It's the long tail and unfortunately this kind of thing tends to be used as justification for cutting benefits for people in poverty. Because clearly if the other homeless weren't so lazy they wouldn't be homeless.
The problem is that most OSes will shine in some area and the only areas in which Windows shines are the direct result of years of monopoly abuse. In short the only reason I use Windows at all is because I paid for a copy and the only reason I paid for a copy is that it's hard to find decent laptops for a reasonable price that haven't at some point paid for a license.
For MS the fact that Win 7 is regarded as good or mediocre is something that they should be celebrating after 15 years of garbage releases.
But, they aren't particularly secure like OpenBSD is, they aren't stable and reliable like a good Linux Distro is. They lack the just general well rounded flexibility and reliability that FreeBSD is known for. In short, apart from benefitting from years of monopoly abuse, I have a hard time thinking of anything particularly compelling about Windows that would lead one to conclude it was anything other than mediocre.
I don't get why people have a problem with UAC, I've found it to be only a bit more annoying that the Linux equivalent. It's not like with Vista where it would be asking for a click every 5 minutes or so.
That's not true at all. I remember those days and DirectX was a steaming load of crap. It just happened to be what MS was using at the time to make it less convenient to program cross platform.
Windows was really popular amongst gamers for the simple reason that it was the largest platform and attracted the most developer attention. It wasn't any better than the other options at that point, in many ways it was inferior. But, MS had the ability to crowd out the competition and get its OS installed on the vast majority of computers sold. In those days, MacOS was pretty much crap and required paying a premium for Apple hardware.
But, ultimately, I'm not sure why I'm bothering to replay to an obvious shill.
That's the thing Win 7 is a good, but not great OS, and is solidly mediocre in most respects.
It's far more secure than it used to be but still lacks things like security levels and separate configuration files like has been the case for many, many years with Linux and *BSD. For as long as I've used FreeBSD I've had security levels to work with, and one program doesn't need to be able to write to a configuration file for another. If it's needed then I, myself, have to make it happen.
Windows has gotten a lot better, but it is indeed mediocre.
Thank you for proving my point. It doesn't matter what somebody does, acting in an inhumane fashion is never OK. In that situation you yourself would end up in prison and would, by your logic, not be entitled to humane treatment.
It doesn't matter how much value criminals put in their victims, unless you genuinely want to live in a society of sociopaths and psychopaths, treating everybody with humanity is really the only correct course of action.
We have a government to handle such things precisely because most people aren't emotionally prepared to handle such things in an emotionally disinterested way and only seek justice.
To quote Ghandi, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Precisely and as long as they can ask for statutory damages there's very little that the judge can do. I think pretty much the only thing the judicial system can do is find the practice unconstitutional.
This is why courts generally require the plaintiff to prove damages, it's easy to ask for a figure and harder to ask for an appropriate sum.
This, I thought most of the antibiotic resistant TB was the result of people starting the prescribed antibiotics and not continuing through to the end. Leaving them with mostly just the resistant bacteria and having to start over again.
Except those people aren't opposed to using antibiotics in cases of bacterial infection that warrants it, they're opposed to giving it to live stock just for the hell of it or giving it to people that likely have a viral infection.
Nobody's anti-antibiotics even if some of us think that we need to progress beyond them to using something a little bit longer term like phages.
The problem is that prisoners get released or escape and they're typically packed in tightly enough that the disease can easily spread. If you're not really careful or quite lucky you end up in a situation where there are people who have done their time and can't be released because they're infected. Many of whom wouldn't have been infected if not for the conditions in the prison.
If there's going to be an outbreak, I personally would rather it be somewhere that's actually set up to deal with such a thing or can be reconfigured to deal with it.
Yes, because it ultimately means that you're no more humane than the prisoners are. When you start deciding that some people do and do not deserve to be treated humanely you open up the door for all sorts of inhuman behavior. Sure it's not a guarantee that one will turn into a genocidal mad man, but accepting the premise that some people don't deserve to be treated humanely makes it a significantly shorter trip.
Which is why things like KeePass and Lastpass exist. Plus if you add a site specific OTP to the authentication system that goes a long way towards securing things.
Also, it's not just a matter of 10 passwords, it means that you can only have 10 ever. I suppose you could move to toes, but even that only buys you an additional 10, and on average person has slightly less than 20 digits total.
I know, I tried to take those trains daily, but was thwarted when the concorde stopped flying, also when my CC issuer said it wouldn't lend me any more money.
I doubt it. a HUD isn't likely to allow you to take your eyes off the road any more than the current system does. In fact it's likely to keep your eyes on the road as the legitimate functions that would take your eyes off the road could be integrated into the display. The main thing that takes my eye off the road is the speedometer and checking my mirrors. The mirrors aren't likely to get any help from a HUD, but the speedometer is.
Because the bus is expensive and doesn't necessarily always run ontime or otherwise. Before I quit the job before last I had to be downtown early on Sunday mornings and the bus wasn't running at that time of day. I would have to either show up at work like 2 hours early or find some other mode of transportation.
