There's a huge market here in the U.S. for the knockoffs as well. Go to Ebay and search for darn near anything and you'll find someone in China selling it for about 1/3 of what you'd pay here for it.
You're right. Ebay, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, IBM, and PayPal should all disconnect their essential systems from the Internet right now. What were they thinking????
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Yes I know what you meant. My point is, sometimes it's not all that cut and dried. Systems you would think should not be connected to the Internet are required to be connected by federal regulations. Sometimes it's a case of needing sensitive data in the field. It does no good to gather a bunch of critical data, and not be able to access it.
:) yeah, that's what I thought too. More to the point, people will think it's for the wii and investigate it giving the wepad a marketing edge. Queue the lawyers in 3..2..1..
Other than users that download malware from the Internet and drop it on your private/critical LAN? No, not really. I'm assuming that it would detect any external storage that is USB based. Firewire usually isn't there unless it's required, and if it's not desirable to have, it can easily be disabled in the device manager. With USB you might have a mouse and a keyboard that you'd like to use, but you want to make sure no one plugs in a storage device. This can be accomplished with a GPO though. The tool is really not necessary. Even if you wanted to trap people, tripwire is far more functional, and can provide the same detection. It's a useless tool really.
If only we could get the bad guys to just set the evil bit. It would make filtering so much more efficient.
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That's not exactly flame bait. He's mostly right. All of those problems really do exist to some extent, and if they are to be overcome it's going to require discussion rather than "bah, flamebait.... dismissed!!". Don't get me wrong. I love linux, but I also see why everyone in the world isn't yet running it as their primary system. As a geek I like to play with systems, spend my time figuring stuff out, and I'm willing to overlook the features that OpenOffice is missing over Office 2010. But most users aren't like me. They just want it to work, and if it doesn't work they'll use something that does. Even if that means they have to reboot after a BSOD, or pay a little money for their software.
I'm not convinced that's a bad thing. Change happens over time, and I'd like to think it's usually for the better. I'm not hot to run out buy an ipad, but I can see the usefullness, and the next time I'm in the market for a laptop I may consider getting one of those instead. It sure beats trying to haul an Apple ][ around with me everywhere I go, or even the HP dv8 I just bought (it's nice, but it's not exactly compact).
There's a reason they don't call it summer camp. I haven't seen the vid because I'm at work, and can't watch it here. However, from what I've read the guys firing thought the people in the crowd had weapons. This isn't about some high level decision passed from on high for the advancement of imperialistic intent. This is soldiers on the front lines that deal with danger everyday, and felt threatened enough to act on what they perceived as a dangerous situation. Did they make a mistake? Yes. Does it mean that the US did it intentionally to kill a few journalists? I don't think that's the case. War is not a pleasant experience. How did the soldiers know that the people in the van were helping the wounded, and not perpetuating the attack? These guys are only human, and while they're trained to control their emotions, and human inclinations self preservatoin takes over at some point. When you've got a wife and kids at home, and you're thinking it's them or you by gosh it better be them then. Like it or not that's just reality of the situation. The cover up however, is unquestionably bs and should be investigated, and the responsible parties should absolutely be brought to justice.
Amen!!! I dropped out in 11th and finished on home study for much the same reason. I felt like I wasn't learning anything anyway so why bother. I finished a year and a half worth of work in four months teaching myself. While it's a sad commentary on the public school system it's one more shining example of what you get when the government runs something. I shudder to think what health care is going to be like in 10 years.
Oh? Well if you say so then it must be true. I guess using mocked up data to trend against is inconsequential and provides a sound basis for the proving of this theory. Anybody who would question it is clearly off their nut.
LOL:) mySQL does suck mightily for a number of reasons. Realtime backups, obscure deviations from the SQL standard, query times on large tables, etc. However, it's better than some other databases for small jobs, and it interfaces with PHP quite nicely. I'd hate to see it go away entirely. On the Open Solaris front I'm not that worried about it. If it goes away it's one less choice, but it's not like there are too many critical applications that exclusively use Solaris. Now if Oracle started requiring Solaris to run their databases I might get concerned. I seriously doubt they are going to do that. In any event, as previously mentioned, there is nothing preventing either one from being forked.
