I don't think OS vendors should be allowed to sell virus protection packages. It seems like it could encourage management to take the urgency out of releasing patches to vulnerabilities. But surely a company as ethical as Microsoft wouldn't twist their cusmtomers' arms in such a way...?
It also doesn't seem fair to competing virus protection vendors, because people are naturally going to want the (likely more tightly integrated due to full access to the codebase) OS vendor's version.
Under Preferences>General, uncheck "Open "safe" files automatically" Should be the default setting. In fact, this shouldn't even be an option. This capability has been the object of a few vulnerabilities.
One the stupidest arguments I've heard against creationism is that "Hitler used natural selection and darwinism to justify the holocaust, therefore anyone who believes in Evolution is a Nazi" or something stupid to that effect. Evolution is not a moral doctrine and doesn't profess to be so.
Er... amen, brother!
Any doctrine can be twisted into a tool for murder, warfare, and torture. The source text for Creationism (the Bible) for instance was used to justify the Inquisition and the Crusades. So does that make anyone who accepts Creationism a torturer or murderer? No, it just makes them an idiot.
That oil might not be made of organic remains, it could have been formed from abiogenically during the primordial geological phases--which, if true, would also conflict with young earth creationism (or, as I like to call it, Willfull Stupidity).
Dear TigerDirect,
I will never use you due to two things: your terrible reputation, and this idiotic lawsuit against Apple a DAY before they release a product whose name has been known for over a YEAR. You are now officially a part of the problem with this country. You have joined the likes of SCO and other litigious companies. Congratulations.
Good luck with that rebate thing,
signed
I think it's important to study everything from atomic properties to digital signaling to gates to sets, probability, logic, Calculus, and Boolean algebra, even if all you want to do is be a programmer. Computer Science is largely a theoretical and scientific degree, so hardware and the math that it implements should be a part of the program. Having a ground-up understanding of digital systems gives you a better foundation as a programmer.
I don't know anything about the trends in the job market, except that I saw a report that computer scientist graduates' salaries are going up again.
It wasn't a "please think about the children" thing, it was just the first example of something despicable and illegal that would suit the example that I thought of at the time. Read more carefully, it was followed by "or some other illegal activity" or something similar. Anyway, my question has already been answered like 6 times, so... thanks for your time.
I'm glad someone's standing up for pirates, but couldn't you use the same argument (privacy) these schools are using to defend withholding the names of people running a kiddie porn ring or some other illegal activity? They should address the IP issues instead of using privacy as the standard by which their actions are to be judged. This could be an opportunity to take a stand and make a statement instead of a ruling that will be overturned. Thoughts?
All you AC's are using straw man tactics and inflammatory bile instead of entering the debate with intellect. The argument isn't that we should attain perfection or solve problems before looking to the stars, it's that we have immediate and dire circumstances that we have a higher probability of deferring if we address them than we do of escaping them to outer space in time. Our survival as a species depends upon us making the right decisions, and I don't think this is one of them. If we had unlimited resources and a better safety record, I'd totally be behind this program. But we don't. Thoughts (i.e., not invective bullshit)?
#2 - This propulsion system has everything to do with getting us to planets within our solar system.
You haven't made the case for this being an immediate concern.
Things have a way of sorting themselves out when it comes to the economy. Given the level of data available and the fact that people are managing the markets on a day to day basis - a "collapse" is not likely.
A collapse is entirely likely, and it has very nearly happened before. Several years ago, if it hadn't been a holiday in the Asian markets, due to a glitch in the very dangerous currency speculation markets on which our global economy is now based, it would have happened. "Things have a way of sorting themselves out" is a statement of Bushian ignorance. Our economy is in many ways a petroeconomy. Now that we see oil passing its peak production, and have massive debt and foundering Third World markets, we must be very careful. People were "managing the markets" in 1929 too.
As far as threats to the world:
Global Warming - perhaps by the end of this century this will become a problem.
