Oh come on now. That's like a car thief telling the dealership they should be okay with him stealing the car because all his buddies will see how cool he looks in it and go out and buy their own.
I'm sure I'm opening myself up for an onslaught here, but I thought all their OSX-based stuff was basically just a very elaborate FreeBSD distro. And you get the benefit of one of the best GUI's in the desktop world, to boot.
It takes a lot more than opening doors at a prison to escape. Even if you open the magnetic doors and confuse the computers, you still have to get past the physical locks, non-networked cameras, and physical guards to get out. And even if you can get past all that and the fences, you'll just be adding years onto your sentence when you get caught. Why would someone like Mitnick be stupid enough to risk a 20-year stint at a Maximum security prison just to escape a 5-year stint at a minimum security one?
I hate to be cynical and say that it doesn't really matter, since no politician is ever going to give you an honest or useful answer anyway (any written response won't even written by them, just some staffer, you know). But I will suggest one of the VERY few politicians at the top who actually seems to give a modicum of a shit about freedom, the little guy, and all that jazz. From his well-known editorial on why he supports net neutrality to his fight against contractors and for regulation of the financial industry, Al Franken seems to be one of the few people in Washington interested in something more than just padding his pocket.
I would be particularly interested to hear more on the Net Neutrality issue, since he seems to be one of the only politicians, Republican or Democrat, actively supporting it.
Yes, he is a little batshit from time to time and prone to saying some crazy shit. But in his defense, they did a LOT of coke on SNL back in the day. He's lost a few brain cells. Poor Chevy Chase is MUCH worse.
Another point, if you look at the demilitarized nations (Germany, Japan), they did pretty damn good after their militaries were drastically reduced.
Yeah, but they were only able to do that because the U.S. and Europe stepped in and took over their defence with NATO and occupation. Who is going to do that for the U.S. if we go bust?
Only "troubled" if you're not Lockheed Martin
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I think the larger story isn't a troubled individual program, it's a federal government that outsources and contracts almost *everything* these days. Having grown up around military bases, I find the level of contracting with anything military to be very troubling these days. I remember back in the 80's when bases began contracting out things like food services. Okay, that seemed pretty reasonable. But I recently went back to an old base that I had once been stationed at back in the day and being shocked by how far this has really gone. Not only were food services, the PX, laundries, etc. run by civilians--but so was base *security*. Instead of MP's greeting me at the gate, it was a bunch of rent-a-cops. I'm not even sure the base *has* MP's anymore (never saw any of them). It would seem a handful of contractors and merc firms do pretty much everything now for the government.
Thanks to the lobbying money of the Lockheed Martins, Northrop Grummans, and Blackwaters (or whatever the fuck they're calling themselves these days), we have overpriced weapons/aircraft programs that function as little more than cash funnels, U.S. embassies guarded not by Marines but by mercs, and a NASA that can't even build a rocket anymore without a Lockheed or Boeing to do all the work for them.
So why should Lockheed Martin care if the F-35 goes over budget, or the MEADS system turns out to be a money sink, etc. etc. ? It's not like a Congress that they *own* is ever going to call them to task for it. And they'll get a hundred *new* contracts to replace them. So why should it surprise anyone to see stories like this pop up again and again on/.?
The only reason the Poles were able to do it is because they were getting money and help from the CIA (ironically, even as the same administration was fighting against unions at home).
All that is needed after this to turn your Mac into an appliance is to only allow app installations from App Store.
I've made the argument that this is exactly where Apple is headed for a long time now. I'll summarize the responses you're going to get:
They would never isolate developers like that.
They depend on the creative crowd that would never tolerate being locked down like that
Adobe and other developers would bitch about having to go through the app store and this would stop Apple from doing it
We'll probably still be able to find a way to jailbreak it, so that makes it okay
Just because they do it on iOS doesn't mean they'll ever do it on Mac's. They're COMPLETELY different things.
The app store is just for iOS, Apple would be stupid to put it on Mac's. [they don't use this one so much anymore]
Of course, the second that Apple announces that they ARE, in fact, locking down the Mac's too, I suspect you'll see one of two responses (should be interesting to see how it goes):
It's a great idea! I can't wait to buy one!! [this would have been the guaranteed response if Steve hadn't stepped down]
Steve would have never done that!! [i.e., the faithful followers of Steve begin to denounce the new false messiah]
As I told an earlier poster, I'm pretty sure a pattern of kids dropping dead after trying peanut butter for the first time would have been spotted *long* before the 90's. When a kid dies suddenly, doctors and medical examiners make a pretty major effort to find out why.
