I don't know any anti virus software package good enough to tell them apart from each other
AVG. It has won awards, including the VB100, which, from the VB100 site:
In order to display the VB100 logo, an anti-virus product must have demonstrated in our tests that:
* It detects all In the Wild viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning.
* It generates no false positives when scanning a set of clean files.
The product must fulfil these critera in its default state.
In addition, AVG is efficient enough that you can actually do other things while it's scanning with no noticeable slowdown. I couldn't be happier with it. Oh, and it's free for personal, non-commercial use.
Care to enlighten me as to why he should not refer to the machine by its model name? And I fail to see that the reason behind why they are faster makes any real difference.
Also, with such a hugely fundamental change to how applications function in the OS, what current software is going to work with it?
Good question:
The laptops are also possibly the first time that a mainstream computing product has been willing to give up compatibility with legacy programs in order to achieve strong security.
ps. I know that writing something against Apple might not go very well with my Karma, though:-(
Every time I see this in a post it gets modded up. Deservingly, I might add. Bad moderation isn't as much of a problem on slashdot as people say it is. Yes, it will happen every now and then, but usually by the time I find the post, it's put back up to +3 or 4 and my only hint is that someone replied to it saying "Who the hell modded this troll?" It gets fixed quickly, and usually the moderation makes a fair amount of sense in the end. (Though I once posted something and was modded 100% underrated. huh?)
I understood your point the first time, and I agree with you there somewhat, I was simply pointing out the inconsistency of saying well said, and then backing up an argument he didn't make.
when he says, "ensuring that BT can connet to all trackers with equally degraded quality," He means that the who should not be discriminated against, i.e. the pirate bay would receive the same quality of service as another tracker like TorrentSpy. he implies with "equally degraded quality" that the quality is infact degraded compared with other protocols, but that the discrimination is with respect to what, not who. I agree that this is also stupid, and that both are important, However, while I believe you in principle are right that only the quantity of traffic should be considered, I, like dgatwood, believe that who discrimination is more important (though what is still important, which may be just me and not dgatwood,) since it has the potential to be far more detrimental to the internet as a whole.
You seem to have missed his entire point. While I agree with you as well, his point was that Net Neutrality was not about preventing discrimination of protocols, but of parties. That is, it is about preventing Comcast from telling Google to pay up or Yahoo's services will be twice the speed of Google's for Comcast users, then doing the same thing to Yahoo, as opposed to slowing down traffic because it's BT, and letting some idiot refreshing slashdot more quickly than is humanly possible proceed unhindered. While I think both practices are a problem, the former is much much worse.
I sometimes wonder if people who complain about smoking bans have ever been in a bar in a city where they don't have them. Munich is horrible that way, it's difficult to breath, and at the right time of the night, it can get to the point where it's even difficult to see. I couldn't care less about the smoker's health, (though one could argue the Germans might have a reason to, since they have socialized health care) but when your idiocy affects other people's health, it's their business.
This is more akin to, "So you got burgled? It's your own damn fault, you shouldn't have let some sketchy guy into your apartment in the middle of Harlem at 3 am."
You can have a firewall, active anti-virus, even, a sudo type setup, but Alcatraz Won't keep things in if you open the door and say, "leave." When someone is in the habit of clicking through things, and in the case of the sudo type setup, typing in their password every time something asks for it, no security system will protect them, and the fact of the matter is, there will always be threats on the internet to be wary of. The 'net is Harlem at 3 in the morning. It's not my home in the suburbs, you have to be careful, and most users don't understand that. Windows could be OpenBSD and you would still have problems with botnets.
No, the cycle is simply much longer. roughly 1000 years ago (Give or take, I think) China was a formidable economic power, but they fell in the same trap that the west seems to be falling into now. meanwhile, today they are again on the rise.
Apple has always been the tech industry's most brutal and totalitarian monopoly, and moreso today than at anytime in the past.
Apple never was a monopoly at anytime in the past, and it's debatable that they have one with the ipod now, But I'll not give them a free pass. I suspect that if they were in MS's position, they would be far worse. Still, you'll find plenty of complaints on here about how apple is using their mp3 player market share to keep others out of the online music retail business. There was an article about an anti-trust suit in Norway because of it just a day or two ago.
Slashdot used to whine about the instability of Windows... so Windows became incredibly stable.
