1) How is vulnerabiilty to malware not MS's fault?
If someone wrote an application that made a popup every 20 minutes on your linux box that said 'Run TuxAntiVirusPro 2010 now!' and you intentionally executed it, how is that Linux's fault?
There is still a huge raft of Windows software that will not perform properly without admin rights. Until that is fixed, the problem will never be solved.
Windows was designed for users to login as administrators.
I have to disagree with this. That might be true for the 9x line, but Windows 2000 and beyond has the structure to allow users to log in as normal users with their own environment. HKCU is their own personal registry hive and they have their own 'home' folder at %userprofile%.
The real problem is programs are not built with this in mind. Installers have been designed to put files, by default, into C:\Program Files and HKLM\Software rather than %userprofile%\Program Files and HKCU\Software since day 0. They'll scatter stuff throughout the registry and require changes made without setting the right permissions on the keys. They'll scatter files all throughout the system and assume the user has full RWX across the entire file structure.
Sometimes these programs can be tweaked without much hassle (I know one that requires RW on one particular file in Prog Files, but everything else can be RO/RX) but others (I'm looking at you, UPS WorldShip) are just not worth the hassle to lock down when you have other pressing issues.
Meh, just seems like classic moneygrubbing stupidity.
"We want more money from this otherwise you can't have it!" is a rallying cry too often seen in the world of music rights to TV show DVD releases. I mean, take WKRP. Instead of cutting a deal, the rates to relicence the music remained too high to include the original track. So the rightsholders end up losing money, the customers get a subpar product, and no one really wins.
Take the money and run; keep trying to win against the banker will just get you the suitcase with $1 when you should've settled for the $17,000 offer.
Anyone using the Daily Telegraph (let alone a blog on said rag) as an authorative source immediatly loses credibility with me, and hopefully, anyone else who understands logic and reason.
You're still fighting for tap space though. Sufficed to say if there are taps with Sam Adams there, you'd likely have to find them rather than expect it as a staple.
Note, I have no real evidence of this, and I can't remember what was on the taps in Sydney when I went there (only one I can name was Toohey's Black cause I had about 5 pints of that one.) But I do remember generally that most were domestic varieties with probably a Heinekin and a couple others imported.
I also am, of course, restricting myself to taps (which I just realized), who knows what they might have in bottle and in that regard they could have some Sam Adams.
There are masks with braille that work pretty well. I have a friend who is blind and can vote just fine.
But those have to be specially made, and with ballots ranging from Federal, to State, to County to City elections, that takes time to translate and print. Plus, what if you run out or they get lost?
Note, I simply said easier. I find voting easy to begin with, but there's plenty of people who don't understand "Only fill the circle of the candidate you want elected" (more on this later.)
Last time I checked the US had their official language English.
Officially, federally, the US does NOT have an official language. In fact, it becomes a powderkeg of controversy every time someone in Congress hints at it. It varies at the state-to-state level as well. Some have official languages, others don't.
Oddly, this problem (lost ballot boxes) never occured in my country.
Never occured or was never an issue? These crop up during close races and recounts regularly, but never for sure-thing races.
And here's the infamous Minnesota junk. When ballots get challenged, it's up to the courts to decide how someone intended to vote.
On a personal level, I'd say if someone can't be arsed enough to follow instructions and it's ambiguous in the slightest way, trash it. (If the scanner just fails to read an otherwise flawlessly filled out ballot, those are accepted. Arrows, Xs, comments, those result in a destroyed ballot.) That's not how things work though.
Easier for the disabled. Easier to support multiple languages. Easier to have duplicate copies so you can't be surprised and "find" a box of ballots in a warehouse later. Less ambiguity in regards to intention (see Minnesota's Senate race.)
True, the notes and additional marks are public domain. I wasn't sure what termonology to put there at the time.
(I.e., "eighth pause, 3 eighth-note Gs above middle c, half-note e-flat above middle c with a fermata" is public domain as far as the opening bar of Beethoven's 5th is concerned, but how it's represented in print is copyrighted by the author.)
Long story short, the 'what' is public domain. The 'how' may not necessarily be.
The works you see by the same author released by seperate companies are in the public domain.
Anyone can print the original words of Shakespeare, Dickens, Bronte, Dumas. Anything publisher specific (layout, annotations, et cetera) is exclusive to that publisher. The same goes with compositions. Anyone can record works by Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, as the sheetmusic is in the public domain, but whoever releases it is whoever cut the recording deal with the orchestra.
Well, technically the Interstate system IS socialism, it's just the good type like police departments that the fanatic right-wing crowd gloss over whenever they get worried about socialism raping, disembowling and then burning the corpse of capitalism.
I don't see how you can call my proposal socialism.