Also, for the cost of the bus around here one could drive a motorcycled. And also fuck them for the cost. In the time it took the rate to go from 85 cents to $2.50 for adults during peak hours, the rates for seniors and children didn't go up at all from 50 cents.
The problem in general is that a lot of the treaties that the US has signed lately haven't been ratified and as such shouldn't be enforced. I'm not sure if this was one of those treaties, but the President needs to have the treaty ratified in order for it to have any force of law in the US.
The main problem I have with this is that the US doesn't have jurisdiction over the "crime" unless he was so stupid as to rent out server space in the US. I can't blame the US government for trying, but the UK courts ought to recognize that the US doesn't have jurisdiction here.
I've been following UK politics long enough to know that incompetence is pretty much the best way of qualifying to vote. They manage to make even our nutty American politicians look somewhat less nutty.
That was my thought, biometrics is an interesting trick, but if they manage to compromise the system you have limited options for changing it. Most people only have 10 fingers and 2 eyes and if somebody manages to compromise on of those you very quickly run low on options. And that doesn't even include what happens if you lose an eye or a finger or if one is just badly damaged to the point of being unreadable.
I remember seeing a bit of a BBC program years back where the guy was using biometrics for a safe but couldn't get in. It turned out that because he was wearing contacts that the sensor didn't identify his eye and the safe wouldn't open until he took the contacts out.
Honestly, you should just get a lojack, chances are that the insurance company will pick up the tab on it, and unlike a smarthphone there's a sensor for it on just about every cop car out there.
Personally, I'm not sure that I'd get one, but if one is concerned with recovering ones car it's one of the few options that actually works. The one you're suggesting is unlikely to actually work if it comes to it.
Basically quick results which can then be audited against the paper trail. Any evote system ought to be mandated to include a paper trail to cover every single vote.
I might be mistaken, but I don't believe that evoting machines are typically connected to the internet. At least that's my understanding and the reason why patches are applied directly to the machines rather than across the internet.
The bigger issue is where the manufacturer miscodes the machine or installs patches on some machines in places that are more likely to vote one way or the other. Really, they ought to spit out 3 receipts, one to a roll like they do with security logs sometimes, and two for the voter, one of which would go in a secured bin and the other would be retained for personal record keeping.
If you put a scan code at the bottom which reflects the data on the ticket it should be quite efficient to count as well.
That's not particularly democratic of you. The point is that everybody of age is able to vote unless they aren't a citizen or have lost their right to vote.
What about people who change their mind or misread the ballot and have to change it? Under your view those people would lose their vote in many cases.
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It's the long tail and unfortunately this kind of thing tends to be used as justification for cutting benefits for people in poverty. Because clearly if the other homeless weren't so lazy they wouldn't be homeless.
Honestly, I think that if Lamar would get a few deep packet inspections he'd probably be less of a useless asshole.
The problem is that most OSes will shine in some area and the only areas in which Windows shines are the direct result of years of monopoly abuse. In short the only reason I use Windows at all is because I paid for a copy and the only reason I paid for a copy is that it's hard to find decent laptops for a reasonable price that haven't at some point paid for a license.
For MS the fact that Win 7 is regarded as good or mediocre is something that they should be celebrating after 15 years of garbage releases.
But, they aren't particularly secure like OpenBSD is, they aren't stable and reliable like a good Linux Distro is. They lack the just general well rounded flexibility and reliability that FreeBSD is known for. In short, apart from benefitting from years of monopoly abuse, I have a hard time thinking of anything particularly compelling about Windows that would lead one to conclude it was anything other than mediocre.
I don't get why people have a problem with UAC, I've found it to be only a bit more annoying that the Linux equivalent. It's not like with Vista where it would be asking for a click every 5 minutes or so.
That's not true at all. I remember those days and DirectX was a steaming load of crap. It just happened to be what MS was using at the time to make it less convenient to program cross platform.
Windows was really popular amongst gamers for the simple reason that it was the largest platform and attracted the most developer attention. It wasn't any better than the other options at that point, in many ways it was inferior. But, MS had the ability to crowd out the competition and get its OS installed on the vast majority of computers sold. In those days, MacOS was pretty much crap and required paying a premium for Apple hardware.
But, ultimately, I'm not sure why I'm bothering to replay to an obvious shill.
That's the thing Win 7 is a good, but not great OS, and is solidly mediocre in most respects.
It's far more secure than it used to be but still lacks things like security levels and separate configuration files like has been the case for many, many years with Linux and *BSD. For as long as I've used FreeBSD I've had security levels to work with, and one program doesn't need to be able to write to a configuration file for another. If it's needed then I, myself, have to make it happen.
Windows has gotten a lot better, but it is indeed mediocre.
Thank you for proving my point. It doesn't matter what somebody does, acting in an inhumane fashion is never OK. In that situation you yourself would end up in prison and would, by your logic, not be entitled to humane treatment.
It doesn't matter how much value criminals put in their victims, unless you genuinely want to live in a society of sociopaths and psychopaths, treating everybody with humanity is really the only correct course of action.
We have a government to handle such things precisely because most people aren't emotionally prepared to handle such things in an emotionally disinterested way and only seek justice.
