world thank you for simplifying their job. Convenience trumps security at Microsoft once again. GG.
> Not very many [mumblemumble] You don't know that at all, do you? No-one cares about the article you're quoting so your contesting its claims is equally uninteresting. Do you have figures or not?
Just as easily indeed... Just recall, then replace a couple thousand coasters, is that it? Rinse and repeat for each and every disk key that gets recovered. It won't be long before the media makers start paying the real costs of content protection.
Yoou haven't read Neuromancer very attentively, have you? Most of the characters are either riff-raff or super-rich so you don't really notice it, but... there is security everywhere (private, police, corporate, you name it), the Turing police has global authority just like the Yakuza, being a sarariman (like most of the middle class is) is just like being an indentured servant in 18th century England and so on and so forth. On the whole, not as left-wing-command-economy as 1984, true, but just as oppressive. Do you feel that the world is moving towards planned economy? I think not.
Doesn't matter... You only have to do it once and it is just an interface. You can run arbitrarily complex warez off it... what matters is that there is a workable way to interact with them directly.
Let's hope this happens again. And again, and then again, until enough famous artists' and powerful labels' toes are stepped on to create the backlash needed...
Hey, hey. Watch it. While "correctness" is out of fashion, expressive power is not, and neither is concision. What would take minutes to express in AAVE might take seconds in another language or dialect. Try translating "existential malaise" into AAVE. You'll probably end up writing the lyrics of a rap song or a very unusual novel.
Also, from what I see, there is great reduction in the use of tenses other than the simple present/past and the "gonna" future, which makes for vague speech and pragmatic difficulties - difficulties which had not existed in, say 1930's English. There are languages who manage to take a turn for the worse - High Latin with its unbelievably asinine grammar was one, present-day English is another, to my mind.
Amazingly enough, Newspeak seems on the verge of becoming
the
English language - mostly as a result of strenuous efforts by the US and English governments to NOT teach poor/minority/imigrant kids how to speak properly. You really should beware of those in the ruling class who support it and even go as far as to use it - Dubya comes to mind, but he's by no means alone...
Yes, yes. It's beautiful if your work/play habits are chipmunk-equivalent in complexity. If for some reason you would get to using more than the same three programs day in and day out (I'm guessing outlook, WoW and Word/Powerpoint), you'd soon notice that the choices the software makes for you are downright retarded. My pet peeve is that, for instance, newly installed programs appear only once, thereafter to be sucked into "infrequent use" limbo until such a time as the damned Windows decides that yes, I've launched the app in question often enough that it deserves a spot on the shortlist. It may take weeks, as I rarely close important/useful/cool new apps and I reboot even less frequently.
Oh yes... This is somewhat off-topic, but you've hit on a larger problem, one which makes for a lot of bad blood in lots of companies: the type of internal accounting process which draws a line between "cost centres" and "benefit centres". Sooner, rather than later, the logic of the process leads the accountants to believe that the only department making money is the sales department, while everything else is a "cost center" - and costs need to be slashed, don't they? What follows is a strange kind of autolysis... more and more money invested into sales, some money invested into marketing, close to no money for "supporting services", customer care or even production. Such companies usually end up repackaging and selling the same stuff they were 10 years ago, only to fewer and fewer people, at higher and higher costs (and prices). Sounds familiar? If it does, find a new job now.
Re your last example: blame it on anal-retentive company policy not allowing people to adjust their schedules by even a few minutes, not on "dumb users". You happen to be their only out from a losing situation.
Stop that meme-pushing. There is no need for Nvidia to open the source to their existing drivers, nor is there any need for them to write new "cleanroom" ones. All Nvidia has to do so that open source drivers for their hardware appear is to release the hardware API. No more, no less. There is no shortage of skilled programmers in the F-OSS world. When asked why they don't do that, hardware companies usually trot out the "trade secrets" line, implying that someone could reverse-engineer, say, a R300 chip if they found out what registers do what. Now, if that is the case, those trade secrets aren't worth much. If it is not, it's pure paranoia on their side.
Yes, yes. You do know that sticking Jews in ovens was perfectly legal (mandatory, even) in Nazi Germany, no? Would you take that kind of job (for excellent pay) if it came your way? If not, why not?
