Exactly. When 911 happened that's what everyone expected. The Afghan war shouldn't have lasted more than six months. After a ten year quagmire everyone is against it as mucg as they were for it in the beginning.
So have I, and it makes little sense. VCRs and DVDs don't last nearly as long as TVs.
There's no reason a computer need moving parts - typically just optical drives and fans need to move.
And when that fan stops moving, your TV is a doorstop. Low power CPUs? Why would you want a wimpy computer inside your TV when you can have a capable one plugged into it?
Personally I don't trust the FDA with something like this
Why not? They're the UL of medical devices. They're the ones who approved my eye implant. They're the ones who approve pacemakers. They're the ones we cyborgs rely on for safe implants.
I don't even trust the best in the private world with something like this: Microsoft, Apple, Google, IBM
The difference between the FDA and IBM is that you have no vote whatever over who runs IBM or what they do. The head of the FDA is appointed to the President, who you do have a vote in electing. Our power company is owned and operated by the city, and we've historically had the lowest rates and best uptime in the state. But they had a boondoggle that's going to raise rates, so I don't see the Mayor getting reelected unless the Democrats run someone REALLY bad.
I have to imagine that our government's security agencies already have a generalized form of protection testing and certification within their own systems, why not reuse that process and actually get some use and protection for citizens out of said government money vacuums?
That's exactly right -- the security people would be transferred to the FDA.
That's your prob, Bob. I'm not the one who neglected to wipe a poorly written piece of shit OS for one that actually works, and not only works but works how I want it to work.
You don't want me giving you viruses? Get rid of your OS. It sucks. It's not MY fault that your OS is insecure. You don't want to catch the flu from me? Get a flu shot, same thing.
Can we 'regedit' tvs so we can use our own splash logos?
God NO! That damned registry is one of the things I hate most about Windows. How about text-based configuration files so we can actually read the damned things, like sane OSes have? Or better yet, don't put computers in TVs? A TV should be nothing more than a tuner and monitor, with inputs for other devices -- like DVDs, BluRays, Computers...
Man, I pity people who have only experienced Windows. You don't know what you're missing.
And maybe Microsoft should make their OS less prone to getting viruses? Yes, Windows' monopoly contributes to their being targeted, but there are millions of macs manufactured yearly.
Microsoft should stop hiding extensions so a user won't click on picture.jpg which is really named picture.jpg.exe.
Microsoft shouldn't have so many different kinds of executables (com, exe, scr, etc)
Microsoft should do away with all "active content". Data should be data and nothing else. You should not be able to contract a virus from a music file, but WMA files are infectable thanks to their DRM capabilities. Also note that you can rename a wma virus to MP3 and WiMP will happily play it anyway, no other music player I know of will do anything that stupid.
That's just off the top of my head. MS has gotten better at security, but they're still abysmal at it. I believe the reason is, they don't HAVE to be serious about security; every PC maker except Apple puts it on their equipment by default. So why should Microsoft care? It's not THEIR security.
A flaw in a car required a full recall to repair it.
It still does -- most automotive flaws are hardware, not software.
TVs could only watch content dictated by the cable company.
That is, after cable came into being (everyone used to use antennas) and before the VCR was introduced. I have an analog TV I use as a monitor, plugged into the PC with an S-Video cable.
There's no more sane reason to put a computer inside a TV than there is to put a VCR or DVD built into one. Computers have moving parts, things with moving parts break. TVs have no moving parts and can last for decades. Computers not only have mechanical breakdowns, they can be hacked. The only way to hack a TV is with a screwdriver and a soldering iron.
It got on the Mac's drive somehow, probably by a downloaded file, which could easily be downloaded from the mac by a windows PC on the network. Say you're in the coffeeshop with your MacBook Pro and see what appears to be a usefull MS program, so you DL it to take home and install on your Windows box.
But what I'm wondering is how your perfectly reasonable question was infected with a "flamebait" mod. Windows user with thin skin, maybe?
A Capital offense? I'd hate to have you hold any public office.
That said, I'd love to see those assholes be struck by lightning at one of their "protests" -- and I'm a Christian. Those people are NOT Christians and do not follow Christ. Christians do NOT believe that "God hates fags", we believe that God loves everyone.
Fred Phelps is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and his followers follow him at peril of their very souls. While he's worried about what gays are doing, he's breaking God's commandment against making one's self look like a woman, by cutting off a secondary sexual characteristic every day. He's a damned hypocrite.
To stretch the "virus" analogy a bit, if you harbor a virus yet are immune to it you are in fact infected; you are a carrier. You won't get sick, but you'll make everyone else lacking that immunity sick.
