Have they modified the update/install procedures yet? That's been one of my biggest pet peeves about Redhat/RPM based distros. I'm, fortunately, on a highspeed line, so I prefer to install over the internet. With RPM based distros, you end up installing from a static set of packages... even if they're 3 months and 3 security patches out of date. Only then can you install updates. What's the point of downloading and installing 500 megs of packages if immediately afterwards you have to download and install 300 megs of updates for those same packages? It's useless and redundant, in my opinion.
Being able to install the updates right from the get-go has given apt/portage a huge advantage in that respect.
I agree totally. However, I would like to remind people that the war on terror possibly prevented many more such incidents.
I agree totally. However, I would like to remind people that the war on terror possibly had about as much chance of preventing corns from developing on my feet.
...that the machines in question will be, how should I say it... 'more robust' than offerings in the past. The walmart laptops and desktops they've hawked have been cheap-ass pieces of shit, for the most part. Inexpensive doesn't have to mean cheap. Inexpensive and cheap are 2 different things entirely. What's need is an HP/Dell (sic) quality _consumer_ machine with a top of the line distro, including support, pre-installed on it, at a decent price. I don't mean to sound condescending, but I'm not talking about Linspre or Xandros or Lycoris, I'm talking about the BIG distros -- Redhat or Novell/SuSE or even Mandriva... companies that are actively developing things.
...The best story I know of personally is with a notebook demanding reactivation for hardware changes during an XP trial while the user was on the road in a remote location with no way to activate...
So what would be so difficult about having the machine print out a timestamped receipt, to the 1/100th of a second or so and specific to the machine used, to the voter? If the voter(s) then have issues with the results, they can check for themselves, privately, so they know how they voted corresponding to the time their vote was cast.
If they can sync an ATM video cam with the time someone was mugged across the street from it, they can surely do that.
Except for the fact that it's a reprint of an article from securityfocus.com Not that securityfocus has much more in the way of integrity these days, but still different.
Welp, considering who's writing laws these days and who's taking who to court, does that not bring to question just how the law enforcement actually is? The line seems to be getting thinner and thinner.
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job security, aka 'software companies - join us before it's too late! We'll protect you!'
Sort of like the Antivirus companies saying how there are "more viruses!!!!11!one!!' so they can try to sell antivirus systems to Linux users as Linux usage grows.
This is Microsoft we're talking about here. Color me cynical if you want, but they've never done anything more than lip service with regards to anything other than their own bottom line.
This is a surprise to anyone? Just a couple of years back, you know... shortly before "Microsoft's assimilation of RAV Antivirus", when asked why it took Microsoft 25 years to start taking security seriously, Microsoft CTO Craig Mundie was quoted as saying "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently."
Come on... this is Microsoft we're talking about here. Color me cynical if you want, but they've never done anything more than lip service with regards to anything other than their own bottom line.
You mean the CD that most people throw out with the packaging once they turn their computer on the first time?
These days, there isn't even (usually) a proper restore cd. At best, there's a hidden partition (HP, Dell) on the drive, and god forbid you ever have a drive failure. At worst, you're expected to create your own 'recovery cd' (HP and Compaq), of which you're reminded of upon booting... and you can bet that 99.99999% of the people won't bother to think to make one until their system is already in bad shape.
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Why the hell are slashdotters trusting news about Debian from friggen zdnet? And a blog on zdnet to boot!
I mean... c'mon... it's zdnet... with about as much credibility as The Star.
Have they modified the update/install procedures yet? That's been one of my biggest pet peeves about Redhat/RPM based distros.
I'm, fortunately, on a highspeed line, so I prefer to install over the internet. With RPM based distros, you end up installing from a static set of packages... even if they're 3 months and 3 security patches out of date. Only then can you install updates.
What's the point of downloading and installing 500 megs of packages if immediately afterwards you have to download and install 300 megs of updates for those same packages? It's useless and redundant, in my opinion.
Being able to install the updates right from the get-go has given apt/portage a huge advantage in that respect.