Maybe the problem is too complex/expensive, but that doesn't mean you should prevent people from even trying to solve it if they want.
I'm confused how they're being prevented. Many oil companies have setups in Utah and Colorado mining shale oil, it's just not economically feasible now for them to develop the process further. That's the free market at work.
Real shame we can't pass legislation to force the oil companies to dump billions into oil shale research, but I guess that'd be socialism.
GP's post gave me the impression that he thought all the GPS proved was he was speeding by only 1.4 over the limit. (I guess you are right he was speeding, by 1.4 miles/hr)
But the rub is it proves he had to have gone well over 45mph to make that his average from a cold start.
If the above doesn't work, just drop this into the engine: Plot[73947/1195 - (239 (-4710/239 + x)^2)/1500, {x, 0, 30}]
(Have to copy/paste it...slashcode wrecks it awful.)
Obviously this graph shape is wrong: you can't start out with a slope > 0 at (0,0) if you're starting from a red light, but it gives a general idea what has to happen: in order to average 46.4, you have to go well over 45 if you start from 0. In this particular graph, that means peaking at 62.
It's a basic y=m(x+a)^2+b graph with the following conditions: must intersect (0,0) and (30,45) and have an integral from 0 to 30 of 1392 (46.4*30).
I like useless articles like this sometimes. This one gets the electrical nuts out of the woodwork and I start learning things that I'd normally have no reason to go out and look, but are interesting nonetheless.
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1) How is vulnerabiilty to malware not MS's fault?
If someone wrote an application that made a popup every 20 minutes on your linux box that said 'Run TuxAntiVirusPro 2010 now!' and you intentionally executed it, how is that Linux's fault?
There is still a huge raft of Windows software that will not perform properly without admin rights. Until that is fixed, the problem will never be solved.
This.
A million times this.
Two registries. Number 1 for the system settings. Locked down. Number 2 for apps. This also makes it backwards compatible.
You mean like this?
C:\Windows\System32\config>dir
Directory of C:\Windows\System32\config
12/02/2009 10:28 AM 41,943,040 SOFTWARE
12/02/2009 10:31 AM 19,660,800 SYSTEM
(There's a few more in there actually, and that's not counting the user's personal HKCU in %userprofile%\ntuser.dat)
And as others have stated, the guts of the registry are structured surprisingly well.
Windows was designed for users to login as administrators.
I have to disagree with this. That might be true for the 9x line, but Windows 2000 and beyond has the structure to allow users to log in as normal users with their own environment. HKCU is their own personal registry hive and they have their own 'home' folder at %userprofile%.
The real problem is programs are not built with this in mind. Installers have been designed to put files, by default, into C:\Program Files and HKLM\Software rather than %userprofile%\Program Files and HKCU\Software since day 0. They'll scatter stuff throughout the registry and require changes made without setting the right permissions on the keys. They'll scatter files all throughout the system and assume the user has full RWX across the entire file structure.
Sometimes these programs can be tweaked without much hassle (I know one that requires RW on one particular file in Prog Files, but everything else can be RO/RX) but others (I'm looking at you, UPS WorldShip) are just not worth the hassle to lock down when you have other pressing issues.
Meh, just seems like classic moneygrubbing stupidity.
"We want more money from this otherwise you can't have it!" is a rallying cry too often seen in the world of music rights to TV show DVD releases. I mean, take WKRP. Instead of cutting a deal, the rates to relicence the music remained too high to include the original track. So the rightsholders end up losing money, the customers get a subpar product, and no one really wins.
Take the money and run; keep trying to win against the banker will just get you the suitcase with $1 when you should've settled for the $17,000 offer.
Best analogy I've seen on here in a while. Kudos.
Anyone using the Daily Telegraph (let alone a blog on said rag) as an authorative source immediatly loses credibility with me, and hopefully, anyone else who understands logic and reason.
Just sayin.
All speech is free, but some speech is more free than the rest.
Depending on what era Radio Shack those parts came from, I'd probably *prefer* the military using the Radio Shack kit.
You're still fighting for tap space though. Sufficed to say if there are taps with Sam Adams there, you'd likely have to find them rather than expect it as a staple.
Note, I have no real evidence of this, and I can't remember what was on the taps in Sydney when I went there (only one I can name was Toohey's Black cause I had about 5 pints of that one.) But I do remember generally that most were domestic varieties with probably a Heinekin and a couple others imported.
I also am, of course, restricting myself to taps (which I just realized), who knows what they might have in bottle and in that regard they could have some Sam Adams.
The caveat is those are local. The US beers large enough to get exported are not the ones you want to be caught dead ordering.
When did this happen? When I flew to Sydney in '07 I got free booze and it was United.
There are masks with braille that work pretty well. I have a friend who is blind and can vote just fine.
