I figure that if a one year old child can become competent on a computer with less than a half an hours worth of instruction, the interface is pretty damn good!
I have to agree with you there. We've got a few screens each with keyboard/mouse around the house and my children find it quite natural for most things. I even caught my 4 yr old show my 2 yr old how to click a mouse on the button to start his video. Sometimes its frustrating that I can't just do the Trek thing and say "turn the lights down and play some soft jazz upstairs" but still for a lot of tasks a keyboard and mouse are just fine. Our kids will be using them for some time to come, me thinks.
The government. Any and all governments. Each individual government in each individual jurisdication where that government holds power. Even governments we view as being corrupt or morally reprehensible to the determent of their own people.
How is this different from turning over the id of a Chinese journalist?
Google was ordered to by the legal court in the country. Google was not ordered so in this case. There was no court order, merely a preliminary ruling. Different country, different law.
When powerful people get to define what is a crime, then I'm not easy about "criminal" being used as a justifier for the breaking of confidentiality.
Tough. Criminals have few rights, in some countries less than others. Rights to a "fair trial" or "innocent until proven guilty" are all at the discretion of the ruling power in the land - whichever land that may be - and often on a case by case basis. And yes, some governments define almost everybody as a criminal and then apply whatever punishment they want.
That's life. Reality bites. Has been for all civilisations for all time, including the one you live in and the one I live in now.
And no, you shouldn't feel comfortable about it, but then there is nothing you can do to change it. Just avoid getting caught in those countries by those governments.
They notified the guy and told him he had three days to contest their actions.
They left a note on his blog and told him he had 72 hours to respond with his own comments. One of those actions was to respond to the court as an "anonymous".
The judge did not rule that Google should hand over the IP address. This was a preliminary ruling only. Google was not ordered by the court to do anything and indeed could have ignored the request without breaking any laws. They chose not too. They chose to take action to help identify own of their bloggers.
But then the action was nothing more than a shopkeeper telling a lawyer: "Yes, I've seen him, he buys bread here regularly." Now, is the shopkeeper violating his customers privacy? Should the shopkeeper asked for a warrant first?
At the price flash drives are getting to it's tempting to get a SATA to CompactFlash adaptor and put the base system (where performance matters most) on that and keep the 500gb drive for logs and movies..
What about the "number of writes" property of magnetic disks. I can write to a drive hundreds of thousands nay millions of times whereas with a Flash you might get ten thousand if your very lucky. I've head of flash drives being used as boot disks for small media centres and they die after a month simply because the o/s writes to the drive very often.
n the case of this facebook thing, your identity is being used and your opinions are being misrepresented by implying that you endorse something just because you bought it.
Under a market economy the biggest endorsement you can give to a product is to buy it. That is a 100% endorsement. If you didn't like or endorse it you wouldn't buy it, right? Right! And Facebook will keep that to themselves and not use it too make lots of money, right? Wrong!
Eek, too much James Burke this weekend. I'm starting to sound like him. "And this is one of those weird moments in history..."
Yup, all of us here on/. are probably social retards. That's what makes this forum great:-) Nothing would ever have been invented (certainly not electronics and computer gadgets) if us geeks were popular with girls. We'd have no time on our hands, nothing to prove and no need for porn - and the world would still be using steam engines to power textile mills in Manchester.
Bullshit. We all have the right to voice our opinions regardless of how much we pay for a service.
He didn't say you didn't. All Americans have the right to bitch their opinion. But you can't expect privacy. You write your number up on the toilet wall and all expectations of privacy are foresaken. Nobody forced you to expose yourself to the world, so your "opinion" will be dully noted and flushed down said toilet.
I mean what are you going to do about it? What can you do? They are Facebook and you are an impotent may fly. If privacy is important to you then next time get a fair price for it.
We've established what kind of girl you are, now we are just arguing about price.
