You and me both. But I know plenty of people who consider themselves "power users" and would consider such a move patronizing (and an accusation that they made a mistake; how could they!). And I know even a few who don't care about malware on their computer as long as it isn't too much in the way (some even call it cool to be a part of one or more botnets...).
Make ISPs responsible (and if they want they can make their customers responsible). Now they can have tens if not hundreds of zombies within their network, knowingly and doing nothing since they might lose customers.
Not going to happen; $$$$.
Yup, if they don't they lose customers (or that's the idea). For the same reason a lot of ISPs do nothing about infected computers in their net work. No matter how much spam they send out or how many requests they do to your web servers. A smaller group of ISPs (e.g. MediaTemple, to name just one) have no problem at all with spammers in their network (and/or make reporting spammers extremely hard), as long as the customer pays (and the complainer: not). Spam etc. is plenty because people accept money to look the other way. Whether it's to the left or the right, doesn't matter.
I've mentioned several times the past years that Digg, which turned in a total crapfest back then, probably would be sold to Yahoo! soonish so they could properly kill it. I was wrong with the customer, but probably not wrong about the death of Digg. The past months it has been flooded by spammers and reporting them is pointless (nothing is done). Good luck, Betaworks, with cleaning up the mess.
Thanks for the tip! I want to improve my vim skills so that basically it doesn't matter to me which one (vim or emacs) I use. Now, I use vim mainly for quick edits on server(s) and emacs for coding.
Emacs org mode. More features than a text file in an ordinary editor, but also has (limited) spreadsheet support, support for tables, etc. And it's still a plain text file, so grep, etc. works.
Since it probably will not have all the limitations of the Kindle Fire it will outperform that one for sure.
I got the KF as a Christmas gift. I live in Mexico. There's a small flaw in the screen that showed up after a month. Amazon is willing to replace the device if I send it to the USA and they ship it to an USA address. After some more pushing they even wanted to refund the shipping cost to the USA (as an Amazon gift card, of course). When I got the KF I had to pay 20+% import duties and other taxes (40 USD). Shipping it within a reasonable time frame and insured will be around 90 USD or so. Or: I can have my KF fixed if I am willing to pay around 130 USD.
Add to that the Amazon store requires a credit card with an USA address, even for the free apps and it's clear that Apple will outperform the KF on both warranty and content.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Kindle Touch I own, and the KF is nice (although I do miss a built in cam and mic, let's hope the iPad 7+" has those). But Amazon is not going to beat content and an Apple store around the corner.
Recently when I checked Google's content for Nexus 7 page (can't recall how it's called) I also got a nice warning that it's not available in Mexico. Smells like the same problem as with the KF.
DNS servers don't return pages. What you probably mean is to return the same IP address for each and every DNS request, an IP address that hosts a web server that tells people that their computer has been infected. Might be possible to do the same for other protocols, e.g. POP3 will return daily a new email that their computer has been infected, etc.
At least it will open their eyes. Now everything (as far as I know) just works. Of course you can redirect them to a page that they should trust, on a https server with a domain that can be trusted, etc.
So it's a majority of normal users v.s. the slashdot crowd..... Tough decision, right?
And yeah, yeah, I know this is all over-generalization. But MS seems to have measured all this and done some research. TBH I trust that more than a handful of anecdotes posted on Slashdot were people seem to disagree with every research result anyway or know it better because insert personal experience.
Anyway, we have to wait and see. I am somewhat afraid that the "best" MS OS was Windows XP
From what I understand MS actually tests with users. The "problem", though, is that those users greatly differ (or are perceived as different) from most readers here.
Easier: turn on the Quick Launch toolbar: A better start menu with Quick Launch toolbar. No need for a folder on the Desktop (hate that clutter) or another task bar. Quick Launch is already there, just turn it on;-).
But yeah, MS must be lying through their teeth because you use the start button about once every 5 minutes... Can't even imagine why people would do such a thing unless they get paid for doing so.
Last time I tried I even couldn't get a credit card (Banamex) with a FM3 visa. I had to sign 26+ forms, wait like 2 months and then I got declined. The reason? Banamex is afraid that as a foreigner you're going to leave the country taking their precious 20,000 MXN with you (less than 1,500 USD). As long as they do the ripping off it's OK, but beware, oh foreigner, because according to Banamex you're crooks by default.
I live in Mexico (born in the Netherlands). While there was a shoot out in a neighbourhood very close to ours about a year and a half ago, I suffer right now much more from actual criminals as in Banamex, the so called National Bank of Mexico.
Back in November my bank card got stolen, a card with a nice but meaningless MasterCard [1] logo. It got cloned before the theft was even discovered (piss poor security on those cards) and used to shop in 2 different locations, in total around 2000 USD of goods, including 2 iPads. No problem, you would think, the bank is insured for such events. Right, think. When we tried to report this to Banamex we were told there are 2 ways to report such fraudulent transactions: by phone, or by filing in forms. The later would take 90 (!!) days to be processed.