However, that is a stretch. You can't infect a Mac with a Windows virus, of course. But a virus-ridden file can be on a Mac's drive. This would be problematic for someone who uses both Mac and MS. But I wouldn't call just having a file on your hard drive an "infection".
As I said before, replicators won't build starships
If I had the materials and knowledge to build a starship I'd certainly build one, and nobody would have to pay me to do it. And I'm certain I'd find an army of space-happy nerds to chip in.
You think anyone would really want to be a Lotus Notes developer if they weren't getting paid for it?
Why do we need Lotus Notes developers? Now, if you needed Lotus Notes, you would simply write it yourself.
Multibillionaires start new ventures because they like to
Exactly. There are two kinds of techies: those who studied in a technological field for the money, and those who simply love tinkering. I find it odd that there would be anyone at slashdot who would ask "why write Lotus Notes if you're not being paid to." Why write Open Source software? You seem to be discounting the existance of Linux.
Lots of people want to be at the top of some prestigious project; not as many people want to work on someone else's project, and do everything exactly as they're told and not have any creative input into it.
If we had replicators, heirarchies would be one of the many things that would become obsolete, because nobody would do anything they didn't want to.
How are you going to build a giant particle collider if you don't have any help?
You seem to not understand nerds at all. Nobody gets a PhD in high energy particle physics for the money, if they wanted money they would have studied for an MBA. They would replicate the parts and build it themselves. I'll bet damned near anybody at slashdot would love to work on the LHC.
For something giant, like a new space elevator, a handful of volunteers isn't going to get it done.
No, but you would have an army of volunteers. Do you think any of the nerds tinkering on Altairs were doing it for a monetary payback? There's that Qu8k guy shooting rockets into space, nobody's paying him to do it.
The ten commandments were distilled down to two: Love God above all else, and love your fellow man as much as you love yourself.
Charging interest for loans to fellow Jews was forbidden by Jewish law (but it was legal to charge interest to Gentiles). The law against eating pork and working on Saturday was also Jewish law. Most of the old Jewish laws were about health; eating pork was dangerous back then (trichinosis).
If you have ever been the victim of an adulterous wife you know why adultery is a sin. There's little worse you can do to a man than fuck his wife. Well, except maybe slaughtering him and salting his fields. But even these are forgiven, if the evildoer repents.
I discovered why fornication is frowned on -- you can commit adultery unknowingly if she lies about her marital status.
I can't think of any New Testament passages about homosexuality, but then being hetero I never had cause to look for them. But just as I'm forgiven if I screw up and take a women home, so is the gay man forgiven if he screws up and takes a man home.
If you think geezers are malleable, I got some news for you, son. It's the young who are malleable, the old are set in our ways. Hell, my dad won't even use a cell phone or a computer. "I did without those things for eighty years and I don't need 'em now."
And prosecutors don't like welfare moms. Prosecutors don't want ANYBODY poor in the jury, especially if it's a drug case (and most criminal cases are drug cases).
Blue collar males? I see you've never seen the inside of a working class bar. Nearly every one smokes pot and hates the government.
You can't do anything about it if you don't know that he doesn't get it. Rather than waiting until tomorrow when you've graded the paper, you cane TEACH, now. Different students learn differently, and are going to understand and misunderstand different parts of the lesson..
However, if you rely on volunteerism to get things done, you'll find that people only volunteer for things they like to do, and avoid all the things they don't want to do.
But you're missing the point that with replicators, there is nothing that needs to be done. If everyone has plenty of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, what more does anyone need? People with curiosity will still do science, musicians will still play, painters will still paint, authors will still write, inventors will still invent. You discount human creativity and boredom way too much.
Tell me, why does a multibillionaire start new ventures? Why is Virgin Galactic going into space? It isn't like Paul Allen doesn't already have way more than he needs of everything -- except a purpose.
I was expounding for the general reader. Not eveyone knows why "boy" is racist.
The fact remains that the wounds will not fully heal until they can put such things behind them.
I couldn't agree more. 150 years ago the Irish were "spades" and were looked down on, "Mick" was a derogatory term for the Irish. Now Americans of Irish descent are proud to call themselves "Micks" and tell jokes about drunken Irishmen.
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Exactly. When 911 happened that's what everyone expected. The Afghan war shouldn't have lasted more than six months. After a ten year quagmire everyone is against it as mucg as they were for it in the beginning.
I've seen plenty of TVs with VCR/DVDs in them.
So have I, and it makes little sense. VCRs and DVDs don't last nearly as long as TVs.
There's no reason a computer need moving parts - typically just optical drives and fans need to move.
And when that fan stops moving, your TV is a doorstop. Low power CPUs? Why would you want a wimpy computer inside your TV when you can have a capable one plugged into it?
