This is much like the "linux uses a command line, so it's better. I don't care if you don't want to learn arcane syntax".
Windows is hard to configure correctly. If you don't know the magic registry line, or which utility buried in the system folders to use, there's no way in hell you can make the fine-grained adjustment not to automatically restart. On the other hand, turning off system updates entirely is easy. I'd count the clicks if I had a windows box available, but I guarantee it's not that many.
It's a nitpicky point, of course, but the whole point of many of the Asimov robot books was how poorly those laws held up in reality. I, for one, wouldn't trust any 3-laws robot for anything.
Employers live in a fantasy world where a clinical screening test can diagnose a "good" employee. I can guarantee the MMPI, MMPI-2, and other similar tests are used in the hiring processes of many large companies.
Deliberately mis-stating someone's position so you can ridicule it is a fool's tactic. There is a very clear and important difference between the 40 trillion dollars of money backed by only a bank's arrogance, and the estimated 1.4 trillion dollars of M1. Relying on the nominal fact that all money is fake to obscure the fact that some money is more fake than others is pure mumble-headed thinking.
I'm a fan of two different book series. I'm also a fan of my Sony Reader. One of the series provides reasonably-priced electronic copies of the novels. The other one doesn't. Guess which one I've stopped reading(and by extension purchasing) entirely? Amazon gets it. Google gets it. Even Sony gets it. I suggest you get it.
I keep seeing this line about inflation, and even my parents trot it out.
What none of you realize is that we're currently in an incredibly massive DEflationary period. The money supply is shrinking by FORTY TRILLION DOLLARS. That's the derivatives market dying. It was all imaginary money from the beginning, but the economy treats fake dollars just like real dollars. Sure, issuing more bonds as a license to print money will cause inflation, but adding a few billion dollars into the economy against FORTY TRILLION DOLLARS of deflation isn't going to send us into african-dictatorship-inflation territory.
In all fairness, model rocket engines (above the Estes A-D types) are seriously nothing to play around with. A poorly-made engine could easily explode, and licensing the larger ones in the interest of public safety isn't a bad thing. But still, I think the government has far bigger problems to deal with than mis-labeling a rocket propellant and ruining hobbies.
Without the email/craigslist/banking net users subsidizing our massive bandwidth usage, our costs would go up immensely. You think guaranteed-rate 6mb lines are cheap? I'd MUCH rather pay a pittance for my bandwidth, and get in line behind the non-geeks.
As an example: I recently installed a proxying squid/pfsense-based firewall for my parent's home. They have 5 people living there, and monthly traffic of about 8GB. My traffic for my desktop system alone for the last 2 weeks is 26GB. I'm extremely happy to have them and those like them subsidizing my costs so I get cheaper bandwidth.
You may very well be correct in that view. I'm personally of the opinion that there is far more illegal Oxycontin used than legitimately prescribed. That's still not at all a good reason to ban the drug entirely.
If you can't think of any legitimate uses of P2P, you're not thinking. You exclude linux distros for no valid reason, yet without bittorrent most of those distros would be dead in the water from hosting costs alone. Wikileaks doesn't have the bandwidth to host some of the massive file dumps that they've released, but torrents allow everyone to see the malfeasance of their elected officials. Warcraft is far from the only game that uses torrents to spread the load on patch days; can you imagine millions of gamers frantically downloading a single file from a single server at the exact same time? publicdomaintorrents hosts classic out-of-copyright movies as a historical archive, without torrents there's no possible way they could afford the bandwidth and remain free. Jamendo.com hosts CC-licensed music, again with bittorrent, making a free service possible.
Torrents ain't just for your warez and porn, actionbastard.
From the tone of the article, it doesn't sound at all like subby has the freedom to change the ToS or implement hard caps.
In my opinion, the best solution is to strongly throttle large bandwidth usages (P2P, FTP and NNTP streams, etc) during the periods of near-capacity, and automatically relax the filtering during off hours. A simple email or letter to your subscribers to announce the change, and everybody will be happy. As a bonus, the notification of the changes will help to encourage your subscribers not to attempt to circumvent your filters, especially given that it's so easy for any modern downloading client to schedule for off-peak hours.
I hold out a great deal of faith that we will discover something fundamental about the universe just as simplistically beautiful as Euler's identity. Strings and 10 dimensions really does seem messy and inelegant, I too want there to be a "better" model.
So... You'll be marching in the streets to arrest, jail, and ruin the lives of sleepy drivers and cellphone users now? Sponsored any adverts calling people with backseat drivers murderers recently? Or, as I rather suspect, are you not even bothering with any attempt to be consistent and non-hypocritical?
No, because there's a world of difference between having a few drinks, and driving drunk. Someone who's drank a responsible amount and then drove will have the same level of impairment as someone driving with a cellphone, OR someone who's overtired, OR someone chatting with their friend in the passenger seat.
Don't mind the inevitable AC trashing you'll get for that remark. MADD has pretty well succeeded in brainwashing the common sense out of an entire generation.