I ask people I meet for an e-mail address. They tell me to look them up on facebook. At a university, you would literally be cutting out much of your social life if you never used facebook, because most of the people at the school expect that you will communicate with them through it.
Oh diddums. Feeling left out? Nobody wove wou? Want a tissue? You girls blouse. Booze, drubs and toga parties: That's the way to meet girls at a uni / college. Always has, always will be. When you leave its the same, just more bars than toga parties.
And if your a true geek there are a multitude of ways of finding out a girls phone number or email without resorting to facebook. I was always able to find out a hot girls number before I actually spoke to her (usually from friends, or her friends, or hell even the phonebook). Asking her for a number wasn't about getting the number, or even confirming it - it was about getting her permission to call it. Same with facebook.
t's like saying that if you don't like the subscriptions and lock-ins that the cell companies require in the US, that you just don't use a cell phone. The price of ignoring it is huge.
Or you buy the phone outright. The its yours not the cell companies.
Besides, if you don't have a Facebook account no girl will give you her email or phone number so what do you need a cell phone for? Youre already a social retard, or so you claim. You're mum will still call you on the landline.
I have no idea if my e-mail client can do any of that stuff (though forums can search based on contact, it's called searching by author), because I never use it, ergo it's worthless to have for someone like me.
If you choose to limit yourself to tools that you are familiar with, then claim that they are good enough for everything you do, then that's your right. Self-fulfilling prophecy. Reminds of a vistor to our house that when the house lights failed during a blackout was agog that I actually had candles, would use them, and that you could actually see anything with them. She'd never used only a flame to see with cause "there are always lights around". Yes, she was an idiot.
Browser time out? That still happens? What browser are you using?
The browser is only one of the components that can cause this behaviour. Server timeouts, interrupted connections, slow connections, can all cause a timeout. Maybe not on your connection, with your browser, to the couple of forums you visit.
Bluster? I stated that none of my forums (bar one) use javascript for validation (and I would know as I run NoScript and have to purposefully enable javascript). Ergo I don't see the problem, how is that bluster?
Would you not use a forum because it used javascript for validation? Would that be enough to stop you from using the forum at all, even if all your friends used it? I'd bet you'd still use it anyway and flick NoScript to allow it. If the fact that a site uses javascript to validate form input is not enough to stop you using the forum your comment is bluster. If it is, you're a pedantic fool.
Hope the couple of forums you visit don't change or disappear. You sound really safe and secure with them and couldn't possible cope with the wider web. It's scary out here: we use email and Javscript.
1. Forums have had searching since PHP2, keep up with the times, it's rare to see a forum without search features nowadays.
Which most certainly can't be used offline, and usually only offer full-text searching on the message and topic. Can't search based on contact, date of message, attachments, etc.
2. I fetch and read all the time in class to save battery, open up a couple of tabs with all the different posts you want to read, shut off your internet...
Forcing you to go through them one by one online to decide what you want to read. I get all my mail, hope on a train, read and reponse to whichever I feel appropriate (not just the ones I saw whilst I was online at home!), sync at work and send my replies.
3. How often do you save drafts of e-mail? I probably do it once a year or so, not really that useful in my book.
Useful for those of us that consider what we say prior to saying it. I use drafts all the time, particularly when I'm sending a few paragraphs and get interrupted. Better than suffering your browser timing out and having to rewrite it all. Even if I did only use it once a year, its really good to know the tool gives me the option - EVERY email tool.
4. Most of the forums I use use PHP for validation, I hate javascript
Like you choose your forums based on whether they use javascript for validation or not. I'm sure you don't and this point is pure bluster. Besides, server side validation involves too-much round tripping. Like I need a server to tell me I need to use digits for this field?
And E-Mail doesn't need something loaded? Oh sure, it's an e-mail client rather than a browser, but the difference is pretty miniscule
If your on a PC all the time and the browser is open always anyway true. If your on a limited device than having a browser open consumes lots of memory and processor you could otherwise use. Waste of resources for sending a few lines of text.
