The problem with UAC is that it is highly obnoxious and intrusive.
No, it's not a problem. It's the entire point of UAC - to be obnoxious. It's there to generate bad feedback to devs who abuse root/admin privs. This is because Windows many devs "grew up" with single user operating systems and then suddenly had a multiuser OS (XP and above are NT based as opposed to 9x) and still insisted that the person behind the keyboard somehow always owns the computer.
It's a club to hit dumb Windows devs with. Once someone explained this to me, it suddenly made sense. Now I'm explaining it to you.
I have a LAN at home
Good for you. But you own the LAN. There are people on LANs that don't own the LAN (like, at work) and should never have admin access. And I would argue that there are dumbasses who should never have admin on their own equipment and should pay someone to admin their stuff. I have a friend who does exactly that for his entire extended family as a side project.
Root/admin access should be available to everyone who wants
Just like Linus' justifiable rant about having to be root in SuSE to set up a printer.
There are legitimate reasons why an end user should need Root/Administrator, but they should be as few as possible. Microsoft has seen the light and has tried to beat developers over the head with UAC to make them see the light. (a game needing admin to run? seriously?)
Because he's right. It's what the law has done to the USPS. The part he left out is the USPS can't arbitrarily raise rates to meet the goal of the law. Indeed, the USPS is not allowed to make a profit - i.e., it must be revenue neutral. So it can't sock away money to meet the law.
What's happened is disgusting.
It's all about "starve the beast" - cripple a federal agency by choking off its revenue, watching it fail, and then pointing at the failed agency as if it was badly run before it was fucked with to justify the meme and libertarian fantasy that "all government is bad so let's kill it."
Do you need to earn "Crime pays" kind of money to fund college funds for 4 children in America?
Yes. It's why there is a TRILLION dollars in student debt.
How much do Americans borrow/have borrowed for college?
There is roughly somewhere between $902 billion and $1 trillion in total outstanding student loan debt in the United States today. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reports $902B while the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau reports $1T.
All of my passwords look like that. Randomly generated with special characters. Typically 25 chars long.
They are in a password manager. I don't have to remember them at all. It's easier than having passwords I can remember but are easier to guess/can be found by rainbow table.
What are some strategies for illuminating what we need to without casting excess light everywhere and inadvertently blinding our neighbors or keeping them awake?"
Last I looked, they made these things called motion-sensor triggered lights as an off-the-shelf item. They only go on when you're opening your front door, for example.
> But I'm against unnecessary use of mercury. Even if there's no risk to humans whatsoever,
Yet you rant on and on about thimerosol even though it's been phased out of many vaccines.
You know who rants about thimerosol? The anti-vaccine nutters like "Doctor" Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy.
Here are some actual facts gleaned from a CDC FAQ.
Do MMR vaccines contain Thimerosol?
No, measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines do not and never did contain thimerosal. Varicella (chickenpox), inactivated polio (IPV), and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have also never contained thimerosal.
Do all flu vaccines contain thimerosl?
No. Influenza (flu) vaccines are currently available in both thimerosal-containing and thimerosal-free versions. The total amount of flu vaccine without thimerosal as a preservative at times has been limited, but availability will increase as vaccine manufacturing capabilities are expanded.
Although thimerosal was taken out of childhood vaccines in 2001, autism rates have gone up, which is the opposite of what would be expected if thimerosal caused autism.
So like, whatever, man, you're a nut and impervious to actual facts.
>but the better ones are about the story (ie, Lord of the Rings/Hobbit/etc).
You mean a sleep-inducing walk, talk, walk some more, talk, walk some more, talk, walk even more, talk more movie?
>much more to the effects
There was supposed to be a Star Trek reboot movie, but it really should have been called Lens Flare.
Actual good movies out of Hollywood are few and far between. Sturgeon's Law applies. Sometimes the reviews are much more entertaining than the movies themselves.
The idea that institutions established for the use of the nation cannot be touched nor modified even to make them answer their end because of rights gratuitously supposed in those employed to manage them in trust for the public, may perhaps be a salutary provision against the abuses of a monarch but is most absurd against the nation itself
Yet our lawyers and priests generally inculcate this doctrine and suppose that preceding generations held the earth more freely than we do, had a right to impose laws on us unalterable by ourselves, and that we in like manner can make laws and impose burdens on future generations which they will have no right to alter; in fine, that the earth belongs to the dead and not the living." --Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer, 1816. ME 15:46
>Although I dislike you because you're a inflexible, closed-minded zealot, you do have a point.
