That sounds needlessly complex, perhaps a result from evolving archaic methods. Perhaps there is a business opportunity a la bicycle couriers, to pick up physical money in one bank and deliver it to the destination bank. Attach a name and number, and voila, bank transfer established.
That would work, of course, as long as banks do not overleverage their assets at all, i.e. if they actually serve as a place for storing valuables, and not as a place for making money. It may be a bit difficult to shift imaginary money around per courier.
While there is a charge for some bank transfers, most international e-banking transfers within the EU are charge-free. I have never had more than about a euro charge for a transfer outside the EU. If you get charged 20 dollars, talk to your bank, it seems to me they're the most likely culprit.
Ok, I'll have a stab at it, even though English is my second language too. I have heard, however, that people with English as a second language are actually capable of writing English better than Englishmen. On another note, it also does not help that whenever I see the words "Some say [...]", it is automatically vocalised in my head by Jeremy Clarkson.
Anywho, my rendition: "some say that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future, and that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of Walmart and the current political system in business. All we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence. Welcome to 2010."
Ubuntu is a step in the right direction, but I didn't manage to get productive on that platform for a variety of reasons, amongst which: the UI of the underlying programs do not match with the Ubuntu UI, their standard apps are not very good (i.e. I have to start VLC just to play an MP3), and it has a confusing layout. And every second it pops up with the update interface, which sucks away your time, and when it breaks, it stays broken (when it can't update one app, it crashed with me, and never was able to do _any_ update since it would always crash there). (and "Even wireless worked perfectly" is not supposed to be applause-worthy, but is supposed to be a given.)
That said, it's the best distro I have ever used.
Anyway, CUPS is only used on mac os X if native drivers are not available. Therefore, I can easily understand his printer issues.
Ok, here's another happy switcher from FreeBSD (2006):
> You did not have to tell us that, it is quite obvious from your post. So you have to be a linux sysadmin to run it? Talk about elitism.
>Maybe if you chose supported hardware you would not have this issue? So you have to buy new hardware to run Linux? I thought the idea was that it would run on and with everything..
>ALSA works fine for me out of the box I see. So because of that, parent's complaints are invalid? I see this attitude a little too often in the OSS community: "Works for me, I'm not going to spend one more second on this issue. You can write your own drivers, as I don't have any problems." Very antisocial, this behaviour.
>GNOME sucks, not Linux. KDE has gotten as bloated as Windows so it is starting to suck too. Fluxbox rules! Please reinstall linux to suit the newest window manager of the month! Feel free to relearn the locations of many menu items! One of the reasons I like LaTeX is because it has remained the same for an incredibly long time, no need to relearn anything. The Linux WM's are changing so often there's no keeping up. The OSX WM is somewhere in the middle.
>P-II 300 running Fluxbox on Ubuntu in my workshop. The result is sweet, sweet music while I work on my carpentry projects. Sorry to rain on your parade here, but cheap music in the shed has been possible since the invention of radios. Seriously, this argument makes you sound like 1989: "Dude, I can play music from my computer!"
>Can you even get OS-X to run on older hardware? I'll bet you need a CPU [...] Sorry, but you lost the bet. OSX (10.4, f.ex.) can easily run on a 300MHz G3. And it runs quite nicely as well! The newest OS runs on all intel-based machines, so that'd be every Mac from the last five years. Let me emphasise that: _EVERY_ Mac.
>How many interfaces does the Mac have? One? There are plenty for Linux, it is the user's choice as to what to run. Choice is good. Choice is good, except when they all suck. Granted, some suck less, but they all have their own drawbacks and limitations. Choosing one and sticking with it is never possible, as (as mentioned before) they continue to grow, become bloated, change their appearance and become obsolete faster than you can sneeze. One interface is sufficient if it can cater to all your needs and run everything using the same interface design.
>All my boxes have a feel that is exactly right for me, because I know how to set them up that way. So a sysadmin level of expertise is required to set up a box to have the right feel. I'm sorry, you're not strengthening you case (which is, I guess, that linux is better than OSX if you're a linux sysadmin.).
> don't like having to [...] That's perfectly fine. You like, or don't like, but don't push your likes and dislikes onto others. If, however, you find something that suits your likes, by all means, go for it. By the by, the true UNIX interface is the terminal. Which comes in exactly one UI: ASCII art.
