Make no mistake; the OS does make a good deal of difference for security in some respects. However, it seems to me that most security leaks come from HUMAN error. With respect to that, Red Hat does nothing (nor could I expect it to...). Nice to know that Linux can at least be recognized this way, at least.
I claim that the sketch I just drew on this napkin is worth 10000000000000000000 dollars. If someone stole it, police everywhere should dedicate more time on finding it - it's worth more than all other criminal acts in the world!
The police would laugh - the value I place on something has no baring on its *real* worth. Same with these supposed numbers for music piracy...
I'll probably be modded down for this...
There are a lot of "ifs" going around, aren't there? Frankly, I DON'T think the I-Phone will kill all cellphones the way the I-Pod did. The cellphone business is a lot more secure. Also, that price tag made me scoff at it, and I can imagine a host of problems that could come up easily. No one should be predicting any success for Safari because of the I-phone which we can't even be sure WILL succeed.
Further, I DON'T think Safari is going to kill Firefox, or IE for that matter. Granted, this is a beta - maybe later version would make me change my opinion. As it stands, Firefox is miles ahead of it in my opinion. Hell, IE is on even grounds with Safari(possibly slightly better footing, as it's easy for Joe Schmoe to get).
Don't count your chickens before they hatch, folks.
Colonizing the galaxy?! Preposterous!
Roll back the clock 50 years...
A man on the moon?! Preposterous!
Roll back the clock 50 more years...
A device that can do math faster than a human?! Preposterous!
Another 50 years back...
A man a hundred leagues under the sea? Preposterous!
Some of my time estimates may be off, but you get the idea. Things thought impossible are often proved possible, even easy, within a few decades or a century...
Normally, I'd write a deeper post, but this warrants this instead:
*Dances for joy*
Granted, this is still a far cry from those documents being released. Documents disappear, or hell, the FBI just ignores the ruling. Wouldn't be the first time.
and they'll make drugs for it.
Seriously, we already over prescribe drugs. Child a bit antsy? Give him ADHD meds. Honestly, I'm lucky that my parents didn't ever feel me being so easily distracted (literally, I would never focus on something for more than five minutes) was anything other than the symptom of being a young, energetic kid. Nowadays, I've got no problem focusing (moreso than most people, really).
While this may seem a offtopic, it's a valid tie in. If you made it a disease, drugs will pop up to help treat this "disease". At this rate, there won't be a kid in the western world that isn't being doped on some drug for some perceived abnormality.
Problem is, though, that you'd also have 10 times the number of mistakes, as was seen with Florida. Electronic ballets ARE good, it's just that they need to examined for validity.
Individuals make copies for their own purposes, or maybe a few buddies. They don't profit off other people's work. Even versions that are on torrents don't make any profit for whoever posts them - it's charity in a sense.
If people make copies for profit, then it isn't altruism. Companies that make the movies DO have to recoup their losses; it costs millions to make a movie. This is why we have copyright law - so companies DO have a reason to produce. Today, we have a lot of abuse of copyrights, but the fundamental tenant of copyrighting is important.
Well, if Electronic Arts start releasing Mac games, there's goes the much vaunted Mac stability.
I jest... somewhat at least. We all know that EA games are notoriously unstable on PCs. My impression is that most Mac software to this day has remained well coded. What will happen when EA starts coding for the Mac? Is there a possibility of crashes, etc. not seen before?
Very nice, but how long until either Google loses some legal fight, or it simply decides not to fight? If Google loses the legal fight to defend their data from government violations, then you should be looking at your government, not Google for the privacy violation.
How was the parent marked insightful?
At best, it's humorous. It is true that PCs require more support, I'll admit. Rarely, however, do people necessarily take them into the shop (Or pay 100's upon HUNDREDs of dollars) for maintenance. Even considering support costs, I doubt it'll reach the same price for an equivalent Mac in said field.
You have to remember that a correlation doesn't mean that EVERY last person in the world will fit (Though I find its strange you can do logic, but not math). You're one of the outliers, basically, if you were to believe their findings.