I am rabidly anti-stupid, so if this makes me an inflexible curmudgeon, then so be it. This "Linus is rude" stuff that crops up from time to time reeks of stupid.
Somehow Theo gets a pass on being rude. Double standards, anyone?
>Windows 8 nonsense
I've seen this myself in various areas, even 4chan/g/. If you don't like Metro, or whatever they're calling it these days, you are incapable of change or just plain stupid. Or something. How people think this convinces people with criticisms of 8 to like 8 baffles me.
...with their faux outrage at Linus' "tantrums." They're not, if you read context, but this isn't about context. This "controversy" is all about slamming Linus personally and Linux by implication by comparing his management style against a non-existent ponies-and-rainbows environment. And this isn't the first time it's happened here.
"App" is a generic self-descriptive term meaning application going back to the 70s. "Store" is a generic term going back centuries. The two together are also generic and self-descriptive.
You can't have a self-descriptive genericism as a trademark and get away with it if someone has the balls to try to take it away from you.
Microsoft almost lost their trademark to Windows because of this (and handed a pile of money to Linspire to shut up about it).
Your second case assumes altruism on the part of Sony.
This is Sony we're talking about. The same company that removed the *option* to run a different OS from the PS3. The same company that put a rootkit on their CDs.
You got modded informative. There should be a "delusional" mod.
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kms long mass driver up the side of a mountain also can't be aimed.
It's like OMS engines never existed.
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The problem with UAC is that it is highly obnoxious and intrusive.
No, it's not a problem. It's the entire point of UAC - to be obnoxious. It's there to generate bad feedback to devs who abuse root/admin privs. This is because Windows many devs "grew up" with single user operating systems and then suddenly had a multiuser OS (XP and above are NT based as opposed to 9x) and still insisted that the person behind the keyboard somehow always owns the computer.
It's a club to hit dumb Windows devs with. Once someone explained this to me, it suddenly made sense. Now I'm explaining it to you.
I have a LAN at home
Good for you. But you own the LAN. There are people on LANs that don't own the LAN (like, at work) and should never have admin access. And I would argue that there are dumbasses who should never have admin on their own equipment and should pay someone to admin their stuff. I have a friend who does exactly that for his entire extended family as a side project.
Root/admin access should be available to everyone who wants
Down this path lies madness.
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This.
Just like Linus' justifiable rant about having to be root in SuSE to set up a printer.
There are legitimate reasons why an end user should need Root/Administrator, but they should be as few as possible. Microsoft has seen the light and has tried to beat developers over the head with UAC to make them see the light. (a game needing admin to run? seriously?)
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Why the hell did this get modded insightful?
Because he's right. It's what the law has done to the USPS. The part he left out is the USPS can't arbitrarily raise rates to meet the goal of the law. Indeed, the USPS is not allowed to make a profit - i.e., it must be revenue neutral. So it can't sock away money to meet the law.
What's happened is disgusting.
It's all about "starve the beast" - cripple a federal agency by choking off its revenue, watching it fail, and then pointing at the failed agency as if it was badly run before it was fucked with to justify the meme and libertarian fantasy that "all government is bad so let's kill it."
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how each additional technological dependency reduces our humanity and severs our rich connections to each other
And then you read "Life On The Screen" by Sherry Turkle, written about the same time, which says just the opposite.
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Do you realize that the chart shows how Nokia fucked itself up before Windows Phone was a thing?
Can you read a chart that shows that the Microsoft/Nokia partnership didn't friggin help at all?
4 bucks a share and circling the drain.
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Microsoft OS: 90 bucks or whatever they're charging
Smaller ecosystem for apps
Compared to:
Larger ecosystem by orders of magnitude
An OS that doesn't cost a dime (unmodded)
Going with Microsoft on this is corporate suicide and the stock price chart shows it.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NOK+Basic+Chart&t=5y
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/06/the-final-reckoning-of-burning-platforms-memo-damaged-nokia-by-wiping-out-13b-in-revenues-and-destro.html
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Do you need to earn "Crime pays" kind of money to fund college funds for 4 children in America?
