How large of the purchasing population actually wants to hack their stuff though?
If there is a sufficient business case then companies will go after the money, but I don't really think there is that much of a business case for hackable hardware...
Maybe you and Joe Liberman should have a talk...
Oy, I'm a democrat and I loathe Lieberman and have no idea why Gore chose him as his running mate. Had he chosen Kerry or Edwards maybe the whole election would have been different.
Get them:
A Christian Bible
A Torah
A Q'oran
Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World
A book on Scientology
A book on the Vedas(probably some debate as to what includes them all, but it will be a start)
A book of Buddhist texts(once again, you kind of just have to choose one that looks good since there are disagreement of which texts are considered cannoical)
With the message, "You have now graduated college, the University has taught you everything it could about computer science, now you have to discover everything on your own. There are a lot of people out there who claim to have the one true way, you decide that way for yourself"
Actually, a few did play the leaked alpha/beta, although I'm not sure why they proudly attatch their names to the review on a public site when by owning the alpha/beta they have commited a crime....maybe I'm just more paranoid than they are.
The amazing thing is you managed to contradict your own point. If I am using apple technology that means that I,*gasp* chose apple technology to begin with. IE I liked what Apple puts out. Nobody forced me to do it, just like nobody is forcing you to use Apple, Windows, Linux, BeOS etc. If you don't like the lack of choice on Apple's platform, then DON'T USE APPLE'S PLATFORM!! The people that do made the *choice* to do so, so please stop bitching about a lack of choices on Apple. Those of us that use it already had a choice, and we made it on our own.
Well, amazon lists the release date as August 3rd...
As an interesting aside, if you do a search for doom 3 on their main page, one of the "featured links" is a 3d stripper you can talk to
Damn, and me without a wintel computer...
You wouldn't believe the level of service you get in Japan though, sometimes I think it is way *too much* service(and nobody gets tips!) Even when you go to a grocery store you always have people shouting(in Japanese of course) "Welcome, welcome" every 2 feet you run into another worker(Japan's service sector is notoriously over-employed). Even at McDonald's the people are way too perky for my tastes. Maybe it's because I used to work at McDonald's, and although I was always polite, even to the assholes, I was never that enthusiastic about someone ordering a big mac....
From the article: Some of the devices that have failed in Waldorf operate on a frequency of 315 megahertz. Another common keyless entry frequency is 302 MHz. Both of these frequencies fall within a range licensed primarily for use by the military and the federal government.
In a summary of radio spectrum use from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the frequencies in the range from 225 MHz to 328.6 MHz "are heavily used worldwide for critical military air traffic control and tactical training communications." Specific functions include "air-ground-air communications for combat weapons training carried out at and in the vicinity of all major air bases and military training areas worldwide."
Perhaps you just aren't broadcasting on those certain frequencies(which are small compared to the large spectrum reserved for the military)
Exit polls(if done accurately) are a great way to back up election results(esp. if the election isn't close), if the exit polls reveal a result very different from the vote, then a lot of people will suspect something. The problem is, what power do they actually have when they do suspect something?
I don't think that being closed source is the sole reason why IE is insecure, there are relatively secure closed source browsers(Safari being one), I think that IE's main problem is that Microsoft never showed any interest in making it a mature browser. It is a product of the browser wars of the 90s, where MS tried to get as many features as possible into the browser, security be damned(and others participated in this mentality too during that time). The problem is, after Microsoft won the battle(in terms of install base), they pretty much lost all interest in keeping IE up to date, as there have been almost no new features introduced into IE for a long, long while. Meanwhile, other browsers fixed their problems and moved on. This is what we have today.
I think that products can be secure without being open-source. Peer review is great, but let's not forget that Microsoft has some brilliant minds working for it, the problem is that MS management decides that they want to add some type of random, pointless feature and assigns these people to do it, and do it FAST, instead of allowing them to work on increasing security, maturing the browser etc.
Probably the feature of FOSS that makes it more secure is that it removes all PHBs(Pointy haired bosses for those who aren't dilbert fans)
The problem they are complaining about is that it seems to be out of their(or even Kumar's) hands. Suppose they have a legacy app that they have to support because upper management refuses to pay for a re-write, and the SP 2 breaks this app. Now suppose a 0 day exploit comes around. MS releases a patch, but only for SP2. What do they(or Kumar) do then?
people who don't even know what "right-click" means.
