Alright, I've read a lot of people saying "just disable USB devices". Someone said that everything should be locked down and that training people is useless.
Disabling USB devices will not work. Even if you do it perfectly, that is, disable all storage devices but not keyboards, mice, etc. Why? Because CD-ROM drives have the exact same problem. I don't think floppy drives have any type of autorun function, but you can still put deceptive file names on them. Same problem with Email attachments.
Now, go disable email, CD-ROMs, floppies, USB devices, and memory card readers at your office/school and see how much work actually gets done.
You must either educate people, or restrict them to the point where they can't do their job in order to prevent your network from being infected. Given that the latter results in a huge loss of profit, I'd try to educate people.
Well, you better disable the CD-ROM drives too because you have the same problem. In fact, it's about 10 times more likely to occur with CDs because they're a lot cheaper than USB drives.
"In Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (FS9), you can fly any plane, from any location in the world, at any time, in any conditions." No, that's a rip off too. See you have to FLY to the end destination to land, why the hell can't I just do that right after takeoff?
Seriously though, I agree with some of what this guy has to say. Driving games and multiplayer games that won't let you drive car X or use multiplayer map Y are annoying.
But you buy games like halo and half life so that you progress through the plot. If you want to start on the last level then what's the point of even buying the game? Just buy counter strike or command and conquer if you want instant-action everything-unlocked games. If you want to most powerful weapon that allows you to blow up tanks with the click of a trigger on the first level, that's what a cheat code is for; but regardless, if you have that gun on the first level, you'll ruin the game.
The same goes for mmmmmmmorpgs, I don't play any of them, but I do know that the entire point of playing an mmmmmmmorpg is so that you can create a character, develop skills, find items, etc. If you take that aspect of the game away then, well, you don't have a game anymore.
The way I understand it, these cell phones don't exactly have very fast hardware or a very fast internet connection. Wouldn't this cause any web server you try to run off of a cell phone to become nearly overloaded after about maybe 5 people connect to it?
Perhaps this is all a bunch of bullshit created by the United States in order to shut down allofmp3.com?
Perhaps the Russians mentioned something about music piracy being a problem to them joining the WTO and the U.S. is trying to take the opportunity to try and shut down allofmp3.com
If they were real techies, wouldn't they be beating each other over the head with keyboards, trying to strangle each other with mouse cords, and slamming each other's heads into monitors.
That said, it's still a stupid idea. "I'm close to getting fired so I'm going to go vent by getting my arms broken thus forcing me to take off large amounts of work; when I finally do return to work, my output will be even worse because of the excruciating pain I'll be feeling."
I've never read/seen "fight club" so if someone could explain the "first two rules" everyone keeps mentioning, that'd be helpful.
The curriculum has been dumbed down over the last 10(ish) years under the thought that "math and science are so complex that students can't understand them unless we make it easier". Thus, you end up with the textbooks using sandwiches to describe how molecular compounds form, and using eggs (the food) to describe how a mole (unit of measure) ratio works.
This is meant to make it "easy" for students to learn science, but all it really does is make science as a whole seem stupid and juvenile as well as very hard to understand.
You know, if the students in this district disapprove of what the district is doing (almost an absolute certainty), then they could quite easily do this.
In fact, it's probably one of the best ways they could put an end to the district monitoring the blogs.
District officials won't regularly search students' sites, but will monitor them if they get a worrisome tip from another student, a parent or a community member.
"Assuming this is actually true, that seems pretty reasonable."
It might seem reasonable, until you realise that there's absolutely nothing to prevent students and parents from reporting people they don't like or people that they just want to get in trouble. It will take maybe 3 weeks at the most for every student with a blog to be on the "watch list".
"I heard the juvenile colors were intended to discourage light-fingered adults against stealing them from kids."
I think the color would also prevent many students from using them in the United States. If you're carrying around a laptop that looks like that then you're going to be made fun of before you even open it.
From an article that came out awhile ago it seems they've moved it to the power adapter because putting it on the actual body would subject the laptop to possibly harmful amounts of stress.
Citing a source doesn't act like a get out of jail free card. Unless you put large sections in italics, or quotes, or something else to signify that it is not your work, it's still considered plagiarism. I don't know the specifics for when to use quotes, italics, etc. but you should be able to Google it.
