well, one reason could be if the email sever for whatever reason fails to work, you still have all the copies.
though I never said that email stored locally was any more secure than email on the online account or vise versa, so I have no idea where this is coming from.
all I am saying is that the security should match the importance of the contents being secure. No need to employ a high security situation on non valuable information, in fact that is just terrible design.
I find it amazing how people strive to have the most menial things secure. I don't honestly care.
The only email that should be secure is corporate email, and bank email, otherwise the encryption/decryption is just a waste of time and a pain to set up. Wasn't anybody taught about usability in comp class?
If it doesn't need to be secure, why on earth should it be. Banks and corporations usually run their own email systems anyway and throw security on them to make it hard for people to hack in. Though if absolutely no one cares about Joe Sixpack's email. What would he secure from? What is the purpose of all these wasted cpu cycles? If anything all it would do is make it harder for people to set up their email client right.
what evil exactly is Google doing in China?
To me it just looks like they are giving the people in China the best possible search under the current laws. They aren't killing people, they are just following the laws. If Google didn't censor their search, China would have censored it for them. China also could have just blocked Google from their country. Then you know what? NOTHING would have changed. Some Chinese search engine would just fill in the gap.
Then what? bringing jobs to American cities and donating a lot to those cities is evil now? I am sorry, I had no idea, I'll think twice before donating anything towards public education from now on. Yeah, Google got money too but it's mere pennies compared to what they gave.
So... I guess the moon isn't close enough? Future colonization of any planet besides our own is the most ridiculus thing I have ever heard of. The moral and scientific issues it brings up are so crazy I choose not even to discuss them.
Why is the world spending billions upon billions on a planet scientists knew there wasn't any life on before we even went up. Now they continue to send probe after probe to this one planet like it is NASA's lovechild. There truly is nothing more to see on that rock, for we have all seen the countless images from mars. I am not even going to get into the absolute stupidity and madness of sending a portion of the population to live there either.
First Oracle sells its own support for Red Hat Linux and undercuts the buisness while Microsoft raises pressure on Red Hat trying to kill it.:( it is so sad to see Red Hat, a great company for open-source, choke to death like this.
a British civil servant who helped form the religion based on what? ancient witchcraft.. Wicca is a sect of witchcraft in part of many neo-pagen religions. It isn't any different from Lutherainism, baptists, southern baptists, catholisism, and the tons of sects of christianity and other religions that people invent every year having quite a lot to do with ancient christianity... One guy putting information into a different light though I guess like many other things, including respect, these principles only apply to other religions.
"Wiccans say it makes fun of their religion (which has as much to do with ancient witchcraft as P. Diddy has to do with Bluegrass...)"
As a actual Wiccan I can say it definitely has a lot to do ancient witchcraft, it is just that our religion isn't afraid of change and it helps our religion evolve and change over time and not be stuck in some 5,000+ year old paradigm that is totally unpractical. If you look at most of the religions today few (if any) actually resemble what they did in ancient times. Although Halloween is a fabrication that makes fun of our religion to the point of altering the very name of the holiday and altering everything to the smallest of detail of what the holiday is about to encourage fear and hate. The actual name of the holiday is of course Samhain, or the celebration of the end of summer and the fresh new beginning sometimes celebrated by a bonfire.
Although to the contrary Halloween makes all wiccans feel that this time of year is when the horrible stereotypes of us and our religion are exploited to the maximum degree in a negative fashion. The question is though, how on earth could it not offend us? It is exactly the same as having a "lets all hate Jewish people today" and telling people Jews are hooked nosed robbers, fat greedy bankers, and of course for the kiddies, child molesters. Better yet have it on Yom Kippur but change the name to something more Christian of course. I mean everybody besides neonazis would be against this right? Then why have it about our religion?
I hope that puts at least some of you into our shoes.
Why shouldn't Red Hat sell to IBM? They are currently doing some of the support for Red Hat and they don't even have a distro. What better company to supply support and updates for RHEL than IBM? IBM could also easily match the prices oracle is putting out and help the OSS movement at the same time. Plus this would only benefit IBM and Red Hat.
what you want is Microsoft Windows, you should really just use that. Linux isn't Windows, It is made and supported by the people that work hard to make the idea of open source work. Linux is more kinda like art. It is abstract and works and gets features from the millions of ideas that flow into it. Users help users understand it and they help others. It is also really fun to work with. I don't know why you would want it to be Windows.. the world already has one.
just use SuSE 10.1, you can upload songs onto any Ipod just as easily as windows! you need banshee or Amarok but SuSE 10.1 comes with those and installs them automatically. If you want Itunes install it with Codeweavers crossover X and if you are willing to spend $500+ dollars for an Ipod you can spend $50 for this program.