Another dumb statement. Are you so familiar with the ins and outs of the ecosphere and the weather system that you can definitively say what the effects of global warming, or even a butterfly flapping its wings, will be? No, you're not. This is a problem that must be fixed. It takes research, and therefore money, to look at alternative fuels and ways of restoring the ozone layer. This is a problem that we are more likely to solve, or at least alleviate, sooner than interstellar travel or interplanetary settlement. It doesn't have the panache or the military-industrial interest, so it gets ignored.
Overpopulation is another interesting one. Did you know that densely populated areas are showing a decline in the birth to death ratio?
There's no sign of decline in overall population, so we're going to have to start investigating colonizing the sea, harvesting kelp, and making agriculture and birth control more universal, instead of letting agribusiness continue to fuel the population boom. Gonna take money. I never suggested "throwing money" anywhere: I'm suggesting careful research.
Terrorism? How is that an immediate threat?
Silly question, let's just ignore the elephant in the room. Terrorism could not only kill millions of people, it could wreck the economy. I should't have to answer such an obvious question.
We might have to suffice with Nuclear and Hydrogen, but the world needs to start now - and from what I can tell that is not happening.
I agree, but if we are going to start now, it's going to take money. That's why I think it's foolish to proceed with Prometheus.
Who are you to tell us what we should endeavor to do with our tax dollars? In reality - "tax dollars" and actual budgets have very little in common.
Did I tell you what to do with your tax dollars? I could have sworn I said "I wany my tax dollars..." It's my right as a taxpayer to say what I want done with my money. Obviously the government usually doesn't listen, but I tell them anyway.
they lack the desire. If they wanted to save it - they would.
Well, that's not encouraging either.
Columbia broke up on re-entry.
Touche, I should have specified that. Fact is, too many fuckups for them to be sending nuclear materiel up.
Not with people like you who need a clue stick to the head, no. Do you think the technology to terraform and settle Mars is just going to appear out of no where? How do you propose that we migrate people from earth to mars? Eight at a time on ships that take months to get from one planet to another? Probably not.
First of all, exploring the moons of Saturn or Jupiter affords us no advantage in finding a new home whatsoever. It is scientific discovery for the sake of scientific discovery with few practical applications, and therefore, no essential relevance. I love scientific and intellectual pursuits, and think we should follow them when possible--but this is impractical given our limited resources.
Second of all, a propulsion system has little to do with interstellar travel. Even if this thing worked (it's designed to stay in the solar system), we would still be unable to travel to other solar systems. The problems of time, distance, and physics as we understand them will almost certainly keep us in this solar system forever.
Thirdly, I think you underestimate the immediacy and gravity of the problems facing us. Making it through the looming problems of global warming, fossil fuel depletion, overpopulation, terrorism, et al has to come before bankrolling the research of private technology interests--which is all this really amounts to in the first place. If Northop Grumman wants to pursue this technology and they can do it safely, let them do it. But our economy already stands on the verge of collapse. Are we supposed to suddenly believe that the organization that lacks the funding to complete the Voyager project now suddenly has the money to undertake this much more expensive mission? Are we supposed to assume they have the competence, after two shuttle explosions and a backwards mirror in a multibillion dollar telescope, not to detonate the reactor in the atmosphere? I want my tax dollars going to more practical use, and so should we all--unless we hold stock in the contractors behind this massive scam, the same sort of people who keep insisting we need a missile shield in this world of suitcase bombs.
We aren't getting off this rock anytime soon, regardless, so we might as well try to buy a few more years here until we have the technology to terraform and settle Mars. That technology will emerge without pointless exercises in lunar exploration.
I think we have more pressing issues than bankrolling pointless exercises. I'm curious about the solar system, but am more concerned with dealing with the immediate crises facing us here on the Third Stone.
I agree. All kinds of strange, previously infrequent crashes and panics will begin to occur. Their software is also very difficult to remove. If you must have virus protection on your Mac, try Virex.
OS X is great, especially if you know all the key combinations and shortcuts. If you add LaunchBar or a similar utility like Quicksilver or Butler and minimize Dock usage and Finder navigation, OS X is even better. You can also affix shortcuts to applications in the top of the finder window itself, which is useful for apps you commonly drag things into, like text editors, Photoshop, email clients, and media players, for instance.