>Just because you are a major FAIL when [...] Wow, so anyone who is not a Linux sysadmin is automatically rubbish at setting up Linux? I'll tell you something: my friends, who are undoubtedly infinitely more adept at unixes than you (I mean, who seriously uses "FAIL", except for the new generation?), also had troubles with Linux (and BSD). For example APM, sound cards and network interfaces. They helped me maintain my FBSD distro, and still could not get everything to work the way it's supposed to. I guess they are "FAIL" too. Or maybe I am FAIL. FAIL all the way, baby!
>I don't have to perform ANY hacks to get Linux to work on my PCs. Really? Wow. You didn't need to do _anything_ then? No driver installs, no kernel recompiles, no configuration edits? You're destroying your street cred here, bro.
>The procedures listed on that page ARE system administration tasks and relatively advanced ones at that. I'm sorry to inform you there's nothing tough in
>How do you educate people on computer security when they don't want to learn?
It's a good question. What I have done with my parents is to give them a Mac. There the "updates" show up every now and then and I've trained them to click on the "download and install" button, promising them that it doesn't break anything. All (apple) applications update through a single interface, simplifying matters greatly.
The alternative may be to require an "internet drivers license" (which they had in the Netherlands for a while, voluntarily), but that would restrict access and speech and thus be too obtrusive.
Option three is to accept things _as is_ for home users, but provide mandatory instruction courses at work. For everyone. One of my pet peeves is employee carelessness with data, they never back up until it is too late. IMO this is to be considered as data loss due to carelessness and this could be considered as a reason for firing employees.
I'm also thinking the iPad may actually provide a solution: a closed platform on which only _allowed_ applications can be run. As a user this sucks, but from an IT perspective I can understand it.
But the study was on whether the implementation of other browsers beside IE would increase security. If the user is the weakest link, the choice of browser would not affect the level of security much. The user should be just as big a part of the security assessment as anything else, since testing the browser without the user will not give you a real-world risk level.
I have never seen anyone use a browser for IRC, so perhaps the impact of the bug is not very heavy.. But then again, I don't know what the current youth is into.
I have no evidence for believing otherwise. OTOH, I do know there are (very) stupid people working in the government of the Netherlands, or so my friend working there indicates. IT savvy people perhaps don't try to get work at the UK government.
Still, the user would have to browse to a malicious site. Perhaps the users who "choose" IE (or not choose at all and end up with the default browser), are the type of users more likely to browse to particular types of sites. Changing them to choose another browser, therefore, would not prevent them from browsing to sites with malicious code. This malicious code can then still be executed if it's a vulnerability in a plug-in instead of the browser.
Now I think the browser should keep the plug-ins in check.. Sandboxing perhaps?
Well, as far as I remember, it's not illegal for the coffeeshops to sell it, and it's not illegal for people to have less than 3 grams on them at any time (and 3 plants in their homes), but not to buy it in for their stock. That's the one thing that's missing in the equation; a legal way of manufacturing large quantities, perhaps even checked by the "Keuringsdienst van Waren". Checking would be fun;).
But yes, there's some confusion about whether the "Gedoogbeleid" actually means it's legal or just means you won't be prosecuted or arrested for it. Very grey areas indeed.
I'm not sure the pot thing was so out-of-line actually. Everyone I speak with agrees that pot should be legalised just like in the Netherlands. That way you can keep much better control over it. Disclaimer: I'm in Denmark, after having lived in the Netherlands.
Anywho, I think governments are very keen on getting their fingers out of the argument for some reason...
Oh, a chinese colleague of mine told me that the one thing he misses most from China is the food! So keep the "chinese" food in foreign countries at a shitty level, and they'll be sure to return one day..
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Of course, because that's offers from universities wishing to polish up their image by hiring "the man who solved the poincare conjecture!".
*nod* I am in a place which requires you to write a humble letter of apology if you lose or misplace your access card.
" You could spend that thirty minutes just noticing things you'd never seen before "
like power lines RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU *ZZERTAARGHH!*
I think there's a reason not to drop below several hundred feet and it'd be good to keep to it ;).
There's a smarter implementation of this, called "smartsleep". I don't have the time to explain, so google it.
I am sorry, but I cannot help reading your piece translating the TLA POS as Piece Of Shit. This makes it quite funny..
