If you've got your Linux or Mac system set up right, you should just about be able to install a new copy over the top of the old one without losing any data. And most problems would be solved right there. Which is one of my top reasons why MS developers are morons. Windows is the only OS that I know of that seems to insist upon making it a headache to separate system files from program files from user data.
Granted the best set ups I've seen were basically BSD style, but they're hardly the only OSes with slick ways of handling it. Solaris with ZFS could do even better.
Indeed, which isn't that much better than in the past when the solution if they couldn't quickly find one was to reinstall, without backing up the data or asking for specific permission to do that. Which is why I don't bother taking any equipment in for repair, because quite frankly it's not normally worth while.
Just because a user signs a waiver for data loss does not mean that steps which are certain to cause data loss ought to be undertaken without asking specific permission. The waiver is in case something goes wrong, not as a way of covering your butt in case you get lazy and decide to reformat.
$54 is actually pretty cheap for that sort of service. It does depend a bit on how many houses they're able to do, but it's unlikely that they can do more than 2 an hour, unless they're all fairly close together. Even paying the workers minimum wage, you're still probably talking not much less than that for labor alone, not to mention the costs of providing that labor, the equipment and supplies and whatnot.
The issue is that the court is trying to prevent nut jobs from harassing the family about the decisions they make regarding end of life care. I don't personally agree with the notion in this case, however the intention of releasing the information is to harass the family rather than over legitimate free speech grounds. They could just as easily have a debate without releasing the names, the point of the names is to encourage people to contact the family in a vexatious way.
The UK is much more strict about such things and celebrity are frequently able to get injunctions to block damaging reports there than we are in the US.
It's open source, the summary didn't claim the software to be FLOSS, they claimed it to be open source, and the client is open source. Yes, it would be great for the whole thing to be open source, but having the client open sourced is sufficient to claim that the application is open source.
Depends, are we talking encrypted/home or just the standard password? The standard password won't protect you any more in *NIX than it will in Windows, if you're really concerned with your data there are better precautions to make.
In the US, they usually do it by getting tax breaks. It's essentially the same thing, the taxpayers have to then pay more in taxes or get less in the way of services, but ultimately in any case it's a tax that the taxpayers get to pay. And don't forget about the times when they go for protections and monopolies, then it's not technically a tax, it's just a price increase on all sorts of services or a case of getting less for the same price.
The key there is "female classmates." They probably wouldn't have bothered to investigate if it had been male students that were targeted. Which is par for the course, same goes for other offenses of a sexual nature, good luck getting any attention if you're guilty of having a penis.
Hmm, apparently, gnash has been ported to Windows. I'll have to see how well that works. But given that pretty much the only Flash I use is youtube, gnash ought to suffice.
Given how many things are wrong with Flash, this is barely a blip on the screen.
I couldn't help but notice that he used a super computer as a part of his project. Call me old fashioned, but I really don't like this use of technology to avoid actually getting your hands dirty. It just strikes me as throwing money at a problem whereas in the past the actual displays were a lot more interesting, as they'd actually be able to show more than just print outs and diagrams.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if there was parental involvement, that's always been a buzz kill, especially if you're the one student whose parents aren't doing the work for you.
Citation necessary. You don't suppose that for things like that newer medications might actually be better? It does happen from time to time.
The other bit is that just because the medication itself is no longer subject to patent protection, doesn't mean that the delivery system is. Which is one of the reasons why sometimes patients will react differently to a generic than to a name brand. If the medication isn't time released it's much less likely to be a problem, but even there you can run into issues.
Or perhaps we ought to have a time out one patents, if they can't get their application through in a reasonable amount of time, then it gets denied. I find it hard to believe that something "invented" in 1992 really would take 12 years to go through the patent process without making some pretty ham fisted mistakes.
It's almost as if they were wanting to give time for others to implement the patented idea in order to sue even more people than would otherwise be possible.
Perhaps rather than spending 41% of its budget on child porn, the FBI could save money and just arrest all the TSA applicants. You know damn well that a lot of them are just pervs looking to illegally cop a feel.
There is no right to drive drunk. I'm not even sure which portion of the constitution could be used to justify that point of view. The typical view is that your right to swing your fist ends at my nose. Which coincidentally is another freedom that they've taken away, simply because a lot of other people don't want to go around getting hit in the nose by all those swinging fists.
No, it doesn't exclude that at all, the GP just didn't explicitly state it. The TSA pat downs have absolutely nothing to do with explosives, nothing. They are supposedly justified on the notion that somebody might sneak in a knife or other weapon. The only way to screen for explosives is with chemical detectors and taking everything apart, or alternately with dogs. Pat downs have never and will never deter an individual from bringing a bomb on a plane.