Of course, putting an entire paper in italics because you didn't write any of it doesn't look to good to the people reviewing it.
Lets make a patriotic themed song, then when it gets encrypted and people can't listen to the song after a month or so, we can accuse this company of terrorism.
Just don't do anything for these users. Maybe release a patch to fix the damage caused by the worm but otherwise it's the user's fault.
Seriously, the only reason we keep hearing about these phishing scams, spam email that looks like it's from a bank, IM worms, etc. is because morons fall for them and think they're real.
It's kind of like that one joke I've heard "Now, I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why not just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem fix itself."
People that are going to use vista probably don't have equipment below these specs, you are correct there.
But why would the operating system REQUIRE these specs? If it requires this much hardware then it's probably even more bloated and inefficient than previous windows releases. Not that this should be a surprise to most people.
I'd like to see how this holds up. From my understanding the RIAA has only been suing people it knows can't afford to go to court offering them "settlements" of large fines, though reduced from what they'd have to pay if they lost. Every time someone has stood up to them they've just tried to get the case dismissed.
If they're finally suing someone with an equal amount of lawyers and money, it should be an interesting legal precedent.
In relation to what the article says about end-to-end production.
Yes, Apple produces a lot of products that work well together. Ipod works with Itunes works on Apple computer which runs I[insert name] software.
The problem is when the user needs something slightly different than what they offer. The one little application that only runs on windows is enough to stop people from buying anything apple related.
Apple's boot camp aims to fix this problem, but it clearly states on their web site that they don't support windows or boot camp itself. Who's going to risk destroying all of their Apple files so they can run one little windows application? (people who visit slashdot don't count).
Apple needs to make a version of boot camp reliable enough that they can support it for anyone who's bought an apple computer. I'd buy an apple laptop in a second if I knew there was some assurance that I wasn't going to corrupt my entire Apple OS install when I try to dual boot.
I suppose this might seem a little off topic, but I didn't see anything related to mobile devices in the article. Oh and by the way, one of the articles in the post is only available to subscribers of the web site it's hosted on.
I refuse to think that I'm the only one who believes that this won't actually help prevent crime. Sounds like the title is used to raise publicicity, public opinion, and ratings, but not actually describe the show.
From what I understand, the police in the U.K. already monitor those cameras with a huge staff. Adding another 500 people (assuming that's the number of people who actually bother to watch the show for hours on end) who don't know what to be looking for is only going to add to the number of false calls that the police already receive.
Given the speed that this happens at, it will give the people that control those satellites plenty of time to correct for it.
I also don't think there's any way that any of the (man-made) satellites we have now could possibly be orbiting in 2000 years.
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My high school currently filters websites with "bad" content through a blacklist of IPs and through some other weird system. It's doesn't block a site if it has banned words on a page, but if you search for something (through Google, yahoo, etc.) with banned words, it comes up as blocked.
This of course creates enormous problems when you're trying to research any of the following: - Breast cancer - Naked eye astronomy - Nazi oppression during WWII - Moby Dick - Whiskey rebellion
My school also filters myspace.com. It hasn't helped anything though; it's not like you have a computer whenever you're in a classroom. You either have to be in the tech lab or the library to even be sitting next to a computer, our classes rarely warrant a trip to either. No one accesses content such as porn, or myspace when they know the teacher is always within 20 feet.
So, if you want something that you can actually type on and get work done with, you shouldn't buy this.
If you want something that you can take anywhere, jot down a couple of notes, keep track of a calendar, etc. You also shouldn't buy this.
How many people are going to buy this thing just to watch movies? I know that I wouldn't want to spend this much money on something with only one function. And most of my routine web browsing necessitates a lot of typing (slashdot, forums, etc.)
I fully agree with you about UFOs probably not being flying saucers from aliens.
However, assuming for a moment that there was such a thing hovering in space that was captured on satellite imagery, other countries probably wouldn't release it for the exact same reasons that the USA wouldn't. They don't want widespread panic.
There is one thing you didn't mention though, and that is armature astronomers. Aliens probably don't have cloaking technology if their ships can be seen by satellite imagry, so someone has to see it.
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The data is encrypted before being sent to Google.
Although if you read the FAQ, you'd know this already.
Alright, I've read a lot of people saying "just disable USB devices". Someone said that everything should be locked down and that training people is useless.
