People need to take a step back here and realize that no program is perfectly secure. It doesn't matter how hard the Mozilla foundation tries, there will always be another "security hole".
Best security practices still apply, even if you use Firefox. Visit trusted, reputable sites. Check links BEFORE you click them. If something doesn't seem right, don't go there. If a download pops up that you didn't expect, don't download it. ETC ETC ETC. Most security issues become non-issues if a few simple steps are followed when you're on the net.
If this is indeed another one, then the fallout from Katrina is going to seem mild in comparison.
I live in Oregon, and let me tell you, if a volcano blew 25 miles from Bend, the most we'd lose is some trees and scrub brush. Even if Bend got taken out...it's only a town of about 60,000 with roads leading out in all directions. Wouldn't be a particularly bad disaster. Most of the population of Oregon lives about 150 miles west on the other side of the Cascade mountain range.
I have a new theory: jim_v2000 is an ignorant fuckwit who is incapable of assessing the validity of pseudoscientic claims. There you have it, folks: science in action.
There's the scientific method in action there...if you can't make a logical response to something, attack the poster!
Electric Universe is a well-known crackpot site, built on the most absurd pseudoscience. They're the same outfit that predicted a large explosion when Deep Impact hit Tempel 1.
As usual, the/. editors display their utter inability to distinguish between science and pseudoscience. Idiots.
Actually, you would appear to be the troll here. I read a bit of their material, and although I can't get onto their site to check right now, I believe most of their predictions about Deep Impact were correct.
Pseudoscience, my friend, is a word used by those who feel that their "scientific facts" are threatened. I'm sure those who dared say that the earth was round hundred of years ago were marked as practicing "absurd pseudoscience". I don't know if these electric universe guys are right or wrong, but it seems VERY scientific to me to come up with new theories about how things work...especially something like how our universe functions. It's very UNSCIENTIFIC to brush of a theory by labeling it "crackpot", rather than testing to see if it's valid.
Dear God, I know...everything seems to be the same as the last game that came out. The last game I played that I really enjoyed was HL2...and that was cuz of the nifty new physics/graphics. Aside from that though, it seems like every "new" game looks about hte same, plays about hte same, has a dry storyline that couldn't get lint caught up in it, and in general is a bore. I'm getting tired of it...I want something captivating to play...something with a decent plot, and decent voice acting...and decent graphics. Of course, that's just me though.
I use AMD for all my rigs; but is there really a need for the anti-trust laws today? The next company to build the better processor will get their advantage, instead of just watching who will win the next lawsuit.
You're looking at this from an I-Build-My-Own-Computer perspective. AMD doesn't care about selling to you. You're pocket change. AMD wants to sell to Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway....the commercial market. And right now AMD is claiming that because of financial blackmail, Intel is keeping AMD from being able to compete in that market.
Last time I checked there was 10 thousand+ NationalGuardsmen heading down there, and a small naval fleet including an aircraft carrier and a hospital ship. They've got thousands of buses taking peopel out, helicopters searching for more people, and God knows what else. Seems like a fairly ample government response to me. Quit this nonsense about government having failed us...it will take time to get everyone out, but it is getting done.
I'm more pissed off at the "citizens" of New Orleans that are running amock in lawlessness instead of sitting tight and waiting to be rescued. I've been reading about lootings, killing, rapes, and a bunch of other uncivilized bullshit. Just pisses me off...I don't know about the rest of you.
No, the experiment I was aluding to was using ice core samples to determine if ozone depleting chemicals existed in nature before industrialization.
Why would it matter if the chemicals were there or not? That still doesn't tell us if the hole was there or not. All we really know right now is that for the time we've been watching it, it's gotten bigger...probably because of CFCs. But we don't know how long it's actually been there. Maybe it's been there millions of years. Maybe it's been there 30 years. We can guess, but we don't know.
It is easy to figure out when the hole appeared because it happened in the last 100 years or so.
We don't know when it happened. If we knew when it happened, then we wouldn't have to figure it out.
And use whichever one you feel most comfortable with, because in the long run, the cost of having the box sitting there is going to be about the same. I'd bet that most of the cost difference just depends on the IT staff. I'm sure that there are experienced Windows and Linux IT guys that can keep their respective boxes running well for little cost. It's when you get bumbletards running around trying to be IT that causes the TCO to rise.
"But the downside of this is a strong tendency to require that every citizen (or at least every household) pay for a MS-Windows machine in order to communicate with government agencies."
