Application with root access can do evil things. News at 11.
But yes, as someone else posted:: Windos-like installers are the problem. Most OSX software is still installed by dropping it into Programs and you're done, and I very much like it that way (among other things, it makes it trivial to uninstall software, which is often a nightmare on windos because a good portion of the uninstallers don't clean up properly).
The question ignores the fact that this strange "Internet" thing is built on multi-purpose protocols. How, exactly, do you intend to enforce Layer-7 limitations on a Layer-3 network?
If I can only have web, it'll take me gmail and a minute at most to have e-mail as well. If I can only have e-mail, surfing the web will be slow, but there are still sites out there that'll send you any website as an e-mail in response to an e-mail request and it should be trivial to automate that, as a first step and grow more comfortable from there.
How about a simple cell phone for kids with around 6 buttons that can be pre-programmed with phone numbers.
That's an excellent educational tool. It'll teach your kid problem-solving and thinking laterally to find a way to either a) do its own programming or b) get a cell-phone without you knowing.
The one thing it won't do is stop it from having a way to call all its friends who have proper mobiles.;-)
Why don't they instead make Halo 3 like Halo was supposed to be, you know the game that they hyped and we all got excited about before MS bought them out and it turned into yet another FPS?
I don't think many people "get" how MS is built as a company.
Rarely have I seen another company whose products are so heavily interlocked and relying on each other. MS doesn't sell individual products, it sells building blocks of a "microsoft world". I still think Gates' dream is to run everything in your house, office, etc.
MS Office is built heavily on MS Windos. There's even a whole secret API especially so that MS Office can beat competing products. Windos, in turn, sells mostly (in the corporate environment) because of Office. Exchange/Outlook are so common because they "fit into" the landscape, and are integrated heavily with both.
The Xbox is boosted by the fact that it uses largely the same APIs (DirectX) as the Windos PC.
Even the other MS hardware - keyboards, mice, etc. - have special support in the OS. There's hardly any product in the MS portfolio that is not supported, helped along or built upon by half a dozen others.
So will MS ever take one of their products out of its natural environment and move it somewhere else? They've tried here and there - IE and Office on the Mac, for example - and none of that works so very well. IE for Mac is dead. Office on Mac is still around because a trial version ships with every new Mac and due to its dominance in the corporate environment. But on the Mac it's just another application.
Office on Linux? Don't think so. They're not going to give corporations any reason to switch away from Windos, because who knows what's next? These hippies might think about replacing Exchange with something much better and cheapter next!
I hate to be a dink, but we've had a way to completely control this infection for about 20 years now; it's called abstainence.
I can reassure you, you aren't a dink. You're an ignorant asshole.
Ever heard of the hundreds of ways you can get infected without sex? Blood transfusions were a common vector in the early days, before everyone got paranoid about them, for example. You can still get the virus through blood, for example during an accident (with you as the victim, or you as the helper who doesn't wear protective clothes). Lots of kids are infected, and unless you believe they had sex at 3 or so, I'll go with the more reasonable option that their parents were infected.
There are other, less common ways as well.
So no, abstinence isn't a solution. It's just some meme that some people want to spread and they use every opportunity to sell it. If you ask the right people, abstinence probably cures acne and cancer as well, and leads to better eyesight and higher salaries.
The irony is that with online distribution, artists don't need to go through their record company middlemen anymore.
That's the theory.
In real life, however, artists have sold their souls and all rights to their works (in perpetuity, thanks to a "small" change in the law defining their work as "work for hire") to the record companies.
In other words: Most artists can not go around the record companies, because the record companies own the copyrights to everything they made. And in many cases the trademarks to the band names and logos. Oops.
And that's the fault of iTunes? Or is it the fault of the record companies who grabbed a cheap excuse to rob the artists further?
The real pirates are and always have been the record companies. The main reason they are so quick at finger pointing is that it serves to move attention away from themselves.
The only way to be [completely] sure the system is malware-free is to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.'
Yes, and your average user will quickly encounter another funny problem: He has a good chance to be infected again before the download of SP2 and/or other security updates he needs to not be re-infected, is finished...
ISP's need to inform people they have bots and if they are infecting other computers they need their internet access dropped.
Not going to happen in a million years, I'm afraid.
See, I happen to be the resident security dude at an ISP (half a million customers). Management doesn't care and doesn't understand that this is a problem that needs attention. It's the customer's computer, monitoring traffic costs money, shutting out customers creates service calls (thus costing money), doing what no one else does might drive customers away (costing money), someone needs to install and monitor the system (and that someone will be costing money) and besides, the only damage to the ISP is more traffic and traffic costs next to nothing anyways.