A couple of months ago, I would have traded living in the U.S. for living in the U.K. any day of the week. But now? Cameras all over the place, the ability to ticket people based off these cameras, lip reading capable cameras, etc. etc. all seem to be popping up in the U.K. now. Now, they're starting to censor history. Europeans always ask the Americans why they don't vote and stop crap like the PATRIOT Act from staying around - now I must ask the same of the British. What's going on?
The amount of problems with ethanol are staggering. The raised food prises, the fact that we practically pollute more MAKING ethanol than any environment savings (Which, apparently, seem to be nonexistent). Beyond this, it's near impossible to make enough ethanol to support the U.S...
Biodiesel, on the other hand, can be made with nearly ANYTHING and nearly ANYWHERE. Human waste? We can make biodiesel out of it (There was even a slashdot article about that). Used frying oil? We can make biodiesel? Algae, grown in swampy areas unfit for farming? We can use it. The catches are seriously minor too. For the U.S., the big issue is a lack of acceptance of Diesel as a whole. Secondly, colder climates could have problems with it, due to it solidifying. The second one may be an issue if you life in ice cold weather, but as a whole, it seems FAR more promising than Ethanol (And, it seems that Europe has pretty good Biodiesel penetration, too). The U.S. needs to give up on the ethanol dream.
"Speaking in support of his bill, Sen. Lanza apparently couldn't resist drawing on the shock value of controversial amateur game V-Tech Rampage (which he mistakenly refers to as V-Tech Massacre)"
I doubt it's a mistake - massacre has more of a ring to it that rampage. Especially when appealing to fear.
The one thing I've discovered while working at UCI (As student staff) is that each department is greedy. For instance, one year a bus had to be redirected from its normal route due to construction. When we requested them to move it back, the transport service wanted us to pay them for the extra maintenance fees, employee hours, etc. the old route would cost. (Note, the route was about a minute or two longer). Both were university departments, and I'd not be surprised if some departments instead try to leech the money off students (Not like they won't already have enough money problems after the RIAA sues them)
Is how can you reliably use Google to screen an employee? In this case, I suppose since the employer knew the guy, it was easier. But let's say you have someone on the slate called "John Smith", even with a middle name, it'll bring up dozens of other people with the same name. How can employers even discriminate.
Not that I agree with the money distribution in the US, but...
AFAIK, There's more money per student in the U.S. k-12 system than in any other country (or near to it). Might not be the money provided, perhaps we should be looking more at their spending.
More importantly, I'm currently working at the Housing Dept. of my college to make ends meet. Perhaps we're atypical, but part of my responsibility is keeping an up to date calendar, along with deadlines, etc. There's a very nice scheduling system in use as well. There should be NO reason why schools should miss deadlines...
Seriously, I never thought that full blown laptops would help students (I myself having just recently finished high school).
What WOULD help is something tablet-like that stores all our books in electronic form, which we could pretty much WRITE one. Seriously, that way they wouldn't have to lug around 6-7 books and erase their notes from the books when done with the materials. Would have my made high school years easier.
"what Microsoft does to IE, it's still going to be IE. End of Story"
Office 2007 is miles away from Office 2003. I actually think it's an improvement too (Though some would debate this). I imagine microsoft is getting their act together now, and IE8 might actually start being preferable to firefox (Except for addons, which will still remain Firefox's game winner)
The article goes over it pretty well, but Cisco Clean Access Agent, in my experience at my college is more of a headache than it's worth. If someone has the slightest problem with Anti-virus updates, they get locked out every week, (I actually have to download the smart installer for them, and then patch it manually). Plus, a lot of good antiviruses aren't recognized by CCA agent as being acceptable. I currently run Windows 2003 server as a desktop, and CCA agent doesn't play nice with me either - I have to trick CCA agent by using a virtual machine for logins. Frankly, if there was a link to this program, I'd be using it right now...
Their network? Last time I checked my housing payments go towards paying for it. (Yes, I know it does, I've seen the budget). I'm paying for something I can't use freely... Thank god for encryption and VPNs. (Secure IX is pretty handy, albeit has some bandwidth limitations)
Definately. Due to it *relatively* close distance to us, the reasonably similar environment (or capable of supporting a similar environment) means that we could be looking at the first possible colonization project outside of our solar system some time in the future (probably later rather than sooner, mind)
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Make no mistake; the OS does make a good deal of difference for security in some respects. However, it seems to me that most security leaks come from HUMAN error. With respect to that, Red Hat does nothing (nor could I expect it to...). Nice to know that Linux can at least be recognized this way, at least.