No I'm not a troll, I just don't get how you discount a whole group of people based on the news channel they may or may not watch. I'm not sure that Reagononmics has been or can be thoroughly debunked because to do so would require the inside details of every employment decision based on the concept. I can tell you that employers typically do more hiring when their taxes are decreased, and lay people off when they go up. It's happened in every company that I've ever worked for. I was no fan of the bail outs when Bush did it, I thought he was totally misguided in ignoring the immigration problem, and while I thought going into Iraq was the right thing to do when we did it, I'll acknowledge that it was badly handled. I think there was a lot of growing anger from the same people in the tea party now at the end of the Bush presidency. I don't have any doubts about his birth certificate. I do wonder why he didn't just show it and put the matter to rest at the time, but I think most people now know it's been independently verified and it's a dead issue. I can't speak for the tea party as a whole, but for myself my opposition to Obama has nothing to do with his person and everything to do with his policy. Unemployment is at an all time high, and yet the first thing he does is enact this massive spending bill that does almost nothing to create jobs, and instead allocates it for what I see as a bunch of useless pet projects. Then, even though we're heavily in debt, struggling economically, and still dealing with close to 20% unemployment we just have to right this moment provide healthcare to every man woman and child in the US. Granted it's a lofty goal, but don't you think getting the country back on track so we could pay for it should have been the first priority? The thing is that while they do away with the pre-existing condition clause (which is going to increase costs) they force everyone to have to pay for it, and create a massive extenition of the IRS to break the arms of those who can't pay. Once again, your government looking out for you. They had a blank slate. They could have included anything they wanted to in that bill. But look at the end result. This doesn't do anything to stop the ins cos from over charging, or lawyers abusing the malpractice system, or doctors gouging patients, or hospitals ordering unnecessary tests so they can charge for them. None of that is addressed. But you can bet your butt that they'll come after you if you don't pay for all of it now. Notice how none of that has anything to do with his skin color, party affiliation, where he went to school, what he did before he was in office, or what he listens to on his ipod. It's what he's doing with the country right now that's got me bugged, and I suspect it's the same for most of his critics.
way to leave out the reason WHY they did it in secret. They were trying to protect the country, not further their own agenda, as your comment seems to suggest. If they would have done it in the open, our enemies would have been privy to what we were doing. Additionally, there would have been endless public debate and we'd probably still be trying to agree on the verbiage today.
Oh yes because anyone who watches a particular news channel can be pigeon holed as a mindless drone incapable of thoughtful reasoning. Give me a break. Did it ever occur to you that other people might not see things the same way as you do and still have a valid point? The tea party has been defined by the individuals who belong to it. From where I'm sitting it seems to be mostly a group of citizens who feel they aren't being properly represented for the taxes they are paying, and who are not aligned with the agenda of the current administration. How exactly, does that make them a product of Fox news? Fox is just reporting on what's happening. Perhaps it is you that is star struck by Obama believing everything he's selling you without question. And I know it might be hard for you to understand but tax cuts for big businesses create something that we desparately need right now. JOBS!!!! Slam big business all you want, but who do you think employs all those little guys out there that have it so bad? Yes, let's stick it to the rich, they're greedy and don't deserve it anyway. Guess who suffers? It ain't the rich, they just lay people off and do what they've always done. Way to stick up for the little guy huh?
While that's true what you are missing here is that without universal healthcare the hospital will go after the individual financially before passing the costs on to us. This discourages people from going to the hospital unless it is vital that they do so. Under this new plan the attitude is going to be "It's not costing me anymore than I'm already paying, so I might as well go every time I hicup just to be sure." I'm in full agreement that we need to reduce costs, but forcing everyone to purchase health care is not going to do that. We need to do away with malpractice, and we need to get insurance companies out of the way. Make them like the utility industry so that they can't gouge the public. Reduce the amount of paperwork required so that there is that much less to maintain. Start requiring that preventative maintenance be affordable to those living at poverty level without insurance. If they did those things it would have the effect that they are supposedly trying to achive, but if you'll notice doing those things doesn't line the pockets of doctors and lawyers.
