Aren't we prideful. Do you work for Microsoft or something? Everyone makes mistakes. In the real world, you should program in as many sanity checks as you can. Over compensating for potential problems will usually lead to more secure and stable programs, or at the very least make it fail in a less catastrophic way.
Expecting sanity checks to be done elsewhere and not covering your ass leads to absurdly buggy programs and security compromises, which is happening all too often in so called "professonal" software these days. Twenty years ago, they probably would have been laughed out of the market and/or sued into the ground for selling the stuff they call software these days...
I agree. Clearly the woman has some sort of psychopathic disorder. People should know who she is. These people constantly do things to screw up other people's lives, and they should not get away with it.
And about things being against the law. It should be against the law for an adult to pose as a child/teenager to a real teenager/child, especially in the manner told by the story.
How about developing communication protocols for use on certain bands. Such as a wireless networking standard. One which gives greater bandwidth and further range, instead of networking being put on the area no one wants--the 2.4GHz band shared with microwave ovens. In fact, I thought they were going to do this when they eliminated some tv channels. Then I hear this story.
How does it offset your taxes? When the government gets more money, they don't reduce taxes, they find new ways to waste it--or politicians find new ways to secretly line their pockets. What planet have you been living on?
The FCC isn't going to do that. Now their primary function is to steal the radio spectrum from the people and auction it off to the highest bidder.
I'm beginning to think there is no point following FCC rules. If the government is going to be greedy thieving bastards with our radio spectrum, why not just become freebanders? WTF? I thought the FCC was supposed to regulate the airwaves for everyone's benefit? If they just take them away to sell them, then they are just another scheme by the corrupt goverment to separate the citizens from their rightful use of public commons and get money out of it.
I would love to see a system like that. Please tell me when someone creates one. So far all the attempts have failed. They use endless cascading menus which disappear if you move mouse in the wrong direction, or whatever whims of the GUI. They give useless nonsensical error messages (if they give any messages at all) which both new users and age old masters can't understand. They lock everyone out of various options, because they've decided us "lusers" can't understand it. They automatically do things which are wrong and there is no way to stop it, so you have to hope the command fails and you can find a way to make it do what you want. Yeah, 3 lines of code can replace someone who knows what he/she is doing.
Sorry to burst your doom and gloom phantasies, but things aren't as serious as you make them out. Maybe you have been overtrained by the scare tatics of the government and the public school system.
unsustainable economic practices - Yes, everyone spends too much, but when they bottom out, they won't be poor as in third world country, they'll just be poor compared to their rich neighbors. Unless they become homeless (houses don't up and disappear), I doubt they will have to worry about colera, freezing to death, or starvation like many do in real poor countries. They may have to work at taco bell, walk to work, prepare their own food, and such, but most won't have real problems. The real problem here would be how most of us Americans are trained to be superficial, spoiled and materialistic. Just because you can't buy some new toy or a really nice car isn't the end of the world.
Peak Oil - many have been saying we are going to run out of oil since the '70s. I doubt we will just up and "run out" one day. More likely the price will slowly increase over time. In fact, I don't think the price of gas has gone up much more than the price of inflation. At any rate, the worse case senario, you may have to buy a more fuel efficient car or walk, and maybe purchase products created closer to home. Once the price of gas becomes more onerous, other forms of energy will start to be used.
Global Climate Change - assuming this isn't someone's miscalcuation or imagination (there was a time not too long ago "scientists" were saying the planet was going to freeze), who is to say for sure it is caused by humans or humans can do anything about it? I heard the sun is at a point where it is getting hotter. How do you expect to change that? What about volcanos? Reducing pollutants is a good idea, but you should also prepare yourself for global climate change too. (How about somebody find a way to convert this heat into some other useful form of energy?) The Earth has gone through many climate changes. Don't expect to magically stop these changes.
Fresh Water Depletion - sea water can be converted to fresh water. If a great need for water arises, they'll just do as they do in Saudi Arabia.
health care - if it wasn't run by a communist "insurance" system, then it probably wouldn't cost so damn much. Insurance is only optimal when an event is unlikely to happen to you specifically. Things would work better if everyone had insurance in case of a catastrophic medical problem, and payed themselves for day to day things, such as checkups and cold/flu.