I guess it boils down to horse for courses. Those horses change every couple of years - well actually the old horses don't go away we just seem to get more choices to ride on. Email, IM, SMS etc will be around for ages yet and we can all continue using any and either for as long as we want. None is strictly "better" or "old-hat".
This may be slightly offtopic, but I'm pretty sure computers had harddrives back in 1990 (2007 - 20 - 3).
Indeed they did. I remember the office got a new drive for our Netware network server, and it was 250MB. It was huge, replacing the 40&60MB drives we had. But, yeah, all our PCs had drives, albiet small ones. Most often however, you store most of your data on the network - which coul dalso just be a PC running Netware. This was 1990-2 - ish.
My TRS-80 had small tape drive and a 16MB memory extension pack that suplimented they 4MB onboard RAM. Necesary if you want to play pinball. That was around '83, though and I think most of the PCs - Amiga, Comm 64, even Apple ][ - had tape drives back then.
Tying the non-divinity of Jesus to apple being the same as MS is going to convert quite a lot of ipod- and mac- dependent infidels. Thank you for your effort.
No its not:-) Just like I can't tell a girlfriend of mine that $699 Mollini heels aren't ten times better than the ordinary $69 pumps. Remember, "Expensive == better". People pay for a brand, not a computer. Add %50 markup for the brand. And if your stupid enough to do that then you have to fight for the brand's divinity for your own dignity.
I had a few friends who worked in call centers for a bit and they were paid either by the call or based on successful calls. There's no reason not to be polite, they don't want to talk to people who don't want to talk to them any more than you want to talk to them. Just utter the magic words and save everyone some time.
Actually I have a different theory and modus operandi. I like being rude to telemarketers. I want them to hate their job more and more. I like the fact that call center turnovers are high. I want them to feel like scum having to eek a living wasting their time being abused at by loud mouths such as me. I want them to go home feeling like they accomplished nothing in their life and barely are able to scrape two bucks together for a decent meal. I don't want them to have health benefits, job security or career satisfaction.
I figure if I can make enough of the telemarkers hate their job enough they'll get another one. A real, productive, one. Enough people do that to enough of them and maybe their won't be anybody willing to do it and the price of labour will change the business equation so that its more profitable not to bother us all.
Fat chance of my scheme working though. Problem is, society has too many people that just can't do anything else. All they can do is get in the way of those of us who can produce. They can be on the first colony ship out - and the rest of us will follow in the next ship - we promise!
...MS didn't label the firewalls default settings as 'Block all incoming connections', just 'On'. If you turn on 'Block all incomming connections', it does just that and everything from file sharing to basic network functions are crippled, as intended.
Yup, that's key. That makes Apple worse than MS. Imagine that. Apple's no cleaner or more honest than MS. Or any other organisation with more than a couple of dozen employees. That's hard for fanboys like the GP to accept though. Its like telling Christians the Jesus was a real man - and only a man. Same with all prophets and religious beliefs... Whoops, off topic:-)
So what Apple does is a little bit of deciding for the user what makes sense.
MS did exactly the same with Windows. All those nice important services that are on and open and insecure just for the user. Comcast do the same for all their users - let you do what makes sense and block everything else. Sony also did what makes sense with their rootkit - after all a CD shouldn't be played i a computer, right, that's what a CD player is for?
And all LIED about it and misled paying customers.
But this is Apple so it's different right? Must be hard to take when you see your God making mistakes and deceiving you. Hypocrite!
But for feds to regulate-away throttling itself, is a nightmare. Networks need to be able to deal with congestion problems, even in cases where they are not overselling or otherwise engaged in fraud. Throttling large transfers to increase the performance of interactive stuff, is a perfectly sane (and fair) way to do it.
Hate to use a car or "the internet is just tubes" analogy but there is a parallel with motorways, trains, and any heavily congested resource.