No. Bad troll. Sit. Microsoft isn't being asked for the source. All the EU wants is the API documentation, so that people can develop new stuff based on Microsoft's OS. Of course, when your entire business model is based on customer lock-in and monopoly judo, handing over the API docs is akin to granting the keys to the kingdom but still, Microsoft is not being asked to reveal any trade secrets.
Come back here to bitch and whine about Microsoft when they come to reposess their precious widget design that you foolishly used in one of your projects. It's their property, man, dig?
Who the heck is pushing this $5/lettuce meme, anyway? It's bull and you all know it. Many countries which don't have the luxury of slave labor haven't starved yet.
Ahh.. The old misconception indeed. Neither voltage nor amperage affect "damage done" independently. What really matters, as always with destructive items or phenomena, is energy imparted to the target per unit of time. How to calculate that is left as an exercise for the astute reader with a solid background in high-school physics and chemistry (something which the inventors of the electric chair seem to have lacked).
Factor in inflation for the electricity costs and interest/earnings on the money you actually keep in your pocket. Inefficient transformers are not mandated by law and server machines are mostly supposed to run all the time:). How does your realization that you don't need a server fit into a discussion about powersaving modes on desktop machines?
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"Crappy" doesn't even begin to tell it like it is. I once left MOO3 running on auto-everything for a couple days by accident and came back home to find that I was way ahead of the pack. Lame, pure lame.
As a European, you've probably grown up under an oppressive nanny-type government and have very little (if any) notion of how free (in the real sense) US citizens were a mere 50 years ago, and still are, despite repeated encroachments upon their rights by successive abusive far-right governments. There are a couple good technical solutions to the problem of authentication, but a unique state-mandated uniform ID is not one of them. For the unique id is a single point of failure, and it's very, very weak.
What ties you to your precious govt-issued ID, pray tell? Does it store (in a secure manner) data about something you are, like a DNA sample or a fingerprint? Or perhaps something you and only you know, like a passphrase? Both, maybe? Not likely. All it does is constitute a a search key for data mining and no, the photo don't cut it - they're trivially easy to fake and biometrics don't really work yet.
Use your head a bit, mmkay?
There will be no such crack. AES is solid. The TPM concept is solid. Together, they mean that you will no longer control the hardware and software you buy - unless, that is, you forgo big-business media and software. Is that so bad?
Yup. That's the stupid gene the gp was talking of kicking in.
The 80/20 rule, you say. You're in management, right? Newsflash: the 20% with skill and motive act as enablers for the other 80% who are basically harmless citizens, dig? Mom gets pirated Windows from PFY son, Dad goes out and buys a shiny new computer for a bargain price which comes with windows pre-installed from a no-name shop or from some website... try to think beyond step one.
> we will be able to offer specific information to the user about whatever didn't seem right with the system
Black-hat hackers all over the world thank you for simplifying their job. Convenience trumps security at Microsoft once again. GG.
> Not very many [mumblemumble]
You don't know that at all, do you? No-one cares about the article you're quoting so your contesting its claims is equally uninteresting. Do you have figures or not?
"and available" is where vista DRM comes in, no?
Just as easily indeed... Just recall, then replace a couple thousand coasters, is that it? Rinse and repeat for each and every disk key that gets recovered. It won't be long before the media makers start paying the real costs of content protection.
Yoou haven't read Neuromancer very attentively, have you? Most of the characters are either riff-raff or super-rich so you don't really notice it, but... there is security everywhere (private, police, corporate, you name it), the Turing police has global authority just like the Yakuza, being a sarariman (like most of the middle class is) is just like being an indentured servant in 18th century England and so on and so forth. On the whole, not as left-wing-command-economy as 1984, true, but just as oppressive. Do you feel that the world is moving towards planned economy? I think not.
Doesn't matter... You only have to do it once and it is just an interface. You can run arbitrarily complex warez off it... what matters is that there is a workable way to interact with them directly.
Let's hope this happens again. And again, and then again, until enough famous artists' and powerful labels' toes are stepped on to create the backlash needed...
Yes, yes. Terrorists would never ever switch to using laser-guided missiles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starstreak_missile or even (gasp!) passive radar-guided ones.