That sounds needlessly complex, perhaps a result from evolving archaic methods. Perhaps there is a business opportunity a la bicycle couriers, to pick up physical money in one bank and deliver it to the destination bank. Attach a name and number, and voila, bank transfer established.
That would work, of course, as long as banks do not overleverage their assets at all, i.e. if they actually serve as a place for storing valuables, and not as a place for making money. It may be a bit difficult to shift imaginary money around per courier.
Or, you know, do something over the internet :).
B.
While there is a charge for some bank transfers, most international e-banking transfers within the EU are charge-free. I have never had more than about a euro charge for a transfer outside the EU. If you get charged 20 dollars, talk to your bank, it seems to me they're the most likely culprit.
Except that not even Microsoft was able to write an OOXML-spec document writer. So no, it does not have everything necessary to implement it.
Ok, I'll have a stab at it, even though English is my second language too. I have heard, however, that people with English as a second language are actually capable of writing English better than Englishmen. On another note, it also does not help that whenever I see the words "Some say [...]", it is automatically vocalised in my head by Jeremy Clarkson.
Anywho, my rendition:
"some say that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future, and that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of Walmart and the current political system in business. All we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence. Welcome to 2010."
Ubuntu is a step in the right direction, but I didn't manage to get productive on that platform for a variety of reasons, amongst which: the UI of the underlying programs do not match with the Ubuntu UI, their standard apps are not very good (i.e. I have to start VLC just to play an MP3), and it has a confusing layout. And every second it pops up with the update interface, which sucks away your time, and when it breaks, it stays broken (when it can't update one app, it crashed with me, and never was able to do _any_ update since it would always crash there). (and "Even wireless worked perfectly" is not supposed to be applause-worthy, but is supposed to be a given.)
That said, it's the best distro I have ever used.
Anyway, CUPS is only used on mac os X if native drivers are not available. Therefore, I can easily understand his printer issues.
Ok, here's another happy switcher from FreeBSD (2006):
> You did not have to tell us that, it is quite obvious from your post.
So you have to be a linux sysadmin to run it? Talk about elitism.
>Maybe if you chose supported hardware you would not have this issue?
So you have to buy new hardware to run Linux? I thought the idea was that it would run on and with everything..
>ALSA works fine for me out of the box
I see. So because of that, parent's complaints are invalid? I see this attitude a little too often in the OSS community: "Works for me, I'm not going to spend one more second on this issue. You can write your own drivers, as I don't have any problems." Very antisocial, this behaviour.
>GNOME sucks, not Linux. KDE has gotten as bloated as Windows so it is starting to suck too. Fluxbox rules!
Please reinstall linux to suit the newest window manager of the month! Feel free to relearn the locations of many menu items! One of the reasons I like LaTeX is because it has remained the same for an incredibly long time, no need to relearn anything. The Linux WM's are changing so often there's no keeping up. The OSX WM is somewhere in the middle.
>P-II 300 running Fluxbox on Ubuntu in my workshop. The result is sweet, sweet music while I work on my carpentry projects.
Sorry to rain on your parade here, but cheap music in the shed has been possible since the invention of radios. Seriously, this argument makes you sound like 1989: "Dude, I can play music from my computer!"
>Can you even get OS-X to run on older hardware? I'll bet you need a CPU [...]
Sorry, but you lost the bet. OSX (10.4, f.ex.) can easily run on a 300MHz G3. And it runs quite nicely as well! The newest OS runs on all intel-based machines, so that'd be every Mac from the last five years. Let me emphasise that: _EVERY_ Mac.
>How many interfaces does the Mac have? One? There are plenty for Linux, it is the user's choice as to what to run. Choice is good.
Choice is good, except when they all suck. Granted, some suck less, but they all have their own drawbacks and limitations. Choosing one and sticking with it is never possible, as (as mentioned before) they continue to grow, become bloated, change their appearance and become obsolete faster than you can sneeze. One interface is sufficient if it can cater to all your needs and run everything using the same interface design.
>All my boxes have a feel that is exactly right for me, because I know how to set them up that way.
So a sysadmin level of expertise is required to set up a box to have the right feel. I'm sorry, you're not strengthening you case (which is, I guess, that linux is better than OSX if you're a linux sysadmin.).
> don't like having to [...]
That's perfectly fine. You like, or don't like, but don't push your likes and dislikes onto others. If, however, you find something that suits your likes, by all means, go for it. By the by, the true UNIX interface is the terminal. Which comes in exactly one UI: ASCII art.