What if motorway companies started with a policy of refusing travel on the motorway for certain types of traffic during peak times? Say:
trucks only - as they pay three times what a car does?; or
Only cars with two passengers or more; or
No sports cars or motor bikes - your all criminals anyway; or
Only those travelling on legitamate company business - no personal travel
Yes, there are special lanes for some of these cases and they are particularly useful - but they are NOT BLOCKING traffic or sending traffic down a back street to a black hole, or forcing you to go down the "old back route". You've paid your toll and you get to use the road like everybody else for whatever is legal. It just takes longer - and for everybody!
No. A full load in the dishwasher actually uses less resources than doing dishes by hand.
Not mine. Used to when it was new, but not lately. Have to rewash things constantly which leads to more resources being used (including time). And before you start, its only 6 years old and I don;t thing replacing all our dishwashers every 5 years is efficient use of resources either.
why on earth does any one person need more than a laptop, a desktop computer with monitor and one printer at home?
Same reason I don't live in my car or a studio apartment, or why I have a separate fridge, oven washing machine and dryer. Different machines for different uses. Multiple machines for multiple people doing different things. Oh, and I can't fit 10TB in a single box.
Four PCs around the house for viewing and listening, a database server, an app server, a 'gateway box, and a couple of laptops for going outside. And eventually something in each car, portable MP3 players, perhaps a remote control device or two, monitoring station.
Now in theory I could build a single box that can be a gateway, media server, app server, database server, hold 3TB and use it to rip DVDs, record TV programs and transfer to my Zen. But then I'd be too busy swapping tasks and churning to get anything done. Likewise I have the skills to build software, fix a motor bike, build furniture, drive and clean tables. But I don't - other people fulfill those task in society.
Now you can argue I and my family don't "need" to do all that - we could just have one TV, a single DVD player and a laptop for the web - but that's a different argument.
If I went out and downloaded Ad0be Cs3 Extended, and tried it out and liked it. I would still never ever buy it. That's insane! 999$ for a piece of software? That's a mortgage payment! I would have never even considered buying it anyway.
I'd agree if it only took a few days to build it. But building such a thing costs $millions. Far, far, far more than your house or even all the houses on your street. There are millions of hours of peoples time that has gone into that product. And you can rent the use of those milliosn of hours for a piddling $999 - who that's only $0.0001 per hour. Do you get paid more than that?
If I need a piece of software, I jump on ubuntu and go hit a repository. Ubuntu has any piece of software you'd ever need.
Except Adobe Cs3 Extendeded I take it. Ubuntu don't have that in their repository do they? So obviously you didn't need Adobe Cs3, yet you downloaded it and continued to use it.
Hate to say it on Slashdot - there are certain sections of realism the./ crowd don't like - but this attitude is one significant factor in why we have the insane software market, vendor lock-in and IP laws in this world. People don't value software. They do not appreciate the hard work it takes to make it and expect that its easy-peasy and "I might spend $5 if I have to". This does not led to an efficient market economy, so we have lots of insane rules to force people to pay for it and a heavily skewed market.
I ain't wasting my time building software that people don't value and I can't feed my family working for free. My time is valueable and my efforts should be rewarded. Strangely investors and companies aren't that willing to fork over money to me to build software that people "might spend $5 on if they have to".
Which means in a different universe I wouldn't be a software engineer. I'd do something else. I'd say they'd be a lot fewer software engineers, and far fewer professional engineers that can build quality products. Most software engineers are capable people that can do a variety of other jobs in other fields, so we'd just be fighting others for those professions. And we wouldn't have the mass explosion of technology we've seen this last decade.
This leads to the situation we have today where laws and market conditions impose a value system that distorts the market and removes all sorts of freedoms forcing people to pay for things they don't want or feel they need. Else we wouldn't have much software nor computers (tried running one without software), no 'Net, no IPods, no smart phones, no digital TV, no cars that park themselves or have EFI, no automated power stations (shit no electricity at all) etc.