And those are just the RECENT ones. The only way your statement holds water is if you say "well, Vista had 130 security patches in the first month, missing 20 more exploits is almost nothing!"
I was going to post almost exactly this. If every directory your users can write to is mounted as noexec, and you don't do something boneheaded like giving them sudo access, they will be completely unable to install software. There'll be extra traps, like disabling flash to prevent most of the browser-based time wasters, but those can be managed reactively, and aren't nearly as likely to require a system re-image. Transparent automatic proxies are negligibly simple to implement, for instance a pfSense box and a $300 PC. As a bonus, you can easily add web filtering and block things like Slashdot at work. As for printers, Avahi and cups setup can easily make finding and using printers secure and idiot-proof. A local.deb or.rpm archive, and making your desktops automatically check for updates at, say, 2am, will alleviate the rest of your problems. It's also quite easy to provide a virtual "our_enterprise" package that you can have depend on any local fixes or changes for your office.
The answers to subby's question are almost laughably simple.
If you've interacted with a statistically relevant slice of American society, you should easily accept that at least 1 in 2 Americans are drooling morons. For Christ's sake, we have *cooking directions* on POPTARTS. We have chain saws with explicit warning labels to keep you from touching the flying blades with your fingers. My tractor's digging bit has a giant warning label depicting someone getting wrapped around the screw, and people STILL get killed by the damn things. At hospitals, motorcycle riders are referred to only as organ donors. How many people have fallen into a wood chipper, or tried to clean an obstruction while the thing was on and gotten eaten? I can't remember the last time I've gone a month without hearing of somebody dying due to their own stupidity. Americans steal high-voltage power lines for the copper, cut through tree limbs above themselves, and screw anything that moves, without protection.
Scientology and Mormonism: One of these cults is based on a fantastical story which is contradicted by every known scientific fact, and which was written by a drug-addled egotist womanizer. The other is Scientology.
And to any employer that doesn't like this stance; well, I don't want to work for anyone asinine enough to disagree with me.
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This is much like the "linux uses a command line, so it's better. I don't care if you don't want to learn arcane syntax".
Windows is hard to configure correctly. If you don't know the magic registry line, or which utility buried in the system folders to use, there's no way in hell you can make the fine-grained adjustment not to automatically restart. On the other hand, turning off system updates entirely is easy. I'd count the clicks if I had a windows box available, but I guarantee it's not that many.
You've misread the summary. Specifically, it is exactly the opposite of what you've surmised.
It's a nitpicky point, of course, but the whole point of many of the Asimov robot books was how poorly those laws held up in reality. I, for one, wouldn't trust any 3-laws robot for anything.
Employers live in a fantasy world where a clinical screening test can diagnose a "good" employee. I can guarantee the MMPI, MMPI-2, and other similar tests are used in the hiring processes of many large companies.
The only drinking problem there is, is when you run out of things to drink.
Deliberately mis-stating someone's position so you can ridicule it is a fool's tactic. There is a very clear and important difference between the 40 trillion dollars of money backed by only a bank's arrogance, and the estimated 1.4 trillion dollars of M1. Relying on the nominal fact that all money is fake to obscure the fact that some money is more fake than others is pure mumble-headed thinking.
I'm a fan of two different book series. I'm also a fan of my Sony Reader. One of the series provides reasonably-priced electronic copies of the novels. The other one doesn't. Guess which one I've stopped reading(and by extension purchasing) entirely? Amazon gets it. Google gets it. Even Sony gets it. I suggest you get it.
I keep seeing this line about inflation, and even my parents trot it out.
What none of you realize is that we're currently in an incredibly massive DEflationary period. The money supply is shrinking by FORTY TRILLION DOLLARS. That's the derivatives market dying. It was all imaginary money from the beginning, but the economy treats fake dollars just like real dollars. Sure, issuing more bonds as a license to print money will cause inflation, but adding a few billion dollars into the economy against FORTY TRILLION DOLLARS of deflation isn't going to send us into african-dictatorship-inflation territory.
Whoever gave the troll mod needs to have their sense of humor adjusted. That was at least modestly funny.
In all fairness, model rocket engines (above the Estes A-D types) are seriously nothing to play around with. A poorly-made engine could easily explode, and licensing the larger ones in the interest of public safety isn't a bad thing. But still, I think the government has far bigger problems to deal with than mis-labeling a rocket propellant and ruining hobbies.
Without the email/craigslist/banking net users subsidizing our massive bandwidth usage, our costs would go up immensely. You think guaranteed-rate 6mb lines are cheap? I'd MUCH rather pay a pittance for my bandwidth, and get in line behind the non-geeks.
As an example: I recently installed a proxying squid/pfsense-based firewall for my parent's home. They have 5 people living there, and monthly traffic of about 8GB. My traffic for my desktop system alone for the last 2 weeks is 26GB. I'm extremely happy to have them and those like them subsidizing my costs so I get cheaper bandwidth.
You may very well be correct in that view.
