A flaw in the browser, then DNS poisoning? People are so paranoid...
Most losses are due to paypall.com and ebay.spof.uk. What people need is not "up-to-date useless software that only serve to slow the computer down more than Windows does, they need BRAINS.
Or be forcibly moved to using Hackintoshes, that the bank understands that it's the customers fault if thy get scammed - by not checking the address bar. And believing anything they receive by e-mail.
Anyone with two working neurons KNOWS that cables are "just there" and cost ZERTO beyond basic maintenance. Telcos operators are the third most evil class of companies in the world, just after weapons sellers and Food industry.
They provide a necessary service, a renewable commodity that's basically FREE after the up-front cost. There is almost no cost for maintenance.
Let them die. We don't need evil, greedy coprophages to bleed us for connectivity. If only wireless was a good idea... but cables are CHEAP, damn CHEAP. And once they're laid, they're free. Free. Free to use. It is a renewable, no, unlimited resource.
BANDWIDTH has to be paid for, ONCE. TRAFFIC is FREE.
Well, that's "Maximizing Shareholder Value" for you.
It's only logical.
Now go watch DJ Tiesto's DVD, he's only using CD-Rs. Has he paid for "shifting" them? NO. No one will ever do that. Or maybe a couple of Darwin Awards.
Is there a law that says I have to pay for shifting formats? Or is it a unenforceable private law, like "this DVD only plays in Europe", that everyone and their dog ignores?
Rewrite copyright law so that it's per user... ridiculous. Deregulate copy rights and that'll be it.
They're in the business of producing and selling software, not tricking people into given them rights to sell stock photography. They won't change it back because it'd be a pretty obviously dumb business move by Adobe.
Fact is, they *are* in the business of selling stock photos.
Not that anyone should be concerned... They'll be sued by the first guy who notices they're selling his works anyway, if they ever do. What happens next depends on the result of the lawsuit.
And every publicly owned company is trying to screw everyone over so as to maximize shareholder value. Have you taken a look at Google recently?
Back to Adobe. What will happen when someone uses their software to work on child pron, and it's hosted on their servers? Who gets the blame? The company that "owns" the copyright, or the creator? They'd be in deep, deep shit : "Yes, the copyright is ours -as a payment for our SaaS. Yes, we host it so we can steal creators' works : those creators who use our web-based software instead of pirating Photoshop like everyone else does. So, we own it, we host it, we can sell it, but if it's illegal it's Not Our Fault."
Oh the laughter. Go plead Common Carrier for absolution then. BWAHAHAHA. "We steal our customer's works, but we're SO not responsible for the content." Yeah, right.
I can't wait to see that happen, actually. And I'll watch Groklaw and/. for news, between sessions of pirated Photoshop on my Hackintosh. (Software wants to be beer.)
An other web browser that no one willl use, for the reasons you mention.
Like it's that hard to securely receive and render webpages. It's a trivial task. Anyone who says the contrary should get a reality check. It's very possible to program without bugs. That's what correctness tests are for. An if your tolkit sucks so much it has security holes, code your own lib from scratch.
$150? In what world? They're $599 on the Apple site. Lucky bastards. They're $925.37 here in Belgium. (Will someone tell Apple to reduce the price before I order a container of Macs at US retail price and sell them on eBay.be for cheaper than they do?)
Cool! Now THAT's why there is ONE Desktop Unix where printing is painless. As anyone knows, who's ever tried to use CUPS' web interface to do anything...
Or plant those we already have to produce seeds. 80%? That'"s one strain in five that's reasistant. Just grow them.
Why is this news? "Big Seed decided that they'll sell seeds that are gonna get killed anyway, just to see people die". Yeah, that's sensible business for you.
The Apple iPhone would get 80% market share in a day if Apple sold it on the open market and tell the telcos "fuck you, racketeers, we (Apple) SELL DEVICES."
But they want thir $200. Fuck them, then. I'll keep my crap phone and my crap mp3 player as long as I can't buy overpriced Apple stuff. (Ayone can find them "fallen off the truck?")
The Eee sucks big time. Unusable piece of crap has less than 1024 px horizontal res == not suitable for web surfing.
Gimme any of those VAIOs with 1280x600 or such for $3000, at least it's worth SOMEthing. (Not at that tortured extortion price, of course, but they're usable.)
And the other half of the sum is Project Gutenberg, Googles idea to scan every book and make them searchable, mazn and the Long Tail, "blogs" and sites with articles such as this (go read it, it will change your mind forever), torrent sitrs where users post cinematic rarities that people loved and lost, or yearn to discover. And that's just off the top of my stoned and drunk head.
If everyone... Everyone has Free access to that, and Free publishing, then the world is heading towards interesting times.