Yes, I've had to clean up after someone who relied on Microsoft's locking semantics for their Java application (or rather, their component of a much, much larger application). Knowing the abstractions and not the underlying details does not a useful developer make.
True, but this is the fault of the developer not the language. No useful language can protect against bad / lazy developers. Java can't abstract absolutely everything about the O/S away (nor should it try) so if a developer needs to write code steps outside these bounds then you must write it in a portable way, even if that means using JNI or writing less efficient code.
Hell, the people who created Adblock are the reason I use Firefox... Give them some of the damn cash!
If its so important to you why don't you give them some of your cash. The CEO should be paid just like all other staff. Being an open-source foundation doesn't require that all those involved in the project should work voluntarily. Its none of your business what the CEO gets paid since you're not a shareholder.
If you switch the devices on/off all the time, then they don't last very long. One reason why modern electronic devices last for decades without failure, is due to not ever being really switched off.
Oh crap. Maybe mechanical devices might have a problem - like spinning down and spinning up your hard drive - but not electrical devices. Modern electronic devices haven't been around for decades, maybe just over one. Most old fashioned electoronics - like old TVs and radios - did get turned on and off (they had no standby) and they did last decades.
Modern devices barely last five years before needing replacing. Add the fact that they chew up power when they are in "stand-by" and I wonder what the definition of "progress" really is.
1) The DNS server would not know the request is for HTTPS; and
Yes it would, based on a domain name. The purpose of this is supposedly to repalce ads, therefore the ISP would be targetting specific high-volume sites only, not the whole Internet.
So can you tell me what protocol I am using if I DNS foobar.dnsalias.org ?? No, wait how about www.foobar.org ?? Is that using http or https?
They can simply sniff HTTPS traffic and shape their proxy accordingly and then transparently spoof the IP addresses of the sites which look profitable.
So let me get this straight. Sniff for HTTPS packets to determine which IP addresses people are using HTTPS on, then reverse lookup that IP address to find the domain, then change your DNS server to spoof the IP address of that domain and route all calls to that IP through your proxy? That it?
Like I said, you'd end up trying to spoof all www domains which would then lead to a lot of ftp, ssh, smtp and other traffic having to be handled (since many, many people use the public one IP address for all protocols and redirect internally to private boxes behind the load balancers / firewalls) and you'd end up proxying half the Internet.
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I have to agree with you there. We've got a few screens each with keyboard/mouse around the house and my children find it quite natural for most things. I even caught my 4 yr old show my 2 yr old how to click a mouse on the button to start his video. Sometimes its frustrating that I can't just do the Trek thing and say "turn the lights down and play some soft jazz upstairs" but still for a lot of tasks a keyboard and mouse are just fine. Our kids will be using them for some time to come, me thinks.
The government. Any and all governments. Each individual government in each individual jurisdication where that government holds power. Even governments we view as being corrupt or morally reprehensible to the determent of their own people.
Google was ordered to by the legal court in the country. Google was not ordered so in this case. There was no court order, merely a preliminary ruling. Different country, different law.
Tough. Criminals have few rights, in some countries less than others. Rights to a "fair trial" or "innocent until proven guilty" are all at the discretion of the ruling power in the land - whichever land that may be - and often on a case by case basis. And yes, some governments define almost everybody as a criminal and then apply whatever punishment they want.
That's life. Reality bites. Has been for all civilisations for all time, including the one you live in and the one I live in now.
And no, you shouldn't feel comfortable about it, but then there is nothing you can do to change it. Just avoid getting caught in those countries by those governments.
They left a note on his blog and told him he had 72 hours to respond with his own comments. One of those actions was to respond to the court as an "anonymous".
The judge did not rule that Google should hand over the IP address. This was a preliminary ruling only. Google was not ordered by the court to do anything and indeed could have ignored the request without breaking any laws. They chose not too. They chose to take action to help identify own of their bloggers.
