Security needs to be applied away from the end user. A lot of malware and other crap would be stopped with ISPs offering "safer" internet by default, block all incoming only allow standard outgoing ports etc. Then make users go through an extra hoop to enable "pro" mode or similar. Personally I'd hate using the net with those kind of filters, but most people I know whouldn't even notice that they could only get to port 80....
I'd mostly agree, sites that take the piss (like/.) get all their ads blocked. If someone has a box that says "please don't block my ads, it's them that stops me having to get a job" I do think twice
And are we going to need to hand out free computers as well to realize the benefits
If you can show me some major life-altering benefits, I may be convinced. But I must admit I am having some difficulty thinking what is so important about broadband that trumps $5 a month dialup which is available to anyone with a phone line.
First off, the costs. If you want people to have access to mobile broadband, (in the UK at least) all the networks will give you a laptop/netbook for getting a contract (15/mo for 18 months). That's cheaper than having a phone line.
That's also one to remember when signing up for services online, it causes plenty of confusion if your ISP can't say your account name (thefuckingdsl) because they can't swear at customers. It was pretty fun hearing the guys confirm my account without saying it
I'd guess a small tablet is, to someone who'd use one, as annoying as a trackpad is to me. I'd be willing to bet if you always had it there it would come in handy for quick tweaks and the like.
I'm one of those who you blame for this stuff. The way I do it is get whatever is free (upfront) whenever I get a new contract. Dunno about in the US but in the UK you can get 30 day contracts now, SIM only. In my experience about 2/3 phones bought are unlocked (I guess the network figures you've got to pay out the contract even if you sell the phone).
X/ssh is a bit slow for poor network links. Check out NX server, that'll give you a full desktop or app over GPRS. It's also GPL, and you can have NoMachine or FreeNX (the free and hard to use version:) )
#1: Beware of Moose (Score:5, Insightful)
by dangitman (862676) Alter Relationship on Sunday June 01, @09:41AM (#23615699)
They are known to drop from the trees and surprise foreigners with deadly force. Looks like the mods today skipped biologyâ¦
Slightly off topic, but hey whats/. for.
I've seen people move both directions because they end up better off, but it does appear that America has a more purely capitalist approach to life. The time this seems most obvious is not in a properly paid professional job, but when you're just getting started. I'd imagine most of the/. crowd worked minimum wage at some point (AFAIK everyone without parents who pay the bills does), and thats where free health care and stricter employment law really counts. My GF is working in the US ATM, and she has to just make sure not to get ill and put up with working conditions that are illegal by EU standards.
Just a quick one, isn't wikipedia exempt from a whole bunch of taxes etc. for being a non-profit? They'd have to sell even more adverts to cover the taxes you pay by being a normal company. If they wanted to I guess they could launch a new ad supported version, mirroring the content and making "donations" to the standard wiki
Dunno how I'd feel about going to war for any cause... but I know I'm cool with the odds of getting "terrorismed". There was a more persistent risk from the IRA when I was a kid, evacuations etc pretty often, and less crazy overreaction.
Life isn't ever risk-free, you should at least be able to choose your risks, and personally "extremists" worry me less than a "government"
Does anyone use RealPlayer? I mean, it's worse than QuickTime (and I HATE QuickTime). To be fair to Real, have you ever used it on anything that isn't Windows? RealPlayer is fucking horrible on windows ("Why would this stupid user have assigned media to other players? I'll change that"), but on both Mac and Linux it's a perfectly usable player for streaming media.
TBH, dunno if it's still as bad on windows. Last time I had a home windows box, it was vista in a VM to test it for "I'm an idiot" security (search "windows vista crack" and get all you find haha)
I agree with a lot of what your saying, got a MacBook Pro about 18 months ago pretty much to avoid Windows (and even with a load of trying couldn't get Linux to do what I wanted easily on the desktop). The result is that, if I can't have MacOS it's gotta be Linux or nothing. Macs provide a brilliant UI that my mother can use with no problems, and a proper CLI with scripting and everything (I know you can script windows, but have you ever actually done that without 2-5 hours of swearing and physical pain?). Now I have MacOS for day-to-day wanting to open the computer and do shit, and use Gentoo for when I get a situation like "this laptop will overheat and freeze if I don't use the CPU throttling that doesn't exist" situations.
Side note: That bloody laptop does exist, it's a Dell XPS and Windows won't throttle the CPU to keep it cool because apparently the P4 doesn't do that.
How many times does it have to be repeated? Counting vulnerabilities is a stupid way to measure security. Aside from this TFA says: Windows 44 / MacOS 243. When I looked on Secunia it says 30 for Windows and 26 for MacOS. When I looked at some of the mentioned reports LOADS are "reserved" (I'll list some at the end). If counting is worthless how good is counting incorrectly?
CVE-2007-5850 H CVE-2007-5851 H CVE-2007-5853 H CVE-2007-5854 H CVE-2007-5855 H CVE-2007-5856 H CVE-2007-5857 H CVE-2007-5859 H CVE-2007-5860 H CVE-2007-5861 H CVE-2007-5863 H CVE-2007-6077 H
If i were a customer, i would want to know why i can't download a film off my ftp, but still get spam and malware. As an aside, shouldn't they use this for worse things than copyright infringement?
