Yeah, but with the large majority (no, I don't have the hard #'s) of farmable land in the US owned by Fortune 500 companies and large agribusinesses and producing corn, they've got to come up with some use for it to justify the farm subsidies they're given ($171 billion over a decade)...
...at least until they can come up with some sort of sugar product from soy, then the subsidies will go there instead.
Like another poster a while back mentioned about another subject, they aren't going to give up those kinds of dollars without a fight.
...They assume that the default configuration, as designed by the manufacturer, is "good enough"..
No, they don't assume a thing. The fact is, the HUGE majority don't even think about it at all. They just want to do their email, instant messaging, and download their sports scores and pr0n... simple as that. If the machine looks snazzy, it sells. People don't buy cars because of airbags and seatbelts. Most consumers, unfortunately, consider a computer an appliance, just like a toaster or a microwave. Until they actually have a problem with it where they can't do what they want, there's no thought about it whatsoever. And they're inexpensive enough to where people are throwing their computers out in the trash rather than having the expense of getting them 'repaired'. I've got half a workshop full of machines that have been literally put out on the street, filled with personal info and such that would be an identity thief's wet dream - that why I grab every single one I see and wipe them ASAP. They're then recycled or put into use and/or made available to those who can use them.
You are correct. Not that long ago, one of the basic truths of life was "be stupid, get hurt", or "be stupid, die". People quickly learned not to be stupid. Now in our so-quick-to-litigate society, it's "be stupid, sue, get payoff". It's not hard to figure out why our culture embraces stupidity so.
Submitter, aka PlayfullyClever trying to use the/. crowd's love for linux+entertainment to bump up his google page rank on the site he just registered yesterday? Why else would TFA have nothing to do with the submission? Bealtes-Beatles in disguise, with diamonds?
Yep. Has Microsoft _ever_ been open with regards to standards and practices? Never. They've never done anything more than lip service with regards to anything other than their own bottom line. Color me cynical if you want, but whenever Microsoft is being touted as anything even close to 'altruistic', the end result usually makes one want to wretch in disgust.
You've got that right... After searching for specific Fishbone songs off an album I was interested in (their best selling album, mind you) and not finding any of them, I finally broke down and just entered "Fishbone". The first tune was in fact, a Fishbone tune - a really funky, punk thing with a killer horn arrangement. The second, however, was by Ronnie James Dio?!?!
I can't imagine how they'd followup something like a Tom Waits tune.
Not just for VPN. I use older hardware every single day.
I've been in the process of doing a writeup that I'll be submitting to the Debian Administration website. The laptop I have is an old Dell Latitude CP M233XT circa 1997. It's got a Pentium II 233 MHz processor, 128 meg ram, and the original 3G drive is now a 4.1G hard drive swapped out from a dead HP Omnibook 4100.
I won't rehash the entire article in this post, but suffice it to say, it's the laptop that I use for my business every day. It runs Debian (Sarge) and a customized KDE setup. No complaints as far as usability goes. Things take a bit longer to start up than on my P-III 850 at home, but it's nothing I can't deal with. OpenOffice.org is the real pig on the machine, but that's to be expected.
...Why didn't they do more in-depth burn-in tests of these?...
Why would they? Why should they incur that expense? They have beta-tes^H^H customers out there that willingly PAY THEM $400+ to do it for them. Literally fighting each other at stores for the oppurtunity.
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
-- Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
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Yeah, but with the large majority (no, I don't have the hard #'s) of farmable land in the US owned by Fortune 500 companies and large agribusinesses and producing corn, they've got to come up with some use for it to justify the farm subsidies they're given ($171 billion over a decade)...
...at least until they can come up with some sort of sugar product from soy, then the subsidies will go there instead.
Like another poster a while back mentioned about another subject, they aren't going to give up those kinds of dollars without a fight.
Who will watch Intel then?
Why... Sony, of course.
Works fine here.
Opera Version 8.51
Build 1462
Platform Linux
System i686, 2.6.14-halb5
Qt library 3.3.5
Java Java Runtime Environment installed
... that there's actually something called the "US Government Accountability Office".
Methinks they could put their resources to better use...
Their slogan "Accountability Integrity Relibility" is an oxmoron.
...They assume that the default configuration, as designed by the manufacturer, is "good enough"..
No, they don't assume a thing.
The fact is, the HUGE majority don't even think about it at all. They just want to do their email, instant messaging, and download their sports scores and pr0n... simple as that. If the machine looks snazzy, it sells. People don't buy cars because of airbags and seatbelts. Most consumers, unfortunately, consider a computer an appliance, just like a toaster or a microwave.