Apple is deficient here - no doubt about it. If you want Mom & Pop to click "pay now", you don't expect 'em to be able to parse "http://www.barclays.validation.co.uk". You don't have to be an "idiot" to fall for this - just outside your area of expertise.
No, you have to be an idiot. This is not a "Pay Now", it's an email scam. And even then, if you see a "Pay Now" in an email, you'd better check the address bar, since the link address does not appear in email clients. If you don't check, you're not expert enough to use the computer for ordering stuff online, so you're gonna learn the hard way. And you'll be refunded ayway, because it's fraud. And if th BCC decides you're too stupid to deserve a refund, since you're too stupid to check the address bar, then the fraudster can only max out your card, and that's what, now, $-3,000? If you can aford a CC, then you have a job, so you can repay that eventually. Since those scams are automated, I suppose they try to get a sum they can reasonably expect to get on the first try, like $100 to $1000.
And it will suck forevermore. It's integrated graphics, thus it shares RAM with the CPU. Ergo, it will suck forever.
As long as ATI makes real graphics cards, they will be in the competition for perf. As soon as they stop, they're leaving nVidia with the monopoly on real good GPUs.
My point was more that Fortune 500 companies could just "not put ads" on their sites, it's not like they're not rich enough to publish whatever content on the 'Net for what they see as chump change.
Unless they're online ads, but are any of those in Fortune 500?
And, how are those sites "compromised" to serve malware? With seven-figures security people, they'd write a Trusted system, encrypted end-to-end with math proofs that it Just Can't be hacked, ever, and do that in a year.
Use Adblock not to download the malware-pushing banners. Don't download code. Music, videos, etc. OK, but NOT code. Unless you KNOW it's safe. And finally : use a Macintosh or Hackintosh. There's no drive-by on OSX. And the USB-sticks? My friends CLEAN theirs on my macs, lol.
Fortune500 sites pushing malware? That's why you Americans have "class action lawsuits" and "ambulance-chasing lawyers". 1+1+1=... profit.
My case is a big, closed one. Coolermaster Stacker STC-01, black. No fuckin'neons, it's a machine I built to use, not show off. Using watercooling, of course - I would never trust a dual-four-cores to those toy copper fans. And I didn't get to negotiate the license agreement. It's not an agreement. I bought Loepard the day it went on sale, upgraded the Macs and installed in on the GUID disk of my Hackintosh.
It's my job to build computers. And when I see a $3200 computer that's already obsolete (as in nV 7300 GT, DDR2@667MHz, in 2008), I laugh all the harder when it's a Mac. Like when I see an idiot order the most expensive wine without even looking at the year, because I'm a wine geek too.
Can YOU tell the difference between my state-of-the-art computer running OSX, and the overpriced obsolete Mac? Not without looking at the case. Not even by listing the components.
I for one need CMYK, indeed. I'm doing package designs, and I'd better be very, very sure the color that will be printed will look right, next to the pantone I have to use for brand recognition.
So, no, this is not nitpicking. Some of us do have a use for Just That;-)
Now I'm on Macintosh/Hackintosh, I can use real software. Like Photoshop and MS Office. (I suck too much at games to ever enjoy them.)
Why not GIMP and OpenOffice? Because they both suck. GIMP is unusable and lacks major features. (No CMYK? WTF?) And OpenOffice takes an hour to load.
And don't come talking to me of gaming on Linux. When Wine works right out of the box, yes. Maybe. Or in the alternate reality where a virtual PC (vmware etc) has hardware 3D. (This necessitates to download and half-install a Windows anyway, though.)
I'll keep OSX on my Apple and -compatibles, thanks. (Hint : Intel chipset + Intel CPU + nVidia GPU = Mac)
No package dependency hell, no half-baked "will finish between my studies and my first job" software, no "we don't ship the settings for the mobos sensors even though we do have them", no "these drivers support half a thousand obsolete webcams that no one makes anymore", no "this has been compiled with GCC2.95 and an alternative libc", no "recompile your kernel without support for your TV tuner if you want to ever use the controller card that interfaces to the HDs you bought to record TV".
When Linux is INTEGRATED and works RIGHT, NOW, as in OUT-OF-THE-FUCKING-BOX, then I'll use it again. If it has the software I need to GET WORK DONE : Adobe Suite and MS Office.
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A flaw in the browser, then DNS poisoning? People are so paranoid...
Most losses are due to paypall.com and ebay.spof.uk. What people need is not "up-to-date useless software that only serve to slow the computer down more than Windows does, they need BRAINS.
Or be forcibly moved to using Hackintoshes, that the bank understands that it's the customers fault if thy get scammed - by not checking the address bar. And believing anything they receive by e-mail.
Anyone with two working neurons KNOWS that cables are "just there" and cost ZERTO beyond basic maintenance. Telcos operators are the third most evil class of companies in the world, just after weapons sellers and Food industry.