Disabling USB devices will not work. Even if you do it perfectly, that is, disable all storage devices but not keyboards, mice, etc. Why? Because CD-ROM drives have the exact same problem. I don't think floppy drives have any type of autorun function, but you can still put deceptive file names on them. Same problem with Email attachments.
Now, go disable email, CD-ROMs, floppies, USB devices, and memory card readers at your office/school and see how much work actually gets done.
You must either educate people, or restrict them to the point where they can't do their job in order to prevent your network from being infected. Given that the latter results in a huge loss of profit, I'd try to educate people.
Well, you better disable the CD-ROM drives too because you have the same problem.
In fact, it's about 10 times more likely to occur with CDs because they're a lot cheaper than USB drives.
"In Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (FS9), you can fly any plane, from any location in the world, at any time, in any conditions."
No, that's a rip off too. See you have to FLY to the end destination to land, why the hell can't I just do that right after takeoff?
Seriously though, I agree with some of what this guy has to say. Driving games and multiplayer games that won't let you drive car X or use multiplayer map Y are annoying.
But you buy games like halo and half life so that you progress through the plot. If you want to start on the last level then what's the point of even buying the game? Just buy counter strike or command and conquer if you want instant-action everything-unlocked games. If you want to most powerful weapon that allows you to blow up tanks with the click of a trigger on the first level, that's what a cheat code is for; but regardless, if you have that gun on the first level, you'll ruin the game.
The same goes for mmmmmmmorpgs, I don't play any of them, but I do know that the entire point of playing an mmmmmmmorpg is so that you can create a character, develop skills, find items, etc. If you take that aspect of the game away then, well, you don't have a game anymore.
The way I understand it, these cell phones don't exactly have very fast hardware or a very fast internet connection. Wouldn't this cause any web server you try to run off of a cell phone to become nearly overloaded after about maybe 5 people connect to it?
Perhaps this is all a bunch of bullshit created by the United States in order to shut down allofmp3.com?
Perhaps the Russians mentioned something about music piracy being a problem to them joining the WTO and the U.S. is trying to take the opportunity to try and shut down allofmp3.com
If they were real techies, wouldn't they be beating each other over the head with keyboards, trying to strangle each other with mouse cords, and slamming each other's heads into monitors.
That said, it's still a stupid idea. "I'm close to getting fired so I'm going to go vent by getting my arms broken thus forcing me to take off large amounts of work; when I finally do return to work, my output will be even worse because of the excruciating pain I'll be feeling."
I've never read/seen "fight club" so if someone could explain the "first two rules" everyone keeps mentioning, that'd be helpful.
Here's why I think science scores are down:
The curriculum has been dumbed down over the last 10(ish) years under the thought that "math and science are so complex that students can't understand them unless we make it easier". Thus, you end up with the textbooks using sandwiches to describe how molecular compounds form, and using eggs (the food) to describe how a mole (unit of measure) ratio works.
This is meant to make it "easy" for students to learn science, but all it really does is make science as a whole seem stupid and juvenile as well as very hard to understand.
You know, if the students in this district disapprove of what the district is doing (almost an absolute certainty), then they could quite easily do this.
In fact, it's probably one of the best ways they could put an end to the district monitoring the blogs.
District officials won't regularly search students' sites, but will monitor them if they get a worrisome tip from another student, a parent or a community member.
"Assuming this is actually true, that seems pretty reasonable."
It might seem reasonable, until you realise that there's absolutely nothing to prevent students and parents from reporting people they don't like or people that they just want to get in trouble. It will take maybe 3 weeks at the most for every student with a blog to be on the "watch list".
"I heard the juvenile colors were intended to discourage light-fingered adults against stealing them from kids."
I think the color would also prevent many students from using them in the United States. If you're carrying around a laptop that looks like that then you're going to be made fun of before you even open it.
From an article that came out awhile ago it seems they've moved it to the power adapter because putting it on the actual body would subject the laptop to possibly harmful amounts of stress.
Alright, considering that what they're doing is illegal in the first place I don't think they have any right to complain.
This is like stealing a car and then complaining to the owner that it doesn't have air conditioning.
Citing a source doesn't act like a get out of jail free card. Unless you put large sections in italics, or quotes, or something else to signify that it is not your work, it's still considered plagiarism. I don't know the specifics for when to use quotes, italics, etc. but you should be able to Google it.