And no, the government would not handle it better. Because of my kidney failure/strokes, I am on Disablility, Medicare and Medicaid. I have seen how the government handles medical care. It sucks especially because if you want/need anything extra medical wise (or something they denied) and are able to pay yourself, you aren't allowed to have it or they'll declare you don't need Medicare (or whatever) anymore, and they'll take it away. All subject to changing policies and whims of bureaucrats, which you can never predict or know for certantiy beforehand. So you have to live in fear the rest of your live hoping they don't take away the treatment(s) you need to live. Yeah, they will probably keep you barely alive, but you won't have much freedom with your medical care either. I don't see any way to fix this. Bureaucrats are how governments do things. No one has come up with a better model for such huge organizations...and how do you police the cheaters?
Look at the retirement program. Even if you are retired and most certainly earned those medical benefits and social security payments, they treat it like welfare, and take it away if you make too much spare cash on the side--so you don't have to eat dog food. This is really how it is, I used to work for a temp agency and I talked to quite a few old people who where in this situation. Who would really want to live like this?
Heh. Gotta love when someone tries to explain away something which doesn't fit their Republican/Democrat, liberal/conservative model. Very entertaining.
Maybe you can explain to me how a turkey is either an elephant or donkey.
If you want to get google involved, you shouldn't ask them to "buy" a buch of spectrum and open it up. You should ask them to bri...oops...I mean "entice" (is that what the telecom companies call it today) the FCC to do their jobs and define standards with which the general public can fairly share the radio as the FCC should. Wasn't that their original stated purpose? I doubt it was to allow communications and entertainment companies to control how the spectrum is use, which more or less seems to be what they are doing today.
If the FCC really was working for the public, wouldn't we have much more bandwidth for WiFi and on freqs which have longer range? Instead of having to share a small band nobody wants where microwave ovens interfere. We got screwed.
Moreover, why is ANYONE "against" convergence? Seriously? Do you really WANT to be carrying around a camera, a phone, a PDA, and a laptop?
Because the vast majority of the time, in the best case, you end up with a device which is a mediocre camera, a mediocre phone, a mediocre PDA, and a mediocre laptop.
In fact, most of the time you get a really expensive device with a crappy camera which takes poor quality pictures and you have to select through several menus, so it takes longer to take a picture than even my crappy kodak C300 I got for christmas, which takes several seconds to start up from off to on. You get a crappy phone which works, but ends up being suboptimal for a phone. You get a crappy PDA, which is not only locked down so you can't run your own programs, but ends up being suboptimal for a PDA, especially if it only has a numberpad for input. Inputing alphabetic chars into the numberpad works, but you have to admit it is a pain in the ass. You get a "laptop", but again, your choice of software is locked down, and are you really going to call such a small device a "laptop"??? Usually the difference between a PDA and laptop is that the laptop comes with a full size screen and full size keyboard, the PDA a small screen and either a tiny keyboard or touch screen for input. Any reasonably small sized phone cannot be considered a laptop. Maybe if you could open it up and a bigger screen and keyboard fold out, but I don't see this happening on anything within a resonable price range. Maybe a pen and ink display may make it happen. How would you fit a fold out lcd into such a small space?
I would like to see a device which functions as a camera, phone, PDA, and laptop, and does all of them well. However, I doubt I will ever see one...within the next ten years anyway...
Also, despite what slashdotters like to think, EULAs almost certainly meet the requirements of contracts: offer ("take it or leave it"), acceptance (by signature or performance) and consideration (in exchange for the right to use the software at the price I'm selling it to you, you agree to these other terms).
Okay, IANAL, so help me understand this better. You can buy something from a store, take it home, and after you have purchased the item, the manufacturer of the product can hold usage of said product hostage until you "agree" to an EULA.
This doesn't sound proper to me. I've only had a few simple business law classes, but I would think this would fall under duress or a blank contract or something like it. Why not?
This is why I don't like companies to keep my credit card number on file. Yeah, it is convenient when you don't have to type it into a web form all the time, but any security breach, and some bastard can run up charges on your card. Not a risk I like to take.
In this case it is not automatically assumed. A significant portion of http traffic is in fact infringing copyright. If a bunch of it suddenly goes encrypted, I don't know why you wouldn't suspect that the encrypted traffic wasn't largely illegal as well. It's not as if people might be trying to protect their credit card or bank account numbers. You can see that a large portion of visible traffic is infringing and you can exclude from your stats the stuff that isn't; you can't exclude the legal stuff if the content is encrypted, therefore your best indication is that it's probably just like most other http traffic, illegal. Nobody may like hearing that, but it's the truth. Let's break down the doors of anyone using encrypted http traffic and shoot them all. They deserve it!
BTW, how many of you people don't read slashdot? Just a little while ago there was a story about how Comcast was caught sending reset packets to screw up BT traffic. No, this couldn't possibly be the real reason people are encrypting BT traffic. Not at all...
