I've never seen a consumer hard drive last even 3 years
Where are you using these beasties? In a sandstorm? Underwater? I've got two computers at home, one's about 9 years old, the other one is around 5 years old - No issues with the hard drives at all, no clicking, no "bad data"...
One advantage to GPS navigation is it will allow more aircraft to fly to their destination "as the crow flies" as opposed to being forced to fly established ATC corridors. This saves on both fuel and flight time.
Is it too much to ask to spell-check your stuff,/.??
Of late, I've been thinking Slashdot should remove the 'Submit' button and only have a 'Preview' button - 'Submit' would only be available on the preview page. That way, you'd be forced to preview your post before you could submit it. Slashdot could even delay presenting the 'Submit' button for 15 or 30 seconds, which might force people to read their posts before submitting them. Of course this might delay the much-coveted "frist post!!" opportunities, but c'est la vie.
I have a Ryobi table saw and it's perfectly fine for what it is. Would I use it to build a house? No. It's not meant for that. Is it a good-value table saw for cutting up the odd sheet of plywood or ripping the odd 2x6? Absolutely. It's a basic, easy-to-use light-duty table saw that I use 'now and again'. You need to buy products that align with the purpose for which they're intended, and Ryobi fits that niche nicely. They're not more, nor do they claim to be.
I'm sorry, but we can't take everyone who wants in. We can't afford it even in the best of times.
This logic assumes that immigrants are a net-drain on the economy / social safety net. Sure, there are some costs perhaps associated with providing specialized schooling to their children, but other than that I disagree that immigration is a cost centre.
I realize there are always exceptions, but it seems to me if someone is making an effort to get here, then generally they work when they get here.
Take my vietnamese next door neighbours - They do every scut-job they can find, gutting fish, building scaffolding, working retail - They're always working, and they put three girls through university. Ask any farmer in the Okanagan (our farm region here in British Columbia, Canada) about his Mexican "temporary workers" and he'll tell you they work hard and are happy to be here.
Compare this with the guys begging for nickels at the subway station - They're all obviously WASP Canadians, albeit with purple hair and 17 piercings.
All anecdotal to be sure, and I'm sure some folks, once arrived, go straight on welfare, but I'd argue they're the minority, at least in North America.
This is why the entire concept of "stop using foreign oil" is wrong
Imagine instead of growing your own apples, you went to your neighbour's place and bought some of his apples. After all, why grow your own apples when you can just buy them elsewhere? Now imagine your neighbour then turns around and gives a portion of his apple profits (which he's earned fro you) to his crazy brother. The crazy brother then proceeds to use the money he's just been given to buy dynamite, which he lights and repeatedly chucks at your house.
Sooner or later you'd decide to either stop eating apples, or start to grow your own.
Plus, the arguement is specious anyway - The USA will have huge taxes, the nation-state has just decided to download those taxes onto your children, grand-children and great grandchildren. In the USA, the next generations are expected to fund today's spending...
politician is a politician, doesn't matter where, when, or under what circumstances, they all act the same.
How is it then, that Asia and Europe have high-speed rail all over the place, France has the best health care in the world, and my city (Vancouver) is very liveable? Some politicians seem able to "get things done," others bicker over Janet Jackson's nipple...
I don't think that anyone will want to take the train from China to Europe
Maybe not today, but in 30 or 40 years when dwindling oil makes the cost of air travel unsustainable? Absolutely people will be willing to take a fast train. Wouldn't surprise me if, in 100 years, there's a train over the Bering Straight linking Asia with North America. These Asian folks think long term, unlike short-sighted Western politicians.
It sounds like a clever idea to use them as secret shoppers to steal laptops, but what happens when they steal the wrong ones?
That's not what we're talking about here - We're talkinga about a junkie stealing a laptop, then the junkie's fence selling it on Craigslist, and the final owner, out of curiousity, noodling around in the data on the device and discovering something.
And who is stealing laptops? In the US, a lot of that theft is just petty theft for quick cash -- drug addicts, gang members, losers looking for something they can pawn or turn on the street for $200. It's really not info security experts.
