Make a difference sure, make a visible difference in any currently released game when going against any currently released $300 budget CPUs not likely. Early adopters of CPUs in the home market are generally just suckers, by the time anything available to home users to take advantage of the speed is out, the CPU or an equivelent will be 1/4th the price.
I have to disagree there, I believe you misestimate the number of people lost vs gained. To make the software it takes a good sized team that was doing the work, lets say a national firm had 50 people per branch, and 500 branches devoted to a job so a total of 25,000 people. A team of 50 programmers was hired to write a script to do the job, Now the script is done, 25,000 jobs are lost for the 50 gained, and now the software is done, It only reasonably needs 15 people to maintain it, so either A. This team will be mostly reassigned to eliminate another 25,000 jobs and maintaining this script on the side, or B. The majority of this team will be laid off as well.
Agreed, it's just CYA, Nerds and anti-competitive complainers are nowhere near as loud as "think of the children" alarmists. Those alarmists are usually the ones who think, OK my mac has parental controls, I just turn those on and I don't have to teach my kids anything. Then of course the kids install their own web browser that completely bypasses the parental controls, and you get hundreds of ticked off parents screaming "you said that my kids would be safe". Do I agree with the moronic parents, no. Do I agree with apple only from a business/PR standpoint.
still has nothing to do with anything, IE is still in use, in a fairly large percentage of corporate computers. Netscape didn't die because it was unusable, it is unusable because it died. Webpages detect what browser you are using and adjust to what you are using. Odds are if you are using old netscape, the webpages will adjust to the current firefox, which of course is extremely different then netscape. IE6 on the other hand still has 20% or so of the browser market if I remember right. using IE6 will take you to a page designed for IE6, not a page designed for IE9.
Assuming he's not just some lunatic taking credit for it and whether the government funded/provided assistance in the project. For all we know it was one group of 15 people with no government oversight (not likely considering the value estimated of the exploits used but technically not impossible). Also in this case while no lives were lost or harmed, the worm certainly hit a ton of civilians. I personally agree with you 100% that in no way shape or form should a virus/attack be referred to as terrorism, I hate the term terrorism. I just disagree that someone in uniform who's main target is a military organization is automatically excluded from the possibility of being a rogue terrorist on those grounds. If a US general strapped a bomb to his chest and say went after say a top secrete military craft, target was the plane but 5 civilians died in the process, and there was no evidence that the guy wasn't working alone (or say was working with a non-military group), then that would be terrorism, the intended target and the persons rank are irrelevant, where the orders/funding comes from is what matters, and I still say the nature of the crime as I don't think non-violent crimes of any sort can be fairly called terrorism.
actually write support has worked in many distributions of linux for years, it's full access at this point, in ubuntu just go to the software center and install ntfs-3g, it will give read and write support.
Well I can half agree and half disagree. Microsoft's core business is in jepordy. Cloud computing and other technologies are looking to completely change the game, and microsoft's stabs to work in those fields have not been very succesful, no the desktop and the active directory servers aren't going away this year or next year, but 10-15 years down the line OS may no longer matter and they may need a new market to survive. Better to figure that out now when they have billions to throw away on trying and failing, then waiting until they are desperate and having to throw one succeed or die project out the door.
That puts it roughly at the same level of safety as any laptop you buy. If the hardware was comprimised, The government, the chip manufacturers, the QC people, the government could be requiring a hidden back door, any number of possible vectors are a higher possibility then some insane uber hacker planting a hardware level attack through a network connection in the plain view of several other hackers, that somehow finds it worth his time to plant a bug intended for the winner, but is not worth his time to just use his knowlege to get $20,000 and win the laptop himself.
I would say 90% of bing toolbar users are not opt in. Bing toolbar isn't automatically added when you get the computer no, but it is checked by default when you install say MSN Messanger or any other microsoft freeware product. Now I admit that is an evil that google, ask and every other search provider does. But having a toolbar rarely represents opt-in, I don't know anyone who intentionally installed those toolbars, and in my opinion even if it is opt in that dosn't make it OK. What is searched for, that is the right of the user to give away or lose by not reading agreements. What is returned is not. If someone signs away everything they own to you, you have their CD, but you do not have the distrobution rights to that CD to copy and mass produce it and sell thousands of copies of it.
