Also "famous/success as an adult" != "better adult"
True,
But I would say that geeks are better people in general because they are typically, more polite and aware of the consequences of their actions on other people.
A description which applies to none of the examples listed in The Fine Summary.
Throw in Ted Kazinsky, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. And these names all fall much closer to the "geek" category than Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen and Angelina Jolie, who were all just weirdos and not at all geeks.
Koresh, McVeigh, Kazinsky (spelling) have more in common with Steve Jobs in the fact they are all ideologically motivated sociopaths.
Also Jobs is not a geek, Woz was the geek, Jobs was the salesman.
This means Microsoft can finally start doing the illegal things they've been doing behind closed doors out in the open, like strong arming suppliers without being hounded by the feds.
Why not just make the games single player stand alone and ADD the networking stuff on as another mode. That way, the games don't require PSN for people to play them. Or use your own 3rd party server which would probably be even worse.
You mean like PC games have been doing since the 90's?
How novel.
MS/Sony dont want to do that because they miss out on all the revenue of being the only online service available. "But PSN was free" I hear you ask, well it was free for you but not for the developers who have to pay licensing fees for it which came out of the RRP of the game you bought so I guess it wasn't so free (and all that personal information they get from it too).
I have zero idea who AC is, or how truthful he is - but he describes the single best way to deal with pirates. Put a killer team on the lucrative targets, and kill the damned pirates when they get close enough. It works. No fuss, no muss, no repeat offenders, no fortunes spent on idiot lawyers.
The lawyers were from the Navy, I doubt they were paid for.
Secondly, violating international waters legitimises attacks. It gives the attackers reason to say "they strayed into our territorial waters and opened fire on us" and legitimises the price tag they ask for ships and lives because essentially, the cargo vessel commuted an act of war.
Staying legally kosher when shooting up shit on the water is very fucking important.
What happens if you take a netbook, remove its keyboard, put Windows 7 in one partition, a custom version of Android 2.2 in another, throw in a Linux bootloader, and physical buttons that match none of these?
That's easy. Exactly the same thing that happens when I take a shit.
Something long, brown and squishy comes out?
OK, seeing as the tablet is square and already in a rigid case, we'll simply paint it white.
Apple sent a VP of software tech and Google sent a lobbyist.
So you've proven the GGP right, you cant discuss this objectively.
Also remember that Google's actions were opt-in, twice, once when you first sign on to Gmail, the second every time you turn on location services, so their issue is legal (send a lawyer).
Apple kept a database of user movements without informing the user of anything let alone giving them the option to not do it. So their issue is also legal (and they sent an engineer to try and convince lawyers otherwise).
Apple sent an Engineering PhD VP to describe the measures they've taken to make sure the potential privacy violations don't happen again.
Google sent a Congressional lobbyist to tell people how wonderful it is that Google can use your personal information to make better products.
Google's services are opt-in. They sent a lawyer who could explain that to lawyers.
Apple recorded this information behind peoples backs. They sent in a weasel to try and get out of it.
Things sound so different from the truth when you put spin around it. The only people surprised about what Google are doing are the people who've never used Android therefore have never seen the opt in screen when you start the phone up and log in to Gmail (or not, if you so desire). Besides this, Google is using no UID's, Apple has been recording UID's.
As much as it may pain some people to hear, Skype & consumer VOIP is a VERY small revenue stream
Dont understand why,
It's common knowledge that enterprise license agreements are MS's bread and butter. The amount the get from OEM's is pocket money, that's why MS charge Asus less for a Win 7 pro OEM then they do for 1 years Win 7 Pro OL (Open License) in most cases.
It makes no sense for MS to not support Skype on Linux and Mac moving forward.
This is probably a ideological decision rather then a business one.
Skype on Mac, maybe. With about half as much support as other:mac products MS produce. MS hate Linux so support will be dropped as soon as the regulatory agencies aren't looking. Skype on IOS and Android, forget about it. Unlike OSX v Windows, IOS and Android are real competitors to Windows Phone x and have significant market share. I expect Skype for Android to be depreciated immediately as it's not very far along in development and Skype for IOS to be gimped and then depreciated over time.
Android will be fine, Google just needs to open up Google Voice to the rest of the world but IOS, facetime doesn't cut it as it's IOS to IOS only effectively cutting off access to 90% of the userbase (PC and Phone)
It's not easy to purchase a company with a higher market cap than your own.
Just wait until the stock crashes, then buy it.
It's not uncommon to see a company who's stock price is based on an unsustainable level of growth, fail to sustain that level and crash (or bust as the current lingo goes).