Additionally, the only reason that 9/11 was successful is that we've disarmed everybody else on planes. As unclean as it makes me feel to say it, perhaps if we went back to the way things were in the past, where people could bring knives up to a certain length on planes, we wouldn't have to worry about catching everybody with a small blade and then the TSA groping and irradiation would largely be pointless. A simple metal detector can easily screen for firearms and larger knives.
Not exactly, what it means is that not only have we sold out our values, but we've traded them for cheap trinkets which don't even do what they claim to do. Imagine how the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk would have turned out if the bean seeds had turned out to be just normal bean seeds. I doubt very much that you'd have apologist trolls declaring them to be a success.
No, but the electric and water companies don't monitor what people do with those things either. If they did tell you what you could and couldn't do with your water or electricity, that would be completely different.
Evolution is better than revolution, at least if you're doing anything well and have any user base. The whole move to Unity by Ubuntu was a colossal embarrassment. It was pretty clearly rushed to meet an arbitrary release schedule and looks really amateurish compared to what they had. I'm not really sure that it made any sense to default to using Unity rather than making users install it or manually switch to it if they were interested in trying it out.
I can only imagine how they'll screw this one up. Personally, I think it would be better to fix the mess they've got presently before opening up more places for screw ups.
That's the way it works, make promises, get approval, forget promises just as quickly as possible. The problem is that when mergers are approved with conditions, nobody ever seems to monitor and enforce the concessions.
I've taken to doing my banking in a virtual box session just to make it that much easier to keep things secured. It's not perfect, but if I'm not actually using it, the VM is not loaded and when it is, it's less likely that something which gets installed on my main computer will affect the virtual session.
As somebody that doesn't use Chrome, it makes a big difference to me. If it were a Chrome specific pwn, then I wouldn't have to worry about it. As it is, I have to worry because it's a Flash specific.. Er, never mind, it's not like I trusted Flash previously.
Yes, in 3rd grade we learned not to include vital information in the title if you're going to start your comment there. Also, we learned that the wooshing sound some people sometimes hear doesn't quite register.
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If you've got your Linux or Mac system set up right, you should just about be able to install a new copy over the top of the old one without losing any data. And most problems would be solved right there. Which is one of my top reasons why MS developers are morons. Windows is the only OS that I know of that seems to insist upon making it a headache to separate system files from program files from user data.
Granted the best set ups I've seen were basically BSD style, but they're hardly the only OSes with slick ways of handling it. Solaris with ZFS could do even better.
Indeed, which isn't that much better than in the past when the solution if they couldn't quickly find one was to reinstall, without backing up the data or asking for specific permission to do that. Which is why I don't bother taking any equipment in for repair, because quite frankly it's not normally worth while.
Just because a user signs a waiver for data loss does not mean that steps which are certain to cause data loss ought to be undertaken without asking specific permission. The waiver is in case something goes wrong, not as a way of covering your butt in case you get lazy and decide to reformat.
$54 is actually pretty cheap for that sort of service. It does depend a bit on how many houses they're able to do, but it's unlikely that they can do more than 2 an hour, unless they're all fairly close together. Even paying the workers minimum wage, you're still probably talking not much less than that for labor alone, not to mention the costs of providing that labor, the equipment and supplies and whatnot.
The issue is that the court is trying to prevent nut jobs from harassing the family about the decisions they make regarding end of life care. I don't personally agree with the notion in this case, however the intention of releasing the information is to harass the family rather than over legitimate free speech grounds. They could just as easily have a debate without releasing the names, the point of the names is to encourage people to contact the family in a vexatious way.
The UK is much more strict about such things and celebrity are frequently able to get injunctions to block damaging reports there than we are in the US.
It's open source, the summary didn't claim the software to be FLOSS, they claimed it to be open source, and the client is open source. Yes, it would be great for the whole thing to be open source, but having the client open sourced is sufficient to claim that the application is open source.
Depends, are we talking encrypted /home or just the standard password? The standard password won't protect you any more in *NIX than it will in Windows, if you're really concerned with your data there are better precautions to make.
In the US, they usually do it by getting tax breaks. It's essentially the same thing, the taxpayers have to then pay more in taxes or get less in the way of services, but ultimately in any case it's a tax that the taxpayers get to pay. And don't forget about the times when they go for protections and monopolies, then it's not technically a tax, it's just a price increase on all sorts of services or a case of getting less for the same price.