Well I don't know about "small player" (like that has stoped linux distros before), the Debian community seems to want to detach itself from the linux one, hence why they call themselves GNU Debian Linux. I even hear that Debian might be moving to the GNU kernel (still in development) named "The Hurd". While Red Hat abandoned the thought of the casual linux user (still have unsuported copies of Red Hat 9.0 hanging around) and no I don't want the whole fedora thing. Red Hat hasn't produced anything innovative in years and shouldn't have made the comment about Xen in the first place when it has no alternative.
Novell had an alliance with SCO with it's United Linux plan which would have been great to just unify all of the distrobutions and have some sort of standard. Nevell is also improving on SUSE Linux and Xen and has been a pioneer in the ability to add sound to the kernel (alsa anyone?). They help OpenOffice, created Beagle, Evolution, and even helped (majorly) with getting graphic card drivers to run on linux. They even created the ultra-cool compiz window manager and created XGL to run it. They are a very formidable company who is producing portable and very useful applications and Operating Systems to the public.
Well, because I hate the correct spelling of words I spell them wrong purposely to bug the hell out of you so thanks for falling into my trap:p (not a lot of people do) The mistake is so small too just add an a there to make OMG!!! organic wow!!! who is more stupid the person who made the mistake purposely or the person who can't understand what I am talking about because of such a simple silly mistake. Loser:p
I agree with you entirely! With every iteration they also add more and more useless and slower code with bulkier designs. I loved windows 98 second edition and when XP came along I went directly to linux. Why? well I didn't need over a gig of memory to run the damn thing and Linux just felt more orgnic and made more logical sence.
"Development and support of OS X is eased by the fact that Apple controls the hardware." what part of the hardware on a Mac does Apple actually control? Is it the Intel processors? or the ATI/NVIDIA graphic cards? face it they only make the case the mouse and the keyboard (not unlike most computer companies).
As an advocate for CodeWeavers CrossOver X The newer verions are starting to be able to play windows games in linux (like world of warcraft, half life.. etc...) when 6.0 gets released from it's beta state it will be able to play these games and others as well although they may be unsupported.
As an 18 year old I can honestly say you are wrong with that. I have a 100 Gig hard drive and I havn't filled it yet and I have had it well over a year. (it is starting to get around 60% though)
I am thinking about getting a Macintosh but the question for me is, how well does it run Linux? I tried OSX and hated it (just not customizable enough), plus it just isn't for me. Does anyone know what Linux distros run on x86 Macintosh?
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well, one reason could be if the email sever for whatever reason fails to work, you still have all the copies. though I never said that email stored locally was any more secure than email on the online account or vise versa, so I have no idea where this is coming from.
all I am saying is that the security should match the importance of the contents being secure. No need to employ a high security situation on non valuable information, in fact that is just terrible design.
I eat trolls for breakfast.
I find it amazing how people strive to have the most menial things secure. I don't honestly care.
The only email that should be secure is corporate email, and bank email, otherwise the encryption/decryption is just a waste of time and a pain to set up. Wasn't anybody taught about usability in comp class?
If it doesn't need to be secure, why on earth should it be. Banks and corporations usually run their own email systems anyway and throw security on them to make it hard for people to hack in. Though if absolutely no one cares about Joe Sixpack's email. What would he secure from? What is the purpose of all these wasted cpu cycles? If anything all it would do is make it harder for people to set up their email client right.
efficiency people!
what evil exactly is Google doing in China? To me it just looks like they are giving the people in China the best possible search under the current laws. They aren't killing people, they are just following the laws. If Google didn't censor their search, China would have censored it for them. China also could have just blocked Google from their country. Then you know what? NOTHING would have changed. Some Chinese search engine would just fill in the gap. Then what? bringing jobs to American cities and donating a lot to those cities is evil now? I am sorry, I had no idea, I'll think twice before donating anything towards public education from now on. Yeah, Google got money too but it's mere pennies compared to what they gave.
So... I guess the moon isn't close enough? Future colonization of any planet besides our own is the most ridiculus thing I have ever heard of. The moral and scientific issues it brings up are so crazy I choose not even to discuss them.
Why is the world spending billions upon billions on a planet scientists knew there wasn't any life on before we even went up. Now they continue to send probe after probe to this one planet like it is NASA's lovechild. There truly is nothing more to see on that rock, for we have all seen the countless images from mars. I am not even going to get into the absolute stupidity and madness of sending a portion of the population to live there either.
First Oracle sells its own support for Red Hat Linux and undercuts the buisness while Microsoft raises pressure on Red Hat trying to kill it. :( it is so sad to see Red Hat, a great company for open-source, choke to death like this.
a British civil servant who helped form the religion based on what? ancient witchcraft.. Wicca is a sect of witchcraft in part of many neo-pagen religions. It isn't any different from Lutherainism, baptists, southern baptists, catholisism, and the tons of sects of christianity and other religions that people invent every year having quite a lot to do with ancient christianity... One guy putting information into a different light though I guess like many other things, including respect, these principles only apply to other religions.