I would be surprised if there were many ISPs thinking differently.
There are about 100 or so mods around that change Oblivion's main problem, the creatures auto-levelling with the player.
Have you tried any of them? Check Realism 1.0 for example, it has you running for your life from wolves early in the game, but since they don't level with you they are easy prey a few levels down the road.
I'd assume that most of your potential customers have actually bought your program. My experience - on both sides of the fence and then some - is that upwards of 90% of the people who copy something illegally wouldn't have paid for it anyways.
Most of the people who copy your stuff aren't participants in the market anyways.
Israel's violence is just a response to Hezbollah's violence.
That's a question of punctuation. As is usual in these scenarios, both sides claim the other started it. Supporters of each side fall in with their favourites. Objectively speaking, nobody started anything just now - the entire thing has been going on for years with no clear beginning or end. Any "here's where it started" is arbitrary.
Unfortunately, it seems that the entire country of Lebanon supports Hezbollah
Of course they do. They had been occupied by Israel for 20 years, and Hezbollah was one of, if not the deciding factor in liberating Lebanon.
so it seems to me the answer is to just raze the entire country, and after that the rest of the middle east.
If it weren't for the oil, I fear your insane president would've done so already. The funny thing is that this comment proves the grandparent right: We are experiencing a new height of violence, and the US is full force in it. You at the very least.
The problem with the whole situation is that Islam simply cannot coexist with other belief systems.
You have probably studied islam for 20 years in order to arrive at this conclusion. Newsflash: The same could be said for christianity, which is very, very similar to islam. In fact, the same can be set about current US mind-sets - "you're either with us or against us" - that doesn't sound like much of a coexistence option, either.
The problem with the whole situation is that morons and people with an agenda over-simplify it and try to sell simple solutions that don't work and only make things worse. You want to raze the entire middle east? You might be surprised to learn that there are huge islamist populations outside the middle east, mostly in Asia and Africa. You wanna raze them as well? Why not the entire planet while you're at it?
I don't know - but neither does anyone else. But would you like to have their army in your backyard for a few decades? If not, you are one step forward in understanding why they hate you.
I'm sorry, but Transgaming is under NO OBLIGATION to give code back to the WINE project.
I wasn't talking about obligation, I was talking about promises - they have promised to give back to the Wine project several times. They haven't. Why should I give more credit to any of their other promises, like that their product is any good?
* MS: "We'll blow you away. Real soon now. Look, shiney!". Two years later: "Oops, we removed most of the stuff we once promised. But it'll still be great. Err... it'll also be delayed a bit..." * Apple: "Available in stores today"
Especially regarding Vista, one should remember that Apple can not possibly have copied from Vista, because all the cool stuff they're accused of copying is not in Vista. It was promised, but it never showed up. It's all vaporware, marketing stunts to keep people from switching to something else while the release date slips ever further.
The fact is and has always been the same. Radical Islam wants to destroy the West.
As a matter of fact, the immediate goals of radical islam are to take over control of the arab nations, by destroying the pro-west and secular governments.
Osama Bin Laden is on record for his demands against the Saudi government. His primary goal early in his career was to remove the US presence from Saudi Arabia and especially the holy cities of islam.
The Taliban were not planning to attack any western country - they were quite happy running their own, that is what they had always wanted.
The hatred for the west emerged as a secondary goal, because the west kept interfering with those goals. For example, by supporting the secular Iraq during the first gulf war (Iran-Iraq).
We might as well just move to the end right now: Everyone wears paper hospital gowns with no underwear on planes after having changed in front of an official, and all cargo is shipped seperately via UPS.
Obviously, this leaves them able to transport stuff inside their bodies.
No, you'll have to put them all into freezers. This'll give cryogenics the badly needed boost it needs!
"We hope that these measures, which are being kept under review by the government, will need to be in place for a limited period only," the statement said.
Interesting choice of words. To me (currently in paranoia mode) in reads like "We will see if the public puts up with these measures (already) before we decide if we want to make them permanent."
* Did I follow the news on 9/11 carefully and made notes of the conspiracy theories springing up mere minutes after the 2nd plane hit the tower?
I don't know about you, but I did. I know that during the first hour or so, there were many theories and many speculations. Then, the White House made its first statements. Two hours later, the "Al Qaida" meme was dominant and all other theories were being blown away. By next morning (the attacks happened in early evening my local time) there was no mentioning of any other options.