The key there is "female classmates." They probably wouldn't have bothered to investigate if it had been male students that were targeted. Which is par for the course, same goes for other offenses of a sexual nature, good luck getting any attention if you're guilty of having a penis.
Hmm, apparently, gnash has been ported to Windows. I'll have to see how well that works. But given that pretty much the only Flash I use is youtube, gnash ought to suffice.
Given how many things are wrong with Flash, this is barely a blip on the screen.
I couldn't help but notice that he used a super computer as a part of his project. Call me old fashioned, but I really don't like this use of technology to avoid actually getting your hands dirty. It just strikes me as throwing money at a problem whereas in the past the actual displays were a lot more interesting, as they'd actually be able to show more than just print outs and diagrams.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if there was parental involvement, that's always been a buzz kill, especially if you're the one student whose parents aren't doing the work for you.
Citation necessary. You don't suppose that for things like that newer medications might actually be better? It does happen from time to time.
The other bit is that just because the medication itself is no longer subject to patent protection, doesn't mean that the delivery system is. Which is one of the reasons why sometimes patients will react differently to a generic than to a name brand. If the medication isn't time released it's much less likely to be a problem, but even there you can run into issues.
Or perhaps we ought to have a time out one patents, if they can't get their application through in a reasonable amount of time, then it gets denied. I find it hard to believe that something "invented" in 1992 really would take 12 years to go through the patent process without making some pretty ham fisted mistakes.
It's almost as if they were wanting to give time for others to implement the patented idea in order to sue even more people than would otherwise be possible.
Perhaps rather than spending 41% of its budget on child porn, the FBI could save money and just arrest all the TSA applicants. You know damn well that a lot of them are just pervs looking to illegally cop a feel.
There is no right to drive drunk. I'm not even sure which portion of the constitution could be used to justify that point of view. The typical view is that your right to swing your fist ends at my nose. Which coincidentally is another freedom that they've taken away, simply because a lot of other people don't want to go around getting hit in the nose by all those swinging fists.
No, it doesn't exclude that at all, the GP just didn't explicitly state it. The TSA pat downs have absolutely nothing to do with explosives, nothing. They are supposedly justified on the notion that somebody might sneak in a knife or other weapon. The only way to screen for explosives is with chemical detectors and taking everything apart, or alternately with dogs. Pat downs have never and will never deter an individual from bringing a bomb on a plane.
Additionally, the only reason that 9/11 was successful is that we've disarmed everybody else on planes. As unclean as it makes me feel to say it, perhaps if we went back to the way things were in the past, where people could bring knives up to a certain length on planes, we wouldn't have to worry about catching everybody with a small blade and then the TSA groping and irradiation would largely be pointless. A simple metal detector can easily screen for firearms and larger knives.
Not exactly, what it means is that not only have we sold out our values, but we've traded them for cheap trinkets which don't even do what they claim to do. Imagine how the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk would have turned out if the bean seeds had turned out to be just normal bean seeds. I doubt very much that you'd have apologist trolls declaring them to be a success.
No, but the electric and water companies don't monitor what people do with those things either. If they did tell you what you could and couldn't do with your water or electricity, that would be completely different.
Evolution is better than revolution, at least if you're doing anything well and have any user base. The whole move to Unity by Ubuntu was a colossal embarrassment. It was pretty clearly rushed to meet an arbitrary release schedule and looks really amateurish compared to what they had. I'm not really sure that it made any sense to default to using Unity rather than making users install it or manually switch to it if they were interested in trying it out.
I can only imagine how they'll screw this one up. Personally, I think it would be better to fix the mess they've got presently before opening up more places for screw ups.
Wait, GDM has minesweeper _and_ solitaire?
That's the way it works, make promises, get approval, forget promises just as quickly as possible. The problem is that when mergers are approved with conditions, nobody ever seems to monitor and enforce the concessions.
I've taken to doing my banking in a virtual box session just to make it that much easier to keep things secured. It's not perfect, but if I'm not actually using it, the VM is not loaded and when it is, it's less likely that something which gets installed on my main computer will affect the virtual session.
As somebody that doesn't use Chrome, it makes a big difference to me. If it were a Chrome specific pwn, then I wouldn't have to worry about it. As it is, I have to worry because it's a Flash specific.. Er, never mind, it's not like I trusted Flash previously.
I'm trying, but the school refuses to move classes to somewhere that I can view from bed.
Yes, in 3rd grade we learned not to include vital information in the title if you're going to start your comment there. Also, we learned that the wooshing sound some people sometimes hear doesn't quite register.
It's XP, but yes, with 98 and 2k, those are definitely not safe to be using at this point. Not that 98 was ever particularly secure.