So you are talking about Mac users?
*Note: This post comes from someone using OS X on his iBook, and has had a g5 on order for about a week(with almost another week till it leaves the factory..grrr why does it take so long?!)
is that the mail(at least the variant that I receieved) has a fake little message about the attatchment being scanned for viruses. Are people that gullible and/or stupid? I would hope people would be smart enough to realize that it's really easy to type a message saying that something has been scanned for viruses.
Ugh, it's not even like you have to be computer savvy to figure these things out. Do people open their houses to random drifters who say they work for the city and need to do some work without at least checking for ID?
Actually, yeah, they do, oy.,,what a world...
Bush believes in supporting hard working American workers. Even if he has topay for it, he knows that it's worth it to put food on the plates of his citizens and subjects. He probably also eats American grown food, flies in an American buiolt plane and drives an American car
Kerry on the other hand uses foreign imported free software. He thinks that cost is the only area that matters. He probably drives an imported car and flies using foreign airlines such as Quantas and Aeroflot.
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls, but this one is too good. My bet is that you are typing this on a computer that has large chunks of the hardware manufactured in Taiwan and assembled in mainland China(China actually doesn't do much high tech manufacturing...yet). Probably on Microsoft software, Microsoft has had large development centers in India(thus foriegn) for a while.
And while linux may have originated in Finland, a very large chunk of the code was written in the US.
So I find it hard to believe that Kerry's platform is any less American than yours...
Taco(or Tako) in Japanese means octopus(which lots of people eat regularly)
The mexican treat is Takosu
I wonder if Taco-X was actually a play on words on Tako instead of Takosu.
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A John deer, what an awesome off topic post this will make for your man bride...
How large of the purchasing population actually wants to hack their stuff though?
If there is a sufficient business case then companies will go after the money, but I don't really think there is that much of a business case for hackable hardware...
Maybe you and Joe Liberman should have a talk...
Oy, I'm a democrat and I loathe Lieberman and have no idea why Gore chose him as his running mate. Had he chosen Kerry or Edwards maybe the whole election would have been different.
why I keep getting all these prank calls from a person listed as "Cowboy Neal" with the phone number 666-867-5309...
Get them:
A Christian Bible
A Torah
A Q'oran
Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World
A book on Scientology
A book on the Vedas(probably some debate as to what includes them all, but it will be a start)
A book of Buddhist texts(once again, you kind of just have to choose one that looks good since there are disagreement of which texts are considered cannoical)
With the message, "You have now graduated college, the University has taught you everything it could about computer science, now you have to discover everything on your own. There are a lot of people out there who claim to have the one true way, you decide that way for yourself"
You forgot the part where the hero turns to the dark side and becomes a politician.
Actually, a few did play the leaked alpha/beta, although I'm not sure why they proudly attatch their names to the review on a public site when by owning the alpha/beta they have commited a crime....maybe I'm just more paranoid than they are.
The amazing thing is you managed to contradict your own point. If I am using apple technology that means that I,*gasp* chose apple technology to begin with. IE I liked what Apple puts out. Nobody forced me to do it, just like nobody is forcing you to use Apple, Windows, Linux, BeOS etc. If you don't like the lack of choice on Apple's platform, then DON'T USE APPLE'S PLATFORM!! The people that do made the *choice* to do so, so please stop bitching about a lack of choices on Apple. Those of us that use it already had a choice, and we made it on our own.
Well, amazon lists the release date as August 3rd...
As an interesting aside, if you do a search for doom 3 on their main page, one of the "featured links" is a 3d stripper you can talk to
Damn, and me without a wintel computer...
You wouldn't believe the level of service you get in Japan though, sometimes I think it is way *too much* service(and nobody gets tips!) Even when you go to a grocery store you always have people shouting(in Japanese of course) "Welcome, welcome" every 2 feet you run into another worker(Japan's service sector is notoriously over-employed). Even at McDonald's the people are way too perky for my tastes. Maybe it's because I used to work at McDonald's, and although I was always polite, even to the assholes, I was never that enthusiastic about someone ordering a big mac....
w00t!m
/. really needs to add a "tinfoil hat" topic to it's topic list. Complete with awesome graphic of course!