But then the action was nothing more than a shopkeeper telling a lawyer: "Yes, I've seen him, he buys bread here regularly." Now, is the shopkeeper violating his customers privacy? Should the shopkeeper asked for a warrant first?
What about the "number of writes" property of magnetic disks. I can write to a drive hundreds of thousands nay millions of times whereas with a Flash you might get ten thousand if your very lucky. I've head of flash drives being used as boot disks for small media centres and they die after a month simply because the o/s writes to the drive very often.
Under a market economy the biggest endorsement you can give to a product is to buy it. That is a 100% endorsement. If you didn't like or endorse it you wouldn't buy it, right? Right! And Facebook will keep that to themselves and not use it too make lots of money, right? Wrong!
Eek, too much James Burke this weekend. I'm starting to sound like him. "And this is one of those weird moments in history..."
Yup, all of us here on /. are probably social retards. That's what makes this forum great :-) Nothing would ever have been invented (certainly not electronics and computer gadgets) if us geeks were popular with girls. We'd have no time on our hands, nothing to prove and no need for porn - and the world would still be using steam engines to power textile mills in Manchester.
He didn't say you didn't. All Americans have the right to bitch their opinion. But you can't expect privacy. You write your number up on the toilet wall and all expectations of privacy are foresaken. Nobody forced you to expose yourself to the world, so your "opinion" will be dully noted and flushed down said toilet.
I mean what are you going to do about it? What can you do? They are Facebook and you are an impotent may fly. If privacy is important to you then next time get a fair price for it. We've established what kind of girl you are, now we are just arguing about price.
Oh diddums. Feeling left out? Nobody wove wou? Want a tissue? You girls blouse. Booze, drubs and toga parties: That's the way to meet girls at a uni / college. Always has, always will be. When you leave its the same, just more bars than toga parties.
And if your a true geek there are a multitude of ways of finding out a girls phone number or email without resorting to facebook. I was always able to find out a hot girls number before I actually spoke to her (usually from friends, or her friends, or hell even the phonebook). Asking her for a number wasn't about getting the number, or even confirming it - it was about getting her permission to call it. Same with facebook.
Or you buy the phone outright. The its yours not the cell companies.
Besides, if you don't have a Facebook account no girl will give you her email or phone number so what do you need a cell phone for? Youre already a social retard, or so you claim. You're mum will still call you on the landline.
Now we can put your comments into proper context - and ignore them as banal, marketing drivel.
If you choose to limit yourself to tools that you are familiar with, then claim that they are good enough for everything you do, then that's your right. Self-fulfilling prophecy. Reminds of a vistor to our house that when the house lights failed during a blackout was agog that I actually had candles, would use them, and that you could actually see anything with them. She'd never used only a flame to see with cause "there are always lights around". Yes, she was an idiot.
The browser is only one of the components that can cause this behaviour. Server timeouts, interrupted connections, slow connections, can all cause a timeout. Maybe not on your connection, with your browser, to the couple of forums you visit.
Would you not use a forum because it used javascript for validation? Would that be enough to stop you from using the forum at all, even if all your friends used it? I'd bet you'd still use it anyway and flick NoScript to allow it. If the fact that a site uses javascript to validate form input is not enough to stop you using the forum your comment is bluster. If it is, you're a pedantic fool.
Hope the couple of forums you visit don't change or disappear. You sound really safe and secure with them and couldn't possible cope with the wider web. It's scary out here: we use email and Javscript.
Which most certainly can't be used offline, and usually only offer full-text searching on the message and topic. Can't search based on contact, date of message, attachments, etc.
Forcing you to go through them one by one online to decide what you want to read. I get all my mail, hope on a train, read and reponse to whichever I feel appropriate (not just the ones I saw whilst I was online at home!), sync at work and send my replies.
Useful for those of us that consider what we say prior to saying it. I use drafts all the time, particularly when I'm sending a few paragraphs and get interrupted. Better than suffering your browser timing out and having to rewrite it all. Even if I did only use it once a year, its really good to know the tool gives me the option - EVERY email tool.