Or require you to pay for the internet connect you need to get to the governement site. Or pay for a non-MS-Windows machine. I don't know of very many free Linux boxes out there...
If the person doesn't have MS Word, and they're using Linux or Windows...OpenOffice still opens the.doc format. Plus there's always libraries too.
I guess these people never heard of Microsoft Word Viewer. It's a free app put out by Microsoft for people to be able to view MS Word docs without having MS Word.
The problem with this program is that you could input the most gramatically correct sentences you can into it, and it'll still spew out senseless garbage. For this to be of any worth, the computer will need to understand the meaning each word, and how each meaning relates to what the other words in the sentence mean. And you can't program it into a computer what something is just by putting words into it. Like if I tell the machine that mice squeak, it has to know what a squeak sounds like and what a mouse is. How do you define a mouse to a computer? A small fuzzy rodent. Well, how do you define fuzzy? Or small? Or a rodent? You have to keep using more and more words...and still the computer will have no idea what you're talking about, other than just mroe word relationships.
I guess the missing thing is that a human can evision the meaning of the words as a concept or image, while the computer simply sees the words as, well, just words (or binary to specific).
But it was like 9/11 when many people had been trying to warn the public for years and everyone turned a deaf ear.
Just my opinion, but it was probably a lot more likely a scenario for New Orleans to get hit by a hurricane than for the Twin Towers to get hit by airplanes flow by terrorists.
Try the Oregon Coast, or the Willamette Valley (think Portland, OR). Every few years we get a wind storm, but it's more entertaining than damaging. And it snows about the same frequency. And the average temp in the winter is about 40, and in the summer it's about 90. Very nice.
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People need to take a step back here and realize that no program is perfectly secure. It doesn't matter how hard the Mozilla foundation tries, there will always be another "security hole".
Best security practices still apply, even if you use Firefox. Visit trusted, reputable sites. Check links BEFORE you click them. If something doesn't seem right, don't go there. If a download pops up that you didn't expect, don't download it. ETC ETC ETC. Most security issues become non-issues if a few simple steps are followed when you're on the net.
The dupe is even cited in the article summary...
Also here is a games section story from this morning.
I live in Oregon, and let me tell you, if a volcano blew 25 miles from Bend, the most we'd lose is some trees and scrub brush.
I revise my statement...if a regular volcano blew, it wouldn't matter. If a Super Volcano blew, we'd be screwed. Thank you.
If this is indeed another one, then the fallout from Katrina is going to seem mild in comparison.
I live in Oregon, and let me tell you, if a volcano blew 25 miles from Bend, the most we'd lose is some trees and scrub brush. Even if Bend got taken out...it's only a town of about 60,000 with roads leading out in all directions. Wouldn't be a particularly bad disaster. Most of the population of Oregon lives about 150 miles west on the other side of the Cascade mountain range.
I like Oregon a lot. I just wish it were easier to get to.
I live there, and just for curiousity's sake, why's it hard to get to?
What about people who run their own mail servers?
I have a new theory: jim_v2000 is an ignorant fuckwit who is incapable of assessing the validity of pseudoscientic claims. There you have it, folks: science in action.
There's the scientific method in action there...if you can't make a logical response to something, attack the poster!
Electric Universe is a well-known crackpot site, built on the most absurd pseudoscience. They're the same outfit that predicted a large explosion when Deep Impact hit Tempel 1.
/. editors display their utter inability to distinguish between science and pseudoscience. Idiots.
As usual, the
Actually, you would appear to be the troll here. I read a bit of their material, and although I can't get onto their site to check right now, I believe most of their predictions about Deep Impact were correct.
Pseudoscience, my friend, is a word used by those who feel that their "scientific facts" are threatened. I'm sure those who dared say that the earth was round hundred of years ago were marked as practicing "absurd pseudoscience". I don't know if these electric universe guys are right or wrong, but it seems VERY scientific to me to come up with new theories about how things work...especially something like how our universe functions. It's very UNSCIENTIFIC to brush of a theory by labeling it "crackpot", rather than testing to see if it's valid.
Idiot.
I think the framerate on my Voodoo3 card was like 1 pixel per second trying to play HL2....
Their country's fuckin tiny in comparison too.
and condoms.
You know those aren't toys...they're actually for having sex with girls.
Because the mayor of New Orleans apparently can't plan ahead either without help from the Feds.
Ah hah! Now you understand what evolution means.