Big difference between google and MS, MS rarely actually improves upon anything, They take the idea and leverage it with insane marketing force. Was IE better then netscape, I can't think of a single notable feature added, but it crushed netscape by a huge margain when it was bundled with the OS. Now was gmail a huge inovation, well it was basically the same idea as hotmail, only it changed from a 10 MB cap to a 1 GB cap. That is a big ass improvement, people were willing to do the extra work to re-make their e-mail, change their address and jump through the hoops to get away from the slower smaller e-mail service, as opposed to microsoft's method of grab them quick before they learn the alternative and make it a pain in the ass to switch.
The mice may work for penuts, but training them can't be free, and then assuming the mice can be trained in 3-4 months then you still have to deal with an average lifespan of only 2 years.
A very large portion of people are afraid of mice, however if I was presented with the choice between TSA Grope + Backscatter, and a mouse fleet I would take the mouse fleet, of course TSA most likely wouldn't do them as an alternative, but as an extra scan.
Honestly 84 would most likely be enough for the superbowl, sure there are thousands of people there. But probably less then 1,000 of them
1. are geeky enough to want to be on their laptops at the superbowl.
2. Think it's a good idea to even bring a laptop into a heavily crowded chaotic area filled with screaming crazy people holding beverages, and who knows how many thieves wanting to take advantage of the situation. Sure smart phone usage is way up, but considering most all of them have a data plan anyway it still seems a little overkill to me, I'd imagine 2,000 reporters commentators etc needing the internet access. But I can't really fathom why more then 5% of hardcore football fans would be using wifi during the superbowl
They did the first time, however there is a big difference. The first time it was on PC's they don't own. With the way hardware manufacturers are working on rigging the laws, PS3 is Sonys hardware, you are just paying to borrow it.
Amusing though in this article for once the person dosn't sound like he's blaming the video game for the terrorists being psycotic killers.
"I think those who have been radicalized already – that is supposed in this case jihadists, Al-Qaeda or other kind – they look at the games and say these games will serve them to train.'"
This here is actually legitimate statement. I would call anyone who accused doom of turning the columbine kids into murderers idiots, They would have shot up and killed as many as they could with or without the game, no game is going to turn a nonviolent person violent. But a game could allow for a psycotic killer to practice and come up with a more efficiant route or better strategy then what he would have come up with on pen and paper. Now honestly I don't see a point to sensoring every environment that looks like a real one isn't a sane solution, terrorists would just make mods with actual maps of their intended location.
More advanced, more powerful other species has the same issues universal in almost every species. A cat meets a mouse, the cat imidiately treats the mouse as a toy torturing it for his own pleasure (with maybe a.01% chance of the cat ignoring or being friendly to the mouse). Now symbiotic relationships aren't unheard of in the animal kingdom, but those all require both animals having something to offer eachother, odds of us having something to offer a race that is more then a century above us technologically are slim and assuming they were peaceful non-warlike creatures, just watching our planet for a week would disgust them to the point they would want nothing to do with us.
Sure they do. At least in the same sense that MS does. The person would be pointed out the second he walks back into that casino, possibly even have his picture on the wall for new dealers to recognize. It dosn't follow him when he leaves the casino, just like it dosn't follow this kid when he signs out of xbox live.
true, but AFIK blizard dosn't gear strip you and label your account, they ban your account and put notes on the forums saying We will not talk about bannings publicly, all banning discussions must be held through a private ticketing system between the accused and blizard, for that very reason.
however there is a second exception in this case, if all that is available on XBox live is a gaming tag is an alias though, I'm not sure how libel would fit. All of this ignoring the high possibility that he was actually cheating
I still fail to see any evidence of a contract deal. I can't see any information of a sign showing mastercard agreeing to transfer money to wikileaks. Honestly if you want to compare bad practices with financial institutes, mastercard started just stopping money from being transfered via their lines essentially, the money stayed in the pockets of those who wanted to give it, available to be transfered via any company that wanted to do business with wikileaks. Compared to say when paypal went after the mindcraft creator, where paypal just held onto the money leaving it neither in the hands of the donators nor the person who earned it.
Indeed, I would never go as far as to compare it to violence or proporty damage, I would however liken it to a full blockade around a building, preventing people from entering, which is for all intents and purposes still completely illegal and well outside the realm of "free speach".
Well yes and no. Picketing a store is one thing you are basically putting your message on display. There are rules to picketing however, like for instance a picketer cannot prevent someone from entering the store, I believe the rules allow something like a 5-10 second stall but no more then that. DDOSing however has the goal of taking the site completely down for hours, on top of that it fails to actually deliver the message to the intended customer of why they are doing it. It is the exact oposite of picketing in that regard
Picketing: allowing customers to enter the store, but informing them why you think they shouldn't
DDOSing: Preventing customers from entering the store altogether while lacking the ability to explain why.