I don't know where you've read that the icecaps are expanding, but wherever it is, stop reading it. It's only contributing to your ignorance.
Perhaps what you're referring to is the high altitude glaciers growing? And you're confusing it with the ice caps?
Personally I don't trust the FDA with something like this
Why not? They're the UL of medical devices. They're the ones who approved my eye implant. They're the ones who approve pacemakers. They're the ones we cyborgs rely on for safe implants.
I don't even trust the best in the private world with something like this: Microsoft, Apple, Google, IBM
The difference between the FDA and IBM is that you have no vote whatever over who runs IBM or what they do. The head of the FDA is appointed to the President, who you do have a vote in electing. Our power company is owned and operated by the city, and we've historically had the lowest rates and best uptime in the state. But they had a boondoggle that's going to raise rates, so I don't see the Mayor getting reelected unless the Democrats run someone REALLY bad.
I have to imagine that our government's security agencies already have a generalized form of protection testing and certification within their own systems, why not reuse that process and actually get some use and protection for citizens out of said government money vacuums?
That's exactly right -- the security people would be transferred to the FDA.
That's your prob, Bob. I'm not the one who neglected to wipe a poorly written piece of shit OS for one that actually works, and not only works but works how I want it to work.
You don't want me giving you viruses? Get rid of your OS. It sucks. It's not MY fault that your OS is insecure. You don't want to catch the flu from me? Get a flu shot, same thing.
Can we 'regedit' tvs so we can use our own splash logos?
God NO! That damned registry is one of the things I hate most about Windows. How about text-based configuration files so we can actually read the damned things, like sane OSes have? Or better yet, don't put computers in TVs? A TV should be nothing more than a tuner and monitor, with inputs for other devices -- like DVDs, BluRays, Computers...
Man, I pity people who have only experienced Windows. You don't know what you're missing.
And maybe Microsoft should make their OS less prone to getting viruses? Yes, Windows' monopoly contributes to their being targeted, but there are millions of macs manufactured yearly.
Microsoft should stop hiding extensions so a user won't click on picture.jpg which is really named picture.jpg.exe.
Microsoft shouldn't have so many different kinds of executables (com, exe, scr, etc)
Microsoft should do away with all "active content". Data should be data and nothing else. You should not be able to contract a virus from a music file, but WMA files are infectable thanks to their DRM capabilities. Also note that you can rename a wma virus to MP3 and WiMP will happily play it anyway, no other music player I know of will do anything that stupid.
That's just off the top of my head. MS has gotten better at security, but they're still abysmal at it. I believe the reason is, they don't HAVE to be serious about security; every PC maker except Apple puts it on their equipment by default. So why should Microsoft care? It's not THEIR security.
A flaw in a car required a full recall to repair it.
It still does -- most automotive flaws are hardware, not software.
TVs could only watch content dictated by the cable company.
That is, after cable came into being (everyone used to use antennas) and before the VCR was introduced. I have an analog TV I use as a monitor, plugged into the PC with an S-Video cable.
There's no more sane reason to put a computer inside a TV than there is to put a VCR or DVD built into one. Computers have moving parts, things with moving parts break. TVs have no moving parts and can last for decades. Computers not only have mechanical breakdowns, they can be hacked. The only way to hack a TV is with a screwdriver and a soldering iron.
TFS: They say the service is available for PCs, Macs, Android devices, and soon iOS devices.
I hope by "PCs" they're including Linux; Macs are personal computers, after all.
That said, 5 gb isn't much these days. I'd far rather have an offsite backup somewhere better, like in a friend's house.
It got on the Mac's drive somehow, probably by a downloaded file, which could easily be downloaded from the mac by a windows PC on the network. Say you're in the coffeeshop with your MacBook Pro and see what appears to be a usefull MS program, so you DL it to take home and install on your Windows box.
But what I'm wondering is how your perfectly reasonable question was infected with a "flamebait" mod. Windows user with thin skin, maybe?
A Capital offense? I'd hate to have you hold any public office.
That said, I'd love to see those assholes be struck by lightning at one of their "protests" -- and I'm a Christian. Those people are NOT Christians and do not follow Christ. Christians do NOT believe that "God hates fags", we believe that God loves everyone.
Fred Phelps is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and his followers follow him at peril of their very souls. While he's worried about what gays are doing, he's breaking God's commandment against making one's self look like a woman, by cutting off a secondary sexual characteristic every day. He's a damned hypocrite.
I believe he's in it for the money.
To stretch the "virus" analogy a bit, if you harbor a virus yet are immune to it you are in fact infected; you are a carrier. You won't get sick, but you'll make everyone else lacking that immunity sick.