If a kid was socially awkward, we just called them shy or socially awkward (or geek and dorkwad on the pejorative side). Now every kid who isn't happy all day and whistling zippidty-do-da out his ass 24-7 has some kind of disorder. Not to dismiss those who legitimately have real autism (and they are out there), but all this "My kid has autism spectrum disorder/Asperger's," etc. shit has gotten ridiculous. Between that and all these ADHD kids (we called that hyperactive or just "rebellious" when I was a kid), these kids are so doped-up that I'm amazed they can even walk upright. Christ, NOBODY took medication when I was in school (except for one diabetic kid we had). And I don't recall meeting a single kid that had a "peanut allergy" before a public hysteria began over it.
One of the hardest fights I've had in IT is explaining why I spend $300 a drive from HP and not $70 for the same capacity from Newegg.
That's not unique to IT. Many years ago when I was a young manager I had a fight with my dumbass supervisor over the issue of buying vacuum cleaners for the building janitorial staff. He couldn't understand why commercial vacuum cleaners cost so much more than the consumer model that his wife used at home. Trying to explain to him that his wife didn't have to vacuum a 20,000 square foot building every night with her cheap plastic consumer piece of shit were to no avail. Just for fun (and to teach him something), I caved and ordered a bunch of consumer models. Sure, enough, they were all broken down within a month and we finally did what we should have done in the first place (order the commercial models). Cost the company a lot of wasted money, but at least one dumbass learned a valuable lesson.
~$9B in the red and starting to make a $100Mil per quarter is NOT a big money maker.
I bet if you factor in 13 million Xbox Live Gold subscribers paying an additional $70 every year they own the console (that's almost a billion $ every year right there), plus the cut they get off every game sold, they're making a helluva lot more than shows up in raw console sales figures.
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Methinks you might want to start by actually turning out some of those promised cars first.
Oh come on now. That's like a car thief telling the dealership they should be okay with him stealing the car because all his buddies will see how cool he looks in it and go out and buy their own.
Sir, this is /. I have NEVER read an article.
I'm sure I'm opening myself up for an onslaught here, but I thought all their OSX-based stuff was basically just a very elaborate FreeBSD distro. And you get the benefit of one of the best GUI's in the desktop world, to boot.
It takes a lot more than opening doors at a prison to escape. Even if you open the magnetic doors and confuse the computers, you still have to get past the physical locks, non-networked cameras, and physical guards to get out. And even if you can get past all that and the fences, you'll just be adding years onto your sentence when you get caught. Why would someone like Mitnick be stupid enough to risk a 20-year stint at a Maximum security prison just to escape a 5-year stint at a minimum security one?
Seriously, what trade show thought they would get away with a move that would piss off 90% of their exhibitors?
I hate to be cynical and say that it doesn't really matter, since no politician is ever going to give you an honest or useful answer anyway (any written response won't even written by them, just some staffer, you know). But I will suggest one of the VERY few politicians at the top who actually seems to give a modicum of a shit about freedom, the little guy, and all that jazz. From his well-known editorial on why he supports net neutrality to his fight against contractors and for regulation of the financial industry, Al Franken seems to be one of the few people in Washington interested in something more than just padding his pocket.
I would be particularly interested to hear more on the Net Neutrality issue, since he seems to be one of the only politicians, Republican or Democrat, actively supporting it.
Yes, he is a little batshit from time to time and prone to saying some crazy shit. But in his defense, they did a LOT of coke on SNL back in the day. He's lost a few brain cells. Poor Chevy Chase is MUCH worse.
Another point, if you look at the demilitarized nations (Germany, Japan), they did pretty damn good after their militaries were drastically reduced.
Yeah, but they were only able to do that because the U.S. and Europe stepped in and took over their defence with NATO and occupation. Who is going to do that for the U.S. if we go bust?
I think the larger story isn't a troubled individual program, it's a federal government that outsources and contracts almost *everything* these days. Having grown up around military bases, I find the level of contracting with anything military to be very troubling these days. I remember back in the 80's when bases began contracting out things like food services. Okay, that seemed pretty reasonable. But I recently went back to an old base that I had once been stationed at back in the day and being shocked by how far this has really gone. Not only were food services, the PX, laundries, etc. run by civilians--but so was base *security*. Instead of MP's greeting me at the gate, it was a bunch of rent-a-cops. I'm not even sure the base *has* MP's anymore (never saw any of them). It would seem a handful of contractors and merc firms do pretty much everything now for the government.