Of course we went for the phone options.... But after 4 hours (!) we still hadn't been able to talk to someone who actually could process our report. One would think that my inability to speak Spanish had something to do with all this, but no. It's just the piss poor service of Banamex. We later found out that cloning happens a lot in Mexico, and the bank who does the least about this (paying out insurance money) is Banamex...
Nearly 8 months later, still no money. The only option seems to be to go to CONDUSEF, and organization that mediates in cases of disputes between banks and customers (or something like that, translation is most likely: paper pushing at the same level as PROFECO). But from what I understand (and maybe I got this wrong) one has to go to a "nearby" office of CONDUSEF to talk with, in my case, a representative of Banamex. Nearby as in Veracruz, 2+ hours of travel.
Mexican drug lords? Corruption? Nah, the real problem are not the "banditos" in Mexico, but organizations posing as legal but thieving from the poor and not so poor. Probably like how things go in many other countries as well.
Twenty six arrests? Just panem et circenses.
[1] I contacted MasterCard USA, since I guess they license their piss poor products to banks like Banamex. Several times over the period of a month I was told they would "escalate" things. Riiiiggght. Banamex = paying customer, while I am just a nobody; a milk cow.
Moving the close etc. buttons, changing the piss poor default color scheme and chrome in Ubuntu. Removing shit you don't want but is extremely integrated with the desktop (e.g. evolution). It makes that I am going to move away from Ubuntu in a month or so (Hello, OS X).
Still running on 10.04. And that's another thing that I don't like of Ubuntu. You have to upgrade or learn to live with software that is a few versions behind with piss poor default settings (Hello, Evince) or other issues.
And so far, since 8.04, each upgrade is a mix of one or more of the following features.
breaks something
replaces one or more default out-of-the-box programs with others
requires to learn new things and unlearn others (even if just learned).
I've been using several desktop environments (RISC OS, TOS, Windows 3.x... Windows Vista, X, Motif, IndigoMagic and probably forgot one or more) but so far the Ubuntu experience has managed to disappoint me the most. It's like someone who shouldn't be even near fruit bearing trees has been cherry picking the low hanging fruits of several other desktops and then some.
I am all for OSS, and do support it. But Ubuntu's desktop "experience" is like programming in PHP. Or like posting a comment on Slashdot with its piss poor type HTML to keep things readable and broken RSS feeds & —
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is so damn successful this is just the next logical step.... right?
You and me both. But I know plenty of people who consider themselves "power users" and would consider such a move patronizing (and an accusation that they made a mistake; how could they!). And I know even a few who don't care about malware on their computer as long as it isn't too much in the way (some even call it cool to be a part of one or more botnets...).
Make ISPs responsible (and if they want they can make their customers responsible). Now they can have tens if not hundreds of zombies within their network, knowingly and doing nothing since they might lose customers. Not going to happen; $$$$.
Yup, if they don't they lose customers (or that's the idea). For the same reason a lot of ISPs do nothing about infected computers in their net work. No matter how much spam they send out or how many requests they do to your web servers. A smaller group of ISPs (e.g. MediaTemple, to name just one) have no problem at all with spammers in their network (and/or make reporting spammers extremely hard), as long as the customer pays (and the complainer: not). Spam etc. is plenty because people accept money to look the other way. Whether it's to the left or the right, doesn't matter.
I've mentioned several times the past years that Digg, which turned in a total crapfest back then, probably would be sold to Yahoo! soonish so they could properly kill it. I was wrong with the customer, but probably not wrong about the death of Digg. The past months it has been flooded by spammers and reporting them is pointless (nothing is done). Good luck, Betaworks, with cleaning up the mess.
Thanks for the tip! I want to improve my vim skills so that basically it doesn't matter to me which one (vim or emacs) I use. Now, I use vim mainly for quick edits on server(s) and emacs for coding.
Emacs org mode. More features than a text file in an ordinary editor, but also has (limited) spreadsheet support, support for tables, etc. And it's still a plain text file, so grep, etc. works.
A lot of people have the same problem with Larry Niven. Maybe some writers only have a limited time they can write something really good?
Ah, yes, and I have 28,000 daily visitors on my blog.
There is no need to "train" them for that. Most got infected that way or via other "streetwise" mistakes.
Since it probably will not have all the limitations of the Kindle Fire it will outperform that one for sure.
I got the KF as a Christmas gift. I live in Mexico. There's a small flaw in the screen that showed up after a month. Amazon is willing to replace the device if I send it to the USA and they ship it to an USA address. After some more pushing they even wanted to refund the shipping cost to the USA (as an Amazon gift card, of course). When I got the KF I had to pay 20+% import duties and other taxes (40 USD). Shipping it within a reasonable time frame and insured will be around 90 USD or so. Or: I can have my KF fixed if I am willing to pay around 130 USD.
Add to that the Amazon store requires a credit card with an USA address, even for the free apps and it's clear that Apple will outperform the KF on both warranty and content.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Kindle Touch I own, and the KF is nice (although I do miss a built in cam and mic, let's hope the iPad 7+" has those). But Amazon is not going to beat content and an Apple store around the corner.
