... etc... WTF is wrong with that? When has it ever made sense to translate what could be done in one click and one motion to two clicks and two motions? Office 07 annoys the hell out of me and I only tolerate it at work. I do have OO installed, but there are many times where I must endure that damned interface because I can't figure out how to turn it off.
Yo, Perot Systems. I really happy for you and all that, but Dell has made one of the best systems of all time! Of all time! *hands the mic back, shrugs and walks off*
Maybe one day I'll be able to do the engine I want to do to my 2000 Eclipse. The ECM controls both the engine and the transmission and the 4G63 engine I want to swap in DIDN'T come coupled to the semi-auto tranny I have. I could swap in the manual transmission with the engine, sure, but I really want a 4G63T in my other-wise "some-what factory" GS. So, my options are to either completely re-program the ECM to run the proper DOHV timing or to lobotomize the engine side of the ECM and piggy back the 4G63's computer into it and run the original transmission control. Both of those are pretty much impossible, so as it is I'm stuck. Or, those bastards could open up the code a little bit so a reputable mechanic can clear a simple engine light code and I could have the most unique car on the block!
The so-called wall that supposed to built to keep illegal immigrants out of our country and away from our jobs does just as good a job at keeping US in! You're not going to get out of this country if they don't want you to.
What TFA is attempting to say is that consumers needs are being driven by technology to the point where they have the potential to be met in far overreaching capacities. You just want to hop onto that YouTube thing and realize that you've got to get a camera. Welcome to good enough. We haven't seen this before, really. Cameras and MP3s are a great example. I've seen some discussions here about tools being used as an example, but that's a bad one and here's why: you actually NEED tools.
They didn't need them, but the reason people bought consumer cameras back in the day was because there was an immediately visible value in them. People want to permanently capture their memories. But in the beginning cameras were big, difficult to use & expensive, so a good enough solution was just that, good enough to meet the demands of most and still be highly desirable. But, there was a ton of technology involved in bringing that camera to the consumer, which is the point of the article: that technology may actually be motivating a shift away from quality feature design to a method based purely on facilitating consumer desire.
So here we are today and we still realize value in technology with regard to our desires as is evident in the advance of MP3s and cheap PCs and other such consumer-level tech. Yesterday it was cameras, today it's much much more, but the thing that remains the same is that the technology is what's pushing it along.
People say that it's a hard distro to get up and running, but it's not. It's not a quick install like Windows or Ubuntu, I found. But once I got it up and running it is my system of choice. It has not failed me like SUSE did when I couldn't figure out what was causing the system to go sluggish when I left over the weekend. And it didn't feel like Linux lite,like Ubuntu. All in all, I love me some Slack and I plan on running 13 as my main desktop as soon as possible.
Yep. it's another ADMINISTRATOR account that silently gets added to your system. Once I figured out what it was I disregarded it, but I was still pretty pissed.
Thank you. You are so right. We should require a hardware tool in the form of a dongle or a physical switch on the machine. The action of flashing the BIOS should also give an interactive warning to illustrate that it should only be performed under extreme circumstances for most users. Also, it should include more options such as being able to limit a dongle to be used only X number of times before it is no longer active, or the ability to password the flash process or even require a physical key in order for the switch to be thrown. This will shift hardware-level exploits to the most dangerous type (to the black-hat): social engineering and gaining physical access. Hardware manufacturers will fight about it, but I doubt it would harm their business very much if the changes optional.
... is that it allows for malicious code to be uploaded to the machine and the modifications will survive re-flashing and drive wipings. That is a HUGE glaring vulnerability right there and it might not even matter if you enable or disable the feature, if you use it, or if it is able to be disabled/enabled once set. The article does not mention whether it is necessary for it to be enabled, so lets assume it is not. It is not too much of an imagination stretch to envision malware that is able to upload change to the BIOS from the desktop that include the necessary settings for a successful attack. This is bad. Very bad.
You're not supposed to change lanes within 100 feet of an intersection. There is a chance that another car accelerates into you as they attempt to clear a caution light. Or, one may turn into the lane you're changing into. This is much more likely on two-lane roads.
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...could also be used as a telediddonics device. There. I said it.
And these are some bad cockroaches. And other bad bugs.
Yeah, whatever... Take a group of seasoned Pen & Paper gamers and they'll fuck you up with a 10-foot pole and 50 feet of rope.
OR because they use their muscle (read lots and lots of $$$'s) to strong-arm the (sometimes not so) little guys out, like with the Xbox.