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Make a difference sure, make a visible difference in any currently released game when going against any currently released $300 budget CPUs not likely. Early adopters of CPUs in the home market are generally just suckers, by the time anything available to home users to take advantage of the speed is out, the CPU or an equivelent will be 1/4th the price.
I have to disagree there, I believe you misestimate the number of people lost vs gained. To make the software it takes a good sized team that was doing the work, lets say a national firm had 50 people per branch, and 500 branches devoted to a job so a total of 25,000 people. A team of 50 programmers was hired to write a script to do the job, Now the script is done, 25,000 jobs are lost for the 50 gained, and now the software is done, It only reasonably needs 15 people to maintain it, so either A. This team will be mostly reassigned to eliminate another 25,000 jobs and maintaining this script on the side, or B. The majority of this team will be laid off as well.
Safari dosn't have unfettered access, at least it dosn't if parental controls on the OS are turned on.
Agreed, it's just CYA, Nerds and anti-competitive complainers are nowhere near as loud as "think of the children" alarmists. Those alarmists are usually the ones who think, OK my mac has parental controls, I just turn those on and I don't have to teach my kids anything. Then of course the kids install their own web browser that completely bypasses the parental controls, and you get hundreds of ticked off parents screaming "you said that my kids would be safe". Do I agree with the moronic parents, no. Do I agree with apple only from a business/PR standpoint.
still has nothing to do with anything, IE is still in use, in a fairly large percentage of corporate computers. Netscape didn't die because it was unusable, it is unusable because it died. Webpages detect what browser you are using and adjust to what you are using. Odds are if you are using old netscape, the webpages will adjust to the current firefox, which of course is extremely different then netscape. IE6 on the other hand still has 20% or so of the browser market if I remember right. using IE6 will take you to a page designed for IE6, not a page designed for IE9.
Assuming he's not just some lunatic taking credit for it and whether the government funded/provided assistance in the project. For all we know it was one group of 15 people with no government oversight (not likely considering the value estimated of the exploits used but technically not impossible). Also in this case while no lives were lost or harmed, the worm certainly hit a ton of civilians. I personally agree with you 100% that in no way shape or form should a virus/attack be referred to as terrorism, I hate the term terrorism. I just disagree that someone in uniform who's main target is a military organization is automatically excluded from the possibility of being a rogue terrorist on those grounds. If a US general strapped a bomb to his chest and say went after say a top secrete military craft, target was the plane but 5 civilians died in the process, and there was no evidence that the guy wasn't working alone (or say was working with a non-military group), then that would be terrorism, the intended target and the persons rank are irrelevant, where the orders/funding comes from is what matters, and I still say the nature of the crime as I don't think non-violent crimes of any sort can be fairly called terrorism.
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"Imagine a PC dealership trying to enforce such harsh software usability limitations like "never ever install any other software than the one you got it with, or forget the warranty" http://consumerist.com/2009/12/geek-squad-wouldnt-honor-my-netbooks-protection-plan.html Not much imagination necessary
actually write support has worked in many distributions of linux for years, it's full access at this point, in ubuntu just go to the software center and install ntfs-3g, it will give read and write support.
Well I can half agree and half disagree. Microsoft's core business is in jepordy. Cloud computing and other technologies are looking to completely change the game, and microsoft's stabs to work in those fields have not been very succesful, no the desktop and the active directory servers aren't going away this year or next year, but 10-15 years down the line OS may no longer matter and they may need a new market to survive. Better to figure that out now when they have billions to throw away on trying and failing, then waiting until they are desperate and having to throw one succeed or die project out the door.
That puts it roughly at the same level of safety as any laptop you buy. If the hardware was comprimised, The government, the chip manufacturers, the QC people, the government could be requiring a hidden back door, any number of possible vectors are a higher possibility then some insane uber hacker planting a hardware level attack through a network connection in the plain view of several other hackers, that somehow finds it worth his time to plant a bug intended for the winner, but is not worth his time to just use his knowlege to get $20,000 and win the laptop himself.
From now on all petitions to the government must have "INAE" on every page to avoid misleading
I would say 90% of bing toolbar users are not opt in. Bing toolbar isn't automatically added when you get the computer no, but it is checked by default when you install say MSN Messanger or any other microsoft freeware product. Now I admit that is an evil that google, ask and every other search provider does. But having a toolbar rarely represents opt-in, I don't know anyone who intentionally installed those toolbars, and in my opinion even if it is opt in that dosn't make it OK. What is searched for, that is the right of the user to give away or lose by not reading agreements. What is returned is not. If someone signs away everything they own to you, you have their CD, but you do not have the distrobution rights to that CD to copy and mass produce it and sell thousands of copies of it.
