Whatever happened to focusing on the road when driving? I would be curious to know what statistics are like for collisions in vehicles with lots of advanced toys. If you're playing with the GPS / WiFi sniffer / $random_electronic_car_toy your attention is off the road, which is dangerous...
It seems we're putting more and more neat features and displays into the vehicles, but how carefully are we considering how it affects the behaviour of the drivers?
Google does a lot of things differently than most OSes are meant for. It's only logical that they'd choose one that they can customize to their needs...
From TFA:
Microsoft will reinvest all of the money, after legal expenses, including $5 million that will go to increase Internet enforcement efforts and expand technical and investigative support to help law enforcers to address computer-related crimes.
I presume this is marketingspeak for "prosecuting more spammers to get more money just like this.":P
(For the humour-impaired: I am not anti-MS, this is a joke.)
Sometimes the solution is not to buy them a laptop, but to buy them their own desktop. I had that from about Grade 8 on... It made more sense, since at the time I had no real need for mobility. (I liked to play PC games and surf the web mostly.)
The time might be right if your child is monopolizing the family computer... or if they are technically inclined and mature enough not to destroy it.
This seems in line with what MS normally does. They've been trying to snuff out OpenGL (so far as I can see) and keep everyone in proprietary DirectX technologies.
This is a really good idea and manufacturers should do it. Still, I have to wonder if Joe Sixpack, after typing in the password 'DH3kn8#6!KJ$*z', would just change it to 'muffy' like all of his other passwords
In some sense, having the password at all is a step up from none at all. If I was wardriving or using a local AP, my first targets would be non-encrypted networks, and then WEP networks. If it was a WPA network (even with a short password) it would probably discourage me more and I might move on to another area...
Depends on who the people in your neighbourhood are.;-)
Offhand, I can think of several reasons:
1) "Free" internet. Some people avoid paying $X per month for internet service when the guy next door has a wireless router and a 3 Mbit line he's barely using.
(Disclaimer: I don't do this; I pay for Bell Sympatico DSL in Ontario, Canada)
2) Proving Oneself. Somebody in range wants to consider himself a hacker so he or will try to break into your network just to prove he/she can.
3) Activities not so legal. Somebody could conceivably use the wireless network to do something illegal. If the Feds come looking for somebody based on IP they're coming to you and not to his home address. You know what I mean?
4) Identity theft. Somebody might want to pick up your credit card / financial information and use it to rip you off.
The list goes on, as you can imagine.
There's really no such thing as being 100% secure, but there's making yourself a poor target. IMHO with WPA and passwords changed etc. you are a much less likely target than all the unsecured / WEP / default password / etc. networks out there. Much like a car, no anti-theft system will make the car completely theft proof. But it can make you a less lucrative target.:-)
To be frank, after reading TFA I felt like this was a 12 year old who has only known Windows and tried Linux once somewhere and didn't like it. This is blog material more so than an actual article.
I'm not sure why the editors felt this was a good "article" to post... There wasn't really anything of substance here. Just an opinion... and a poorly written one at that.
And as somebody else has already asked... how is this the apple section of/.? I saw apple mentioned only in passing in the article...
I'm a student at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), and they have a simple solution.
When you get to residence, you sign a form that says you agree to monitor your computer, keep it clean of viruses, up to date with Windows update, et cetera. The terms are made very clear in it. No agreement, no use of the university network.
On your first offence (banned p2p, virus, anything like that), your network drop is disabled until you pay $25 (Canadian dollars; cue jokes about 2 cents USD) and sign a form acknowledging what you did wrong and that you will take action to avoid it in the future. In addition you have to clean up whatever triggered the disconnect in the first place.
Second offense? Disconnected for the rest of the term. That's the end of that.
Is it my imagination, or are there many many companies these days trying to be the one resource for everything in their field? I suppose technology companies do this especially, but to my mind there are a lot of places that are trying to be everything to everyone.