Until they actually have a problem with it where they can't do what they want, there's no thought about it whatsoever. And they're inexpensive enough to where people are throwing their computers out in the trash rather than having the expense of getting them 'repaired'.
I've got half a workshop full of machines that have been literally put out on the street, filled with personal info and such that would be an identity thief's wet dream - that why I grab every single one I see and wipe them ASAP. They're then recycled or put into use and/or made available to those who can use them.
...I'd copy and paste the exact text but I don't feel like going to a lyric site right now and festooning my display with twelve pop-ups...
You post on slashdot and you're still getting pop-ups?
Consider your Nerd ID card revoked!
You are correct.
Not that long ago, one of the basic truths of life was "be stupid, get hurt", or "be stupid, die". People quickly learned not to be stupid.
Now in our so-quick-to-litigate society, it's "be stupid, sue, get payoff". It's not hard to figure out why our culture embraces stupidity so.
You say this likes it's a bad thing ;o)
Now if this would only hit battlenet servers...
According to this report at CNET,
"Sony said it will notify customers though a banner advertisement directly in the SunnComm software"
So now you get banner ads with your audio cd+DRM.
Nice.
...They do however own the copyright on the board artwork...
Out of curiosity, can you even have a copyright on a map of the world?
"The Right Honourable Jack Straw..."
Out of curosity, since when would an American English user use the British English spelling?
Also, would an "official diplomatic entity allow" a raw typo like:
"growth and adaptation , based on" (extra space)
Sure, it could be a typo by the editor, this is The Register ® , of course.
Submitter, aka PlayfullyClever trying to use the /. crowd's love for linux+entertainment to bump up his google page rank on the site he just registered yesterday?
Why else would TFA have nothing to do with the submission?
Bealtes-Beatles in disguise, with diamonds?
FYI
Domain Name: PLAYFULLYCLEVER.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Updated Date: 30-nov-2005
Creation Date: 30-nov-2005
Expiration Date: 30-nov-2006
...A mistake was made and a disgruntled employee noticed and reported it to the BSA.
Even nicer was the fact that the same former employee was responsible for keeping the licensing info.
Yep.
Has Microsoft _ever_ been open with regards to standards and practices? Never. They've never done anything more than lip service with regards to anything other than their own bottom line. Color me cynical if you want, but whenever Microsoft is being touted as anything even close to 'altruistic', the end result usually makes one want to wretch in disgust.
You've got that right...
After searching for specific Fishbone songs off an album I was interested in (their best selling album, mind you) and not finding any of them, I finally broke down and just entered "Fishbone". The first tune was in fact, a Fishbone tune - a really funky, punk thing with a killer horn arrangement. The second, however, was by Ronnie James Dio?!?!
I can't imagine how they'd followup something like a Tom Waits tune.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/173021 5&tid=141&tid=187
At least this one took over a month.
Not just for VPN. I use older hardware every single day.
I've been in the process of doing a writeup that I'll be submitting to the Debian Administration website.
The laptop I have is an old Dell Latitude CP M233XT circa 1997. It's got a Pentium II 233 MHz processor, 128 meg ram, and the original 3G drive is now a 4.1G hard drive swapped out from a dead HP Omnibook 4100.
I won't rehash the entire article in this post, but suffice it to say, it's the laptop that I use for my business every day. It runs Debian (Sarge) and a customized KDE setup. No complaints as far as usability goes. Things take a bit longer to start up than on my P-III 850 at home, but it's nothing I can't deal with. OpenOffice.org is the real pig on the machine, but that's to be expected.
...Why didn't they do more in-depth burn-in tests of these?...
Why would they?
Why should they incur that expense?
They have beta-tes^H^H customers out there that willingly PAY THEM $400+ to do it for them. Literally fighting each other at stores for the oppurtunity.
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round,
for I have seen the shadow on the moon,
and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
-- Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)
...This meant more publicity for the band, which led to more sales....
More sales for The Grateful Dead.
Not for some weasel in a suit snorting cocaine in his office.
And that's wherein lies the difference these days.
The problem with lawyers is that 99% of them give the rest a bad name.
clicky clicky
I have been eaten by a grue :(
Calling it a PHP exploit would be wrong as well. It's an exploit of specific applications written in PHP (AWStats and Drupal from what I could tell).
According to this article, AWStats was patched back in February.
But from that altitude, no upskirts :o/