Is a few hours a little fast for a serious investigation? Ask anyone who works in law enforcement. You might have a theory, probably a solid theory. But no professional would publish it as fact.
9/11 was an incredibly profitable day for a good number of people. Some politicians, some in the arms industry, and so on.
If they abuse a most tragic event to further their own goals - can you be so sure they are above fabricating one to stir the fire if there hasn't been a real attack for a while?
I'm not. I honestly believe that once the "evil terrorists everywhere" fear meme is in danger of dying down, there are people in positions of power today who are both smart enough and without scruples to fake an attack in order to keep it alive.
Correct. If they made the move to arrest the known terrorists today, it makes sense to tighten security today and for the next few days, in order to prevent any cell members they missed from going on with the plan in an "everyone I know has been caught so it really doesn't matter anymore" way. The logical next thing to do for a terrorist not arrested would be to get on a plane as quickly as possible and blow it up, so that at least not everything was in vain.
Checklist: * Are there any elections upcoming in the UK? * Is the UK involved in a war the government wants but the people don't? * Is there any major, bad-publicity legislation that needs to be pushed through? * Is any big and influential "security" company in need of a major government deal?
If any of these are Yes, I'll be a bit paranoid. If all of them are No, I'll believe in genuine evil terrorists.
PS Yes, starforce supposedly is impossible to break.
Except that there are torrents of every single starforce game ever around, and they all come with either cracks or mini-images, and there are at least a dozen competing "anti-starforce" tools.
Starforce is sold as being impossible to break. In the end, it's not any better than anything else.
On a more serious note, Mr. State and his company and completely missing the point. If I wanted windos, I'd have bought a windos machine, right? The fact that I bought a Mac instead makes it clear that I don't want windos - I want something better. So how is bringing the very old, unreliable technology I consciously avoided back to me via some game libraries not a recipe for total fuck-up?
Game companies, if you're listening: I will buy your native Mac ports. I will not buy your windos versions, not even if you package the shit with a thin layer of Aqua and call it a Mac version.
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Application with root access can do evil things. News at 11.
But yes, as someone else posted:: Windos-like installers are the problem. Most OSX software is still installed by dropping it into Programs and you're done, and I very much like it that way (among other things, it makes it trivial to uninstall software, which is often a nightmare on windos because a good portion of the uninstallers don't clean up properly).
So there are stupid questions, after all.
The question ignores the fact that this strange "Internet" thing is built on multi-purpose protocols. How, exactly, do you intend to enforce Layer-7 limitations on a Layer-3 network?
If I can only have web, it'll take me gmail and a minute at most to have e-mail as well. If I can only have e-mail, surfing the web will be slow, but there are still sites out there that'll send you any website as an e-mail in response to an e-mail request and it should be trivial to automate that, as a first step and grow more comfortable from there.
How about a simple cell phone for kids with around 6 buttons that can be pre-programmed with phone numbers.
;-)
That's an excellent educational tool. It'll teach your kid problem-solving and thinking laterally to find a way to either a) do its own programming or b) get a cell-phone without you knowing.
The one thing it won't do is stop it from having a way to call all its friends who have proper mobiles.
Why don't they instead make Halo 3 like Halo was supposed to be, you know the game that they hyped and we all got excited about before MS bought them out and it turned into yet another FPS?
I don't think many people "get" how MS is built as a company.
Rarely have I seen another company whose products are so heavily interlocked and relying on each other. MS doesn't sell individual products, it sells building blocks of a "microsoft world". I still think Gates' dream is to run everything in your house, office, etc.
MS Office is built heavily on MS Windos. There's even a whole secret API especially so that MS Office can beat competing products. Windos, in turn, sells mostly (in the corporate environment) because of Office. Exchange/Outlook are so common because they "fit into" the landscape, and are integrated heavily with both.
The Xbox is boosted by the fact that it uses largely the same APIs (DirectX) as the Windos PC.
Even the other MS hardware - keyboards, mice, etc. - have special support in the OS. There's hardly any product in the MS portfolio that is not supported, helped along or built upon by half a dozen others.
So will MS ever take one of their products out of its natural environment and move it somewhere else? They've tried here and there - IE and Office on the Mac, for example - and none of that works so very well. IE for Mac is dead. Office on Mac is still around because a trial version ships with every new Mac and due to its dominance in the corporate environment. But on the Mac it's just another application.