It's probably bad manners to reply to yourself, but I was in the mood for some stats (BTW, if anyone has a well researched article RE: number of people killed by terrorism vs. number killed by fighting it vs. number who's lives have radically changed, that'd be interesting)
Anyway, statistics fury:
Slashdot Mirror
Security needs to be applied away from the end user. A lot of malware and other crap would be stopped with ISPs offering "safer" internet by default, block all incoming only allow standard outgoing ports etc. Then make users go through an extra hoop to enable "pro" mode or similar. Personally I'd hate using the net with those kind of filters, but most people I know whouldn't even notice that they could only get to port 80....
Only if you have many apps within notepad (mail/news/office apps). Emacs counts, notepad not so much.
I'd mostly agree, sites that take the piss (like /.) get all their ads blocked. If someone has a box that says "please don't block my ads, it's them that stops me having to get a job" I do think twice
I looked at the android market website since I have an open mind until the new iPhone comes out next month. App store beats it.
Not all the apps in the market are on the website. It's more to give an idea of what's available.
And are we going to need to hand out free computers as well to realize the benefits
If you can show me some major life-altering benefits, I may be convinced. But I must admit I am having some difficulty thinking what is so important about broadband that trumps $5 a month dialup which is available to anyone with a phone line.
First off, the costs. If you want people to have access to mobile broadband, (in the UK at least) all the networks will give you a laptop/netbook for getting a contract (15/mo for 18 months). That's cheaper than having a phone line.
That's also one to remember when signing up for services online, it causes plenty of confusion if your ISP can't say your account name (thefuckingdsl) because they can't swear at customers. It was pretty fun hearing the guys confirm my account without saying it
I'd guess a small tablet is, to someone who'd use one, as annoying as a trackpad is to me. I'd be willing to bet if you always had it there it would come in handy for quick tweaks and the like.
Are you comparing analogue SDTV and HD digital? Switching between those two was a shock.
Kinda like tits - too dangerous to look at directly, gotta glance sneakily
More difficult than you'd think. You have to allow every host you download from on the net, and Firefox's mirror system makes that tricky.
I'm one of those who you blame for this stuff. The way I do it is get whatever is free (upfront) whenever I get a new contract. Dunno about in the US but in the UK you can get 30 day contracts now, SIM only. In my experience about 2/3 phones bought are unlocked (I guess the network figures you've got to pay out the contract even if you sell the phone).
X/ssh is a bit slow for poor network links. Check out NX server, that'll give you a full desktop or app over GPRS. It's also GPL, and you can have NoMachine or FreeNX (the free and hard to use version :) )
Slightly off topic, but hey whats /. for.
I've seen people move both directions because they end up better off, but it does appear that America has a more purely capitalist approach to life. The time this seems most obvious is not in a properly paid professional job, but when you're just getting started. I'd imagine most of the /. crowd worked minimum wage at some point (AFAIK everyone without parents who pay the bills does), and thats where free health care and stricter employment law really counts. My GF is working in the US ATM, and she has to just make sure not to get ill and put up with working conditions that are illegal by EU standards.
Just a quick one, isn't wikipedia exempt from a whole bunch of taxes etc. for being a non-profit? They'd have to sell even more adverts to cover the taxes you pay by being a normal company.
If they wanted to I guess they could launch a new ad supported version, mirroring the content and making "donations" to the standard wiki
Dunno how I'd feel about going to war for any cause... but I know I'm cool with the odds of getting "terrorismed". There was a more persistent risk from the IRA when I was a kid, evacuations etc pretty often, and less crazy overreaction. Life isn't ever risk-free, you should at least be able to choose your risks, and personally "extremists" worry me less than a "government"
TBH, dunno if it's still as bad on windows. Last time I had a home windows box, it was vista in a VM to test it for "I'm an idiot" security (search "windows vista crack" and get all you find haha)
I agree with a lot of what your saying, got a MacBook Pro about 18 months ago pretty much to avoid Windows (and even with a load of trying couldn't get Linux to do what I wanted easily on the desktop). The result is that, if I can't have MacOS it's gotta be Linux or nothing.
Macs provide a brilliant UI that my mother can use with no problems, and a proper CLI with scripting and everything (I know you can script windows, but have you ever actually done that without 2-5 hours of swearing and physical pain?). Now I have MacOS for day-to-day wanting to open the computer and do shit, and use Gentoo for when I get a situation like "this laptop will overheat and freeze if I don't use the CPU throttling that doesn't exist" situations.
Side note:
That bloody laptop does exist, it's a Dell XPS and Windows won't throttle the CPU to keep it cool because apparently the P4 doesn't do that.
L8r
CVE-2007-5850 H
CVE-2007-5851 H
CVE-2007-5853 H
CVE-2007-5854 H
CVE-2007-5855 H
CVE-2007-5856 H
CVE-2007-5857 H
CVE-2007-5859 H
CVE-2007-5860 H
CVE-2007-5861 H
CVE-2007-5863 H
CVE-2007-6077 H
This is /. with all your MS bashing you should have at least show OSS advocacy and said "Gimp it"
If i were a customer, i would want to know why i can't download a film off my ftp, but still get spam and malware. As an aside, shouldn't they use this for worse things than copyright infringement?
Anyway, statistics fury:
- 10, 718 - total of deaths from the terrorist attacks bit of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_and_other_violent_events_by_death_toll (a run down of some of the better known terrorist attacks in the last century
- 300, 000 to "over 1 million" - estimates of death toll under 25 years of Saddam's rule in Iraq (http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat3.htm)
- 3815 - American war dead in Iraq
- 1, 080, 923 - estimated Iraqi civilian deaths since 2003 (http://justforeignpolicy.org/
It's good this saving people's lives and freeing them thing isn't it? L8r