I don't see (sane and rational) people switching distros over this. I don't like the idea that they are going to move the buttons because I'm used to it being the way it is now. However, I'll upgrade when it's out of beta, and if I don't like it I can reconfigure it to work the old way. That's the wonderful thing about linux, if you don't like the way it works out of the box total control is at your finger tips, and only limited by your inclination to learn. If you are going to be limited to the out of the box configuration you might as well stick with Windows.
Yes, but is it really worth it to fork over the placement of buttons? It seems rather absurd. Shuttleworth was correct, maybe not as diplomatic as he could've been, but still you just can't please everybody.
I don't think that's really true; I think you are oversimplifying a bit (disclaimer: I consider myself a conservative rather than a republican). I'm open to all ideas as long as they are good ones. However, requiring everyone to purchase healthcare, creating another governmental bureaucracy to tax those that don’t conform, and doing nothing reduce litigation (which is a big part of what drives the cost) is not what I would call good sound policy. I won't argue that changes need to be made. No more pre-existing condition exclusions, cap on malpractice, cap on what insurance companies are allowed to profit are all things they could have done to change things for the better. Unfortunately, the only thing out of those addressed is the pre-existing condition clause, and without changning the other things that are broken that is going to cause costs to skyrocket with taxpayers footing the bill. Anyone with half a brain should be opposed to this bill regardless of party affiliation, not because it's Obama's but because it's just flat out bad for anyone that isn't a doctor or a lawyer.
Bush could have suggested such a policy change, and I’d feel exactly the same way. Now as far as news organizations are concerned I’m sure Chris “I’ve got a thrill running up my leg” Matthews is going to give you an objective viewpoint regarding any policy suggested by this administration. Now Fox may be somewhat biased, but at least you get both sides of the argument in most cases. Most of the other “news” organizations are so far left I’m puzzled at how anyone could actually call it news. It’s more like a self congratulatory circle jerk. In addition to Fox, I also read quite a bit on the internet even on some sites that are hard left like moveon.org, democratic underground, etc. Just so that I can get some perspective of where both sides are coming from.
While acknowledging that some points were overblown for effect, I think some of what you call FUD was legitimate questions about things that were said. Obama at one point made statements that sounded like he was advocating some form of cost/benefit anaysis for the elderly. There is no doubt that this is going to rasie taxes as well. If not directly, then indirectly. If we are going to provide healthcare for every person in the US the money has to come from somewhere it's not just going to materialize. I think calling those types of concerns FUD is somewhat dubious.
Don't count on it. Political affiliation doesn't really matter. Dems, reps, greens, indies, etc are all the same. They get contributions from the conglomerates that have the money. Subsequently, the conglomerates are the ones who get represented while we get the shaft. Don't be fooled. This was not about reigning in the insurance companies. The passing of this bill was all about the government being able to collect fines, get their piece of the pie, and still improve the revenue stream of the health care industry. It has very little to do with caring about the people, or making healthcare more affordable.
Well I'm glad you feel that way. Personally, I trusted Bush a whole lot more that Obama, but that's the beauty of this country. Everyone has a right to thier own opinion. I'll agree with you on this though, there are times when it is not in our best interests to be fully transparent. For instance, where strategic military operations are taking place, or whether or not a particular strategy is working. It's best to keep your enemies guessing. However, when it comes to things like 2 TRILLION $$$ for a domestic economic recovery plan and bank bailouts rammed through in the dead of night I'd like very much to know where that's going and why it hasn't really improved our situation. Yes unemployment is fluctuating, but unemployment doesn't take into consideration those who have been unemployed for so long that they no longer qualify for unemployment. Supposedly the banks are on solid footing now (many institutions handing out bonuses), but it's still like pulling teeth to get a loan. Those are things that should be transparent, and we as Americans ought to be demanding answers.
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There's a huge market here in the U.S. for the knockoffs as well. Go to Ebay and search for darn near anything and you'll find someone in China selling it for about 1/3 of what you'd pay here for it.