I'm personally of the opinion that there is far more illegal Oxycontin used than legitimately prescribed. That's still not at all a good reason to ban the drug entirely.
You're a troll, but I'll bite.
If you can't think of any legitimate uses of P2P, you're not thinking. You exclude linux distros for no valid reason, yet without bittorrent most of those distros would be dead in the water from hosting costs alone. Wikileaks doesn't have the bandwidth to host some of the massive file dumps that they've released, but torrents allow everyone to see the malfeasance of their elected officials. Warcraft is far from the only game that uses torrents to spread the load on patch days; can you imagine millions of gamers frantically downloading a single file from a single server at the exact same time? publicdomaintorrents hosts classic out-of-copyright movies as a historical archive, without torrents there's no possible way they could afford the bandwidth and remain free. Jamendo.com hosts CC-licensed music, again with bittorrent, making a free service possible.
Torrents ain't just for your warez and porn, actionbastard.
From the tone of the article, it doesn't sound at all like subby has the freedom to change the ToS or implement hard caps.
In my opinion, the best solution is to strongly throttle large bandwidth usages (P2P, FTP and NNTP streams, etc) during the periods of near-capacity, and automatically relax the filtering during off hours. A simple email or letter to your subscribers to announce the change, and everybody will be happy. As a bonus, the notification of the changes will help to encourage your subscribers not to attempt to circumvent your filters, especially given that it's so easy for any modern downloading client to schedule for off-peak hours.
I hold out a great deal of faith that we will discover something fundamental about the universe just as simplistically beautiful as Euler's identity. Strings and 10 dimensions really does seem messy and inelegant, I too want there to be a "better" model.
So...
You'll be marching in the streets to arrest, jail, and ruin the lives of sleepy drivers and cellphone users now? Sponsored any adverts calling people with backseat drivers murderers recently? Or, as I rather suspect, are you not even bothering with any attempt to be consistent and non-hypocritical?
No, because there's a world of difference between having a few drinks, and driving drunk. Someone who's drank a responsible amount and then drove will have the same level of impairment as someone driving with a cellphone, OR someone who's overtired, OR someone chatting with their friend in the passenger seat.
Learn to perspective.
Don't mind the inevitable AC trashing you'll get for that remark. MADD has pretty well succeeded in brainwashing the common sense out of an entire generation.
BAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAA*choke*
operagost, what have you been smoking?
Microsoft won't fix week-old vulnerability already being exploited
Microsoft prepares an emergency fix for a months-old data-stealing hole in IE
Microsoft launched Vista with 30 unpatched vulnerabilities
And those are just the RECENT ones. The only way your statement holds water is if you say "well, Vista had 130 security patches in the first month, missing 20 more exploits is almost nothing!"
Software resellers are moving headlong to Free Software? What is their business model supposed to be?
* Selling windows or office licenses at a loss
* Selling OpenOffice at any price
Which one actually has a chance to make money for your company? Take a few minutes to think it over, and ask an adult if you can't figure it out.
I was going to post almost exactly this. .deb or .rpm archive, and making your desktops automatically check for updates at, say, 2am, will alleviate the rest of your problems. It's also quite easy to provide a virtual "our_enterprise" package that you can have depend on any local fixes or changes for your office.
If every directory your users can write to is mounted as noexec, and you don't do something boneheaded like giving them sudo access, they will be completely unable to install software. There'll be extra traps, like disabling flash to prevent most of the browser-based time wasters, but those can be managed reactively, and aren't nearly as likely to require a system re-image.
Transparent automatic proxies are negligibly simple to implement, for instance a pfSense box and a $300 PC. As a bonus, you can easily add web filtering and block things like Slashdot at work. As for printers, Avahi and cups setup can easily make finding and using printers secure and idiot-proof.
A local
The answers to subby's question are almost laughably simple.
If you've interacted with a statistically relevant slice of American society, you should easily accept that at least 1 in 2 Americans are drooling morons. For Christ's sake, we have *cooking directions* on POPTARTS. We have chain saws with explicit warning labels to keep you from touching the flying blades with your fingers. My tractor's digging bit has a giant warning label depicting someone getting wrapped around the screw, and people STILL get killed by the damn things. At hospitals, motorcycle riders are referred to only as organ donors. How many people have fallen into a wood chipper, or tried to clean an obstruction while the thing was on and gotten eaten? I can't remember the last time I've gone a month without hearing of somebody dying due to their own stupidity. Americans steal high-voltage power lines for the copper, cut through tree limbs above themselves, and screw anything that moves, without protection.
53% is incredibly generous.
Is Venture a reference to the Sci-Fi mag of the same name?
Hardly. The pollster is a fan of Hank and Dean.
Scientology and Mormonism:
One of these cults is based on a fantastical story which is contradicted by every known scientific fact, and which was written by a drug-addled egotist womanizer. The other is Scientology.
And to any employer that doesn't like this stance; well, I don't want to work for anyone asinine enough to disagree with me.
one of the worst configuration file formats ever
Wrong.
I hold up for example: XML, the Windows Registry, and sendmail.cf