I agree totally. However, I would like to remind people that the war on terror possibly had about as much chance of preventing corns from developing on my feet.
Yet another WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!11!!oneone!!OMGWTFBBQ!!!!! pseudo-law...
George Carlin was right about the Pussification of America(TM).
...that the machines in question will be, how should I say it... 'more robust' than offerings in the past. The walmart laptops and desktops they've hawked have been cheap-ass pieces of shit, for the most part. Inexpensive doesn't have to mean cheap. Inexpensive and cheap are 2 different things entirely.
What's need is an HP/Dell (sic) quality _consumer_ machine with a top of the line distro, including support, pre-installed on it, at a decent price. I don't mean to sound condescending, but I'm not talking about Linspre or Xandros or Lycoris, I'm talking about the BIG distros -- Redhat or Novell/SuSE or even Mandriva... companies that are actively developing things.
Anything less is third-rate, and it shows.
...The best story I know of personally is with a notebook demanding reactivation for hardware changes during an XP trial while the user was on the road in a remote location with no way to activate...
Is it David Coursey that you're referring to?
I am your neighbor's brother, you insenstive clod!
... not only reliably, but almost _identically_ on the 11 supported architechtures.
Want to install on i386? You got it.
Want to install on hppa? You got it, exactly the same process.
"Big Media" news organizations have actually sued for the right to lie to their viewers!
Even sadder is that the case was ruled in their favor.
So what would be so difficult about having the machine print out a timestamped receipt, to the 1/100th of a second or so and specific to the machine used, to the voter? If the voter(s) then have issues with the results, they can check for themselves, privately, so they know how they voted corresponding to the time their vote was cast.
If they can sync an ATM video cam with the time someone was mugged across the street from it, they can surely do that.
They said they don't have a script yet... make them get thier own ideas!
Except for the fact that it's a reprint of an article from securityfocus.com
Not that securityfocus has much more in the way of integrity these days, but still different.
Indeed it does. I just found that to be the case on fully updated/patched Win2k and 9x systems when I just tested them.
But we still haven't seen Longhorn :oP
And we all know what a bastion of OSS CNET/ZDNet is...
1. Entrapment only applies to law enforcement.
Welp, considering who's writing laws these days and who's taking who to court, does that not bring to question just how the law enforcement actually is? The line seems to be getting thinner and thinner.
They just need to make it look like this.
job security, aka 'software companies - join us before it's too late! We'll protect you!'
Sort of like the Antivirus companies saying how there are "more viruses!!!!11!one!!' so they can try to sell antivirus systems to Linux users as Linux usage grows.
Like what happened with this piece of garbage? Guess what.. it still went on to make tons and tons of cash regardless.
Granted, it's a movie not a TV show, but it still made a profit.
This is a surprise to anyone?
This is Microsoft we're talking about here. Color me cynical if you want, but they've never done anything more than lip service with regards to anything other than their own bottom line.
...One suite of programs for math is required by the state...
My question is just why the fuck does a computer program have to be used to learn math in highschool?
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back in my day... we used paper and pencil... and WE LIKED IT!
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This is a surprise to anyone?
Just a couple of years back, you know... shortly before "Microsoft's assimilation of RAV Antivirus", when asked why it took Microsoft 25 years to start taking security seriously, Microsoft CTO Craig Mundie was quoted as saying "Because customers wouldn't pay for it until recently."
Come on... this is Microsoft we're talking about here. Color me cynical if you want, but they've never done anything more than lip service with regards to anything other than their own bottom line.
Pornzilla ;o)
You mean the CD that most people throw out with the packaging once they turn their computer on the first time?
These days, there isn't even (usually) a proper restore cd. At best, there's a hidden partition (HP, Dell) on the drive, and god forbid you ever have a drive failure. At worst, you're expected to create your own 'recovery cd' (HP and Compaq), of which you're reminded of upon booting... and you can bet that 99.99999% of the people won't bother to think to make one until their system is already in bad shape.