I suppose you can liken it to what many car companies are doing. They sell vehicles across all types and price ranges, even if it's not something they are good at. They do not leave even a tiny gap in their product offerings so that it's physically possible to buy their product even if it is inferior to a competitor's product for approximately the same price.
Firefox's built-in and extension based ad blocking aren't the only method.
For a while I used Norton Internet Security (2002, IIRC), and it had a popup blocking feature. There's also a program out there along te lines of "noadhosts" (wish I could remember the link), and it adds the URLs of most of the ad websites to your "block list", effectively, and removes quite a number of them.
Again, I think this comes from being more tech-savvy than average.
If we are to be technical it is BSD-based, but this is is an excellent point.
I get the feeling, though, that he's not talking about the desktop market, because I don't imagine Solaris has a large desktop share (but I might be wrong about that... if somebody knows more, please correct me.:-) ).
I suspect it will encourage others to try new plans. I also suspect the vast majority of them will fail, which probably turns out well for the casinos in the end.
Seems they consider e-mail to be somewhat akin to the paper way... everything must be documented in x y and z ways. My father's a lawyer, so I have some understanding of what it's like to document _every single thing_ that comes across your desk that's relevant...
I guess the idea is that if ever it came down to a court case, the e-mail records could be easily retrieved and used in the case. And destroying the records would be a crime, I suppose, which would also have it fall in line with what would happen if you were to destroy the paper records.
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Whatever happened to focusing on the road when driving? I would be curious to know what statistics are like for collisions in vehicles with lots of advanced toys. If you're playing with the GPS / WiFi sniffer / $random_electronic_car_toy your attention is off the road, which is dangerous...
It seems we're putting more and more neat features and displays into the vehicles, but how carefully are we considering how it affects the behaviour of the drivers?
Google does a lot of things differently than most OSes are meant for. It's only logical that they'd choose one that they can customize to their needs...
Ah, you've got your clichés wrong... It's more like this:
Darl: Linus, *I* am your father...
Linus: Noooooooo!!!
Darl: Join me, and together we can rule the *NIX world as father and son!
Linus: NEVER! *jumps*
From TFA:
:P
Microsoft will reinvest all of the money, after legal expenses, including $5 million that will go to increase Internet enforcement efforts and expand technical and investigative support to help law enforcers to address computer-related crimes.
I presume this is marketingspeak for "prosecuting more spammers to get more money just like this."
(For the humour-impaired: I am not anti-MS, this is a joke.)
Sometimes the solution is not to buy them a laptop, but to buy them their own desktop. I had that from about Grade 8 on... It made more sense, since at the time I had no real need for mobility. (I liked to play PC games and surf the web mostly.)
The time might be right if your child is monopolizing the family computer... or if they are technically inclined and mature enough not to destroy it.
This seems in line with what MS normally does. They've been trying to snuff out OpenGL (so far as I can see) and keep everyone in proprietary DirectX technologies.
I am installing these in my fleet of nuclear subs right away! :P
This is a really good idea and manufacturers should do it. Still, I have to wonder if Joe Sixpack, after typing in the password 'DH3kn8#6!KJ$*z', would just change it to 'muffy' like all of his other passwords
In some sense, having the password at all is a step up from none at all. If I was wardriving or using a local AP, my first targets would be non-encrypted networks, and then WEP networks. If it was a WPA network (even with a short password) it would probably discourage me more and I might move on to another area...
Depends on who the people in your neighbourhood are. ;-)
Offhand, I can think of several reasons:
1) "Free" internet. Some people avoid paying $X per month for internet service when the guy next door has a wireless router and a 3 Mbit line he's barely using.
(Disclaimer: I don't do this; I pay for Bell Sympatico DSL in Ontario, Canada)
2) Proving Oneself. Somebody in range wants to consider himself a hacker so he or will try to break into your network just to prove he/she can.
3) Activities not so legal. Somebody could conceivably use the wireless network to do something illegal. If the Feds come looking for somebody based on IP they're coming to you and not to his home address. You know what I mean?
