My guess is that, by themselves, financial firms would trust those numbers for quite a while, even if they knew that about 5% were unreliable (see my previous argument). The idea of suing agencies would at that point probably be the only thing to stop them... if it could be accomplished. Remember, at that points, people have a few things going against them:
They are now guilty until proven innocent
The people who's scores are trashed and actually care about it are more likely to be poorer than average and will therefore have a harder time winning a legal battle
OTOH, with ID theft becoming more common, reporting agency will eventually be worthless since no one can depend on their reports anymore.
The problem is that, relative to the population, ID theft is very uncommon. So therefore, these numbers are accurate in the vast majority of cases, and when they are inaccurate, they indicate that someone is higher risk than they actually are. In other words, there is no increased risk by relying upon these numbers, and most of the time firms won't lose too much business by utilizing them.
Right. It's not worth it unless you can get two 20 year old bimbos! Well, the way I do the math, if you have a 40 year old wife, that equals two 20 year old bimbos...
I think the point is that he *can't* retire now and needs a job to live off of. So is it worth going through 10 years of a job he doesn't like so that he can retire sooner.
Throw in some clustering of resources there and I like it. Closest thing I saw to something like that was ClusterKnoppix. Though I never tried it out, the thought that you could start an entire cluster from a single CD is pretty cool. Take that and set up a system where the local clients cache the programs they get from the server, and it could work.
OK, I'd like to break this discussion down into two arguments.
Apple isn't green. Response: Ever hear of a granny smith?
Apple hurts the environment and contributes to green house gasses Didn't you take high school bio? God, it's so simple: trees use CO2. They're helping.
I don't know who this Steve Jobs is, but shut up Greenpeace! I like my apples the way they are!
I lost all respect for Greenpeace when they came out opposing nuclear power. My moment of truth with them was when I found out they were against pollution...
It takes a few seconds for the prompt to appear, and if I run a "dir" operation with both cmd.exe and PS in a directory with hundreds of files, cmd.exe will beat it in seconds.
I'm not running a slow machine(core duo 2, 1GB of RAM). Is there something that needs to be configured to make it suck less? Yeah, try this critical patch
Hi, this is the real world calling. We've been leaving messages for several years as Linux has failed to work on the desktop. We wanted to let you know that we've found the problem, and it's not going to be cheap to fix. Essentially, users want to be able to download and install software or install it from a CD and just have a binary work. "Package management" and dependency hell confuses them and reminds them of DLL's on Win95.
You're going to have to decide if you want every last thing to be GPL and zealously "free", or want it to be accepted by the masses. You will NOT get both.
Please explain to me why opening up Synaptic, typing in the name of the program you want, choosing "install" and clicking "apply" is harder than downloading "myprogram.exe", double-clicking, clicking about three more next buttons and choosing finish. By the way, that's assuming the EXE doesn't demand you agree to licenses or choose where to install stuff.
I really do think the linux approach is more user-friendly.
I have to disagree with the whole premise here. I know that people always say that longer is better when it comes to hard drives, but I've never had any reliability problems with my smaller one. Not only that, but I've had very fast transfer rates under all sorts of strenuous loads.
Wait, we're talking about storage devices? Never mind...
If only there was a way to search for that number so many times it became one of the top searches. Then Google would be "publishing" that number when they publish their search statistics. I can see it now:
Uh? The Ubuntu-equivalent office automation suite is free for Windows too...
Why do many of those comparisions factor MS Office price?
That's a very good point. However, it seems that when people are on Windows, they demand use of M$ Office. Once that's not an option, they'll finally try the alternatives.
And just as a case study, someone I spoke to this morning who is not part of the "Slashdot community" was telling me how he won't be upgrading to Vista, and in fact purposely did not buy the new laptop he was planning on getting because it came with Vista. Why? Because his business's tech adviser (whatever that means) told him not to. So even if "Joe Average" doesn't hate Vista, the people he gets advice from do.
I used to use a sauna on a regular basis that had a temperature of ~250F, at least up near the ceiling where the thermometer was. Since the locker room it was in was uninsulated and frequently had windows left open, I could get >200-degree temperature swings in the winter coming out of it.
Because it is argued by those who perform the male circumcisions that the benefits for the child outweigh the detriments. I'm not aware of those recommending female circumcision making such claims.