Of course, putting an entire paper in italics because you didn't write any of it doesn't look to good to the people reviewing it.
Lets make a patriotic themed song, then when it gets encrypted and people can't listen to the song after a month or so, we can accuse this company of terrorism.
I'd really like to see that in court.
Just don't do anything for these users. Maybe release a patch to fix the damage caused by the worm but otherwise it's the user's fault.
Seriously, the only reason we keep hearing about these phishing scams, spam email that looks like it's from a bank, IM worms, etc. is because morons fall for them and think they're real.
It's kind of like that one joke I've heard "Now, I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why not just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem fix itself."
People that are going to use vista probably don't have equipment below these specs, you are correct there.
But why would the operating system REQUIRE these specs? If it requires this much hardware then it's probably even more bloated and inefficient than previous windows releases. Not that this should be a surprise to most people.
I'd like to see how this holds up. From my understanding the RIAA has only been suing people it knows can't afford to go to court offering them "settlements" of large fines, though reduced from what they'd have to pay if they lost. Every time someone has stood up to them they've just tried to get the case dismissed.
If they're finally suing someone with an equal amount of lawyers and money, it should be an interesting legal precedent.
In relation to what the article says about end-to-end production.
Yes, Apple produces a lot of products that work well together. Ipod works with Itunes works on Apple computer which runs I[insert name] software.
The problem is when the user needs something slightly different than what they offer. The one little application that only runs on windows is enough to stop people from buying anything apple related.
Apple's boot camp aims to fix this problem, but it clearly states on their web site that they don't support windows or boot camp itself. Who's going to risk destroying all of their Apple files so they can run one little windows application? (people who visit slashdot don't count).
Apple needs to make a version of boot camp reliable enough that they can support it for anyone who's bought an apple computer. I'd buy an apple laptop in a second if I knew there was some assurance that I wasn't going to corrupt my entire Apple OS install when I try to dual boot.
I suppose this might seem a little off topic, but I didn't see anything related to mobile devices in the article. Oh and by the way, one of the articles in the post is only available to subscribers of the web site it's hosted on.
I refuse to think that I'm the only one who believes that this won't actually help prevent crime. Sounds like the title is used to raise publicicity, public opinion, and ratings, but not actually describe the show.
From what I understand, the police in the U.K. already monitor those cameras with a huge staff. Adding another 500 people (assuming that's the number of people who actually bother to watch the show for hours on end) who don't know what to be looking for is only going to add to the number of false calls that the police already receive.
Given the speed that this happens at, it will give the people that control those satellites plenty of time to correct for it.
I also don't think there's any way that any of the (man-made) satellites we have now could possibly be orbiting in 2000 years.
My high school currently filters websites with "bad" content through a blacklist of IPs and through some other weird system. It's doesn't block a site if it has banned words on a page, but if you search for something (through Google, yahoo, etc.) with banned words, it comes up as blocked.
This of course creates enormous problems when you're trying to research any of the following:
- Breast cancer
- Naked eye astronomy
- Nazi oppression during WWII
- Moby Dick
- Whiskey rebellion
My school also filters myspace.com. It hasn't helped anything though; it's not like you have a computer whenever you're in a classroom. You either have to be in the tech lab or the library to even be sitting next to a computer, our classes rarely warrant a trip to either. No one accesses content such as porn, or myspace when they know the teacher is always within 20 feet.
So, if you want something that you can actually type on and get work done with, you shouldn't buy this.
If you want something that you can take anywhere, jot down a couple of notes, keep track of a calendar, etc. You also shouldn't buy this.
How many people are going to buy this thing just to watch movies? I know that I wouldn't want to spend this much money on something with only one function. And most of my routine web browsing necessitates a lot of typing (slashdot, forums, etc.)
I fully agree with you about UFOs probably not being flying saucers from aliens.
However, assuming for a moment that there was such a thing hovering in space that was captured on satellite imagery, other countries probably wouldn't release it for the exact same reasons that the USA wouldn't. They don't want widespread panic.
There is one thing you didn't mention though, and that is armature astronomers. Aliens probably don't have cloaking technology if their ships can be seen by satellite imagry, so someone has to see it.
The article linked to in the post is only available to members of the site where the article is hosted.
How the heck did that even make it onto slashdot?
If someone could post the article text here, it'd be quite helpful.