A MS buyout of Apple is on my "surprises of the last decade" list to be reviewed in 2020.
Here is the problem with Ekiga: it is completely unreliable on Windows, and still very much "Beta" on GNU/Linux. When it works, it works...but more often than not, I feel like I fighting against the tide to keep Ekiga operational. Now, for a bunch of neckbeards like myself, that is OK -- perhaps when I have time, I will even submit a patch -- but when my mother sees Ekiga exploding like that, she just says, "Why aren't we using Skype?"
The problem isn't that Ekiga or X-lite are buggy, this is against the groupthink but people will happily use buggy software (same with ugly interfaces, people dont care) as long as they get what they want with the minimum fuss.
VoIP via Ekiga or X-lite is not minimum fuss for the average mouth breather where as Skype is. Having to enter a SIP service, user account and so forth, it's all too hard. This does not mean Skype will remain dominant however, plenty of other services offer the same thing, Google Voice is poised to do the same as Skype if it ever goes international or the recent "app" craze has had all kinds of VoIP providers creating thick clients for their services thus avoiding the "horror" of the average user trying to set anything up. All that needs to happen is for Skype to become a bit harder to use or a bit more annoying and it will lose it's user base.
I'm pretty sure I've figured out why they do that. Every Intel CPU I've owned in the last 10 years has been crippled and locked down in the BIOS, while the AMD boards enable more or less everything the hardware supports. They don't want you supporting their hardware because it's harder to nickel-and-dime paying customers for basic features that way.
I thought the IBM business model died decades ago.
Umm...no.
Nothing to see here, move along. From TFA -
use of the proposed software would be voluntary and intended only to count keystrokes and mouse clicks rather than the content of the work being completed
Not surprising.
If the ATO is already monitoring its workers to the nth degree, why would they be announcing more monitoring.
I once did some work for the ATO, you need a background check to enter the building, police clearance to walk around unescorted, you are told up front everything you do and say is recorded, a joke can land you in court, you can be charged if you casually read something off someone's desk. You have to check in and check out with security. No photos, there are area's where you're not even permitted to carry your phone at all.
I dont believe in the slash-conspiracy that the gubbermit is bad and evil, all this security is necessary, the ATO has the largest database of the personal details of Australians, from car purchases to monthly pay stubs and there are corporations that would kill for that kind of data, the ATO's mandate is to keep it safe.
So I fully believe that this would be for OH&S (Occupational Health and Safety) because 1. Australian Government departments are very big on OH&S and 2. If the ATO is not already monitoring their own computers to a paranoid degree, they're doing it wrong.
We have offered deals through Groupon and generally a lot of them are given as gifts, and promptly forgotten/binned by their recipients.
This is in fact Groupon's business model. You pay for nothing, they keep the money. The business offering the deal only gets paid when they have provided the service.
I doubt Apple will stand alone in manufacturing devices that no longer have an easy way to connect to a wired network.
I highly doubt that any manufacturer, even Apple will remove Ethernet from their production lines.
What you've done here is taken your POV and projected that onto the world, claiming your experience is indicative of everyone.
It's not, you are in fact in the minority.
Wired networks will exist for a very long time, when Ethernet becomes obsolete it will be replaced by another wired technology (IP over Fibre Channel). Wireless is useless for large file transfers, when I want to move 7 GB of avi's from my laptop to my media centre (they are in the same room), my wireless N network is slower then my USB 2.0 hard disk. People, especially at work will transfer a lot of files.
Sony-Ericsson is almost completely unrelated to SCEI.
First the music section installs rootkits on the computers of paying customers, then the gaming division removes OtherOS and starts a witch-hunt on GeoHot and others who want to tinker with the products they bought legally.
Sorry, but I don't have any desire to wait until the phone division finds a way to take an even bigger dump on the heads of their customer base.
It's just SE's new revenue generation plan.
1) Tell people to install Linux on their phones.
2) Sue people for installing Linux on SE phones.
3) ??????
4) Profit.
It needs to go further then that. A judge needs to be able to rule that a litigant is vexatious and say:
"This was an utter waste of the courts time again, you are barred from suing for the next 5 (or so) years, now get out of my court."
Being declared a vexatious litigator has an extremely hurdle to overcome. And that hurdle being the constitutional right of access to the courts. One frivolous lawsuit would not be nearly enough to be declared vexatious. It would take dozens of such cases.
Which is exactly what I mean, not just in number of cases but severity. I live in Australia where you can be declared a vexatious litigant and it takes a lot to get to that point, as it should be. Only three people have been declared vexatious litigants by Australia's high courts, two of them for repeated cases against the commonwealth (the state of Australia) claiming they commonwealth did not have the right to issue banknotes. Obviously, a limit on court access should be a very serious matter, even here a vexatious litigant is not denied complete access to the court as is the case with David James Lindsey.