You're right. Ebay, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, IBM, and PayPal should all disconnect their essential systems from the Internet right now. What were they thinking????
:)
Yes I know what you meant. My point is, sometimes it's not all that cut and dried. Systems you would think should not be connected to the Internet are required to be connected by federal regulations. Sometimes it's a case of needing sensitive data in the field. It does no good to gather a bunch of critical data, and not be able to access it.
Anything would be better than Windows Mobile.
"Both of the guys who ran it were hard core."
Thanks, now I've got soda all over my screen.
:) yeah, that's what I thought too. More to the point, people will think it's for the wii and investigate it giving the wepad a marketing edge. Queue the lawyers in 3..2..1..
Other than users that download malware from the Internet and drop it on your private/critical LAN? No, not really. I'm assuming that it would detect any external storage that is USB based. Firewire usually isn't there unless it's required, and if it's not desirable to have, it can easily be disabled in the device manager. With USB you might have a mouse and a keyboard that you'd like to use, but you want to make sure no one plugs in a storage device. This can be accomplished with a GPO though. The tool is really not necessary. Even if you wanted to trap people, tripwire is far more functional, and can provide the same detection. It's a useless tool really.
If only we could get the bad guys to just set the evil bit. It would make filtering so much more efficient.
That's not exactly flame bait. He's mostly right. All of those problems really do exist to some extent, and if they are to be overcome it's going to require discussion rather than "bah, flamebait.... dismissed!!". Don't get me wrong. I love linux, but I also see why everyone in the world isn't yet running it as their primary system. As a geek I like to play with systems, spend my time figuring stuff out, and I'm willing to overlook the features that OpenOffice is missing over Office 2010. But most users aren't like me. They just want it to work, and if it doesn't work they'll use something that does. Even if that means they have to reboot after a BSOD, or pay a little money for their software.
I'm not convinced that's a bad thing. Change happens over time, and I'd like to think it's usually for the better. I'm not hot to run out buy an ipad, but I can see the usefullness, and the next time I'm in the market for a laptop I may consider getting one of those instead. It sure beats trying to haul an Apple ][ around with me everywhere I go, or even the HP dv8 I just bought (it's nice, but it's not exactly compact).
There's a reason they don't call it summer camp. I haven't seen the vid because I'm at work, and can't watch it here. However, from what I've read the guys firing thought the people in the crowd had weapons. This isn't about some high level decision passed from on high for the advancement of imperialistic intent. This is soldiers on the front lines that deal with danger everyday, and felt threatened enough to act on what they perceived as a dangerous situation. Did they make a mistake? Yes. Does it mean that the US did it intentionally to kill a few journalists? I don't think that's the case. War is not a pleasant experience. How did the soldiers know that the people in the van were helping the wounded, and not perpetuating the attack? These guys are only human, and while they're trained to control their emotions, and human inclinations self preservatoin takes over at some point. When you've got a wife and kids at home, and you're thinking it's them or you by gosh it better be them then. Like it or not that's just reality of the situation.
The cover up however, is unquestionably bs and should be investigated, and the responsible parties should absolutely be brought to justice.
Amen!!! I dropped out in 11th and finished on home study for much the same reason. I felt like I wasn't learning anything anyway so why bother. I finished a year and a half worth of work in four months teaching myself. While it's a sad commentary on the public school system it's one more shining example of what you get when the government runs something. I shudder to think what health care is going to be like in 10 years.
Oh? Well if you say so then it must be true. I guess using mocked up data to trend against is inconsequential and provides a sound basis for the proving of this theory. Anybody who would question it is clearly off their nut.
LOL :) mySQL does suck mightily for a number of reasons. Realtime backups, obscure deviations from the SQL standard, query times on large tables, etc. However, it's better than some other databases for small jobs, and it interfaces with PHP quite nicely. I'd hate to see it go away entirely. On the Open Solaris front I'm not that worried about it. If it goes away it's one less choice, but it's not like there are too many critical applications that exclusively use Solaris. Now if Oracle started requiring Solaris to run their databases I might get concerned. I seriously doubt they are going to do that. In any event, as previously mentioned, there is nothing preventing either one from being forked.