Recently when I checked Google's content for Nexus 7 page (can't recall how it's called) I also got a nice warning that it's not available in Mexico. Smells like the same problem as with the KF.
DNS servers don't return pages. What you probably mean is to return the same IP address for each and every DNS request, an IP address that hosts a web server that tells people that their computer has been infected. Might be possible to do the same for other protocols, e.g. POP3 will return daily a new email that their computer has been infected, etc.
At least it will open their eyes. Now everything (as far as I know) just works. Of course you can redirect them to a page that they should trust, on a https server with a domain that can be trusted, etc.
Personally, I think it has much more to do with (in my experience) people somehow picking mediocre.
Yeah, and that was really because of a lack of desktop OSes, right?
It might be very well the case that in a lot of situations that's way more secure than having their customers storing the key somewhere "safe".
So it's a majority of normal users v.s. the slashdot crowd..... Tough decision, right? And yeah, yeah, I know this is all over-generalization. But MS seems to have measured all this and done some research. TBH I trust that more than a handful of anecdotes posted on Slashdot were people seem to disagree with every research result anyway or know it better because insert personal experience.
Anyway, we have to wait and see. I am somewhat afraid that the "best" MS OS was Windows XP
From what I understand MS actually tests with users. The "problem", though, is that those users greatly differ (or are perceived as different) from most readers here.
Easier: turn on the Quick Launch toolbar: A better start menu with Quick Launch toolbar. No need for a folder on the Desktop (hate that clutter) or another task bar. Quick Launch is already there, just turn it on ;-).
When on XP I used this the most A better start menu with Quick Launch.
Besides Windows key + R.
But yeah, MS must be lying through their teeth because you use the start button about once every 5 minutes... Can't even imagine why people would do such a thing unless they get paid for doing so.
Last time I tried I even couldn't get a credit card (Banamex) with a FM3 visa. I had to sign 26+ forms, wait like 2 months and then I got declined. The reason? Banamex is afraid that as a foreigner you're going to leave the country taking their precious 20,000 MXN with you (less than 1,500 USD). As long as they do the ripping off it's OK, but beware, oh foreigner, because according to Banamex you're crooks by default.
I live in Mexico (born in the Netherlands). While there was a shoot out in a neighbourhood very close to ours about a year and a half ago, I suffer right now much more from actual criminals as in Banamex, the so called National Bank of Mexico.
Back in November my bank card got stolen, a card with a nice but meaningless MasterCard [1] logo. It got cloned before the theft was even discovered (piss poor security on those cards) and used to shop in 2 different locations, in total around 2000 USD of goods, including 2 iPads. No problem, you would think, the bank is insured for such events. Right, think. When we tried to report this to Banamex we were told there are 2 ways to report such fraudulent transactions: by phone, or by filing in forms. The later would take 90 (!!) days to be processed.
Of course we went for the phone options.... But after 4 hours (!) we still hadn't been able to talk to someone who actually could process our report. One would think that my inability to speak Spanish had something to do with all this, but no. It's just the piss poor service of Banamex. We later found out that cloning happens a lot in Mexico, and the bank who does the least about this (paying out insurance money) is Banamex...
Nearly 8 months later, still no money. The only option seems to be to go to CONDUSEF, and organization that mediates in cases of disputes between banks and customers (or something like that, translation is most likely: paper pushing at the same level as PROFECO). But from what I understand (and maybe I got this wrong) one has to go to a "nearby" office of CONDUSEF to talk with, in my case, a representative of Banamex. Nearby as in Veracruz, 2+ hours of travel.
Mexican drug lords? Corruption? Nah, the real problem are not the "banditos" in Mexico, but organizations posing as legal but thieving from the poor and not so poor. Probably like how things go in many other countries as well.
Twenty six arrests? Just panem et circenses.
[1] I contacted MasterCard USA, since I guess they license their piss poor products to banks like Banamex. Several times over the period of a month I was told they would "escalate" things. Riiiiggght. Banamex = paying customer, while I am just a nobody; a milk cow.
Moving the close etc. buttons, changing the piss poor default color scheme and chrome in Ubuntu. Removing shit you don't want but is extremely integrated with the desktop (e.g. evolution). It makes that I am going to move away from Ubuntu in a month or so (Hello, OS X).
Still running on 10.04. And that's another thing that I don't like of Ubuntu. You have to upgrade or learn to live with software that is a few versions behind with piss poor default settings (Hello, Evince) or other issues.
And so far, since 8.04, each upgrade is a mix of one or more of the following features.
I've been using several desktop environments (RISC OS, TOS, Windows 3.x ... Windows Vista, X, Motif, IndigoMagic and probably forgot one or more) but so far the Ubuntu experience has managed to disappoint me the most. It's like someone who shouldn't be even near fruit bearing trees has been cherry picking the low hanging fruits of several other desktops and then some.
I am all for OSS, and do support it. But Ubuntu's desktop "experience" is like programming in PHP. Or like posting a comment on Slashdot with its piss poor type HTML to keep things readable and broken RSS feeds & —
Sadly, R passed away October 12, 2011: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
Great book, read it :-).