If these companies hire more technology inclined workers (people who read/.) they they won't have this problem as often.
"shut the fuck up (Score:-1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on 2009-02-02 21:34 (#26700021) you bunch of slashfaggots don't know anything. shut your fucking mouths and get an education instead of making up a bunch of lies."
Contrast this against the stories about *nix systems where some fool runs rm -rf as admin and it only stops deleting things when it deletes the delete command itself... that is being allowed to do whatever you want.
No, it doesn't stop, it's already in memory. It only stops when you realize it's taking too long and press Ctrl+C.
I yanked a system drive out once. It was a mobile rack, and I was in a hurry... When I got home it was still running, I could still chat with Valknut (it was maximized). It only crashed when I pressed alt+tab.
Unix and Linux are thankfully spared a lot of this.
*nix has a well thought-out multi-user structure.
In Windows it was bolted on a basically single-user design originating with DOS. They try to do it right, but they can't break everything when backwards compatibility is all that keeps their empire from falling apart.
Remember the Windows 98 home directory? Me neither. Noone used it except Microsoft.
That's the problem with UAC. Too many prompts and users will just get frustrated and either disable it or blindly hit Ok.
I disagree. I used Vista exclusively for 5 months, and I only ever got a UAC question when I was trying to change some system settings, and that one time when I didn't, it turned out to be a trojan.
It's not that hard to anticipate a UAC question, really. Just ask yourself: "Would Linux require root for this?" Actually, UAC is much more permissive.
And the people who get frustrated with it, shouldn't have admin rights in the first place. Sure, the initial setup and configuration is packed with these, but it's worth it.
Out of curiosity, what did a real root account get you that "sudo -s" didn't?
I didn't know about sudo at the time.
Also, what does sudo get the Ubuntu users that a root account didn't? Why not just run the whole fucking system as root if you don't need a password anymore?
What about some of the other potential tactics we've discussed recently, such as the UK's proposed £20 per year film and music tax or the $5 monthly fee suggested in the US?
If you're already in a position to introduce a new tax, you are in a position to extend fair use and tell the RIAA to go fuck themselves as well.
Re:Usability Glitch? (Score:5, Insightful) by Antique Geekmeister (740220) on 2008-10-29 8:47 (#25552091) The card should have been locked into the machine until the voter said 'OK' or cleared the screen, and locked it in with an alert and a deactivation warning if the person left the booth without doing either. Anyone can get confused about simple directions for an entirely new system. How many of us have tried to walk away from an ATM with our card still in it because we were distracted?
Given that 1% or even 0.5% is the limit where a party can ask for recompensation for their expenses (speaking about Germany)
1% in Hungary.
But that is not the real issue: the real issue is that nobody knows or can proof why which votes were lost, and the electronic voting systems make it completely impossible to find out even if 60% of votes were lost.
No, it's not impossibe. We're talking about computers here, they can be audited.
If the election is not close, it clearly has no effect on the end result. It can only matter if the election is close.
It's the principle that matters. You're basically saying they should randomly not let people in the booth saying "You're the error margin, good bye." How would you feel?
You'll note that in this properly cast debate, anyone saying that only 0.000000% is acceptable counts as an extremist who won't be listened to.
Make a law saying anyone who didn't get their vote counted doesn't have to pay taxes until the next election. I'm sure they'll get it sorted out in no time.
Finnish municipal elections are always by the D'Hondt method, so the result can be strongly affected by a few additional votes.
Doesn't really matter. If you let them vote, count all the fucking votes. It's that simple.
I have my own problems with any voting system skewing the results in favor of the two candidates most likely to win ("Don't vote on the little guy, your vote will be lost!"), but this is ridiculous.
Did they offer any reimbursement for the people whose vote they didn't count? I'd be pissed off if they did that to me. I'd also start screaming around about someone cheating, and likely sue as well.
"Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)" - Linus Torvalds
Is there even any point to the game if you can't even be buggered to play it yourself?
The real game begins at level 80, which is a LOOOOOONG way from level 1 if you don't have anyone to boost you in instances.