... etc... WTF is wrong with that? When has it ever made sense to translate what could be done in one click and one motion to two clicks and two motions? Office 07 annoys the hell out of me and I only tolerate it at work. I do have OO installed, but there are many times where I must endure that damned interface because I can't figure out how to turn it off.
It ain't just the old ones. They do it remotely now.
Yo, Perot Systems. I really happy for you and all that, but Dell has made one of the best systems of all time! Of all time! *hands the mic back, shrugs and walks off*
I don't get it. Is the article summary written in Wookie?
Maybe one day I'll be able to do the engine I want to do to my 2000 Eclipse. The ECM controls both the engine and the transmission and the 4G63 engine I want to swap in DIDN'T come coupled to the semi-auto tranny I have. I could swap in the manual transmission with the engine, sure, but I really want a 4G63T in my other-wise "some-what factory" GS. So, my options are to either completely re-program the ECM to run the proper DOHV timing or to lobotomize the engine side of the ECM and piggy back the 4G63's computer into it and run the original transmission control. Both of those are pretty much impossible, so as it is I'm stuck. Or, those bastards could open up the code a little bit so a reputable mechanic can clear a simple engine light code and I could have the most unique car on the block!
Cell-shading... No thanks.
So the cloned something that only reproduces by being cloned. Umm... am I missing something here?
I know I'd, for one, feel perfectly secure nestled between them gorgeous breasts.
The so-called wall that supposed to built to keep illegal immigrants out of our country and away from our jobs does just as good a job at keeping US in! You're not going to get out of this country if they don't want you to.
What TFA is attempting to say is that consumers needs are being driven by technology to the point where they have the potential to be met in far overreaching capacities. You just want to hop onto that YouTube thing and realize that you've got to get a camera. Welcome to good enough. We haven't seen this before, really. Cameras and MP3s are a great example. I've seen some discussions here about tools being used as an example, but that's a bad one and here's why: you actually NEED tools.
They didn't need them, but the reason people bought consumer cameras back in the day was because there was an immediately visible value in them. People want to permanently capture their memories. But in the beginning cameras were big, difficult to use & expensive, so a good enough solution was just that, good enough to meet the demands of most and still be highly desirable. But, there was a ton of technology involved in bringing that camera to the consumer, which is the point of the article: that technology may actually be motivating a shift away from quality feature design to a method based purely on facilitating consumer desire.
So here we are today and we still realize value in technology with regard to our desires as is evident in the advance of MP3s and cheap PCs and other such consumer-level tech. Yesterday it was cameras, today it's much much more, but the thing that remains the same is that the technology is what's pushing it along.
Drugs. He said Drugs.
People say that it's a hard distro to get up and running, but it's not. It's not a quick install like Windows or Ubuntu, I found. But once I got it up and running it is my system of choice. It has not failed me like SUSE did when I couldn't figure out what was causing the system to go sluggish when I left over the weekend. And it didn't feel like Linux lite,like Ubuntu. All in all, I love me some Slack and I plan on running 13 as my main desktop as soon as possible.
Yep. it's another ADMINISTRATOR account that silently gets added to your system. Once I figured out what it was I disregarded it, but I was still pretty pissed.
No. They just want to make more money.
Ever hear of the FARC (Yes, I know they are not Mexican)?
'Cause programmers love drugs. Or so stereotypes say. Hackers, on the other hand, DEFINITELY love drugs.
You're ruining our lives!
Thank you. You are so right. We should require a hardware tool in the form of a dongle or a physical switch on the machine. The action of flashing the BIOS should also give an interactive warning to illustrate that it should only be performed under extreme circumstances for most users. Also, it should include more options such as being able to limit a dongle to be used only X number of times before it is no longer active, or the ability to password the flash process or even require a physical key in order for the switch to be thrown. This will shift hardware-level exploits to the most dangerous type (to the black-hat): social engineering and gaining physical access. Hardware manufacturers will fight about it, but I doubt it would harm their business very much if the changes optional.
... is that it allows for malicious code to be uploaded to the machine and the modifications will survive re-flashing and drive wipings. That is a HUGE glaring vulnerability right there and it might not even matter if you enable or disable the feature, if you use it, or if it is able to be disabled/enabled once set. The article does not mention whether it is necessary for it to be enabled, so lets assume it is not. It is not too much of an imagination stretch to envision malware that is able to upload change to the BIOS from the desktop that include the necessary settings for a successful attack. This is bad. Very bad.
You're not supposed to change lanes within 100 feet of an intersection. There is a chance that another car accelerates into you as they attempt to clear a caution light. Or, one may turn into the lane you're changing into. This is much more likely on two-lane roads.