"Wiccans say it makes fun of their religion (which has as much to do with ancient witchcraft as P. Diddy has to do with Bluegrass...)" As a actual Wiccan I can say it definitely has a lot to do ancient witchcraft, it is just that our religion isn't afraid of change and it helps our religion evolve and change over time and not be stuck in some 5,000+ year old paradigm that is totally unpractical. If you look at most of the religions today few (if any) actually resemble what they did in ancient times. Although Halloween is a fabrication that makes fun of our religion to the point of altering the very name of the holiday and altering everything to the smallest of detail of what the holiday is about to encourage fear and hate. The actual name of the holiday is of course Samhain, or the celebration of the end of summer and the fresh new beginning sometimes celebrated by a bonfire. Although to the contrary Halloween makes all wiccans feel that this time of year is when the horrible stereotypes of us and our religion are exploited to the maximum degree in a negative fashion. The question is though, how on earth could it not offend us? It is exactly the same as having a "lets all hate Jewish people today" and telling people Jews are hooked nosed robbers, fat greedy bankers, and of course for the kiddies, child molesters. Better yet have it on Yom Kippur but change the name to something more Christian of course. I mean everybody besides neonazis would be against this right? Then why have it about our religion? I hope that puts at least some of you into our shoes.
He wasn't talking about google buying Viacom, just one of its services!
Why shouldn't Red Hat sell to IBM? They are currently doing some of the support for Red Hat and they don't even have a distro. What better company to supply support and updates for RHEL than IBM? IBM could also easily match the prices oracle is putting out and help the OSS movement at the same time. Plus this would only benefit IBM and Red Hat.
I am tired of the Mutha f*** batteries on these muha f**** planes!
what you want is Microsoft Windows, you should really just use that. Linux isn't Windows, It is made and supported by the people that work hard to make the idea of open source work. Linux is more kinda like art. It is abstract and works and gets features from the millions of ideas that flow into it. Users help users understand it and they help others. It is also really fun to work with. I don't know why you would want it to be Windows.. the world already has one.
they might as well be called Need Another Six Astronauts
just use SuSE 10.1, you can upload songs onto any Ipod just as easily as windows! you need banshee or Amarok but SuSE 10.1 comes with those and installs them automatically. If you want Itunes install it with Codeweavers crossover X and if you are willing to spend $500+ dollars for an Ipod you can spend $50 for this program.
Well I don't know about "small player" (like that has stoped linux distros before), the Debian community seems to want to detach itself from the linux one, hence why they call themselves GNU Debian Linux. I even hear that Debian might be moving to the GNU kernel (still in development) named "The Hurd". While Red Hat abandoned the thought of the casual linux user (still have unsuported copies of Red Hat 9.0 hanging around) and no I don't want the whole fedora thing. Red Hat hasn't produced anything innovative in years and shouldn't have made the comment about Xen in the first place when it has no alternative. Novell had an alliance with SCO with it's United Linux plan which would have been great to just unify all of the distrobutions and have some sort of standard. Nevell is also improving on SUSE Linux and Xen and has been a pioneer in the ability to add sound to the kernel (alsa anyone?). They help OpenOffice, created Beagle, Evolution, and even helped (majorly) with getting graphic card drivers to run on linux. They even created the ultra-cool compiz window manager and created XGL to run it. They are a very formidable company who is producing portable and very useful applications and Operating Systems to the public.
Well, because I hate the correct spelling of words I spell them wrong purposely to bug the hell out of you so thanks for falling into my trap :p (not a lot of people do) The mistake is so small too just add an a there to make OMG!!! organic wow!!! who is more stupid the person who made the mistake purposely or the person who can't understand what I am talking about because of such a simple silly mistake. Loser :p
I agree with you entirely! With every iteration they also add more and more useless and slower code with bulkier designs. I loved windows 98 second edition and when XP came along I went directly to linux. Why? well I didn't need over a gig of memory to run the damn thing and Linux just felt more orgnic and made more logical sence.
"Development and support of OS X is eased by the fact that Apple controls the hardware." what part of the hardware on a Mac does Apple actually control? Is it the Intel processors? or the ATI/NVIDIA graphic cards? face it they only make the case the mouse and the keyboard (not unlike most computer companies).
It is almost as if you didn't hear about the Google Store, You can buy google lava lamps, google gum, google shirts, yep http://www.googlestore.com/
Power6 is also supposed to be twice as fast as anything that Sun/Intel/AMD has.
As an advocate for CodeWeavers CrossOver X The newer verions are starting to be able to play windows games in linux (like world of warcraft, half life.. etc...) when 6.0 gets released from it's beta state it will be able to play these games and others as well although they may be unsupported.
As an 18 year old I can honestly say you are wrong with that. I have a 100 Gig hard drive and I havn't filled it yet and I have had it well over a year. (it is starting to get around 60% though)
We are going to see the "OMG PONIES!!!" theme return to Slashdot over this...
I am thinking about getting a Macintosh but the question for me is, how well does it run Linux? I tried OSX and hated it (just not customizable enough), plus it just isn't for me. Does anyone know what Linux distros run on x86 Macintosh?