True, but the problem is you need to treat every theft like a security breach - So while an encrypted laptop with a SecurID token in the laptop bag was probably stolen by a junkie, you just don't know whether or not the final 'owner' is noodling through the data.
Encryption is such a basic and fundamental requirement that if you're security team isn't working on a way to encrypt your data now, they should have it already done.
You're missing the point of the article - It's saying that encryption isn't a panacea because of the human factor - People write down passwords, put their tokens in their laptop bags etc.
What the [snip] does the 21st century have to do with anything?
Calm down, Anonymous Coward.
What I'm saying is this is the 21st Century - It isn't 1962 any more, and outdated black & white terms like "socialist" don't make sense in a 21st century context - Particularly from americans who now live in a nation-state that is, in many ways, more of a 'socialist' nation than many countries that they tar with the 'socialist' label. Take healthcare. Most people outside of the USA would consider the health care that's delivered in France to be superior to the American system. Yet the nonsensical term "socialism!" is stuck onto it and suddenly it's evil.
This sort of simplistic discussion isn't intelligent and it doesn't make sense in a modern context.
Yea, like those socialist countries don't have some serious problems..... Socialism sucks
You know, in the 21st century, using supposedly negative terms like "socialist" are pretty tired. The USA is one of the most 'socialist' nation-states going. The USA spends more per-capita on health care than bogey-man "socialist" countries like Canada and spends billions (trillions?) buying banks, car manufacturers, you name it.
In the USA, the government sticks its nose into who can marry who, spends billions of your dollars saying what drugs people can use, asks me at age 43 for ID when I try to buy a bud lite, posts stupid useless warnings on foods & menus, has ridiculous zero-tolerance policies at schools, goes crazy if Janet Jackson's tit 'slips out'... (think of the children!) and on and on. You won't find many more socialist nanny-states in the world than the USA...
* GPS navigation only works if you have a gps enabled device and a constant data connection. Wi-Fi is useless for this.
So you mean those GPSes cars that just plug into lighter sockets are magic? Or the ones on ships hundreds of miles out out to sea have a constant data connection?
Pulling out a laptop to check twitter to see where your friends are while walking down the street does not make sense.
Just text your friends - "Hey dude, where are you?"
The booklet is a Microsoft initiative (no, I won't write "Microsoft" with a dollar sign) and this is Slashdot. This booklet could cost five dollars, include a free phone, cure cancer and have a battery life of 9.5 years on a single charge and it would still be considered the most evil device ever created, ranking right up there with child-maiming landmines.
So you have an xbox for sale on craigslist, and a guy comes over and pays you $200 for it. When you go deposit that money in the bank you're told it's counterfeit and useless - So you have no xbox and no $200. Has that guy stolen your xbox?
So, let's fine them $100 per incident for each time their box attacks somebody else's system, and then see how quickly they run to Best Buy.
I agree. I'm only pointing out that the argument that people should just install free AV software doesn't always hold water... The bot machines are often running pirated unpatched windows, and the the AV software can't or won't install on pirated unpatched windows. Plus, I'm pretty sure there are no best buys in Romania, Slovakia, Uganda and the like...
So that's still the vast majority of users covered for free.
It's not the 'vast majority of users' that are running infected devices that are part of botnets - It's a small percentage of a very large number of machines that are part of botnets. I'm suggesting that the reason they're not running AV applications on those machines is the apps won't run on their unpatched 'stolen' versions of Windows...
it's the nuts who won't let Windows Update run that are the problem.
As I've said above, a lot of these nuts turn off WU because they're running pirated Windows and they're worried what will happen if they run Windows Update...
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I've never seen a consumer hard drive last even 3 years
Where are you using these beasties? In a sandstorm? Underwater? I've got two computers at home, one's about 9 years old, the other one is around 5 years old - No issues with the hard drives at all, no clicking, no "bad data"...
One advantage to GPS navigation is it will allow more aircraft to fly to their destination "as the crow flies" as opposed to being forced to fly established ATC corridors. This saves on both fuel and flight time.
get both the ad shut off checkbox and an immediate submit button
As do I, but I've never turned off the ads. Figure someone's gotta pay to keep the lights on...