Like you choose your forums based on whether they use javascript for validation or not. I'm sure you don't and this point is pure bluster. Besides, server side validation involves too-much round tripping. Like I need a server to tell me I need to use digits for this field?
If your on a PC all the time and the browser is open always anyway true. If your on a limited device than having a browser open consumes lots of memory and processor you could otherwise use. Waste of resources for sending a few lines of text.
I guess it boils down to horse for courses. Those horses change every couple of years - well actually the old horses don't go away we just seem to get more choices to ride on. Email, IM, SMS etc will be around for ages yet and we can all continue using any and either for as long as we want. None is strictly "better" or "old-hat".
Indeed they did. I remember the office got a new drive for our Netware network server, and it was 250MB. It was huge, replacing the 40&60MB drives we had. But, yeah, all our PCs had drives, albiet small ones. Most often however, you store most of your data on the network - which coul dalso just be a PC running Netware. This was 1990-2 - ish.
My TRS-80 had small tape drive and a 16MB memory extension pack that suplimented they 4MB onboard RAM. Necesary if you want to play pinball. That was around '83, though and I think most of the PCs - Amiga, Comm 64, even Apple ][ - had tape drives back then.
No its not :-) Just like I can't tell a girlfriend of mine that $699 Mollini heels aren't ten times better than the ordinary $69 pumps. Remember, "Expensive == better". People pay for a brand, not a computer. Add %50 markup for the brand. And if your stupid enough to do that then you have to fight for the brand's divinity for your own dignity.
Actually I have a different theory and modus operandi. I like being rude to telemarketers. I want them to hate their job more and more. I like the fact that call center turnovers are high. I want them to feel like scum having to eek a living wasting their time being abused at by loud mouths such as me. I want them to go home feeling like they accomplished nothing in their life and barely are able to scrape two bucks together for a decent meal. I don't want them to have health benefits, job security or career satisfaction.
I figure if I can make enough of the telemarkers hate their job enough they'll get another one. A real, productive, one. Enough people do that to enough of them and maybe their won't be anybody willing to do it and the price of labour will change the business equation so that its more profitable not to bother us all.
Fat chance of my scheme working though. Problem is, society has too many people that just can't do anything else. All they can do is get in the way of those of us who can produce. They can be on the first colony ship out - and the rest of us will follow in the next ship - we promise!
Yup, that's key. That makes Apple worse than MS. Imagine that. Apple's no cleaner or more honest than MS. Or any other organisation with more than a couple of dozen employees. That's hard for fanboys like the GP to accept though. Its like telling Christians the Jesus was a real man - and only a man. Same with all prophets and religious beliefs... Whoops, off topic :-)
MS did exactly the same with Windows. All those nice important services that are on and open and insecure just for the user. Comcast do the same for all their users - let you do what makes sense and block everything else. Sony also did what makes sense with their rootkit - after all a CD shouldn't be played i a computer, right, that's what a CD player is for?
And all LIED about it and misled paying customers.
But this is Apple so it's different right? Must be hard to take when you see your God making mistakes and deceiving you. Hypocrite!
Hate to use a car or "the internet is just tubes" analogy but there is a parallel with motorways, trains, and any heavily congested resource.
What if motorway companies started with a policy of refusing travel on the motorway for certain types of traffic during peak times? Say:
Yes, there are special lanes for some of these cases and they are particularly useful - but they are NOT BLOCKING traffic or sending traffic down a back street to a black hole, or forcing you to go down the "old back route". You've paid your toll and you get to use the road like everybody else for whatever is legal. It just takes longer - and for everybody!
Not mine. Used to when it was new, but not lately. Have to rewash things constantly which leads to more resources being used (including time). And before you start, its only 6 years old and I don;t thing replacing all our dishwashers every 5 years is efficient use of resources either.