... I can plug it into the monitor (has both VGA and DVI ports) and shut down the other machine during the week...
Wouldn't a KVM switch do this job? At the very least, I'd think it would save wear and tear on your high powered machine's video port in the long run. Sounds like it has an expensive graphics card.
You don't know what you are talking about. Night Trap proves beyond all doubt that certain members of congress are card carrying members of the Taliban who wish to censor everything. You ever played Night Trap? If you didn't change anything except making the girls a few years younger, it probably would've been aired on Nickelodeon's "Are you afraid of the dark" series. The "violence" and "sex" in that video game are G-rated at most.
The attacks on video game "violence" and such have nothing to do with any actual content. It doesn't matter if you have a slasher game spraying ketchup all over the camera or teletubbies smashing into each other, those people will try to censor it.
My conclusion, from actual experience with this type of people, is that they want to elimate everything which doesn't conform to their sect's beliefs. Never mind if someone did anything like this to them, they'd be screaming bloody murder.
I'm tired of that line. It doesn't matter if everyone stops buying music from RIAA companies. They'll still get all the royalties from radio, store music, and other places where compulsary license fees are collected. It is the law. They'll also amp up their lawsuits, DMCA complaint bots, and lobbying stating "piracy" is the cause of their decreased sales.
It doesn't matter if you don't broadcast or listen to their music, a false DMCA complaint will still take your site down. You will still have to hire a lawyer if they try to sue you because you wrote a communications app which may be able to transport music or generic files, some of which could be music. You will still be screwed if they pass a DRM law which requires all computers to run (Microsoft's) DRM system and you are not allowed to write software unless you buy some expensive key--assuming they will let you buy it at all. After all, if you are an open source coder, you must be "untrustworthy"
Even boycotting them, they still get money and they still continue with their insane behavior. That is not the end all solution.
So you are saying programmers should be more like Scotty on Star Trek. "I'm givin' 'er all she's got cap'n! Any more an' she'll blow!" He admitted to over inflating the difficulty of his job on an "Next Generation" episode.
You don't spend 30+ hours a week staring at the cartoon picture of a guy's ass.
This is why I hate 3rd person perspective. Most of the "scenery" is your avatar's ass. I like to see the damn game! It espeically pisses me off when your avatar gets in the way of seeing something important. Fixed camera (such as resident evil) is even worse--try and aim at a target in 3d space while viewing on a flat screen...WTF?
Why would you want to do that? That just allows the "nobody" user to mess with the Adobe directory. Considering "nobody" is often used for daemons, you just let anyone who cracks one of the said daemons to write files to that directory and potentially screw with the users who run Adobe's progams.
You want global stuff to be owned by root or an administrative user so that others can't mess with it. Generally speaking, only admins should own files in/usr,/bin,/etc and such. Having root own that directory and files is correct, unless you use a different user to install files, then that user should own them...
I tried ion. (and wmii) As I recall they had problems with certain applications, such as GIMP. Is there a way to make the GIMP work with those window managers?
How can this be? You need a registered letter to freeze the account, yet a telephone call from your identity thief will "thaw" your account within 15 minutes and allow him/her to run wild with your credit again...
I don't see how this will do anything to slow or stop this kind of fraud.
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Aren't we prideful. Do you work for Microsoft or something? Everyone makes mistakes. In the real world, you should program in as many sanity checks as you can. Over compensating for potential problems will usually lead to more secure and stable programs, or at the very least make it fail in a less catastrophic way.
Expecting sanity checks to be done elsewhere and not covering your ass leads to absurdly buggy programs and security compromises, which is happening all too often in so called "professonal" software these days. Twenty years ago, they probably would have been laughed out of the market and/or sued into the ground for selling the stuff they call software these days...
I agree. Clearly the woman has some sort of psychopathic disorder. People should know who she is. These people constantly do things to screw up other people's lives, and they should not get away with it.
And about things being against the law. It should be against the law for an adult to pose as a child/teenager to a real teenager/child, especially in the manner told by the story.
How about developing communication protocols for use on certain bands. Such as a wireless networking standard. One which gives greater bandwidth and further range, instead of networking being put on the area no one wants--the 2.4GHz band shared with microwave ovens. In fact, I thought they were going to do this when they eliminated some tv channels. Then I hear this story.
You are correct. I propose they start by auctioning off your body parts. ;-)
How does it offset your taxes? When the government gets more money, they don't reduce taxes, they find new ways to waste it--or politicians find new ways to secretly line their pockets. What planet have you been living on?