Big difference between google and MS, MS rarely actually improves upon anything, They take the idea and leverage it with insane marketing force. Was IE better then netscape, I can't think of a single notable feature added, but it crushed netscape by a huge margain when it was bundled with the OS. Now was gmail a huge inovation, well it was basically the same idea as hotmail, only it changed from a 10 MB cap to a 1 GB cap. That is a big ass improvement, people were willing to do the extra work to re-make their e-mail, change their address and jump through the hoops to get away from the slower smaller e-mail service, as opposed to microsoft's method of grab them quick before they learn the alternative and make it a pain in the ass to switch.
The mice may work for penuts, but training them can't be free, and then assuming the mice can be trained in 3-4 months then you still have to deal with an average lifespan of only 2 years.
A very large portion of people are afraid of mice, however if I was presented with the choice between TSA Grope + Backscatter, and a mouse fleet I would take the mouse fleet, of course TSA most likely wouldn't do them as an alternative, but as an extra scan.
Honestly 84 would most likely be enough for the superbowl, sure there are thousands of people there. But probably less then 1,000 of them 1. are geeky enough to want to be on their laptops at the superbowl. 2. Think it's a good idea to even bring a laptop into a heavily crowded chaotic area filled with screaming crazy people holding beverages, and who knows how many thieves wanting to take advantage of the situation. Sure smart phone usage is way up, but considering most all of them have a data plan anyway it still seems a little overkill to me, I'd imagine 2,000 reporters commentators etc needing the internet access. But I can't really fathom why more then 5% of hardcore football fans would be using wifi during the superbowl
They did the first time, however there is a big difference. The first time it was on PC's they don't own. With the way hardware manufacturers are working on rigging the laws, PS3 is Sonys hardware, you are just paying to borrow it.
"I think those who have been radicalized already – that is supposed in this case jihadists, Al-Qaeda or other kind – they look at the games and say these games will serve them to train.'"
This here is actually legitimate statement. I would call anyone who accused doom of turning the columbine kids into murderers idiots, They would have shot up and killed as many as they could with or without the game, no game is going to turn a nonviolent person violent. But a game could allow for a psycotic killer to practice and come up with a more efficiant route or better strategy then what he would have come up with on pen and paper. Now honestly I don't see a point to sensoring every environment that looks like a real one isn't a sane solution, terrorists would just make mods with actual maps of their intended location.
More advanced, more powerful other species has the same issues universal in almost every species. A cat meets a mouse, the cat imidiately treats the mouse as a toy torturing it for his own pleasure (with maybe a .01% chance of the cat ignoring or being friendly to the mouse). Now symbiotic relationships aren't unheard of in the animal kingdom, but those all require both animals having something to offer eachother, odds of us having something to offer a race that is more then a century above us technologically are slim and assuming they were peaceful non-warlike creatures, just watching our planet for a week would disgust them to the point they would want nothing to do with us.
Sure they do. At least in the same sense that MS does. The person would be pointed out the second he walks back into that casino, possibly even have his picture on the wall for new dealers to recognize. It dosn't follow him when he leaves the casino, just like it dosn't follow this kid when he signs out of xbox live.
true, but AFIK blizard dosn't gear strip you and label your account, they ban your account and put notes on the forums saying We will not talk about bannings publicly, all banning discussions must be held through a private ticketing system between the accused and blizard, for that very reason.
however there is a second exception in this case, if all that is available on XBox live is a gaming tag is an alias though, I'm not sure how libel would fit. All of this ignoring the high possibility that he was actually cheating
I still fail to see any evidence of a contract deal. I can't see any information of a sign showing mastercard agreeing to transfer money to wikileaks. Honestly if you want to compare bad practices with financial institutes, mastercard started just stopping money from being transfered via their lines essentially, the money stayed in the pockets of those who wanted to give it, available to be transfered via any company that wanted to do business with wikileaks. Compared to say when paypal went after the mindcraft creator, where paypal just held onto the money leaving it neither in the hands of the donators nor the person who earned it.
Indeed, I would never go as far as to compare it to violence or proporty damage, I would however liken it to a full blockade around a building, preventing people from entering, which is for all intents and purposes still completely illegal and well outside the realm of "free speach".
Picketing: allowing customers to enter the store, but informing them why you think they shouldn't
DDOSing: Preventing customers from entering the store altogether while lacking the ability to explain why.