I claim that the sketch I just drew on this napkin is worth 10000000000000000000 dollars. If someone stole it, police everywhere should dedicate more time on finding it - it's worth more than all other criminal acts in the world! The police would laugh - the value I place on something has no baring on its *real* worth. Same with these supposed numbers for music piracy...
I'll probably be modded down for this... There are a lot of "ifs" going around, aren't there? Frankly, I DON'T think the I-Phone will kill all cellphones the way the I-Pod did. The cellphone business is a lot more secure. Also, that price tag made me scoff at it, and I can imagine a host of problems that could come up easily. No one should be predicting any success for Safari because of the I-phone which we can't even be sure WILL succeed. Further, I DON'T think Safari is going to kill Firefox, or IE for that matter. Granted, this is a beta - maybe later version would make me change my opinion. As it stands, Firefox is miles ahead of it in my opinion. Hell, IE is on even grounds with Safari(possibly slightly better footing, as it's easy for Joe Schmoe to get). Don't count your chickens before they hatch, folks.
Colonizing the galaxy?! Preposterous!
Roll back the clock 50 years...
A man on the moon?! Preposterous!
Roll back the clock 50 more years...
A device that can do math faster than a human?! Preposterous!
Another 50 years back...
A man a hundred leagues under the sea? Preposterous!
Some of my time estimates may be off, but you get the idea. Things thought impossible are often proved possible, even easy, within a few decades or a century...
Normally, I'd write a deeper post, but this warrants this instead: *Dances for joy* Granted, this is still a far cry from those documents being released. Documents disappear, or hell, the FBI just ignores the ruling. Wouldn't be the first time.
and they'll make drugs for it. Seriously, we already over prescribe drugs. Child a bit antsy? Give him ADHD meds. Honestly, I'm lucky that my parents didn't ever feel me being so easily distracted (literally, I would never focus on something for more than five minutes) was anything other than the symptom of being a young, energetic kid. Nowadays, I've got no problem focusing (moreso than most people, really). While this may seem a offtopic, it's a valid tie in. If you made it a disease, drugs will pop up to help treat this "disease". At this rate, there won't be a kid in the western world that isn't being doped on some drug for some perceived abnormality.
Problem is, though, that you'd also have 10 times the number of mistakes, as was seen with Florida. Electronic ballets ARE good, it's just that they need to examined for validity.
Individuals make copies for their own purposes, or maybe a few buddies. They don't profit off other people's work. Even versions that are on torrents don't make any profit for whoever posts them - it's charity in a sense. If people make copies for profit, then it isn't altruism. Companies that make the movies DO have to recoup their losses; it costs millions to make a movie. This is why we have copyright law - so companies DO have a reason to produce. Today, we have a lot of abuse of copyrights, but the fundamental tenant of copyrighting is important.
Well, if Electronic Arts start releasing Mac games, there's goes the much vaunted Mac stability. I jest... somewhat at least. We all know that EA games are notoriously unstable on PCs. My impression is that most Mac software to this day has remained well coded. What will happen when EA starts coding for the Mac? Is there a possibility of crashes, etc. not seen before?
How was the parent marked insightful? At best, it's humorous. It is true that PCs require more support, I'll admit. Rarely, however, do people necessarily take them into the shop (Or pay 100's upon HUNDREDs of dollars) for maintenance. Even considering support costs, I doubt it'll reach the same price for an equivalent Mac in said field.
You have to remember that a correlation doesn't mean that EVERY last person in the world will fit (Though I find its strange you can do logic, but not math). You're one of the outliers, basically, if you were to believe their findings.
A couple of months ago, I would have traded living in the U.S. for living in the U.K. any day of the week. But now? Cameras all over the place, the ability to ticket people based off these cameras, lip reading capable cameras, etc. etc. all seem to be popping up in the U.K. now. Now, they're starting to censor history. Europeans always ask the Americans why they don't vote and stop crap like the PATRIOT Act from staying around - now I must ask the same of the British. What's going on?