Same reason I don't live in my car or a studio apartment, or why I have a separate fridge, oven washing machine and dryer. Different machines for different uses. Multiple machines for multiple people doing different things. Oh, and I can't fit 10TB in a single box.
Four PCs around the house for viewing and listening, a database server, an app server, a 'gateway box, and a couple of laptops for going outside. And eventually something in each car, portable MP3 players, perhaps a remote control device or two, monitoring station.
Now in theory I could build a single box that can be a gateway, media server, app server, database server, hold 3TB and use it to rip DVDs, record TV programs and transfer to my Zen. But then I'd be too busy swapping tasks and churning to get anything done. Likewise I have the skills to build software, fix a motor bike, build furniture, drive and clean tables. But I don't - other people fulfill those task in society.
Now you can argue I and my family don't "need" to do all that - we could just have one TV, a single DVD player and a laptop for the web - but that's a different argument.
I'd agree if it only took a few days to build it. But building such a thing costs $millions. Far, far, far more than your house or even all the houses on your street. There are millions of hours of peoples time that has gone into that product. And you can rent the use of those milliosn of hours for a piddling $999 - who that's only $0.0001 per hour. Do you get paid more than that?
Except Adobe Cs3 Extendeded I take it. Ubuntu don't have that in their repository do they? So obviously you didn't need Adobe Cs3, yet you downloaded it and continued to use it.
Hate to say it on Slashdot - there are certain sections of realism the ./ crowd don't like - but this attitude is one significant factor in why we have the insane software market, vendor lock-in and IP laws in this world. People don't value software. They do not appreciate the hard work it takes to make it and expect that its easy-peasy and "I might spend $5 if I have to". This does not led to an efficient market economy, so we have lots of insane rules to force people to pay for it and a heavily skewed market.
I ain't wasting my time building software that people don't value and I can't feed my family working for free. My time is valueable and my efforts should be rewarded. Strangely investors and companies aren't that willing to fork over money to me to build software that people "might spend $5 on if they have to".
Which means in a different universe I wouldn't be a software engineer. I'd do something else. I'd say they'd be a lot fewer software engineers, and far fewer professional engineers that can build quality products. Most software engineers are capable people that can do a variety of other jobs in other fields, so we'd just be fighting others for those professions. And we wouldn't have the mass explosion of technology we've seen this last decade.
This leads to the situation we have today where laws and market conditions impose a value system that distorts the market and removes all sorts of freedoms forcing people to pay for things they don't want or feel they need. Else we wouldn't have much software nor computers (tried running one without software), no 'Net, no IPods, no smart phones, no digital TV, no cars that park themselves or have EFI, no automated power stations (shit no electricity at all) etc.
If its so important to you why don't you give them some of your cash. The CEO should be paid just like all other staff. Being an open-source foundation doesn't require that all those involved in the project should work voluntarily. Its none of your business what the CEO gets paid since you're not a shareholder.
Oh crap. Maybe mechanical devices might have a problem - like spinning down and spinning up your hard drive - but not electrical devices. Modern electronic devices haven't been around for decades, maybe just over one. Most old fashioned electoronics - like old TVs and radios - did get turned on and off (they had no standby) and they did last decades.
Modern devices barely last five years before needing replacing. Add the fact that they chew up power when they are in "stand-by" and I wonder what the definition of "progress" really is.
So can you tell me what protocol I am using if I DNS foobar.dnsalias.org ?? No, wait how about www.foobar.org ?? Is that using http or https?
So let me get this straight. Sniff for HTTPS packets to determine which IP addresses people are using HTTPS on, then reverse lookup that IP address to find the domain, then change your DNS server to spoof the IP address of that domain and route all calls to that IP through your proxy? That it?
Like I said, you'd end up trying to spoof all www domains which would then lead to a lot of ftp, ssh, smtp and other traffic having to be handled (since many, many people use the public one IP address for all protocols and redirect internally to private boxes behind the load balancers / firewalls) and you'd end up proxying half the Internet.