I think 'incredibly stable' is a huge exaggeration, but I'll give you that 2k and XP are much better.
so Windows and IE became the most secure products available.
I stopped and stared in awe at this comment for a solid 30 seconds before I was able to finish reading your post. When you make exaggerations like this, You lose every last inch of credibility you have. If running an OS without some specific 3rd party software, is as bad an idea as anyone in the tech industry will tell you it is in this case, "The most secure product available" is absurd at best.
While I agree with your thinking, you are mistaken in understanding how this works. As I understand it, the ubuntu version will run from an image stored on the windows C: drive, but the debian exe differs in this respect. The process is as follows for debian:
- user downloads and runs exe.
- exe detects if the system is 64 bit capable and picks the appropriate images for the kernel and init.
- exe uses grub for dos to create a bootloader that has options for windows and the debian installer.
- user restarts computer and selects debian installer.
- from here on it behaves exactly as a net install cd, and you will infact have to resize your ntfs partition (which in my experience debian does just fine.)
This doesn't yield a setup that is any different from a standard debian install. IMO, the biggest advantage of this is being able to install on computers with no cd drive or usb boot. I like the idea stated in the 2nd paragraph of your post, and I suspect it would be extraordinarily easy, since Thunderbird and Firefox both have the capability already to export Outlook and IE settings, and the code could easily be reused.
Why ? If the copyright holder says you can't, why should you be able to ?
because playing media has nothing to do with copyright. note that you said should.
No, the content being protected by DRM is the problem
No, the problem is the DMCA. DRM for these new formats has already been broken, and without that heinous law, It would be perfectly legal and possible for the computer to bypass it in order to allow the users to do things that are perfectly legal to do with a copyrighted work, regardless of whether or not you have the copyright holder's permission. Like watch it. The problem with the DMCA is that it allows copyright holders to extend the law without the input of any legislative body, to cover things that they should have absolutely no control over.
I stand corrected. In any case, the main reason Microsoft's grip has become so weak is mozilla/firefox - Netscape is giving them trouble from beyond the grave.
That scheme ended when 2.6 came out. The new system consists of 3 or 4 numbers formatted as:
a.b.c
or
a.b.c.d
a changes only when there is a massive restructuring of the kernel
b changes when there are large sweeping changes, but not of quite the same order as a. (linus, in the interview, says they'll do a 2.7 when and if they need to make changes large enough that they will be breaking everything.)
c changes when new features and/or drivers are added
d changes for small bug fixes and security patches. after a new c release the d number is ommitted when the c number has just changed.
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Care to enlighten me as to why he should not refer to the machine by its model name? And I fail to see that the reason behind why they are faster makes any real difference.
Good question:
Every time I see this in a post it gets modded up. Deservingly, I might add. Bad moderation isn't as much of a problem on slashdot as people say it is. Yes, it will happen every now and then, but usually by the time I find the post, it's put back up to +3 or 4 and my only hint is that someone replied to it saying "Who the hell modded this troll?" It gets fixed quickly, and usually the moderation makes a fair amount of sense in the end. (Though I once posted something and was modded 100% underrated. huh?)
I am curious as to what went in place of [a fix].
I understood your point the first time, and I agree with you there somewhat, I was simply pointing out the inconsistency of saying well said, and then backing up an argument he didn't make.
when he says, "ensuring that BT can connet to all trackers with equally degraded quality," He means that the who should not be discriminated against, i.e. the pirate bay would receive the same quality of service as another tracker like TorrentSpy. he implies with "equally degraded quality" that the quality is infact degraded compared with other protocols, but that the discrimination is with respect to what, not who. I agree that this is also stupid, and that both are important, However, while I believe you in principle are right that only the quantity of traffic should be considered, I, like dgatwood, believe that who discrimination is more important (though what is still important, which may be just me and not dgatwood,) since it has the potential to be far more detrimental to the internet as a whole.
You seem to have missed his entire point. While I agree with you as well, his point was that Net Neutrality was not about preventing discrimination of protocols, but of parties. That is, it is about preventing Comcast from telling Google to pay up or Yahoo's services will be twice the speed of Google's for Comcast users, then doing the same thing to Yahoo, as opposed to slowing down traffic because it's BT, and letting some idiot refreshing slashdot more quickly than is humanly possible proceed unhindered. While I think both practices are a problem, the former is much much worse.
THANK YOU!