Office on Linux? Don't think so. They're not going to give corporations any reason to switch away from Windos, because who knows what's next? These hippies might think about replacing Exchange with something much better and cheapter next!
I hate to be a dink, but we've had a way to completely control this infection for about 20 years now; it's called abstainence.
I can reassure you, you aren't a dink. You're an ignorant asshole.
Ever heard of the hundreds of ways you can get infected without sex? Blood transfusions were a common vector in the early days, before everyone got paranoid about them, for example. You can still get the virus through blood, for example during an accident (with you as the victim, or you as the helper who doesn't wear protective clothes). Lots of kids are infected, and unless you believe they had sex at 3 or so, I'll go with the more reasonable option that their parents were infected.
There are other, less common ways as well.
So no, abstinence isn't a solution. It's just some meme that some people want to spread and they use every opportunity to sell it. If you ask the right people, abstinence probably cures acne and cancer as well, and leads to better eyesight and higher salaries.
The irony is that with online distribution, artists don't need to go through their record company middlemen anymore.
That's the theory.
In real life, however, artists have sold their souls and all rights to their works (in perpetuity, thanks to a "small" change in the law defining their work as "work for hire") to the record companies.
In other words: Most artists can not go around the record companies, because the record companies own the copyrights to everything they made. And in many cases the trademarks to the band names and logos. Oops.
now musicians are earning less than a dime.
And that's the fault of iTunes? Or is it the fault of the record companies who grabbed a cheap excuse to rob the artists further?
The real pirates are and always have been the record companies. The main reason they are so quick at finger pointing is that it serves to move attention away from themselves.
The only way to be [completely] sure the system is malware-free is to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.'
Yes, and your average user will quickly encounter another funny problem: He has a good chance to be infected again before the download of SP2 and/or other security updates he needs to not be re-infected, is finished...
ISP's need to inform people they have bots and if they are infecting other computers they need their internet access dropped.
Not going to happen in a million years, I'm afraid.
See, I happen to be the resident security dude at an ISP (half a million customers). Management doesn't care and doesn't understand that this is a problem that needs attention. It's the customer's computer, monitoring traffic costs money, shutting out customers creates service calls (thus costing money), doing what no one else does might drive customers away (costing money), someone needs to install and monitor the system (and that someone will be costing money) and besides, the only damage to the ISP is more traffic and traffic costs next to nothing anyways.
I would be surprised if there were many ISPs thinking differently.
Is there any chance that the California government will limit overtime in the same lucrative way (i.e., lucrative for the employees)?
There's a much higher chance that if you ask for it, they'll use the threat of outsourcing to shoot the idea down.
There are about 100 or so mods around that change Oblivion's main problem, the creatures auto-levelling with the player.
Have you tried any of them? Check Realism 1.0 for example, it has you running for your life from wolves early in the game, but since they don't level with you they are easy prey a few levels down the road.
I'd assume that most of your potential customers have actually bought your program. My experience - on both sides of the fence and then some - is that upwards of 90% of the people who copy something illegally wouldn't have paid for it anyways.
Most of the people who copy your stuff aren't participants in the market anyways.
Israel's violence is just a response to Hezbollah's violence.
That's a question of punctuation. As is usual in these scenarios, both sides claim the other started it. Supporters of each side fall in with their favourites. Objectively speaking, nobody started anything just now - the entire thing has been going on for years with no clear beginning or end. Any "here's where it started" is arbitrary.
Unfortunately, it seems that the entire country of Lebanon supports Hezbollah
Of course they do. They had been occupied by Israel for 20 years, and Hezbollah was one of, if not the deciding factor in liberating Lebanon.
so it seems to me the answer is to just raze the entire country, and after that the rest of the middle east.
If it weren't for the oil, I fear your insane president would've done so already. The funny thing is that this comment proves the grandparent right: We are experiencing a new height of violence, and the US is full force in it. You at the very least.
The problem with the whole situation is that Islam simply cannot coexist with other belief systems.
You have probably studied islam for 20 years in order to arrive at this conclusion. Newsflash: The same could be said for christianity, which is very, very similar to islam. In fact, the same can be set about current US mind-sets - "you're either with us or against us" - that doesn't sound like much of a coexistence option, either.
The problem with the whole situation is that morons and people with an agenda over-simplify it and try to sell simple solutions that don't work and only make things worse. You want to raze the entire middle east? You might be surprised to learn that there are huge islamist populations outside the middle east, mostly in Asia and Africa. You wanna raze them as well? Why not the entire planet while you're at it?