Slashdot Mirror
Intel Extreme graphics? Yech!
It also doesn't seem fair to competing virus protection vendors, because people are naturally going to want the (likely more tightly integrated due to full access to the codebase) OS vendor's version.
They don't "have" exploits, they "have" vulnerabilities. The exploits are the methods used to compromise the system.
Under Preferences>General, uncheck "Open "safe" files automatically"
Should be the default setting. In fact, this shouldn't even be an option. This capability has been the object of a few vulnerabilities.
Er... amen, brother!
Any doctrine can be twisted into a tool for murder, warfare, and torture. The source text for Creationism (the Bible) for instance was used to justify the Inquisition and the Crusades. So does that make anyone who accepts Creationism a torturer or murderer? No, it just makes them an idiot.
Try CTRL-ESC.
That oil might not be made of organic remains, it could have been formed from abiogenically during the primordial geological phases--which, if true, would also conflict with young earth creationism (or, as I like to call it, Willfull Stupidity).
... and doesn't that weaken TigerDirect's already weak case?
Dear TigerDirect, I will never use you due to two things: your terrible reputation, and this idiotic lawsuit against Apple a DAY before they release a product whose name has been known for over a YEAR. You are now officially a part of the problem with this country. You have joined the likes of SCO and other litigious companies. Congratulations. Good luck with that rebate thing, signed
I don't know anything about the trends in the job market, except that I saw a report that computer scientist graduates' salaries are going up again.
It must be on the way out already then.
How long has Skype been out now? Thanks for the update guys...
It wasn't a "please think about the children" thing, it was just the first example of something despicable and illegal that would suit the example that I thought of at the time. Read more carefully, it was followed by "or some other illegal activity" or something similar. Anyway, my question has already been answered like 6 times, so... thanks for your time.
I'm glad someone's standing up for pirates, but couldn't you use the same argument (privacy) these schools are using to defend withholding the names of people running a kiddie porn ring or some other illegal activity? They should address the IP issues instead of using privacy as the standard by which their actions are to be judged. This could be an opportunity to take a stand and make a statement instead of a ruling that will be overturned. Thoughts?
Hey look, the hacker has already resurfaced on /. ! Batten down the hatches, CowboyNeal!
All you AC's are using straw man tactics and inflammatory bile instead of entering the debate with intellect. The argument isn't that we should attain perfection or solve problems before looking to the stars, it's that we have immediate and dire circumstances that we have a higher probability of deferring if we address them than we do of escaping them to outer space in time. Our survival as a species depends upon us making the right decisions, and I don't think this is one of them. If we had unlimited resources and a better safety record, I'd totally be behind this program. But we don't. Thoughts (i.e., not invective bullshit)?
My point exactly.
#2 - This propulsion system has everything to do with getting us to planets within our solar system.
You haven't made the case for this being an immediate concern.
Things have a way of sorting themselves out when it comes to the economy. Given the level of data available and the fact that people are managing the markets on a day to day basis - a "collapse" is not likely.
A collapse is entirely likely, and it has very nearly happened before. Several years ago, if it hadn't been a holiday in the Asian markets, due to a glitch in the very dangerous currency speculation markets on which our global economy is now based, it would have happened. "Things have a way of sorting themselves out" is a statement of Bushian ignorance.
Our economy is in many ways a petroeconomy. Now that we see oil passing its peak production, and have massive debt and foundering Third World markets, we must be very careful. People were "managing the markets" in 1929 too.
As far as threats to the world: Global Warming - perhaps by the end of this century this will become a problem.
Another dumb statement. Are you so familiar with the ins and outs of the ecosphere and the weather system that you can definitively say what the effects of global warming, or even a butterfly flapping its wings, will be? No, you're not. This is a problem that must be fixed. It takes research, and therefore money, to look at alternative fuels and ways of restoring the ozone layer. This is a problem that we are more likely to solve, or at least alleviate, sooner than interstellar travel or interplanetary settlement. It doesn't have the panache or the military-industrial interest, so it gets ignored.