Yes. It's why there is a TRILLION dollars in student debt.
http://www.asa.org/policy/resources/stats/
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All of my passwords look like that. Randomly generated with special characters. Typically 25 chars long.
They are in a password manager. I don't have to remember them at all. It's easier than having passwords I can remember but are easier to guess/can be found by rainbow table.
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What are some strategies for illuminating what we need to without casting excess light everywhere and inadvertently blinding our neighbors or keeping them awake?"
Last I looked, they made these things called motion-sensor triggered lights as an off-the-shelf item. They only go on when you're opening your front door, for example.
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Illegal, no?
Not if it's in a proper landfill capped with concrete.
Surface RT: Apple /// Electric Boogaloo.
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I forgot my reference.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/thimerosal_faqs.html
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> But I'm against unnecessary use of mercury. Even if there's no risk to humans whatsoever,
Yet you rant on and on about thimerosol even though it's been phased out of many vaccines.
You know who rants about thimerosol? The anti-vaccine nutters like "Doctor" Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy.
Here are some actual facts gleaned from a CDC FAQ.
So like, whatever, man, you're a nut and impervious to actual facts.
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> I want you to not be a disingenuous douchebag,
I have to chime in here and say that he's not the one who's the douchebag.
You. Are.
You are an anti-vaxxer nutjob.
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>but the better ones are about the story (ie, Lord of the Rings/Hobbit/etc).
You mean a sleep-inducing walk, talk, walk some more, talk, walk some more, talk, walk even more, talk more movie?
>much more to the effects
There was supposed to be a Star Trek reboot movie, but it really should have been called Lens Flare.
Actual good movies out of Hollywood are few and far between. Sturgeon's Law applies. Sometimes the reviews are much more entertaining than the movies themselves.
Like the reviews of the "new" Star Wars movies.
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/
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It's like people are rediscovering that you can make a battery out of any random electrolyte and two dissimilar metals to get grants.
Who *didn't* make a battery out of a potato or lemon as a kid, or at least didn't see it demonstrated in 4'th grade?
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>a foundational document which is immutable.
According to Jefferson, it never was immutable.
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>Although I dislike you because you're a inflexible, closed-minded zealot, you do have a point.
I am rabidly anti-stupid, so if this makes me an inflexible curmudgeon, then so be it. This "Linus is rude" stuff that crops up from time to time reeks of stupid.
Somehow Theo gets a pass on being rude. Double standards, anyone?
>Windows 8 nonsense
I've seen this myself in various areas, even 4chan /g/. If you don't like Metro, or whatever they're calling it these days, you are incapable of change or just plain stupid. Or something. How people think this convinces people with criticisms of 8 to like 8 baffles me.
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...with their faux outrage at Linus' "tantrums." They're not, if you read context, but this isn't about context. This "controversy" is all about slamming Linus personally and Linux by implication by comparing his management style against a non-existent ponies-and-rainbows environment. And this isn't the first time it's happened here.
Such bullshit.
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I think I couldn't sum up any better myself why I fear getting into OSS.
Your problem is thinking that this any different in a closed software shop or any other workplace where work is actually being done.
Good luck with that thin skin.
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There are reasons why Florida has its own tag on Fark.
This is one of them.
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"App" is a generic self-descriptive term meaning application going back to the 70s. "Store" is a generic term going back centuries. The two together are also generic and self-descriptive.
You can't have a self-descriptive genericism as a trademark and get away with it if someone has the balls to try to take it away from you.
Microsoft almost lost their trademark to Windows because of this (and handed a pile of money to Linspire to shut up about it).
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It's just like the good old days with DEC and the Connector Conspiracy!
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Your second case assumes altruism on the part of Sony.
This is Sony we're talking about. The same company that removed the *option* to run a different OS from the PS3. The same company that put a rootkit on their CDs.
You got modded informative. There should be a "delusional" mod.
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This will also probably also be good for FreeBSD in terms of its codebase as well. I expect Sony will probably be feeding back some patches.
This man is in denial.
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