>Just because you are a major FAIL when [...]
Wow, so anyone who is not a Linux sysadmin is automatically rubbish at setting up Linux? I'll tell you something: my friends, who are undoubtedly infinitely more adept at unixes than you (I mean, who seriously uses "FAIL", except for the new generation?), also had troubles with Linux (and BSD). For example APM, sound cards and network interfaces. They helped me maintain my FBSD distro, and still could not get everything to work the way it's supposed to. I guess they are "FAIL" too. Or maybe I am FAIL. FAIL all the way, baby!
>I don't have to perform ANY hacks to get Linux to work on my PCs.
Really? Wow. You didn't need to do _anything_ then? No driver installs, no kernel recompiles, no configuration edits? You're destroying your street cred here, bro.
>The procedures listed on that page ARE system administration tasks and relatively advanced ones at that.
I'm sorry to inform you there's nothing tough in
Fucking a. Story of my life, switched to mac in 2006 from a plethora of FreeBSD, Solaris and IRIX boxes.
>How do you educate people on computer security when they don't want to learn?
It's a good question. What I have done with my parents is to give them a Mac. There the "updates" show up every now and then and I've trained them to click on the "download and install" button, promising them that it doesn't break anything. All (apple) applications update through a single interface, simplifying matters greatly.
The alternative may be to require an "internet drivers license" (which they had in the Netherlands for a while, voluntarily), but that would restrict access and speech and thus be too obtrusive.
Option three is to accept things _as is_ for home users, but provide mandatory instruction courses at work. For everyone. One of my pet peeves is employee carelessness with data, they never back up until it is too late. IMO this is to be considered as data loss due to carelessness and this could be considered as a reason for firing employees.
I'm also thinking the iPad may actually provide a solution: a closed platform on which only _allowed_ applications can be run. As a user this sucks, but from an IT perspective I can understand it.
I'm just saying that your average government employee might not be the most savvy cookie in control of a browser.
But the study was on whether the implementation of other browsers beside IE would increase security. If the user is the weakest link, the choice of browser would not affect the level of security much. The user should be just as big a part of the security assessment as anything else, since testing the browser without the user will not give you a real-world risk level.
I have never seen anyone use a browser for IRC, so perhaps the impact of the bug is not very heavy.. But then again, I don't know what the current youth is into.
I have no evidence for believing otherwise. OTOH, I do know there are (very) stupid people working in the government of the Netherlands, or so my friend working there indicates. IT savvy people perhaps don't try to get work at the UK government.
Still, the user would have to browse to a malicious site. Perhaps the users who "choose" IE (or not choose at all and end up with the default browser), are the type of users more likely to browse to particular types of sites. Changing them to choose another browser, therefore, would not prevent them from browsing to sites with malicious code. This malicious code can then still be executed if it's a vulnerability in a plug-in instead of the browser.
Now I think the browser should keep the plug-ins in check.. Sandboxing perhaps?
That's very likely true, as the stupidity of the user remains the weakest factor in security.
You are absolutely right! After trying something once, it's a done deal! No need to try anything a second time... No siree!
Well, as far as I remember, it's not illegal for the coffeeshops to sell it, and it's not illegal for people to have less than 3 grams on them at any time (and 3 plants in their homes), but not to buy it in for their stock. That's the one thing that's missing in the equation; a legal way of manufacturing large quantities, perhaps even checked by the "Keuringsdienst van Waren". Checking would be fun ;).
But yes, there's some confusion about whether the "Gedoogbeleid" actually means it's legal or just means you won't be prosecuted or arrested for it. Very grey areas indeed.
B.
I'm not sure the pot thing was so out-of-line actually. Everyone I speak with agrees that pot should be legalised just like in the Netherlands. That way you can keep much better control over it. Disclaimer: I'm in Denmark, after having lived in the Netherlands.
Anywho, I think governments are very keen on getting their fingers out of the argument for some reason...
It should have been spring-loaded, though.. That's the first thing that came into my mind when I saw that. I'd love one of those ;).
Oh, a chinese colleague of mine told me that the one thing he misses most from China is the food! So keep the "chinese" food in foreign countries at a shitty level, and they'll be sure to return one day..
or better yet, that by looking at these depictions of humans, you (somehow) _become_ a pedophile.