But those have to be specially made, and with ballots ranging from Federal, to State, to County to City elections, that takes time to translate and print. Plus, what if you run out or they get lost?
Note, I simply said easier. I find voting easy to begin with, but there's plenty of people who don't understand "Only fill the circle of the candidate you want elected" (more on this later.)
Last time I checked the US had their official language English.
Officially, federally, the US does NOT have an official language. In fact, it becomes a powderkeg of controversy every time someone in Congress hints at it. It varies at the state-to-state level as well. Some have official languages, others don't.
Oddly, this problem (lost ballot boxes) never occured in my country.
Never occured or was never an issue? These crop up during close races and recounts regularly, but never for sure-thing races.
And here's the infamous Minnesota junk. When ballots get challenged, it's up to the courts to decide how someone intended to vote.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/
On a personal level, I'd say if someone can't be arsed enough to follow instructions and it's ambiguous in the slightest way, trash it. (If the scanner just fails to read an otherwise flawlessly filled out ballot, those are accepted. Arrows, Xs, comments, those result in a destroyed ballot.) That's not how things work though.
Easier for the disabled. Easier to support multiple languages. Easier to have duplicate copies so you can't be surprised and "find" a box of ballots in a warehouse later. Less ambiguity in regards to intention (see Minnesota's Senate race.)
He's citing a blog hosted by the Daily Telegraph as an empirical source.
You'd have better luck posing facts to a brick wall.
Those poor people on Gilligan's Island...
True, the notes and additional marks are public domain. I wasn't sure what termonology to put there at the time.
(I.e., "eighth pause, 3 eighth-note Gs above middle c, half-note e-flat above middle c with a fermata" is public domain as far as the opening bar of Beethoven's 5th is concerned, but how it's represented in print is copyrighted by the author.)
Long story short, the 'what' is public domain. The 'how' may not necessarily be.
The works you see by the same author released by seperate companies are in the public domain.
Anyone can print the original words of Shakespeare, Dickens, Bronte, Dumas. Anything publisher specific (layout, annotations, et cetera) is exclusive to that publisher. The same goes with compositions. Anyone can record works by Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, as the sheetmusic is in the public domain, but whoever releases it is whoever cut the recording deal with the orchestra.
But we ARE in a war. A couple actually. The war on terror, the war on drugs... Probably more.
Well, technically the Interstate system IS socialism, it's just the good type like police departments that the fanatic right-wing crowd gloss over whenever they get worried about socialism raping, disembowling and then burning the corpse of capitalism.
I don't see how you can call my proposal socialism.
You're clearly not watching enough Fox News!
Maybe the problem is too complex/expensive, but that doesn't mean you should prevent people from even trying to solve it if they want.
I'm confused how they're being prevented. Many oil companies have setups in Utah and Colorado mining shale oil, it's just not economically feasible now for them to develop the process further. That's the free market at work.
Real shame we can't pass legislation to force the oil companies to dump billions into oil shale research, but I guess that'd be socialism.
GP's post gave me the impression that he thought all the GPS proved was he was speeding by only 1.4 over the limit. (I guess you are right he was speeding, by 1.4 miles/hr)
But the rub is it proves he had to have gone well over 45mph to make that his average from a cold start.
www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Plot[73947%2F1195+-+(239+(-4710%2F239+%2B+x)^2)%2F1500%2C+{x%2C+0%2C+30}]
If the above doesn't work, just drop this into the engine:
Plot[73947/1195 - (239 (-4710/239 + x)^2)/1500, {x, 0, 30}]
(Have to copy/paste it...slashcode wrecks it awful.)
Obviously this graph shape is wrong: you can't start out with a slope > 0 at (0,0) if you're starting from a red light, but it gives a general idea what has to happen: in order to average 46.4, you have to go well over 45 if you start from 0. In this particular graph, that means peaking at 62.
It's a basic y=m(x+a)^2+b graph with the following conditions: must intersect (0,0) and (30,45) and have an integral from 0 to 30 of 1392 (46.4*30).
The starting speed was 0.
The average speed was 46.4mph over 30 sec.
The ending speed was 45mph.
Here's the question: how do you get an average speed OVER your end speed (even by 1.4) after starting from 0?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast (yeah, yeah, wiki, but it copy/pastes nicely)
Comcast fiscal data:
Revenue US$ 30.895 Billion (2007)
Operating income US$ 5.578 Billion (2007)
Net income US$ 2.587 Billion (2007)
Total assets US$ 113.417 Billion (2007)
Total equity US$ 41.340 Billion (2007)
I'd say Comcast is a textbook definition of a multi-billion dollar company.
I like useless articles like this sometimes. This one gets the electrical nuts out of the woodwork and I start learning things that I'd normally have no reason to go out and look, but are interesting nonetheless.