I'm stuck at level 62 because I got bored with all the "collect 10 raptorheads" quests. Guess what, in WoW, not all raptors have heads if you kill them.
One workaround for the event that your internet drops is to hook up your mobilephone to the computer and run it as a modem for just as long that you need to go offline in steam.
Or just play on the phone. It kind of breaks the principle of "Offline Mode" if it requires an internet connection.
we could do away with all the ISP torrent throttling / shaping, and all the frivolous lawsuits (which lets face it, we pay for anyway in terms of other taxes).
You don't need money for that. You need legislation.
Are you just a plain old moron? The RIAA is not targetting someone who is surfing porn sites, they are targetting people who are downloading music they represent. They could careless if you download a song that your cousin created in his garage, they do care if you download Metallica's songs.
Based on this deal, they could just make up some IP numbers, and disconnect people randomly.
As for what they want or what they care about, it really doesn't matter if they have this kind of power over anyone.
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If these companies hire more technology inclined workers (people who read /.) they they won't have this problem as often.
"shut the fuck up (Score:-1, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on 2009-02-02 21:34 (#26700021)
you bunch of slashfaggots don't know anything. shut your fucking mouths and get an education instead of making up a bunch of lies."
He's going to be the CEO.
cases of beer
Smart students drink spirits. Beer is ~95% water, after all.
Funny, the name implies it was for business use and yet the picture shows it with a pair of joysticks...
Well, without a mouse, you need two hands to edit documents. (Btw I loved that joystick. Now get off my lawn.)
Contrast this against the stories about *nix systems where some fool runs rm -rf as admin and it only stops deleting things when it deletes the delete command itself... that is being allowed to do whatever you want.
No, it doesn't stop, it's already in memory. It only stops when you realize it's taking too long and press Ctrl+C.
I yanked a system drive out once. It was a mobile rack, and I was in a hurry... When I got home it was still running, I could still chat with Valknut (it was maximized). It only crashed when I pressed alt+tab.
Unix and Linux are thankfully spared a lot of this.
*nix has a well thought-out multi-user structure.
In Windows it was bolted on a basically single-user design originating with DOS. They try to do it right, but they can't break everything when backwards compatibility is all that keeps their empire from falling apart.
Remember the Windows 98 home directory? Me neither. Noone used it except Microsoft.
It's "I stopped these things from being launched at startup and there's no way to override this behaviour".
Even Windows Defender has an option to re-enable these. What kind of dodgy crap are you running anyway?
Of course, it's Vista's fault if some programmers haven't figured out how to do an automatic startup properly.
configuration files stored in program files
Again, Vista's fault...
Name one *nix instance, where the default configuration had /usr user-writable. Last time it happened, a typical user coded in hex.
And name one *nix program, that stores its config files in /usr/bin.
That's the problem with UAC. Too many prompts and users will just get frustrated and either disable it or blindly hit Ok.
I disagree. I used Vista exclusively for 5 months, and I only ever got a UAC question when I was trying to change some system settings, and that one time when I didn't, it turned out to be a trojan.
It's not that hard to anticipate a UAC question, really. Just ask yourself: "Would Linux require root for this?"
Actually, UAC is much more permissive.
And the people who get frustrated with it, shouldn't have admin rights in the first place.
Sure, the initial setup and configuration is packed with these, but it's worth it.
Out of curiosity, what did a real root account get you that "sudo -s" didn't?
I didn't know about sudo at the time.
Also, what does sudo get the Ubuntu users that a root account didn't? Why not just run the whole fucking system as root if you don't need a password anymore?
I thought the Win95 days were over.
What about some of the other potential tactics we've discussed recently, such as the UK's proposed £20 per year film and music tax or the $5 monthly fee suggested in the US?
If you're already in a position to introduce a new tax, you are in a position to extend fair use and tell the RIAA to go fuck themselves as well.
So, why is this up for debate again?