They provide a necessary service, a renewable commodity that's basically FREE after the up-front cost. There is almost no cost for maintenance.
Let them die. We don't need evil, greedy coprophages to bleed us for connectivity. If only wireless was a good idea... but cables are CHEAP, damn CHEAP. And once they're laid, they're free. Free. Free to use. It is a renewable, no, unlimited resource.
BANDWIDTH has to be paid for, ONCE. TRAFFIC is FREE.
Well, that's "Maximizing Shareholder Value" for you.
It's only logical.
Now go watch DJ Tiesto's DVD, he's only using CD-Rs. Has he paid for "shifting" them? NO. No one will ever do that. Or maybe a couple of Darwin Awards.
Is there a law that says I have to pay for shifting formats? Or is it a unenforceable private law, like "this DVD only plays in Europe", that everyone and their dog ignores?
Rewrite copyright law so that it's per user... ridiculous. Deregulate copy rights and that'll be it.
Fact is, they *are* in the business of selling stock photos.
Not that anyone should be concerned
And every publicly owned company is trying to screw everyone over so as to maximize shareholder value. Have you taken a look at Google recently?
Back to Adobe. What will happen when someone uses their software to work on child pron, and it's hosted on their servers? Who gets the blame? The company that "owns" the copyright, or the creator? They'd be in deep, deep shit : "Yes, the copyright is ours -as a payment for our SaaS. Yes, we host it so we can steal creators' works : those creators who use our web-based software instead of pirating Photoshop like everyone else does. So, we own it, we host it, we can sell it, but if it's illegal it's Not Our Fault."
Oh the laughter. Go plead Common Carrier for absolution then. BWAHAHAHA. "We steal our customer's works, but we're SO not responsible for the content." Yeah, right.
I can't wait to see that happen, actually. And I'll watch Groklaw and
(Software wants to be beer.)
You're an idiot. Trolls can kill whole sites.
Yeah, so IHBT, but this will be archived. I'm not playing last word.
An other web browser that no one willl use, for the reasons you mention.
Like it's that hard to securely receive and render webpages. It's a trivial task. Anyone who says the contrary should get a reality check. It's very possible to program without bugs. That's what correctness tests are for. An if your tolkit sucks so much it has security holes, code your own lib from scratch.
$150? In what world? They're $599 on the Apple site. Lucky bastards. They're $925.37 here in Belgium. (Will someone tell Apple to reduce the price before I order a container of Macs at US retail price and sell them on eBay.be for cheaper than they do?)
Cool! Now THAT's why there is ONE Desktop Unix where printing is painless. As anyone knows, who's ever tried to use CUPS' web interface to do anything...
Lol. Go read up how to install OSX on any PC with an Intel cpu and nVidia gpu.
Or plant those we already have to produce seeds. 80%? That'"s one strain in five that's reasistant. Just grow them.
Why is this news? "Big Seed decided that they'll sell seeds that are gonna get killed anyway, just to see people die". Yeah, that's sensible business for you.
Replying to an idiot. OK, I can threadjack.
The Apple iPhone would get 80% market share in a day if Apple sold it on the open market and tell the telcos "fuck you, racketeers, we (Apple) SELL DEVICES."
But they want thir $200. Fuck them, then. I'll keep my crap phone and my crap mp3 player as long as I can't buy overpriced Apple stuff. (Ayone can find them "fallen off the truck?")
One of the formulations says "Twice the computing power for the same price every 18 months".
You fail it.
The Eee sucks big time. Unusable piece of crap has less than 1024 px horizontal res == not suitable for web surfing.
Gimme any of those VAIOs with 1280x600 or such for $3000, at least it's worth SOMEthing. (Not at that tortured extortion price, of course, but they're usable.)
And the other half of the sum is Project Gutenberg, Googles idea to scan every book and make them searchable, mazn and the Long Tail, "blogs" and sites with articles such as this (go read it, it will change your mind forever), torrent sitrs where users post cinematic rarities that people loved and lost, or yearn to discover. And that's just off the top of my stoned and drunk head.
If everyone... Everyone has Free access to that, and Free publishing, then the world is heading towards interesting times.
No, it's system RAM. From TFA.
No, you have to be an idiot. This is not a "Pay Now", it's an email scam. And even then, if you see a "Pay Now" in an email, you'd better check the address bar, since the link address does not appear in email clients. If you don't check, you're not expert enough to use the computer for ordering stuff online, so you're gonna learn the hard way. And you'll be refunded ayway, because it's fraud. And if th BCC decides you're too stupid to deserve a refund, since you're too stupid to check the address bar, then the fraudster can only max out your card, and that's what, now, $-3,000? If you can aford a CC, then you have a job, so you can repay that eventually. Since those scams are automated, I suppose they try to get a sum they can reasonably expect to get on the first try, like $100 to $1000.