To quote Ghandi, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Precisely and as long as they can ask for statutory damages there's very little that the judge can do. I think pretty much the only thing the judicial system can do is find the practice unconstitutional.
This is why courts generally require the plaintiff to prove damages, it's easy to ask for a figure and harder to ask for an appropriate sum.
This, I thought most of the antibiotic resistant TB was the result of people starting the prescribed antibiotics and not continuing through to the end. Leaving them with mostly just the resistant bacteria and having to start over again.
Except those people aren't opposed to using antibiotics in cases of bacterial infection that warrants it, they're opposed to giving it to live stock just for the hell of it or giving it to people that likely have a viral infection.
Nobody's anti-antibiotics even if some of us think that we need to progress beyond them to using something a little bit longer term like phages.
The problem is that prisoners get released or escape and they're typically packed in tightly enough that the disease can easily spread. If you're not really careful or quite lucky you end up in a situation where there are people who have done their time and can't be released because they're infected. Many of whom wouldn't have been infected if not for the conditions in the prison.
If there's going to be an outbreak, I personally would rather it be somewhere that's actually set up to deal with such a thing or can be reconfigured to deal with it.
Yes, because it ultimately means that you're no more humane than the prisoners are. When you start deciding that some people do and do not deserve to be treated humanely you open up the door for all sorts of inhuman behavior. Sure it's not a guarantee that one will turn into a genocidal mad man, but accepting the premise that some people don't deserve to be treated humanely makes it a significantly shorter trip.
Which is why things like KeePass and Lastpass exist. Plus if you add a site specific OTP to the authentication system that goes a long way towards securing things.
Also, it's not just a matter of 10 passwords, it means that you can only have 10 ever. I suppose you could move to toes, but even that only buys you an additional 10, and on average person has slightly less than 20 digits total.
I know, I tried to take those trains daily, but was thwarted when the concorde stopped flying, also when my CC issuer said it wouldn't lend me any more money.
I doubt it. a HUD isn't likely to allow you to take your eyes off the road any more than the current system does. In fact it's likely to keep your eyes on the road as the legitimate functions that would take your eyes off the road could be integrated into the display. The main thing that takes my eye off the road is the speedometer and checking my mirrors. The mirrors aren't likely to get any help from a HUD, but the speedometer is.
Because the bus is expensive and doesn't necessarily always run ontime or otherwise. Before I quit the job before last I had to be downtown early on Sunday mornings and the bus wasn't running at that time of day. I would have to either show up at work like 2 hours early or find some other mode of transportation.
Also, for the cost of the bus around here one could drive a motorcycled. And also fuck them for the cost. In the time it took the rate to go from 85 cents to $2.50 for adults during peak hours, the rates for seniors and children didn't go up at all from 50 cents.
The problem in general is that a lot of the treaties that the US has signed lately haven't been ratified and as such shouldn't be enforced. I'm not sure if this was one of those treaties, but the President needs to have the treaty ratified in order for it to have any force of law in the US.
The main problem I have with this is that the US doesn't have jurisdiction over the "crime" unless he was so stupid as to rent out server space in the US. I can't blame the US government for trying, but the UK courts ought to recognize that the US doesn't have jurisdiction here.
I've been following UK politics long enough to know that incompetence is pretty much the best way of qualifying to vote. They manage to make even our nutty American politicians look somewhat less nutty.
Precisely whom is it that I'm going to ask for a new ballot? This is a vote by mail state and I don't even know where I would go to get a new ballot.
That was my thought, biometrics is an interesting trick, but if they manage to compromise the system you have limited options for changing it. Most people only have 10 fingers and 2 eyes and if somebody manages to compromise on of those you very quickly run low on options. And that doesn't even include what happens if you lose an eye or a finger or if one is just badly damaged to the point of being unreadable.
I remember seeing a bit of a BBC program years back where the guy was using biometrics for a safe but couldn't get in. It turned out that because he was wearing contacts that the sensor didn't identify his eye and the safe wouldn't open until he took the contacts out.
Honestly, you should just get a lojack, chances are that the insurance company will pick up the tab on it, and unlike a smarthphone there's a sensor for it on just about every cop car out there.
Personally, I'm not sure that I'd get one, but if one is concerned with recovering ones car it's one of the few options that actually works. The one you're suggesting is unlikely to actually work if it comes to it.
Basically quick results which can then be audited against the paper trail. Any evote system ought to be mandated to include a paper trail to cover every single vote.
I might be mistaken, but I don't believe that evoting machines are typically connected to the internet. At least that's my understanding and the reason why patches are applied directly to the machines rather than across the internet.
The bigger issue is where the manufacturer miscodes the machine or installs patches on some machines in places that are more likely to vote one way or the other. Really, they ought to spit out 3 receipts, one to a roll like they do with security logs sometimes, and two for the voter, one of which would go in a secured bin and the other would be retained for personal record keeping.
If you put a scan code at the bottom which reflects the data on the ticket it should be quite efficient to count as well.
That's not particularly democratic of you. The point is that everybody of age is able to vote unless they aren't a citizen or have lost their right to vote.
What about people who change their mind or misread the ballot and have to change it? Under your view those people would lose their vote in many cases.