Is it too much to ask to spell-check your stuff, /.??
Of late, I've been thinking Slashdot should remove the 'Submit' button and only have a 'Preview' button - 'Submit' would only be available on the preview page. That way, you'd be forced to preview your post before you could submit it. Slashdot could even delay presenting the 'Submit' button for 15 or 30 seconds, which might force people to read their posts before submitting them. Of course this might delay the much-coveted "frist post!!" opportunities, but c'est la vie.
brands like Ryobi and King are crap
Wrong.
I have a Ryobi table saw and it's perfectly fine for what it is. Would I use it to build a house? No. It's not meant for that. Is it a good-value table saw for cutting up the odd sheet of plywood or ripping the odd 2x6? Absolutely. It's a basic, easy-to-use light-duty table saw that I use 'now and again'. You need to buy products that align with the purpose for which they're intended, and Ryobi fits that niche nicely. They're not more, nor do they claim to be.
I'm sorry, but we can't take everyone who wants in. We can't afford it even in the best of times.
This logic assumes that immigrants are a net-drain on the economy / social safety net. Sure, there are some costs perhaps associated with providing specialized schooling to their children, but other than that I disagree that immigration is a cost centre.
I realize there are always exceptions, but it seems to me if someone is making an effort to get here, then generally they work when they get here.
Take my vietnamese next door neighbours - They do every scut-job they can find, gutting fish, building scaffolding, working retail - They're always working, and they put three girls through university. Ask any farmer in the Okanagan (our farm region here in British Columbia, Canada) about his Mexican "temporary workers" and he'll tell you they work hard and are happy to be here.
Compare this with the guys begging for nickels at the subway station - They're all obviously WASP Canadians, albeit with purple hair and 17 piercings.
All anecdotal to be sure, and I'm sure some folks, once arrived, go straight on welfare, but I'd argue they're the minority, at least in North America.
This is why the entire concept of "stop using foreign oil" is wrong
Imagine instead of growing your own apples, you went to your neighbour's place and bought some of his apples. After all, why grow your own apples when you can just buy them elsewhere? Now imagine your neighbour then turns around and gives a portion of his apple profits (which he's earned fro you) to his crazy brother. The crazy brother then proceeds to use the money he's just been given to buy dynamite, which he lights and repeatedly chucks at your house.
Sooner or later you'd decide to either stop eating apples, or start to grow your own.
French health care: heh. go try it. and don't forget the accompanying taxes.
Huh? The WHO ranks French healthcare as the best in the world. The US spends almost twice per capita of public funds on health care than France does.
cite:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/08/11/frances_model_healthcare_system/
Plus, the arguement is specious anyway - The USA will have huge taxes, the nation-state has just decided to download those taxes onto your children, grand-children and great grandchildren. In the USA, the next generations are expected to fund today's spending...
politician is a politician, doesn't matter where, when, or under what circumstances, they all act the same.
How is it then, that Asia and Europe have high-speed rail all over the place, France has the best health care in the world, and my city (Vancouver) is very liveable? Some politicians seem able to "get things done," others bicker over Janet Jackson's nipple...
Hope the passengers don't mind getting blowed up by terrorists.
Blowed up real good?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dfoVqhQVyQ#t=1m10s
I don't think that anyone will want to take the train from China to Europe
Maybe not today, but in 30 or 40 years when dwindling oil makes the cost of air travel unsustainable? Absolutely people will be willing to take a fast train. Wouldn't surprise me if, in 100 years, there's a train over the Bering Straight linking Asia with North America. These Asian folks think long term, unlike short-sighted Western politicians.
It sounds like a clever idea to use them as secret shoppers to steal laptops, but what happens when they steal the wrong ones?
That's not what we're talking about here - We're talkinga about a junkie stealing a laptop, then the junkie's fence selling it on Craigslist, and the final owner, out of curiousity, noodling around in the data on the device and discovering something.
And who is stealing laptops? In the US, a lot of that theft is just petty theft for quick cash -- drug addicts, gang members, losers looking for something they can pawn or turn on the street for $200. It's really not info security experts.