Humm, the OLPC is the one device to save the world, the direct contrary to everything MS is or does.
Picture this. One Laptop Per Child. Accessing the Open Internet. For Free.
Every child in the world, equipped with a device that connects him to the whole of human knowledge and to everyone they can meet on- or off-line.
Borders and frontiers will disappear. The Market will be Free. Governments will become extinct, replaced by transparent, user-run communities.
Things wil happen to be sold for their real worth : their marginal production value. Intellectual property will disappear, too.
We're heading towards interesting times.
And it will suck forevermore. It's integrated graphics, thus it shares RAM with the CPU. Ergo, it will suck forever.
As long as ATI makes real graphics cards, they will be in the competition for perf. As soon as they stop, they're leaving nVidia with the monopoly on real good GPUs.
Yeah. Download Leopad and install it.
Oh, wait, your CPU or GPU is AMD or ATI? Sorry, you should have bought real hardware, like Apple does for building Macs.
My point was more that Fortune 500 companies could just "not put ads" on their sites, it's not like they're not rich enough to publish whatever content on the 'Net for what they see as chump change.
Unless they're online ads, but are any of those in Fortune 500?
And, how are those sites "compromised" to serve malware? With seven-figures security people, they'd write a Trusted system, encrypted end-to-end with math proofs that it Just Can't be hacked, ever, and do that in a year.
Use Adblock not to download the malware-pushing banners.
... profit.
Don't download code. Music, videos, etc. OK, but NOT code. Unless you KNOW it's safe.
And finally : use a Macintosh or Hackintosh. There's no drive-by on OSX. And the USB-sticks? My friends CLEAN theirs on my macs, lol.
Fortune500 sites pushing malware? That's why you Americans have "class action lawsuits" and "ambulance-chasing lawyers". 1+1+1=
My case is a big, closed one. Coolermaster Stacker STC-01, black. No fuckin'neons, it's a machine I built to use, not show off. Using watercooling, of course - I would never trust a dual-four-cores to those toy copper fans.
And I didn't get to negotiate the license agreement. It's not an agreement. I bought Loepard the day it went on sale, upgraded the Macs and installed in on the GUID disk of my Hackintosh.
It's my job to build computers. And when I see a $3200 computer that's already obsolete (as in nV 7300 GT, DDR2@667MHz, in 2008), I laugh all the harder when it's a Mac. Like when I see an idiot order the most expensive wine without even looking at the year, because I'm a wine geek too.
Can YOU tell the difference between my state-of-the-art computer running OSX, and the overpriced obsolete Mac? Not without looking at the case. Not even by listing the components.
Thus, you fail it.
About TFS... (didn't bother to read TFA, this being /.)
... profit.
WTF? Use Adblock not to download the malware-pushing banners.
Don't download code. Music, videos, etc. OK, but NOT code. Unless you KNOW it's safe.
And finally : use a Macintosh or Hackintosh. There's no malware on OSX.
It's really laughable. Fortune500 sites pushing malware? That's why you Americans have "class action lawsuits" and "ambulance-chasing lawyers". 1+1+1=
I for one need CMYK, indeed. I'm doing package designs, and I'd better be very, very sure the color that will be printed will look right, next to the pantone I have to use for brand recognition.
;-)
So, no, this is not nitpicking. Some of us do have a use for Just That
The reasons why Linux is no use :
1/ No Photoshop
2/ No GAMES
3/ No MS Office
Now I'm on Macintosh/Hackintosh, I can use real software. Like Photoshop and MS Office. (I suck too much at games to ever enjoy them.)
Why not GIMP and OpenOffice?
Because they both suck. GIMP is unusable and lacks major features. (No CMYK? WTF?) And OpenOffice takes an hour to load.
And don't come talking to me of gaming on Linux. When Wine works right out of the box, yes. Maybe. Or in the alternate reality where a virtual PC (vmware etc) has hardware 3D. (This necessitates to download and half-install a Windows anyway, though.)
I'll keep OSX on my Apple and -compatibles, thanks. (Hint : Intel chipset + Intel CPU + nVidia GPU = Mac)
No package dependency hell, no half-baked "will finish between my studies and my first job" software, no "we don't ship the settings for the mobos sensors even though we do have them", no "these drivers support half a thousand obsolete webcams that no one makes anymore", no "this has been compiled with GCC2.95 and an alternative libc", no "recompile your kernel without support for your TV tuner if you want to ever use the controller card that interfaces to the HDs you bought to record TV".
When Linux is INTEGRATED and works RIGHT, NOW, as in OUT-OF-THE-FUCKING-BOX, then I'll use it again. If it has the software I need to GET WORK DONE : Adobe Suite and MS Office.