However, that is a stretch. You can't infect a Mac with a Windows virus, of course. But a virus-ridden file can be on a Mac's drive. This would be problematic for someone who uses both Mac and MS. But I wouldn't call just having a file on your hard drive an "infection".
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The point is, when they found that Bin laden was in Afghanistan and being protected by the Taliban, everybody and his dog was ready to start bombing.
The SUV is today's station wagon. The minivan was the 1990s station wagon.
I don't know, after 911 everybody pretty much wanted Afghanistan to be a giant hole in the ground.
This was 4 pintos, or two Crown Vics.
Maybe the BSA learned their lesson from the Ernie Ball incident.
As I said before, replicators won't build starships
If I had the materials and knowledge to build a starship I'd certainly build one, and nobody would have to pay me to do it. And I'm certain I'd find an army of space-happy nerds to chip in.
You think anyone would really want to be a Lotus Notes developer if they weren't getting paid for it?
Why do we need Lotus Notes developers? Now, if you needed Lotus Notes, you would simply write it yourself.
Multibillionaires start new ventures because they like to
Exactly. There are two kinds of techies: those who studied in a technological field for the money, and those who simply love tinkering. I find it odd that there would be anyone at slashdot who would ask "why write Lotus Notes if you're not being paid to." Why write Open Source software? You seem to be discounting the existance of Linux.
Lots of people want to be at the top of some prestigious project; not as many people want to work on someone else's project, and do everything exactly as they're told and not have any creative input into it.
If we had replicators, heirarchies would be one of the many things that would become obsolete, because nobody would do anything they didn't want to.
How are you going to build a giant particle collider if you don't have any help?
You seem to not understand nerds at all. Nobody gets a PhD in high energy particle physics for the money, if they wanted money they would have studied for an MBA. They would replicate the parts and build it themselves. I'll bet damned near anybody at slashdot would love to work on the LHC.
For something giant, like a new space elevator, a handful of volunteers isn't going to get it done.
No, but you would have an army of volunteers. Do you think any of the nerds tinkering on Altairs were doing it for a monetary payback? There's that Qu8k guy shooting rockets into space, nobody's paying him to do it.
You greatly underestimate the creative spirit.
The ten commandments were distilled down to two: Love God above all else, and love your fellow man as much as you love yourself.
Charging interest for loans to fellow Jews was forbidden by Jewish law (but it was legal to charge interest to Gentiles). The law against eating pork and working on Saturday was also Jewish law. Most of the old Jewish laws were about health; eating pork was dangerous back then (trichinosis).
If you have ever been the victim of an adulterous wife you know why adultery is a sin. There's little worse you can do to a man than fuck his wife. Well, except maybe slaughtering him and salting his fields. But even these are forgiven, if the evildoer repents.
I discovered why fornication is frowned on -- you can commit adultery unknowingly if she lies about her marital status.
I can't think of any New Testament passages about homosexuality, but then being hetero I never had cause to look for them. But just as I'm forgiven if I screw up and take a women home, so is the gay man forgiven if he screws up and takes a man home.
If you think geezers are malleable, I got some news for you, son. It's the young who are malleable, the old are set in our ways. Hell, my dad won't even use a cell phone or a computer. "I did without those things for eighty years and I don't need 'em now."
And prosecutors don't like welfare moms. Prosecutors don't want ANYBODY poor in the jury, especially if it's a drug case (and most criminal cases are drug cases).
Blue collar males? I see you've never seen the inside of a working class bar. Nearly every one smokes pot and hates the government.
You can't do anything about it if you don't know that he doesn't get it. Rather than waiting until tomorrow when you've graded the paper, you cane TEACH, now. Different students learn differently, and are going to understand and misunderstand different parts of the lesson..
However, if you rely on volunteerism to get things done, you'll find that people only volunteer for things they like to do, and avoid all the things they don't want to do.
But you're missing the point that with replicators, there is nothing that needs to be done. If everyone has plenty of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, what more does anyone need? People with curiosity will still do science, musicians will still play, painters will still paint, authors will still write, inventors will still invent. You discount human creativity and boredom way too much.
Tell me, why does a multibillionaire start new ventures? Why is Virgin Galactic going into space? It isn't like Paul Allen doesn't already have way more than he needs of everything -- except a purpose.
Get a haircut and get a real job
My hair's short and I retire in 2 years. And, you did hear the George Thorogood song by that name, right?
I was expounding for the general reader. Not eveyone knows why "boy" is racist.
The fact remains that the wounds will not fully heal until they can put such things behind them.
I couldn't agree more. 150 years ago the Irish were "spades" and were looked down on, "Mick" was a derogatory term for the Irish. Now Americans of Irish descent are proud to call themselves "Micks" and tell jokes about drunken Irishmen.