True, but the problem is you need to treat every theft like a security breach - So while an encrypted laptop with a SecurID token in the laptop bag was probably stolen by a junkie, you just don't know whether or not the final 'owner' is noodling through the data.
Encryption is such a basic and fundamental requirement that if you're security team isn't working on a way to encrypt your data now, they should have it already done.
You're missing the point of the article - It's saying that encryption isn't a panacea because of the human factor - People write down passwords, put their tokens in their laptop bags etc.
I'm curious, in what ways is the French system better than the American one? Is it just cost, cost/quality of care, or some other factor?
A high quality of care, delivered to everyone, at a per-capita cost of nearly half of what the US taxpayer spends:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/pvd/Primer.htm
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/08/11/frances_model_healthcare_system/
What the [snip] does the 21st century have to do with anything?
Calm down, Anonymous Coward.
What I'm saying is this is the 21st Century - It isn't 1962 any more, and outdated black & white terms like "socialist" don't make sense in a 21st century context - Particularly from americans who now live in a nation-state that is, in many ways, more of a 'socialist' nation than many countries that they tar with the 'socialist' label. Take healthcare. Most people outside of the USA would consider the health care that's delivered in France to be superior to the American system. Yet the nonsensical term "socialism!" is stuck onto it and suddenly it's evil.
This sort of simplistic discussion isn't intelligent and it doesn't make sense in a modern context.
Yea, like those socialist countries don't have some serious problems..... Socialism sucks
You know, in the 21st century, using supposedly negative terms like "socialist" are pretty tired. The USA is one of the most 'socialist' nation-states going. The USA spends more per-capita on health care than bogey-man "socialist" countries like Canada and spends billions (trillions?) buying banks, car manufacturers, you name it.
In the USA, the government sticks its nose into who can marry who, spends billions of your dollars saying what drugs people can use, asks me at age 43 for ID when I try to buy a bud lite, posts stupid useless warnings on foods & menus, has ridiculous zero-tolerance policies at schools, goes crazy if Janet Jackson's tit 'slips out'... (think of the children!) and on and on. You won't find many more socialist nanny-states in the world than the USA...
* GPS navigation only works if you have a gps enabled device and a constant data connection. Wi-Fi is useless for this.
So you mean those GPSes cars that just plug into lighter sockets are magic? Or the ones on ships hundreds of miles out out to sea have a constant data connection?
Pulling out a laptop to check twitter to see where your friends are while walking down the street does not make sense.
Just text your friends - "Hey dude, where are you?"
Slashdot works fine on my Nokia
Maddox, is that you?
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
Is this slashdot, or NOT?
Of course it is - I got modded "Troll," didn't I?
What's wrong with booklet though?
The booklet is a Microsoft initiative (no, I won't write "Microsoft" with a dollar sign) and this is Slashdot. This booklet could cost five dollars, include a free phone, cure cancer and have a battery life of 9.5 years on a single charge and it would still be considered the most evil device ever created, ranking right up there with child-maiming landmines.
It's NOT theft
So you have an xbox for sale on craigslist, and a guy comes over and pays you $200 for it. When you go deposit that money in the bank you're told it's counterfeit and useless - So you have no xbox and no $200. Has that guy stolen your xbox?
So, let's fine them $100 per incident for each time their box attacks somebody else's system, and then see how quickly they run to Best Buy.
I agree. I'm only pointing out that the argument that people should just install free AV software doesn't always hold water... The bot machines are often running pirated unpatched windows, and the the AV software can't or won't install on pirated unpatched windows. Plus, I'm pretty sure there are no best buys in Romania, Slovakia, Uganda and the like...
So that's still the vast majority of users covered for free.
It's not the 'vast majority of users' that are running infected devices that are part of botnets - It's a small percentage of a very large number of machines that are part of botnets. I'm suggesting that the reason they're not running AV applications on those machines is the apps won't run on their unpatched 'stolen' versions of Windows...
it's the nuts who won't let Windows Update run that are the problem.
As I've said above, a lot of these nuts turn off WU because they're running pirated Windows and they're worried what will happen if they run Windows Update...