How is it a hassle? It IS a delay, but as Netflix is the only place I use to check new releases, it's one I admittedly won't notice. In return, we'll get way more instant-watch movies available, which I don't have to wait for and can watch on my laptop or two of the three consoles in the house.
Yeah, I use Netflix almost exclusively to stream movies these days. A delay in new releases is almost unnoticeable to me, since if I wanted to see it, I would have seen it in the theater.
Plus, Netflix has some awesome indie crap-gems on Instant for those of us who love to watch bad movies with friends.
I really don't need to see "new releases" right away in order to feel like I'm connected in some social sense. Would it be nice? Sure, but it's no more a grand conspiracy against movie consumers than limited-time platform exclusive video game releases are against video game consumers.
Yeah, but Hugo Weaving said it with such style. Hicks had some funny stuff, but really, he was like a more insightful Sam Kinison who didn't yell as much.
Or sometimes they live 50 glorious years with billions of dollars, hot and cold running sex, fine food, travel, before being finally caught when they are really, really old.
This has been my life's goal. I'm not very good at cheating, unfortunately.
Factoid: Many folks who use Wacom devices with their computers and Win7 (myself included) ended up having to disable the Tablet Services in Win7, because having a touch surface like that makes Win7 assume that you are using a tablet and makes using Photoshop/Illustrator/Manga Studio/Painter/etc really, really painful.
I dunno about frame rates, but I can tell you that in the days of CRT dominance, if a monitor had a refresh rate of less than 85Hz it was headache city for me in just a few minutes.
Sure, could be nefarious. However, knowing the typical efficiency of government, it could also be used in cases of "we got a FOIA for this stuff", "okay, well... oh, shit, report #12 out of 357 we were gonna release actually should have been classified". It'd be silly for that report to be released, that should have been classified, just because someone, somewhere, put it in the wrong folder.
INTERPOL doesn't exactly worth that way. There are no INTERPOL "agents". Officers from individual countries are "seconded" to INTERPOL for the purpose of facilitating international criminal investigations. Basically, there's never going to be a Saudi LEO wandering around the US fighting crime on their own.
It distresses me somewhat that most peoples' knowledge of INTERPOL is from a combination of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" and random international crime thrillers.
While I have no doubt the conclusion is sound, it'd be nice if it came from somewhere else than the Consumerist. I've never seen a more rabid, one-sided, whiny user base outside of Free Republic.
Yes, I know they're owned by Consumer Reports. No, that doesn't make it reputable.
Indeed. Even in the niche market I'm in for them (digital art), if it doesn't have a Wacom digitizer sitting between me and the screen (i.e. it's essentially a cintiq with onboard computer) I have no use for it. I'm not alone in that particular requirement, either.
They can hatch all they want, however, it seems to me that the main problem Al-Qaeda has lay in some disconnect between their 21st century access to technology and their 12th century outlook on reality.
I'm not so much saying that their leadership isn't clever and intelligent in terms of coming up with plans. Rather, that their rank-and-file are incompetent, at best, when it comes to carrying out their plans. You can only IED and suicide bomb yourself into a limited amount of success.
After all, it our security infrastructure had to fail at multiple basic levels in series and the folks on the planes on 9/11 to do nothing to restrain the hijackers in order for the plan to succeed (and in the one case where they did do something, unfortunately too late to save anyone, the plan was foiled -- just like these last two times).
I'm not saying we should stop trying to improve our security infrastructure, but let's realize that the folks who are planning this stuff are being forced to utilize fodder that is significantly sub-optimal with regard to the task (a short logical leap to make, since they believe that blowing themselves up is a reasonable and sustainable tactic vs the largest military force in the history of the world).
Don't even think about giving them on production systems
This is really important. Dev machines are one thing, but I've found that (aside from the problems in change management that can be brought on by letting devs push changes directly to production, i.e. "it's just a little fix!") most devs have no patience for security on servers. This is fine if they're internal test boxes or VMs on their desktop machines, but unacceptable in production.
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How is it a hassle? It IS a delay, but as Netflix is the only place I use to check new releases, it's one I admittedly won't notice. In return, we'll get way more instant-watch movies available, which I don't have to wait for and can watch on my laptop or two of the three consoles in the house.
Yeah, I use Netflix almost exclusively to stream movies these days. A delay in new releases is almost unnoticeable to me, since if I wanted to see it, I would have seen it in the theater.
Plus, Netflix has some awesome indie crap-gems on Instant for those of us who love to watch bad movies with friends.
I really don't need to see "new releases" right away in order to feel like I'm connected in some social sense. Would it be nice? Sure, but it's no more a grand conspiracy against movie consumers than limited-time platform exclusive video game releases are against video game consumers.