But judges should have that power (with the right to appeal before a panel of higher judges or some other means of recourse in case the ruling is unfair). The legal system needs a bit of housecleaning or at least the capability, just the idea of being declared a vexatious litigant will scare some patent trolls.
Because Apple hasn't attracted any interest in the past few years during its moderate rise in popularity?
There, fixed that for you.
Apple's have only gotten out of the 2% of computers in the last 2 or 3 years. Even now they struggle to get 5% worldwide.
Now back onto topic, as a clued in/.er will always point out, malware is a business and business take a long time to react to changes in the marketplace. Malware attacks on phones are new, very new as there was
A) Never a market for phone malware.
B) Phones were never powerful enough to be useful.
C) Too many different types of phones to make any attack worthwhile. Cost would have been way too high to get every single Symbian model out there.
Take note of the last one. IOS drops that cost a lot, making malware on phones economically viable. Further more, IOS has proven itself to be quite vulnerable in the past, you do know that jailbreaking is done by exploiting a vulnerability dont you. Feel free to use the "jailbreak me" PDF vulnerability as an example. The only reason it hasn't been exploited is because there's more profit in Windows malware.
Claiming you are automagically protected when you've never even been attacked is naive at best. It's like Lisa's (Simpson) tiger repelling rock, you cant use the fact that there are no tigers around the rock as proof of it's tiger repelling abilities.
Agreed. Sometimes, it seems that the judge in this case or that is a tired old fart without a clue about technology. All the smartass young lawyers come in, talk over the judge's head, and argue asinine bullshit that the judge might only understand if an impartial third party spent months explaining to him. It's about time some judges cut through all the bullshit, and put the lawyers in their place.
"Stop squabbling, children, I WILL DECIDE what is important, and what is not. Sit down, shut up, and OBEY ME!!!"
It needs to go further then that. A judge needs to be able to rule that a litigant is vexatious and say:
"This was an utter waste of the courts time again, you are barred from suing for the next 5 (or so) years, now get out of my court."
That is, until the Nagios box loses (partial) network connectivity and after a couple of minutes regains connectivity. A shitstorm of DOWN/UP mails will be racing towards your spool.
That's why you make the Nagios box a dependency for all other hosts and services. You only get a single up and down alert as Nagios is considered a blocking outage.
Been that way since version 2 at least (I didn't start using Nagios until version 2).
Leaving flap detection enabled on a high volume public facing web site, that's a good way to get a shit storm of up/down notifications.
Slashdot Mirror
There's your problem.
It's not like Apple doesn't have a history of doing this.
ahem.
Correlation != Causation.
ty.
Also "famous/success as an adult" != "better adult"
True, But I would say that geeks are better people in general because they are typically, more polite and aware of the consequences of their actions on other people.
A description which applies to none of the examples listed in The Fine Summary.
Throw in Ted Kazinsky, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. And these names all fall much closer to the "geek" category than Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen and Angelina Jolie, who were all just weirdos and not at all geeks.
Koresh, McVeigh, Kazinsky (spelling) have more in common with Steve Jobs in the fact they are all ideologically motivated sociopaths.
Also Jobs is not a geek, Woz was the geek, Jobs was the salesman.
This means Microsoft can finally start doing the illegal things they've been doing behind closed doors out in the open, like strong arming suppliers without being hounded by the feds.
There, fixed that for you.
The question is, will it drive down the price of devices with multitouch capability?
More specifically, could we see this being applied in a competitor to Microsoft Surface anytime soon?
Will we see Microsoft Surface in the real world any time soon?
All I've seen are tech demo's and I haven't even seen one of those in a while.
Why not just make the games single player stand alone and ADD the networking stuff on as another mode. That way, the games don't require PSN for people to play them. Or use your own 3rd party server which would probably be even worse.
You mean like PC games have been doing since the 90's?
How novel.
MS/Sony dont want to do that because they miss out on all the revenue of being the only online service available. "But PSN was free" I hear you ask, well it was free for you but not for the developers who have to pay licensing fees for it which came out of the RRP of the game you bought so I guess it wasn't so free (and all that personal information they get from it too).
I have zero idea who AC is, or how truthful he is - but he describes the single best way to deal with pirates. Put a killer team on the lucrative targets, and kill the damned pirates when they get close enough. It works. No fuss, no muss, no repeat offenders, no fortunes spent on idiot lawyers.