4) Identity theft. Somebody might want to pick up your credit card / financial information and use it to rip you off.
The list goes on, as you can imagine.
There's really no such thing as being 100% secure, but there's making yourself a poor target. IMHO with WPA and passwords changed etc. you are a much less likely target than all the unsecured / WEP / default password / etc. networks out there. Much like a car, no anti-theft system will make the car completely theft proof. But it can make you a less lucrative target. :-)
To be frank, after reading TFA I felt like this was a 12 year old who has only known Windows and tried Linux once somewhere and didn't like it. This is blog material more so than an actual article.
/.? I saw apple mentioned only in passing in the article...
I'm not sure why the editors felt this was a good "article" to post... There wasn't really anything of substance here. Just an opinion... and a poorly written one at that.
And as somebody else has already asked... how is this the apple section of
The Linux car drove in a never-ending circle (infinite loop), the Solaris car barely got moving at speed, and the Windows car crashed into a tree... :P
Actually, there was a /. article saying that Longhorn will implement these: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/08/147 237&tid=201&tid=172&tid=130&tid=218
;-)
How well it works remains to be seen.
I'm a student at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), and they have a simple solution.
When you get to residence, you sign a form that says you agree to monitor your computer, keep it clean of viruses, up to date with Windows update, et cetera. The terms are made very clear in it. No agreement, no use of the university network.
On your first offence (banned p2p, virus, anything like that), your network drop is disabled until you pay $25 (Canadian dollars; cue jokes about 2 cents USD) and sign a form acknowledging what you did wrong and that you will take action to avoid it in the future. In addition you have to clean up whatever triggered the disconnect in the first place.
Second offense? Disconnected for the rest of the term. That's the end of that.
Hope it helps!
Sanger's dead-on with his points. These are precisely the reasons that have kept me from relying on Wikipedia for anything important.
Every once in a while I may go look something up on there for general interest purposes, but never for anything for my classes.
Is it my imagination, or are there many many companies these days trying to be the one resource for everything in their field? I suppose technology companies do this especially, but to my mind there are a lot of places that are trying to be everything to everyone.
I suppose you can liken it to what many car companies are doing. They sell vehicles across all types and price ranges, even if it's not something they are good at. They do not leave even a tiny gap in their product offerings so that it's physically possible to buy their product even if it is inferior to a competitor's product for approximately the same price.
I think these sorts of things should definitely go on in the future. I look forward to seeing the Star Wars one. :-)
Release notes are available here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releas es/
Firefox's built-in and extension based ad blocking aren't the only method.
For a while I used Norton Internet Security (2002, IIRC), and it had a popup blocking feature. There's also a program out there along te lines of "noadhosts" (wish I could remember the link), and it adds the URLs of most of the ad websites to your "block list", effectively, and removes quite a number of them.
Again, I think this comes from being more tech-savvy than average.
If we are to be technical it is BSD-based, but this is is an excellent point. I get the feeling, though, that he's not talking about the desktop market, because I don't imagine Solaris has a large desktop share (but I might be wrong about that... if somebody knows more, please correct me. :-) ).
I don't seem to be able to load the link... it can't be slashdotted already, can it? :P
I suspect it will encourage others to try new plans. I also suspect the vast majority of them will fail, which probably turns out well for the casinos in the end.
I suppose it's more like "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones; People in cardboard houses shouldn't light fires."
Seems they consider e-mail to be somewhat akin to the paper way... everything must be documented in x y and z ways. My father's a lawyer, so I have some understanding of what it's like to document _every single thing_ that comes across your desk that's relevant...
I guess the idea is that if ever it came down to a court case, the e-mail records could be easily retrieved and used in the case. And destroying the records would be a crime, I suppose, which would also have it fall in line with what would happen if you were to destroy the paper records.
Interesting. I have it set to deep scan every file on my drives, so I might think it would get the firefox cookies, wherevr they're hiding...
IMO the big modders will move on to things like Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 now that they're out. This will make for great gaming. :-)