I'm sure someone will find a flaw in my logic.
Exactly, Boy Wonder!
Yeah, but Hugo Weaving said it with such style. Hicks had some funny stuff, but really, he was like a more insightful Sam Kinison who didn't yell as much.
IANAL, however you're probably on somewhat the right track. the PKD estate has a tough row to hoe, here.
Probably because this is a trademark, not a copyright, issue.
Sooo, yeah. Demonstrates how many people don't know the difference, though. Including yourself, it seems.
Or sometimes they live 50 glorious years with billions of dollars, hot and cold running sex, fine food, travel, before being finally caught when they are really, really old.
This has been my life's goal. I'm not very good at cheating, unfortunately.
Yeah, it's called "Windows 7". It has a few adopters.
I had a 360 that I got about 6 months after launch that finally red-ringed last month. The replacement I got is amazingly quiet, I was shocked.
Factoid: Many folks who use Wacom devices with their computers and Win7 (myself included) ended up having to disable the Tablet Services in Win7, because having a touch surface like that makes Win7 assume that you are using a tablet and makes using Photoshop/Illustrator/Manga Studio/Painter/etc really, really painful.
I dunno about frame rates, but I can tell you that in the days of CRT dominance, if a monitor had a refresh rate of less than 85Hz it was headache city for me in just a few minutes.
I am more reminded of the coffins from Gibson's Neuromancer.
Now we only need chicks with titan blades under fingernails...
That's what I thought of when I saw this on Fark initially. I can do without the razor girls, though.
Sure, could be nefarious. However, knowing the typical efficiency of government, it could also be used in cases of "we got a FOIA for this stuff", "okay, well... oh, shit, report #12 out of 357 we were gonna release actually should have been classified". It'd be silly for that report to be released, that should have been classified, just because someone, somewhere, put it in the wrong folder.
I think the same thing every time.
I was delighted when Peter killed Stewie in Family Guy and stated "it's just been revoked!"
There's no difference, because none of those people exist in the way that people seem to think they do.
See, now, you have a reasonably low uid. You should know better than to think an inflammatory article summary is accurate.
INTERPOL doesn't exactly worth that way. There are no INTERPOL "agents". Officers from individual countries are "seconded" to INTERPOL for the purpose of facilitating international criminal investigations. Basically, there's never going to be a Saudi LEO wandering around the US fighting crime on their own.
It distresses me somewhat that most peoples' knowledge of INTERPOL is from a combination of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" and random international crime thrillers.
Take a look at the comments sections sometime. We're not talking even-handed publishing here.
It's also an open secret that they will delete comments that point out when the customer was at fault.
It's directly akin to Free Republic, where dissenting opinions are not welcome.
While I have no doubt the conclusion is sound, it'd be nice if it came from somewhere else than the Consumerist. I've never seen a more rabid, one-sided, whiny user base outside of Free Republic.
Yes, I know they're owned by Consumer Reports. No, that doesn't make it reputable.
Have you checked out http://www.tabletpcreview.com/?
Indeed. Even in the niche market I'm in for them (digital art), if it doesn't have a Wacom digitizer sitting between me and the screen (i.e. it's essentially a cintiq with onboard computer) I have no use for it. I'm not alone in that particular requirement, either.
They can hatch all they want, however, it seems to me that the main problem Al-Qaeda has lay in some disconnect between their 21st century access to technology and their 12th century outlook on reality.
I'm not so much saying that their leadership isn't clever and intelligent in terms of coming up with plans. Rather, that their rank-and-file are incompetent, at best, when it comes to carrying out their plans. You can only IED and suicide bomb yourself into a limited amount of success.
After all, it our security infrastructure had to fail at multiple basic levels in series and the folks on the planes on 9/11 to do nothing to restrain the hijackers in order for the plan to succeed (and in the one case where they did do something, unfortunately too late to save anyone, the plan was foiled -- just like these last two times).
I'm not saying we should stop trying to improve our security infrastructure, but let's realize that the folks who are planning this stuff are being forced to utilize fodder that is significantly sub-optimal with regard to the task (a short logical leap to make, since they believe that blowing themselves up is a reasonable and sustainable tactic vs the largest military force in the history of the world).
Listen up here, buddy. America has always been at war with Al-Quaeda . History has not been changed. You have always known this.
Article submitter was talking about local admin rights (implied on Windows) for their desktop workstations, not servers.
Don't even think about giving them on production systems
This is really important. Dev machines are one thing, but I've found that (aside from the problems in change management that can be brought on by letting devs push changes directly to production, i.e. "it's just a little fix!") most devs have no patience for security on servers. This is fine if they're internal test boxes or VMs on their desktop machines, but unacceptable in production.