Overpopulation is another interesting one. Did you know that densely populated areas are showing a decline in the birth to death ratio?
There's no sign of decline in overall population, so we're going to have to start investigating colonizing the sea, harvesting kelp, and making agriculture and birth control more universal, instead of letting agribusiness continue to fuel the population boom. Gonna take money. I never suggested "throwing money" anywhere: I'm suggesting careful research.
Terrorism? How is that an immediate threat?
Silly question, let's just ignore the elephant in the room. Terrorism could not only kill millions of people, it could wreck the economy. I should't have to answer such an obvious question.
We might have to suffice with Nuclear and Hydrogen, but the world needs to start now - and from what I can tell that is not happening.
I agree, but if we are going to start now, it's going to take money. That's why I think it's foolish to proceed with Prometheus.
Who are you to tell us what we should endeavor to do with our tax dollars? In reality - "tax dollars" and actual budgets have very little in common.
Did I tell you what to do with your tax dollars? I could have sworn I said "I wany my tax dollars..." It's my right as a taxpayer to say what I want done with my money. Obviously the government usually doesn't listen, but I tell them anyway.
they lack the desire. If they wanted to save it - they would.
Well, that's not encouraging either.
Columbia broke up on re-entry.
Touche, I should have specified that. Fact is, too many fuckups for them to be sending nuclear materiel up.
Not with people like you who need a clue stick to the head, no. Do you think the technology to terraform and settle Mars is just going to appear out of no where? How do you propose that we migrate people from earth to mars? Eight at a time on ships that take months to get from one planet to another? Probably not.
The technology to terrafo
Second of all, a propulsion system has little to do with interstellar travel. Even if this thing worked (it's designed to stay in the solar system), we would still be unable to travel to other solar systems. The problems of time, distance, and physics as we understand them will almost certainly keep us in this solar system forever.
Thirdly, I think you underestimate the immediacy and gravity of the problems facing us. Making it through the looming problems of global warming, fossil fuel depletion, overpopulation, terrorism, et al has to come before bankrolling the research of private technology interests--which is all this really amounts to in the first place. If Northop Grumman wants to pursue this technology and they can do it safely, let them do it. But our economy already stands on the verge of collapse. Are we supposed to suddenly believe that the organization that lacks the funding to complete the Voyager project now suddenly has the money to undertake this much more expensive mission? Are we supposed to assume they have the competence, after two shuttle explosions and a backwards mirror in a multibillion dollar telescope, not to detonate the reactor in the atmosphere? I want my tax dollars going to more practical use, and so should we all--unless we hold stock in the contractors behind this massive scam, the same sort of people who keep insisting we need a missile shield in this world of suitcase bombs.
We aren't getting off this rock anytime soon, regardless, so we might as well try to buy a few more years here until we have the technology to terraform and settle Mars. That technology will emerge without pointless exercises in lunar exploration.
I think we have more pressing issues than bankrolling pointless exercises. I'm curious about the solar system, but am more concerned with dealing with the immediate crises facing us here on the Third Stone.
So that's what backlit Taco Bell-and-coffee-induced diarrhea looks like...
Just what the world needs, a better lighting on our turds.
Brilliant.
Why am I not surprised?
Churchill wasn't exactly a populist, though.
And The USG is not a Democracy, either.
I agree. All kinds of strange, previously infrequent crashes and panics will begin to occur. Their software is also very difficult to remove. If you must have virus protection on your Mac, try Virex.
It's spelled "/grammarnazi," Shakespeare!
Orff und Zappa?
OS X is great, especially if you know all the key combinations and shortcuts. If you add LaunchBar or a similar utility like Quicksilver or Butler and minimize Dock usage and Finder navigation, OS X is even better. You can also affix shortcuts to applications in the top of the finder window itself, which is useful for apps you commonly drag things into, like text editors, Photoshop, email clients, and media players, for instance.