Re:Usability Glitch? (Score:5, Insightful)
by Antique Geekmeister (740220) on 2008-10-29 8:47 (#25552091)
The card should have been locked into the machine until the voter said 'OK' or cleared the screen, and locked it in with an alert and a deactivation warning if the person left the booth without doing either. Anyone can get confused about simple directions for an entirely new system. How many of us have tried to walk away from an ATM with our card still in it because we were distracted?
Given that 1% or even 0.5% is the limit where a party can ask for recompensation for their expenses (speaking about Germany)
1% in Hungary.
But that is not the real issue: the real issue is that nobody knows or can proof why which votes were lost, and the electronic voting systems make it completely impossible to find out even if 60% of votes were lost.
No, it's not impossibe. We're talking about computers here, they can be audited.
Also, I'd like to see, how
votes[canditate]+=1;
has an error margin of 2%.
If the election is not close, it clearly has no effect on the end result. It can only matter if the election is close.
It's the principle that matters. You're basically saying they should randomly not let people in the booth saying "You're the error margin, good bye."
How would you feel?
You'll note that in this properly cast debate, anyone saying that only 0.000000% is acceptable counts as an extremist who won't be listened to.
Make a law saying anyone who didn't get their vote counted doesn't have to pay taxes until the next election. I'm sure they'll get it sorted out in no time.
sudo apt-get remove --purge --nuke_from_orbit xdm kdm gdm
It's the first thing I run on any machine I install or are given.
You don't need that on Gentoo.
Finnish municipal elections are always by the D'Hondt method, so the result can be strongly affected by a few additional votes.
Doesn't really matter. If you let them vote, count all the fucking votes. It's that simple.
I have my own problems with any voting system skewing the results in favor of the two candidates most likely to win ("Don't vote on the little guy, your vote will be lost!"), but this is ridiculous.
Did they offer any reimbursement for the people whose vote they didn't count? I'd be pissed off if they did that to me. I'd also start screaming around about someone cheating, and likely sue as well.
It reminds me of an other bit of humor from back in the day 'Root is a security risk, we need to remove that account'. Seems MS is working on it.
Also Ubuntu.
I remember the first time I installed it, I thought it was broken because it didn't ask for the root password... Reboot, single user, passwd.
Then they had the nerve to tell me that I don't need to be root.
"Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)" - Linus Torvalds
The kernel itself isn't released to "end users" in the same way Windows is released to their "end users."
Relax, it was a joke.
Also, there was a time, when the most important feature of the Linux kernel was that it actually booted. (Compared to, say, HURD.)
How many betas does a service pack need?
"Regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect." - Linus Torvalds
Umm, duh?
Half the slashdotters have an email account $SLASHDOTUSERNAME@gmail.com
was looking up where to install gdm themes and all the linux sites said they were potentially harmful.
If you ask me, gdm is malware.
Is there even any point to the game if you can't even be buggered to play it yourself?
The real game begins at level 80, which is a LOOOOOONG way from level 1 if you don't have anyone to boost you in instances.
I'm stuck at level 62 because I got bored with all the "collect 10 raptorheads" quests. Guess what, in WoW, not all raptors have heads if you kill them.
One workaround for the event that your internet drops is to hook up your mobilephone to the computer and run it as a modem for just as long that you need to go offline in steam.
Or just play on the phone. It kind of breaks the principle of "Offline Mode" if it requires an internet connection.
we could do away with all the ISP torrent throttling / shaping, and all the frivolous lawsuits (which lets face it, we pay for anyway in terms of other taxes).
You don't need money for that. You need legislation.
Just make fair use cover p2p for personal use.
That's what Hungary does, and it works great.
Are you just a plain old moron? The RIAA is not targetting someone who is surfing porn sites, they are targetting people who are downloading music they represent. They could careless if you download a song that your cousin created in his garage, they do care if you download Metallica's songs.
Based on this deal, they could just make up some IP numbers, and disconnect people randomly.
As for what they want or what they care about, it really doesn't matter if they have this kind of power over anyone.
Google "RIAA sues dead", and think about it.