My guess is that they titled it that way since it's built on Linux. (OK, they really titled it that way so everyone would read the article, but whatever.)
Doesn't the Cell perform some scientific calculations very well? Sounds like a motivation to me. Also, for those so inclined you could theoretically utilize the extra processing power of your PS3 from your Linux box through clustering.
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My guess is that, by themselves, financial firms would trust those numbers for quite a while, even if they knew that about 5% were unreliable (see my previous argument). The idea of suing agencies would at that point probably be the only thing to stop them... if it could be accomplished. Remember, at that points, people have a few things going against them:
Of course, that's where all of our packing material comes from.
The problem is that, relative to the population, ID theft is very uncommon. So therefore, these numbers are accurate in the vast majority of cases, and when they are inaccurate, they indicate that someone is higher risk than they actually are. In other words, there is no increased risk by relying upon these numbers, and most of the time firms won't lose too much business by utilizing them.
Right. It's not worth it unless you can get two 20 year old bimbos! Well, the way I do the math, if you have a 40 year old wife, that equals two 20 year old bimbos...
I think the point is that he *can't* retire now and needs a job to live off of. So is it worth going through 10 years of a job he doesn't like so that he can retire sooner.
I would imagine the same argument could be made for cubicles. You know, the claustrophobic kind...
Throw in some clustering of resources there and I like it. Closest thing I saw to something like that was ClusterKnoppix. Though I never tried it out, the thought that you could start an entire cluster from a single CD is pretty cool. Take that and set up a system where the local clients cache the programs they get from the server, and it could work.
Sounds to me like a peer-to-peer network. The RIAA will never let that happen.
You're right, Slashdot is biased against Microsoft. If you're looking for unbiased news stories, you've come to the wrong place.
OK, I'd like to break this discussion down into two arguments.
I don't know who this Steve Jobs is, but shut up Greenpeace! I like my apples the way they are!
It takes a few seconds for the prompt to appear, and if I run a "dir" operation with both cmd.exe and PS in a directory with hundreds of files, cmd.exe will beat it in seconds.
I'm not running a slow machine(core duo 2, 1GB of RAM). Is there something that needs to be configured to make it suck less? Yeah, try this critical patch
You're going to have to decide if you want every last thing to be GPL and zealously "free", or want it to be accepted by the masses. You will NOT get both.
Please explain to me why opening up Synaptic, typing in the name of the program you want, choosing "install" and clicking "apply" is harder than downloading "myprogram.exe", double-clicking, clicking about three more next buttons and choosing finish. By the way, that's assuming the EXE doesn't demand you agree to licenses or choose where to install stuff.
I really do think the linux approach is more user-friendly.
True. I bow my head in shame :(
I have to disagree with the whole premise here. I know that people always say that longer is better when it comes to hard drives, but I've never had any reliability problems with my smaller one. Not only that, but I've had very fast transfer rates under all sorts of strenuous loads.
Wait, we're talking about storage devices? Never mind...
That's a very good point. However, it seems that when people are on Windows, they demand use of M$ Office. Once that's not an option, they'll finally try the alternatives.
And just as a case study, someone I spoke to this morning who is not part of the "Slashdot community" was telling me how he won't be upgrading to Vista, and in fact purposely did not buy the new laptop he was planning on getting because it came with Vista. Why? Because his business's tech adviser (whatever that means) told him not to. So even if "Joe Average" doesn't hate Vista, the people he gets advice from do.
The dyslexic, agnostic insomniac stayed up all night wondering if there really was a dog...
2. Tax
3. Sell licenses to our corporate masters. 4. Profit!
I believe you're referring to using GCALDaemon. I followed the article at http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/14/15222 7 last night and things work pretty well.
Sounds like the making of a Darwin Award to me...
Because it is argued by those who perform the male circumcisions that the benefits for the child outweigh the detriments. I'm not aware of those recommending female circumcision making such claims.
My guess is that they titled it that way since it's built on Linux. (OK, they really titled it that way so everyone would read the article, but whatever.)
Doesn't the Cell perform some scientific calculations very well? Sounds like a motivation to me. Also, for those so inclined you could theoretically utilize the extra processing power of your PS3 from your Linux box through clustering.
Big thumbs up for Sony on this one.