I sometimes wonder if people who complain about smoking bans have ever been in a bar in a city where they don't have them. Munich is horrible that way, it's difficult to breath, and at the right time of the night, it can get to the point where it's even difficult to see. I couldn't care less about the smoker's health, (though one could argue the Germans might have a reason to, since they have socialized health care) but when your idiocy affects other people's health, it's their business.
This is more akin to, "So you got burgled? It's your own damn fault, you shouldn't have let some sketchy guy into your apartment in the middle of Harlem at 3 am."
You can have a firewall, active anti-virus, even, a sudo type setup, but Alcatraz Won't keep things in if you open the door and say, "leave." When someone is in the habit of clicking through things, and in the case of the sudo type setup, typing in their password every time something asks for it, no security system will protect them, and the fact of the matter is, there will always be threats on the internet to be wary of. The 'net is Harlem at 3 in the morning. It's not my home in the suburbs, you have to be careful, and most users don't understand that. Windows could be OpenBSD and you would still have problems with botnets.
I believe photoshop works in wine.
No, the cycle is simply much longer. roughly 1000 years ago (Give or take, I think) China was a formidable economic power, but they fell in the same trap that the west seems to be falling into now. meanwhile, today they are again on the rise.
The Nazis didn't come to power until after WWI.
Article 1 has only 10 sections. did you think we wouldn't notice?
Apple never was a monopoly at anytime in the past, and it's debatable that they have one with the ipod now, But I'll not give them a free pass. I suspect that if they were in MS's position, they would be far worse. Still, you'll find plenty of complaints on here about how apple is using their mp3 player market share to keep others out of the online music retail business. There was an article about an anti-trust suit in Norway because of it just a day or two ago.
I think 'incredibly stable' is a huge exaggeration, but I'll give you that 2k and XP are much better.
I stopped and stared in awe at this comment for a solid 30 seconds before I was able to finish reading your post. When you make exaggerations like this, You lose every last inch of credibility you have. If running an OS without some specific 3rd party software, is as bad an idea as anyone in the tech industry will tell you it is in this case, "The most secure product available" is absurd at best.
While I agree with your thinking, you are mistaken in understanding how this works. As I understand it, the ubuntu version will run from an image stored on the windows C: drive, but the debian exe differs in this respect. The process is as follows for debian:
- user downloads and runs exe.
- exe detects if the system is 64 bit capable and picks the appropriate images for the kernel and init.
- exe uses grub for dos to create a bootloader that has options for windows and the debian installer.
- user restarts computer and selects debian installer.
- from here on it behaves exactly as a net install cd, and you will infact have to resize your ntfs partition (which in my experience debian does just fine.)
This doesn't yield a setup that is any different from a standard debian install. IMO, the biggest advantage of this is being able to install on computers with no cd drive or usb boot. I like the idea stated in the 2nd paragraph of your post, and I suspect it would be extraordinarily easy, since Thunderbird and Firefox both have the capability already to export Outlook and IE settings, and the code could easily be reused.
Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz = $187
Pentium D 2.8 GHz = $98
So that makes the windows discount $89. (Prices grabbed from newegg.com)
Good Question.
because playing media has nothing to do with copyright. note that you said should.
No, the problem is the DMCA. DRM for these new formats has already been broken, and without that heinous law, It would be perfectly legal and possible for the computer to bypass it in order to allow the users to do things that are perfectly legal to do with a copyrighted work, regardless of whether or not you have the copyright holder's permission. Like watch it. The problem with the DMCA is that it allows copyright holders to extend the law without the input of any legislative body, to cover things that they should have absolutely no control over.
I stand corrected. In any case, the main reason Microsoft's grip has become so weak is mozilla/firefox - Netscape is giving them trouble from beyond the grave.
no they didn't. And Microsoft's biggest competition in the browser market today was funded by them.
That's bad for your eyes.
$4800 * 8 = $38,400
That scheme ended when 2.6 came out. The new system consists of 3 or 4 numbers formatted as:
a.b.c
or
a.b.c.d
a changes only when there is a massive restructuring of the kernel
b changes when there are large sweeping changes, but not of quite the same order as a. (linus, in the interview, says they'll do a 2.7 when and if they need to make changes large enough that they will be breaking everything.)
c changes when new features and/or drivers are added
d changes for small bug fixes and security patches. after a new c release the d number is ommitted when the c number has just changed.
source?