Dear God, I know...everything seems to be the same as the last game that came out. The last game I played that I really enjoyed was HL2...and that was cuz of the nifty new physics/graphics. Aside from that though, it seems like every "new" game looks about hte same, plays about hte same, has a dry storyline that couldn't get lint caught up in it, and in general is a bore. I'm getting tired of it...I want something captivating to play...something with a decent plot, and decent voice acting...and decent graphics. Of course, that's just me though.
I use AMD for all my rigs; but is there really a need for the anti-trust laws today? The next company to build the better processor will get their advantage, instead of just watching who will win the next lawsuit.
You're looking at this from an I-Build-My-Own-Computer perspective. AMD doesn't care about selling to you. You're pocket change. AMD wants to sell to Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway....the commercial market. And right now AMD is claiming that because of financial blackmail, Intel is keeping AMD from being able to compete in that market.
Last time I checked there was 10 thousand+ NationalGuardsmen heading down there, and a small naval fleet including an aircraft carrier and a hospital ship. They've got thousands of buses taking peopel out, helicopters searching for more people, and God knows what else. Seems like a fairly ample government response to me. Quit this nonsense about government having failed us...it will take time to get everyone out, but it is getting done.
I'm more pissed off at the "citizens" of New Orleans that are running amock in lawlessness instead of sitting tight and waiting to be rescued. I've been reading about lootings, killing, rapes, and a bunch of other uncivilized bullshit. Just pisses me off...I don't know about the rest of you.
No, the experiment I was aluding to was using ice core samples to determine if ozone depleting chemicals existed in nature before industrialization.
Why would it matter if the chemicals were there or not? That still doesn't tell us if the hole was there or not. All we really know right now is that for the time we've been watching it, it's gotten bigger...probably because of CFCs. But we don't know how long it's actually been there. Maybe it's been there millions of years. Maybe it's been there 30 years. We can guess, but we don't know.
It is easy to figure out when the hole appeared because it happened in the last 100 years or so.
We don't know when it happened. If we knew when it happened, then we wouldn't have to figure it out.
And use whichever one you feel most comfortable with, because in the long run, the cost of having the box sitting there is going to be about the same. I'd bet that most of the cost difference just depends on the IT staff. I'm sure that there are experienced Windows and Linux IT guys that can keep their respective boxes running well for little cost. It's when you get bumbletards running around trying to be IT that causes the TCO to rise.
"But the downside of this is a strong tendency to require that every citizen (or at least every household) pay for a MS-Windows machine in order to communicate with government agencies."
.doc format. Plus there's always libraries too.
Or require you to pay for the internet connect you need to get to the governement site. Or pay for a non-MS-Windows machine. I don't know of very many free Linux boxes out there...
If the person doesn't have MS Word, and they're using Linux or Windows...OpenOffice still opens the
I guess these people never heard of Microsoft Word Viewer. It's a free app put out by Microsoft for people to be able to view MS Word docs without having MS Word.
The problem with this program is that you could input the most gramatically correct sentences you can into it, and it'll still spew out senseless garbage. For this to be of any worth, the computer will need to understand the meaning each word, and how each meaning relates to what the other words in the sentence mean. And you can't program it into a computer what something is just by putting words into it. Like if I tell the machine that mice squeak, it has to know what a squeak sounds like and what a mouse is. How do you define a mouse to a computer? A small fuzzy rodent. Well, how do you define fuzzy? Or small? Or a rodent? You have to keep using more and more words...and still the computer will have no idea what you're talking about, other than just mroe word relationships.
I guess the missing thing is that a human can evision the meaning of the words as a concept or image, while the computer simply sees the words as, well, just words (or binary to specific).
But it was like 9/11 when many people had been trying to warn the public for years and everyone turned a deaf ear.
Just my opinion, but it was probably a lot more likely a scenario for New Orleans to get hit by a hurricane than for the Twin Towers to get hit by airplanes flow by terrorists.
Try the Oregon Coast, or the Willamette Valley (think Portland, OR). Every few years we get a wind storm, but it's more entertaining than damaging. And it snows about the same frequency. And the average temp in the winter is about 40, and in the summer it's about 90. Very nice.
Here's the thing, it wasn't PUT there, it settled over time.
Well, maybe it's time for them to PUT it somewhere else?
"Windoze"
You really make your point when you use childish misspellings like that - really...
Is was more of a display of my distain for the product. Thank you.