So instead of "you shouldn't say this," the government should be engaging in even more secrecy?
You do know that there are civilians on bases, even in war zones? Civilians who talk? Soldiers who talk (especially in the age of the internets, where even soldiers have nearly unfettered access to commmunications)? It's infeasible for that to be perfect. Having the backup of "if you attempt to screw us, it's PMITA prison for you" is a deterrent from exacerbating those leaks.
I was thinking primarily of the boneheaded "GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR" horseshit. (Obviously, specifics of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan would fall under this, but that sure as hell isn't part of the same thing.)
I dunno if that's true. Though the only time that comes to mind is in times of (actual) war. The citizens should not allowed to publish the locations and troop strengths of army regiments, for example; it may directly endanger those soldiers.
Watchmen isn't particularly good as a graphic novel, no. V For Vendetta, on the other hand, very much is--and the movie was shit in comparison. A pretty good movie, but very much shit in comparison. Personally, I think this is going to be a pretty good movie, but calling V a good movie compared to the original material really is a joke.
Yes, but you can get ExpressCard stuff, you're just looking in the wrong place. No, you can't get it as fast right now because not all manufacturers support it, but the technology is appreciably better (the maximum speed of an ExpressCard peripheral is 480MB/s in USB 2.0 mode and 2.0 GB/s in PCI Express mode--the maximum speed of a PC Card is something like 128MB/s). The peripherals will catch up to the technology.
In the meantime, do what all early adopters (because that is essentially what you are, whether you like it or not) do and buy online. Problem solved.
Moore hasn't seen it and won't see it and automatically assumes that a movie adaptation of his work will suck (admittedly, after V For Vendetta, I don't necessarily disagree), but using him as a source is disingenuous at best.
It's not that hard to find ExpressCards for most purposes. I just bought an ExpressCard expansion sound card for my music rig (I perform with software synthesizers).
Well, when you sell your product (Linux, in this case) as "super reliable" and "solid" and "never crashes or reboots like Windows"...meh. You get what you deserve.
Nvidia is responsible for, what, 50% of blue screens on Windows?
Never had a single one on any of my hardware. Then again, I've never had an ATI driver bluescreen either, so I guess I'm lucky.
And anyone expects the Linux drivers to be better?
An end user can be forgiven for expecting Linux to work correctly, as it's so often touted to do. If it doesn't, the end user will blame "Linux", not nVidia. You are attempting to offer technical reasons to an end user. That's simply stupid of you; an end user doesn't care.
The quick 'n dirty way is to learn the xrandr tool, like 'xrandr -o right' for rotating a display clockwise. It's pretty easy to make shortcuts for these in the Gnome panel or menu, too. Not ideal, but that's not Ubuntu's fault.
Oh. And this is Ubuntu's fault, too. Sorry, but them's the breaks.
They got extra pissy when people started posting comments to their blog entry encouraging people to go do that. To the point where they started blocking accounts and disabling comments. That was great.
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So instead of "you shouldn't say this," the government should be engaging in even more secrecy?
You do know that there are civilians on bases, even in war zones? Civilians who talk? Soldiers who talk (especially in the age of the internets, where even soldiers have nearly unfettered access to commmunications)? It's infeasible for that to be perfect. Having the backup of "if you attempt to screw us, it's PMITA prison for you" is a deterrent from exacerbating those leaks.
I was thinking primarily of the boneheaded "GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR" horseshit. (Obviously, specifics of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan would fall under this, but that sure as hell isn't part of the same thing.)
I dunno if that's true. Though the only time that comes to mind is in times of (actual) war. The citizens should not allowed to publish the locations and troop strengths of army regiments, for example; it may directly endanger those soldiers.
Watchmen isn't particularly good as a graphic novel, no. V For Vendetta, on the other hand, very much is--and the movie was shit in comparison. A pretty good movie, but very much shit in comparison. Personally, I think this is going to be a pretty good movie, but calling V a good movie compared to the original material really is a joke.
You can still buy machines with CardBus and you can buy CardBus adapters on the cheap. I don't see what the huge issue is...
Nope (forgot those though). Hence why I said I don't necessarily disagree.
Yes, but you can get ExpressCard stuff, you're just looking in the wrong place. No, you can't get it as fast right now because not all manufacturers support it, but the technology is appreciably better (the maximum speed of an ExpressCard peripheral is 480MB/s in USB 2.0 mode and 2.0 GB/s in PCI Express mode--the maximum speed of a PC Card is something like 128MB/s). The peripherals will catch up to the technology.
In the meantime, do what all early adopters (because that is essentially what you are, whether you like it or not) do and buy online. Problem solved.
Moore hasn't seen it and won't see it and automatically assumes that a movie adaptation of his work will suck (admittedly, after V For Vendetta, I don't necessarily disagree), but using him as a source is disingenuous at best.
If you are shopping at "major computer stores", you are likely doing something wrong.
Nah. NetBSD is for the VCR, it runs on everything.
It's not that hard to find ExpressCards for most purposes. I just bought an ExpressCard expansion sound card for my music rig (I perform with software synthesizers).
Except they said they ruled out echolocation. Read the goddam article.
It prevents shatter attacks. It can be turned off and a UAC window made to act like any other.
Security through obscurity isn't security, but security plus obscurity is better security so long as the obscurity holds.
Pretty much. (Though I refuse to use OS X on my own machines--it's annoying as hell, IMO.)
In other words...you're not an end user, you're a Linux geek. Thank you for agreeing with me.
Except that that's not what an end user says, that's what a Linux geek says.
An end user says "what? This doesn't work? Screw this, where's my Windows?".
Well, when you sell your product (Linux, in this case) as "super reliable" and "solid" and "never crashes or reboots like Windows"...meh. You get what you deserve.
Nvidia is responsible for, what, 50% of blue screens on Windows?
Never had a single one on any of my hardware. Then again, I've never had an ATI driver bluescreen either, so I guess I'm lucky.
And anyone expects the Linux drivers to be better?
An end user can be forgiven for expecting Linux to work correctly, as it's so often touted to do. If it doesn't, the end user will blame "Linux", not nVidia. You are attempting to offer technical reasons to an end user. That's simply stupid of you; an end user doesn't care.
And this is acceptable to you? This is exactly what you shouldn't have to do.
The quick 'n dirty way is to learn the xrandr tool, like 'xrandr -o right' for rotating a display clockwise. It's pretty easy to make shortcuts for these in the Gnome panel or menu, too. Not ideal, but that's not Ubuntu's fault.
Oh. And this is Ubuntu's fault, too. Sorry, but them's the breaks.
Well, that's the card manufacturer's fault at the moment, for producing non-xrandr or non-xserver1.5 compatible drivers.
Wrong answer. As far as the end user is concerned, it's Ubuntu's fault, and I have a hard time disagreeing with them.
(Yes, Linux is being held to a different standard than Windows. You get that kind of scrutiny when you're the little guy. Sucks, but true.)
I didn't even know about that FoxyProxy program.
OK, now there are two things keeping me on Firefox...
I had a +4 Troll once.
Then someone Flamebaited it. :(
They got extra pissy when people started posting comments to their blog entry encouraging people to go do that. To the point where they started blocking accounts and disabling comments. That was great.