Thanks to the lobbying money of the Lockheed Martins, Northrop Grummans, and Blackwaters (or whatever the fuck they're calling themselves these days), we have overpriced weapons/aircraft programs that function as little more than cash funnels, U.S. embassies guarded not by Marines but by mercs, and a NASA that can't even build a rocket anymore without a Lockheed or Boeing to do all the work for them.
So why should Lockheed Martin care if the F-35 goes over budget, or the MEADS system turns out to be a money sink, etc. etc. ? It's not like a Congress that they *own* is ever going to call them to task for it. And they'll get a hundred *new* contracts to replace them. So why should it surprise anyone to see stories like this pop up again and again on /.?
The only reason the Poles were able to do it is because they were getting money and help from the CIA (ironically, even as the same administration was fighting against unions at home).
Heavy metal was everywhere back then.
If you need to get rid of it, just bring in some grunge and hip-hop groups.
In all fairness, that's TV in general. Do you think real-world cop work is anywhere near as exciting as TV cop work?
Nonsense, they just want a major where their professors have accents they can understand.
are you just an asshole who gets kicks out of bashing things to get responses?
No, but I do get off on bashing assholes who bash assholes who get their kicks out of bashing things to get responses. And you just made me orgasm.
Well, I guess that's one vote for Tim Cook as true messiah.
All that is needed after this to turn your Mac into an appliance is to only allow app installations from App Store.
I've made the argument that this is exactly where Apple is headed for a long time now. I'll summarize the responses you're going to get:
Of course, the second that Apple announces that they ARE, in fact, locking down the Mac's too, I suspect you'll see one of two responses (should be interesting to see how it goes):
As I told an earlier poster, I'm pretty sure a pattern of kids dropping dead after trying peanut butter for the first time would have been spotted *long* before the 90's. When a kid dies suddenly, doctors and medical examiners make a pretty major effort to find out why.
Yeah, that's because they all died when they ate their first peanut butter & jelly sandwich.
I'm pretty sure someone would have noticed that pattern long before the 90's.
Nope, better nuke it from space. Only way to be sure.
If a kid was socially awkward, we just called them shy or socially awkward (or geek and dorkwad on the pejorative side). Now every kid who isn't happy all day and whistling zippidty-do-da out his ass 24-7 has some kind of disorder. Not to dismiss those who legitimately have real autism (and they are out there), but all this "My kid has autism spectrum disorder/Asperger's," etc. shit has gotten ridiculous. Between that and all these ADHD kids (we called that hyperactive or just "rebellious" when I was a kid), these kids are so doped-up that I'm amazed they can even walk upright. Christ, NOBODY took medication when I was in school (except for one diabetic kid we had). And I don't recall meeting a single kid that had a "peanut allergy" before a public hysteria began over it.
Now get off my lawn!!
One of the hardest fights I've had in IT is explaining why I spend $300 a drive from HP and not $70 for the same capacity from Newegg.
That's not unique to IT. Many years ago when I was a young manager I had a fight with my dumbass supervisor over the issue of buying vacuum cleaners for the building janitorial staff. He couldn't understand why commercial vacuum cleaners cost so much more than the consumer model that his wife used at home. Trying to explain to him that his wife didn't have to vacuum a 20,000 square foot building every night with her cheap plastic consumer piece of shit were to no avail. Just for fun (and to teach him something), I caved and ordered a bunch of consumer models. Sure, enough, they were all broken down within a month and we finally did what we should have done in the first place (order the commercial models). Cost the company a lot of wasted money, but at least one dumbass learned a valuable lesson.
So Xbox Live costs over half a billion $ a year to run?!? Wow, Sony must REALLY be taking a bath on PSN then.
~$9B in the red and starting to make a $100Mil per quarter is NOT a big money maker.
I bet if you factor in 13 million Xbox Live Gold subscribers paying an additional $70 every year they own the console (that's almost a billion $ every year right there), plus the cut they get off every game sold, they're making a helluva lot more than shows up in raw console sales figures.
You trusted the word of a Spaniard?
No, they need more hearts and guts in their diet.