No I'm not a troll, I just don't get how you discount a whole group of people based on the news channel they may or may not watch. I'm not sure that Reagononmics has been or can be thoroughly debunked because to do so would require the inside details of every employment decision based on the concept. I can tell you that employers typically do more hiring when their taxes are decreased, and lay people off when they go up. It's happened in every company that I've ever worked for. I was no fan of the bail outs when Bush did it, I thought he was totally misguided in ignoring the immigration problem, and while I thought going into Iraq was the right thing to do when we did it, I'll acknowledge that it was badly handled. I think there was a lot of growing anger from the same people in the tea party now at the end of the Bush presidency. I don't have any doubts about his birth certificate. I do wonder why he didn't just show it and put the matter to rest at the time, but I think most people now know it's been independently verified and it's a dead issue. I can't speak for the tea party as a whole, but for myself my opposition to Obama has nothing to do with his person and everything to do with his policy. Unemployment is at an all time high, and yet the first thing he does is enact this massive spending bill that does almost nothing to create jobs, and instead allocates it for what I see as a bunch of useless pet projects. Then, even though we're heavily in debt, struggling economically, and still dealing with close to 20% unemployment we just have to right this moment provide healthcare to every man woman and child in the US. Granted it's a lofty goal, but don't you think getting the country back on track so we could pay for it should have been the first priority? The thing is that while they do away with the pre-existing condition clause (which is going to increase costs) they force everyone to have to pay for it, and create a massive extenition of the IRS to break the arms of those who can't pay. Once again, your government looking out for you. They had a blank slate. They could have included anything they wanted to in that bill. But look at the end result. This doesn't do anything to stop the ins cos from over charging, or lawyers abusing the malpractice system, or doctors gouging patients, or hospitals ordering unnecessary tests so they can charge for them. None of that is addressed. But you can bet your butt that they'll come after you if you don't pay for all of it now. Notice how none of that has anything to do with his skin color, party affiliation, where he went to school, what he did before he was in office, or what he listens to on his ipod. It's what he's doing with the country right now that's got me bugged, and I suspect it's the same for most of his critics.
way to leave out the reason WHY they did it in secret. They were trying to protect the country, not further their own agenda, as your comment seems to suggest. If they would have done it in the open, our enemies would have been privy to what we were doing. Additionally, there would have been endless public debate and we'd probably still be trying to agree on the verbiage today.
Oh yes because anyone who watches a particular news channel can be pigeon holed as a mindless drone incapable of thoughtful reasoning. Give me a break. Did it ever occur to you that other people might not see things the same way as you do and still have a valid point? The tea party has been defined by the individuals who belong to it. From where I'm sitting it seems to be mostly a group of citizens who feel they aren't being properly represented for the taxes they are paying, and who are not aligned with the agenda of the current administration. How exactly, does that make them a product of Fox news? Fox is just reporting on what's happening. Perhaps it is you that is star struck by Obama believing everything he's selling you without question. And I know it might be hard for you to understand but tax cuts for big businesses create something that we desparately need right now. JOBS!!!! Slam big business all you want, but who do you think employs all those little guys out there that have it so bad? Yes, let's stick it to the rich, they're greedy and don't deserve it anyway. Guess who suffers? It ain't the rich, they just lay people off and do what they've always done. Way to stick up for the little guy huh?
Better yet, "Iran wants nukes, Russia wants us to get rid of some of ours, so we're sending them to Iran."
Not interested. I'm holding out for the new TI 99/4A.
While that's true what you are missing here is that without universal healthcare the hospital will go after the individual financially before passing the costs on to us. This discourages people from going to the hospital unless it is vital that they do so. Under this new plan the attitude is going to be "It's not costing me anymore than I'm already paying, so I might as well go every time I hicup just to be sure." I'm in full agreement that we need to reduce costs, but forcing everyone to purchase health care is not going to do that. We need to do away with malpractice, and we need to get insurance companies out of the way. Make them like the utility industry so that they can't gouge the public. Reduce the amount of paperwork required so that there is that much less to maintain. Start requiring that preventative maintenance be affordable to those living at poverty level without insurance. If they did those things it would have the effect that they are supposedly trying to achive, but if you'll notice doing those things doesn't line the pockets of doctors and lawyers.