The FCC isn't going to do that. Now their primary function is to steal the radio spectrum from the people and auction it off to the highest bidder.
I'm beginning to think there is no point following FCC rules. If the government is going to be greedy thieving bastards with our radio spectrum, why not just become freebanders? WTF? I thought the FCC was supposed to regulate the airwaves for everyone's benefit? If they just take them away to sell them, then they are just another scheme by the corrupt goverment to separate the citizens from their rightful use of public commons and get money out of it.
I would love to see a system like that. Please tell me when someone creates one. So far all the attempts have failed. They use endless cascading menus which disappear if you move mouse in the wrong direction, or whatever whims of the GUI. They give useless nonsensical error messages (if they give any messages at all) which both new users and age old masters can't understand. They lock everyone out of various options, because they've decided us "lusers" can't understand it. They automatically do things which are wrong and there is no way to stop it, so you have to hope the command fails and you can find a way to make it do what you want. Yeah, 3 lines of code can replace someone who knows what he/she is doing.
What kind of joke is that?
Sorry to burst your doom and gloom phantasies, but things aren't as serious as you make them out. Maybe you have been overtrained by the scare tatics of the government and the public school system.
And no, the government would not handle it better. Because of my kidney failure/strokes, I am on Disablility, Medicare and Medicaid. I have seen how the government handles medical care. It sucks especially because if you want/need anything extra medical wise (or something they denied) and are able to pay yourself, you aren't allowed to have it or they'll declare you don't need Medicare (or whatever) anymore, and they'll take it away. All subject to changing policies and whims of bureaucrats, which you can never predict or know for certantiy beforehand. So you have to live in fear the rest of your live hoping they don't take away the treatment(s) you need to live. Yeah, they will probably keep you barely alive, but you won't have much freedom with your medical care either. I don't see any way to fix this. Bureaucrats are how governments do things. No one has come up with a better model for such huge organizations...and how do you police the cheaters?
Look at the retirement program. Even if you are retired and most certainly earned those medical benefits and social security payments, they treat it like welfare, and take it away if you make too much spare cash on the side--so you don't have to eat dog food. This is really how it is, I used to work for a temp agency and I talked to quite a few old people who where in this situation. Who would really want to live like this?
Heh. Gotta love when someone tries to explain away something which doesn't fit their Republican/Democrat, liberal/conservative model. Very entertaining.
Maybe you can explain to me how a turkey is either an elephant or donkey.
If you want to get google involved, you shouldn't ask them to "buy" a buch of spectrum and open it up. You should ask them to bri...oops...I mean "entice" (is that what the telecom companies call it today) the FCC to do their jobs and define standards with which the general public can fairly share the radio as the FCC should. Wasn't that their original stated purpose? I doubt it was to allow communications and entertainment companies to control how the spectrum is use, which more or less seems to be what they are doing today.
If the FCC really was working for the public, wouldn't we have much more bandwidth for WiFi and on freqs which have longer range? Instead of having to share a small band nobody wants where microwave ovens interfere. We got screwed.
Because the vast majority of the time, in the best case, you end up with a device which is a mediocre camera, a mediocre phone, a mediocre PDA, and a mediocre laptop.
In fact, most of the time you get a really expensive device with a crappy camera which takes poor quality pictures and you have to select through several menus, so it takes longer to take a picture than even my crappy kodak C300 I got for christmas, which takes several seconds to start up from off to on. You get a crappy phone which works, but ends up being suboptimal for a phone. You get a crappy PDA, which is not only locked down so you can't run your own programs, but ends up being suboptimal for a PDA, especially if it only has a numberpad for input. Inputing alphabetic chars into the numberpad works, but you have to admit it is a pain in the ass. You get a "laptop", but again, your choice of software is locked down, and are you really going to call such a small device a "laptop"??? Usually the difference between a PDA and laptop is that the laptop comes with a full size screen and full size keyboard, the PDA a small screen and either a tiny keyboard or touch screen for input. Any reasonably small sized phone cannot be considered a laptop. Maybe if you could open it up and a bigger screen and keyboard fold out, but I don't see this happening on anything within a resonable price range. Maybe a pen and ink display may make it happen. How would you fit a fold out lcd into such a small space?
I would like to see a device which functions as a camera, phone, PDA, and laptop, and does all of them well. However, I doubt I will ever see one...within the next ten years anyway...
Okay, IANAL, so help me understand this better. You can buy something from a store, take it home, and after you have purchased the item, the manufacturer of the product can hold usage of said product hostage until you "agree" to an EULA.