Also, from what I see, there is great reduction in the use of tenses other than the simple present/past and the "gonna" future, which makes for vague speech and pragmatic difficulties - difficulties which had not existed in, say 1930's English. There are languages who manage to take a turn for the worse - High Latin with its unbelievably asinine grammar was one, present-day English is another, to my mind.
Amazingly enough, Newspeak seems on the verge of becoming
- the
English language - mostly as a result of strenuous efforts by the US and English governments to NOT teach poor/minority/imigrant kids how to speak properly. You really should beware of those in the ruling class who support it and even go as far as to use it - Dubya comes to mind, but he's by no means alone...Yes, yes. It's beautiful if your work/play habits are chipmunk-equivalent in complexity. If for some reason you would get to using more than the same three programs day in and day out (I'm guessing outlook, WoW and Word/Powerpoint), you'd soon notice that the choices the software makes for you are downright retarded. My pet peeve is that, for instance, newly installed programs appear only once, thereafter to be sucked into "infrequent use" limbo until such a time as the damned Windows decides that yes, I've launched the app in question often enough that it deserves a spot on the shortlist. It may take weeks, as I rarely close important/useful/cool new apps and I reboot even less frequently.
Oh yes... This is somewhat off-topic, but you've hit on a larger problem, one which makes for a lot of bad blood in lots of companies: the type of internal accounting process which draws a line between "cost centres" and "benefit centres". Sooner, rather than later, the logic of the process leads the accountants to believe that the only department making money is the sales department, while everything else is a "cost center" - and costs need to be slashed, don't they?
What follows is a strange kind of autolysis... more and more money invested into sales, some money invested into marketing, close to no money for "supporting services", customer care or even production. Such companies usually end up repackaging and selling the same stuff they were 10 years ago, only to fewer and fewer people, at higher and higher costs (and prices). Sounds familiar? If it does, find a new job now.
Re your last example: blame it on anal-retentive company policy not allowing people to adjust their schedules by even a few minutes, not on "dumb users". You happen to be their only out from a losing situation.
Good luck keeping your nanobots in one piece while they amass neat little piles of plutonium. Do the words "ionizing radiation" mean anything to you?
Stop that meme-pushing. There is no need for Nvidia to open the source to their existing drivers, nor is there any need for them to write new "cleanroom" ones. All Nvidia has to do so that open source drivers for their hardware appear is to release the hardware API. No more, no less. There is no shortage of skilled programmers in the F-OSS world. When asked why they don't do that, hardware companies usually trot out the "trade secrets" line, implying that someone could reverse-engineer, say, a R300 chip if they found out what registers do what. Now, if that is the case, those trade secrets aren't worth much. If it is not, it's pure paranoia on their side.
Yes, yes. You do know that sticking Jews in ovens was perfectly legal (mandatory, even) in Nazi Germany, no? Would you take that kind of job (for excellent pay) if it came your way? If not, why not?
No. Bad troll. Sit. Microsoft isn't being asked for the source. All the EU wants is the API documentation, so that people can develop new stuff based on Microsoft's OS. Of course, when your entire business model is based on customer lock-in and monopoly judo, handing over the API docs is akin to granting the keys to the kingdom but still, Microsoft is not being asked to reveal any trade secrets.
Come back here to bitch and whine about Microsoft when they come to reposess their precious widget design that you foolishly used in one of your projects. It's their property, man, dig?
Who the heck is pushing this $5/lettuce meme, anyway? It's bull and you all know it. Many countries which don't have the luxury of slave labor haven't starved yet.
True, that. The Panopticon is nearly here, with Google/YouTube as its ironic enabler.
Ahh.. The old misconception indeed. Neither voltage nor amperage affect "damage done" independently. What really matters, as always with destructive items or phenomena, is energy imparted to the target per unit of time. How to calculate that is left as an exercise for the astute reader with a solid background in high-school physics and chemistry (something which the inventors of the electric chair seem to have lacked).
Factor in inflation for the electricity costs and interest/earnings on the money you actually keep in your pocket.
Inefficient transformers are not mandated by law and server machines are mostly supposed to run all the time:). How does your realization that you don't need a server fit into a discussion about powersaving modes on desktop machines?