I don't see (sane and rational) people switching distros over this. I don't like the idea that they are going to move the buttons because I'm used to it being the way it is now. However, I'll upgrade when it's out of beta, and if I don't like it I can reconfigure it to work the old way. That's the wonderful thing about linux, if you don't like the way it works out of the box total control is at your finger tips, and only limited by your inclination to learn. If you are going to be limited to the out of the box configuration you might as well stick with Windows.
Yes, but is it really worth it to fork over the placement of buttons? It seems rather absurd. Shuttleworth was correct, maybe not as diplomatic as he could've been, but still you just can't please everybody.
I don't think that's really true; I think you are oversimplifying a bit (disclaimer: I consider myself a conservative rather than a republican). I'm open to all ideas as long as they are good ones. However, requiring everyone to purchase healthcare, creating another governmental bureaucracy to tax those that don’t conform, and doing nothing reduce litigation (which is a big part of what drives the cost) is not what I would call good sound policy. I won't argue that changes need to be made. No more pre-existing condition exclusions, cap on malpractice, cap on what insurance companies are allowed to profit are all things they could have done to change things for the better. Unfortunately, the only thing out of those addressed is the pre-existing condition clause, and without changning the other things that are broken that is going to cause costs to skyrocket with taxpayers footing the bill. Anyone with half a brain should be opposed to this bill regardless of party affiliation, not because it's Obama's but because it's just flat out bad for anyone that isn't a doctor or a lawyer.
Bush could have suggested such a policy change, and I’d feel exactly the same way. Now as far as news organizations are concerned I’m sure Chris “I’ve got a thrill running up my leg” Matthews is going to give you an objective viewpoint regarding any policy suggested by this administration. Now Fox may be somewhat biased, but at least you get both sides of the argument in most cases. Most of the other “news” organizations are so far left I’m puzzled at how anyone could actually call it news. It’s more like a self congratulatory circle jerk. In addition to Fox, I also read quite a bit on the internet even on some sites that are hard left like moveon.org, democratic underground, etc. Just so that I can get some perspective of where both sides are coming from.
While acknowledging that some points were overblown for effect, I think some of what you call FUD was legitimate questions about things that were said. Obama at one point made statements that sounded like he was advocating some form of cost/benefit anaysis for the elderly. There is no doubt that this is going to rasie taxes as well. If not directly, then indirectly. If we are going to provide healthcare for every person in the US the money has to come from somewhere it's not just going to materialize. I think calling those types of concerns FUD is somewhat dubious.
Don't count on it. Political affiliation doesn't really matter. Dems, reps, greens, indies, etc are all the same. They get contributions from the conglomerates that have the money. Subsequently, the conglomerates are the ones who get represented while we get the shaft. Don't be fooled. This was not about reigning in the insurance companies. The passing of this bill was all about the government being able to collect fines, get their piece of the pie, and still improve the revenue stream of the health care industry. It has very little to do with caring about the people, or making healthcare more affordable.
Well I'm glad you feel that way. Personally, I trusted Bush a whole lot more that Obama, but that's the beauty of this country. Everyone has a right to thier own opinion. I'll agree with you on this though, there are times when it is not in our best interests to be fully transparent. For instance, where strategic military operations are taking place, or whether or not a particular strategy is working. It's best to keep your enemies guessing. However, when it comes to things like 2 TRILLION $$$ for a domestic economic recovery plan and bank bailouts rammed through in the dead of night I'd like very much to know where that's going and why it hasn't really improved our situation. Yes unemployment is fluctuating, but unemployment doesn't take into consideration those who have been unemployed for so long that they no longer qualify for unemployment. Supposedly the banks are on solid footing now (many institutions handing out bonuses), but it's still like pulling teeth to get a loan. Those are things that should be transparent, and we as Americans ought to be demanding answers.
Yeah, good luck with that. :)