This doesn't sound proper to me. I've only had a few simple business law classes, but I would think this would fall under duress or a blank contract or something like it. Why not?
This is why I don't like companies to keep my credit card number on file. Yeah, it is convenient when you don't have to type it into a web form all the time, but any security breach, and some bastard can run up charges on your card. Not a risk I like to take.
...for your personal pleasure.
In this case it is not automatically assumed. A significant portion of http traffic is in fact infringing copyright. If a bunch of it suddenly goes encrypted, I don't know why you wouldn't suspect that the encrypted traffic wasn't largely illegal as well. It's not as if people might be trying to protect their credit card or bank account numbers. You can see that a large portion of visible traffic is infringing and you can exclude from your stats the stuff that isn't; you can't exclude the legal stuff if the content is encrypted, therefore your best indication is that it's probably just like most other http traffic, illegal. Nobody may like hearing that, but it's the truth. Let's break down the doors of anyone using encrypted http traffic and shoot them all. They deserve it!
BTW, how many of you people don't read slashdot? Just a little while ago there was a story about how Comcast was caught sending reset packets to screw up BT traffic. No, this couldn't possibly be the real reason people are encrypting BT traffic. Not at all...
Wouldn't a KVM switch do this job? At the very least, I'd think it would save wear and tear on your high powered machine's video port in the long run. Sounds like it has an expensive graphics card.
You don't know what you are talking about. Night Trap proves beyond all doubt that certain members of congress are card carrying members of the Taliban who wish to censor everything. You ever played Night Trap? If you didn't change anything except making the girls a few years younger, it probably would've been aired on Nickelodeon's "Are you afraid of the dark" series. The "violence" and "sex" in that video game are G-rated at most.
The attacks on video game "violence" and such have nothing to do with any actual content. It doesn't matter if you have a slasher game spraying ketchup all over the camera or teletubbies smashing into each other, those people will try to censor it.
My conclusion, from actual experience with this type of people, is that they want to elimate everything which doesn't conform to their sect's beliefs. Never mind if someone did anything like this to them, they'd be screaming bloody murder.
It seems the taliban has mod points now. Any one who posts "naughty" words gets modded down to H-E-double hockey sticks. Fuckers.
I'm tired of that line. It doesn't matter if everyone stops buying music from RIAA companies. They'll still get all the royalties from radio, store music, and other places where compulsary license fees are collected. It is the law. They'll also amp up their lawsuits, DMCA complaint bots, and lobbying stating "piracy" is the cause of their decreased sales.
It doesn't matter if you don't broadcast or listen to their music, a false DMCA complaint will still take your site down. You will still have to hire a lawyer if they try to sue you because you wrote a communications app which may be able to transport music or generic files, some of which could be music. You will still be screwed if they pass a DRM law which requires all computers to run (Microsoft's) DRM system and you are not allowed to write software unless you buy some expensive key--assuming they will let you buy it at all. After all, if you are an open source coder, you must be "untrustworthy"
Even boycotting them, they still get money and they still continue with their insane behavior. That is not the end all solution.
So you are saying programmers should be more like Scotty on Star Trek. "I'm givin' 'er all she's got cap'n! Any more an' she'll blow!" He admitted to over inflating the difficulty of his job on an "Next Generation" episode.
This is why I hate 3rd person perspective. Most of the "scenery" is your avatar's ass. I like to see the damn game! It espeically pisses me off when your avatar gets in the way of seeing something important. Fixed camera (such as resident evil) is even worse--try and aim at a target in 3d space while viewing on a flat screen...WTF?
Your other suggestion sounded good, but...
Why would you want to do that? That just allows the "nobody" user to mess with the Adobe directory. Considering "nobody" is often used for daemons, you just let anyone who cracks one of the said daemons to write files to that directory and potentially screw with the users who run Adobe's progams.
You want global stuff to be owned by root or an administrative user so that others can't mess with it. Generally speaking, only admins should own files in /usr, /bin, /etc and such. Having root own that directory and files is correct, unless you use a different user to install files, then that user should own them...
I tried ion. (and wmii) As I recall they had problems with certain applications, such as GIMP. Is there a way to make the GIMP work with those window managers?
I must be tired. I read this as "I just want a clean girl on top of linux" and thought: ooh kinky!
How can this be? You need a registered letter to freeze the account, yet a telephone call from your identity thief will "thaw" your account within 15 minutes and allow him/her to run wild with your credit again...
I don't see how this will do anything to slow or stop this kind of fraud.