I don't know - but neither does anyone else. But would you like to have their army in your backyard for a few decades? If not, you are one step forward in understanding why they hate you.
I'm sorry, but Transgaming is under NO OBLIGATION to give code back to the WINE project.
I wasn't talking about obligation, I was talking about promises - they have promised to give back to the Wine project several times. They haven't. Why should I give more credit to any of their other promises, like that their product is any good?
The main difference between Apple and MS is this:
* MS: "We'll blow you away. Real soon now. Look, shiney!". Two years later: "Oops, we removed most of the stuff we once promised. But it'll still be great. Err... it'll also be delayed a bit..."
* Apple: "Available in stores today"
Especially regarding Vista, one should remember that Apple can not possibly have copied from Vista, because all the cool stuff they're accused of copying is not in Vista. It was promised, but it never showed up. It's all vaporware, marketing stunts to keep people from switching to something else while the release date slips ever further.
The fact is and has always been the same. Radical Islam wants to destroy the West.
As a matter of fact, the immediate goals of radical islam are to take over control of the arab nations, by destroying the pro-west and secular governments.
Osama Bin Laden is on record for his demands against the Saudi government. His primary goal early in his career was to remove the US presence from Saudi Arabia and especially the holy cities of islam.
The Taliban were not planning to attack any western country - they were quite happy running their own, that is what they had always wanted.
The hatred for the west emerged as a secondary goal, because the west kept interfering with those goals. For example, by supporting the secular Iraq during the first gulf war (Iran-Iraq).
We might as well just move to the end right now: Everyone wears paper hospital gowns with no underwear on planes after having changed in front of an official, and all cargo is shipped seperately via UPS.
Obviously, this leaves them able to transport stuff inside their bodies.
No, you'll have to put them all into freezers. This'll give cryogenics the badly needed boost it needs!
"We hope that these measures, which are being kept under review by the government, will need to be in place for a limited period only," the statement said.
Interesting choice of words. To me (currently in paranoia mode) in reads like "We will see if the public puts up with these measures (already) before we decide if we want to make them permanent."
* Did I follow the news on 9/11 carefully and made notes of the conspiracy theories springing up mere minutes after the 2nd plane hit the tower?
I don't know about you, but I did. I know that during the first hour or so, there were many theories and many speculations. Then, the White House made its first statements. Two hours later, the "Al Qaida" meme was dominant and all other theories were being blown away. By next morning (the attacks happened in early evening my local time) there was no mentioning of any other options.
Is a few hours a little fast for a serious investigation? Ask anyone who works in law enforcement. You might have a theory, probably a solid theory. But no professional would publish it as fact.
9/11 was an incredibly profitable day for a good number of people. Some politicians, some in the arms industry, and so on.
If they abuse a most tragic event to further their own goals - can you be so sure they are above fabricating one to stir the fire if there hasn't been a real attack for a while?
I'm not. I honestly believe that once the "evil terrorists everywhere" fear meme is in danger of dying down, there are people in positions of power today who are both smart enough and without scruples to fake an attack in order to keep it alive.
Movie hint: "Wag the dog"
Correct. If they made the move to arrest the known terrorists today, it makes sense to tighten security today and for the next few days, in order to prevent any cell members they missed from going on with the plan in an "everyone I know has been caught so it really doesn't matter anymore" way. The logical next thing to do for a terrorist not arrested would be to get on a plane as quickly as possible and blow it up, so that at least not everything was in vain.
Checklist:
* Are there any elections upcoming in the UK?
* Is the UK involved in a war the government wants but the people don't?
* Is there any major, bad-publicity legislation that needs to be pushed through?
* Is any big and influential "security" company in need of a major government deal?
If any of these are Yes, I'll be a bit paranoid. If all of them are No, I'll believe in genuine evil terrorists.
PS Yes, starforce supposedly is impossible to break.
Except that there are torrents of every single starforce game ever around, and they all come with either cracks or mini-images, and there are at least a dozen competing "anti-starforce" tools.
Starforce is sold as being impossible to break. In the end, it's not any better than anything else.
On a more serious note, Mr. State and his company and completely missing the point. If I wanted windos, I'd have bought a windos machine, right? The fact that I bought a Mac instead makes it clear that I don't want windos - I want something better. So how is bringing the very old, unreliable technology I consciously avoided back to me via some game libraries not a recipe for total fuck-up?
Game companies, if you're listening: I will buy your native Mac ports. I will not buy your windos versions, not even if you package the shit with a thin layer of Aqua and call it a Mac version.