The amount of problems with ethanol are staggering. The raised food prises, the fact that we practically pollute more MAKING ethanol than any environment savings (Which, apparently, seem to be nonexistent). Beyond this, it's near impossible to make enough ethanol to support the U.S...
Biodiesel, on the other hand, can be made with nearly ANYTHING and nearly ANYWHERE. Human waste? We can make biodiesel out of it (There was even a slashdot article about that). Used frying oil? We can make biodiesel? Algae, grown in swampy areas unfit for farming? We can use it. The catches are seriously minor too. For the U.S., the big issue is a lack of acceptance of Diesel as a whole. Secondly, colder climates could have problems with it, due to it solidifying. The second one may be an issue if you life in ice cold weather, but as a whole, it seems FAR more promising than Ethanol (And, it seems that Europe has pretty good Biodiesel penetration, too). The U.S. needs to give up on the ethanol dream.
"Speaking in support of his bill, Sen. Lanza apparently couldn't resist drawing on the shock value of controversial amateur game V-Tech Rampage (which he mistakenly refers to as V-Tech Massacre)" I doubt it's a mistake - massacre has more of a ring to it that rampage. Especially when appealing to fear.
The one thing I've discovered while working at UCI (As student staff) is that each department is greedy. For instance, one year a bus had to be redirected from its normal route due to construction. When we requested them to move it back, the transport service wanted us to pay them for the extra maintenance fees, employee hours, etc. the old route would cost. (Note, the route was about a minute or two longer). Both were university departments, and I'd not be surprised if some departments instead try to leech the money off students (Not like they won't already have enough money problems after the RIAA sues them)
Is how can you reliably use Google to screen an employee? In this case, I suppose since the employer knew the guy, it was easier. But let's say you have someone on the slate called "John Smith", even with a middle name, it'll bring up dozens of other people with the same name. How can employers even discriminate.
Not that I agree with the money distribution in the US, but...
AFAIK, There's more money per student in the U.S. k-12 system than in any other country (or near to it). Might not be the money provided, perhaps we should be looking more at their spending.
More importantly, I'm currently working at the Housing Dept. of my college to make ends meet. Perhaps we're atypical, but part of my responsibility is keeping an up to date calendar, along with deadlines, etc. There's a very nice scheduling system in use as well. There should be NO reason why schools should miss deadlines...
Seriously, I never thought that full blown laptops would help students (I myself having just recently finished high school). What WOULD help is something tablet-like that stores all our books in electronic form, which we could pretty much WRITE one. Seriously, that way they wouldn't have to lug around 6-7 books and erase their notes from the books when done with the materials. Would have my made high school years easier.
"what Microsoft does to IE, it's still going to be IE. End of Story"
Office 2007 is miles away from Office 2003. I actually think it's an improvement too (Though some would debate this). I imagine microsoft is getting their act together now, and IE8 might actually start being preferable to firefox (Except for addons, which will still remain Firefox's game winner)
Because there were several press release quality posts defending HD-DVD?
Too lazy to vote? Here, let's give you electronic voting.
What's next? Too lazy to choose who to vote for? Let me choose that for you too.
The article goes over it pretty well, but Cisco Clean Access Agent, in my experience at my college is more of a headache than it's worth. If someone has the slightest problem with Anti-virus updates, they get locked out every week, (I actually have to download the smart installer for them, and then patch it manually). Plus, a lot of good antiviruses aren't recognized by CCA agent as being acceptable. I currently run Windows 2003 server as a desktop, and CCA agent doesn't play nice with me either - I have to trick CCA agent by using a virtual machine for logins. Frankly, if there was a link to this program, I'd be using it right now...
Their network? Last time I checked my housing payments go towards paying for it. (Yes, I know it does, I've seen the budget). I'm paying for something I can't use freely... Thank god for encryption and VPNs. (Secure IX is pretty handy, albeit has some bandwidth limitations)
Definately. Due to it *relatively* close distance to us, the reasonably similar environment (or capable of supporting a similar environment) means that we could be looking at the first possible colonization project outside of our solar system some time in the future (probably later rather than sooner, mind)