You fail it!
w00t! to da extreme!
Me too!
From the article:
Some of the devices that have failed in Waldorf operate on a frequency of 315 megahertz. Another common keyless entry frequency is 302 MHz. Both of these frequencies fall within a range licensed primarily for use by the military and the federal government.
In a summary of radio spectrum use from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the frequencies in the range from 225 MHz to 328.6 MHz "are heavily used worldwide for critical military air traffic control and tactical training communications." Specific functions include "air-ground-air communications for combat weapons training carried out at and in the vicinity of all major air bases and military training areas worldwide."
Perhaps you just aren't broadcasting on those certain frequencies(which are small compared to the large spectrum reserved for the military)
Exit polls(if done accurately) are a great way to back up election results(esp. if the election isn't close), if the exit polls reveal a result very different from the vote, then a lot of people will suspect something. The problem is, what power do they actually have when they do suspect something?
The renderer is, not the whole browser...
I don't think that being closed source is the sole reason why IE is insecure, there are relatively secure closed source browsers(Safari being one), I think that IE's main problem is that Microsoft never showed any interest in making it a mature browser. It is a product of the browser wars of the 90s, where MS tried to get as many features as possible into the browser, security be damned(and others participated in this mentality too during that time). The problem is, after Microsoft won the battle(in terms of install base), they pretty much lost all interest in keeping IE up to date, as there have been almost no new features introduced into IE for a long, long while. Meanwhile, other browsers fixed their problems and moved on. This is what we have today.
I think that products can be secure without being open-source. Peer review is great, but let's not forget that Microsoft has some brilliant minds working for it, the problem is that MS management decides that they want to add some type of random, pointless feature and assigns these people to do it, and do it FAST, instead of allowing them to work on increasing security, maturing the browser etc.
Probably the feature of FOSS that makes it more secure is that it removes all PHBs(Pointy haired bosses for those who aren't dilbert fans)
I am the w00tmasta J. Fear!!
FP!!
The problem they are complaining about is that it seems to be out of their(or even Kumar's) hands. Suppose they have a legacy app that they have to support because upper management refuses to pay for a re-write, and the SP 2 breaks this app. Now suppose a 0 day exploit comes around. MS releases a patch, but only for SP2. What do they(or Kumar) do then?
people who don't even know what "right-click" means.
So you are talking about Mac users?
*Note: This post comes from someone using OS X on his iBook, and has had a g5 on order for about a week(with almost another week till it leaves the factory..grrr why does it take so long?!)
My name is w00t, James w00t....
is that the mail(at least the variant that I receieved) has a fake little message about the attatchment being scanned for viruses. Are people that gullible and/or stupid? I would hope people would be smart enough to realize that it's really easy to type a message saying that something has been scanned for viruses.
Ugh, it's not even like you have to be computer savvy to figure these things out. Do people open their houses to random drifters who say they work for the city and need to do some work without at least checking for ID?
Actually, yeah, they do, oy.,,what a world...
Bush believes in supporting hard working American workers. Even if he has topay for it, he knows that it's worth it to put food on the plates of his citizens and subjects. He probably also eats American grown food, flies in an American buiolt plane and drives an American car Kerry on the other hand uses foreign imported free software. He thinks that cost is the only area that matters. He probably drives an imported car and flies using foreign airlines such as Quantas and Aeroflot.
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls, but this one is too good. My bet is that you are typing this on a computer that has large chunks of the hardware manufactured in Taiwan and assembled in mainland China(China actually doesn't do much high tech manufacturing...yet). Probably on Microsoft software, Microsoft has had large development centers in India(thus foriegn) for a while.
And while linux may have originated in Finland, a very large chunk of the code was written in the US.
So I find it hard to believe that Kerry's platform is any less American than yours...
Taco(or Tako) in Japanese means octopus(which lots of people eat regularly)
The mexican treat is Takosu
I wonder if Taco-X was actually a play on words on Tako instead of Takosu.
to a whole slew of troll torrents. I can't wait to see what original stuff our AC trollers link to.