The lawyers were from the Navy, I doubt they were paid for.
Secondly, violating international waters legitimises attacks. It gives the attackers reason to say "they strayed into our territorial waters and opened fire on us" and legitimises the price tag they ask for ships and lives because essentially, the cargo vessel commuted an act of war.
Staying legally kosher when shooting up shit on the water is very fucking important.
MJWX: Server, sgt kokonface TKed me
MJWX: Again...
Sgt Kokonface: LOL PWND noob
Dixin hoars: I can haz ur container ship.
What happens if you take a netbook, remove its keyboard, put Windows 7 in one partition, a custom version of Android 2.2 in another, throw in a Linux bootloader, and physical buttons that match none of these?
That's easy. Exactly the same thing that happens when I take a shit.
Something long, brown and squishy comes out?
OK, seeing as the tablet is square and already in a rigid case, we'll simply paint it white.
So you've proven the GGP right, you cant discuss this objectively.
Also remember that Google's actions were opt-in, twice, once when you first sign on to Gmail, the second every time you turn on location services, so their issue is legal (send a lawyer).
Apple kept a database of user movements without informing the user of anything let alone giving them the option to not do it. So their issue is also legal (and they sent an engineer to try and convince lawyers otherwise).
Google also testified today.
Apple sent an Engineering PhD VP to describe the measures they've taken to make sure the potential privacy violations don't happen again.
Google sent a Congressional lobbyist to tell people how wonderful it is that Google can use your personal information to make better products.
Google's services are opt-in. They sent a lawyer who could explain that to lawyers.
Apple recorded this information behind peoples backs. They sent in a weasel to try and get out of it.
Things sound so different from the truth when you put spin around it. The only people surprised about what Google are doing are the people who've never used Android therefore have never seen the opt in screen when you start the phone up and log in to Gmail (or not, if you so desire). Besides this, Google is using no UID's, Apple has been recording UID's.
Dont understand why, It's common knowledge that enterprise license agreements are MS's bread and butter. The amount the get from OEM's is pocket money, that's why MS charge Asus less for a Win 7 pro OEM then they do for 1 years Win 7 Pro OL (Open License) in most cases.
This is probably a ideological decision rather then a business one.
:mac products MS produce. MS hate Linux so support will be dropped as soon as the regulatory agencies aren't looking. Skype on IOS and Android, forget about it. Unlike OSX v Windows, IOS and Android are real competitors to Windows Phone x and have significant market share. I expect Skype for Android to be depreciated immediately as it's not very far along in development and Skype for IOS to be gimped and then depreciated over time.
Skype on Mac, maybe. With about half as much support as other
Android will be fine, Google just needs to open up Google Voice to the rest of the world but IOS, facetime doesn't cut it as it's IOS to IOS only effectively cutting off access to 90% of the userbase (PC and Phone)
It's not easy to purchase a company with a higher market cap than your own.
Just wait until the stock crashes, then buy it.
It's not uncommon to see a company who's stock price is based on an unsustainable level of growth, fail to sustain that level and crash (or bust as the current lingo goes). A MS buyout of Apple is on my "surprises of the last decade" list to be reviewed in 2020.
Here is the problem with Ekiga: it is completely unreliable on Windows, and still very much "Beta" on GNU/Linux. When it works, it works...but more often than not, I feel like I fighting against the tide to keep Ekiga operational. Now, for a bunch of neckbeards like myself, that is OK -- perhaps when I have time, I will even submit a patch -- but when my mother sees Ekiga exploding like that, she just says, "Why aren't we using Skype?"
The problem isn't that Ekiga or X-lite are buggy, this is against the groupthink but people will happily use buggy software (same with ugly interfaces, people dont care) as long as they get what they want with the minimum fuss.
VoIP via Ekiga or X-lite is not minimum fuss for the average mouth breather where as Skype is. Having to enter a SIP service, user account and so forth, it's all too hard. This does not mean Skype will remain dominant however, plenty of other services offer the same thing, Google Voice is poised to do the same as Skype if it ever goes international or the recent "app" craze has had all kinds of VoIP providers creating thick clients for their services thus avoiding the "horror" of the average user trying to set anything up. All that needs to happen is for Skype to become a bit harder to use or a bit more annoying and it will lose it's user base.
I'm pretty sure I've figured out why they do that. Every Intel CPU I've owned in the last 10 years has been crippled and locked down in the BIOS, while the AMD boards enable more or less everything the hardware supports. They don't want you supporting their hardware because it's harder to nickel-and-dime paying customers for basic features that way.
I thought the IBM business model died decades ago.
In other words, "We'll release the source when we're damn well good and ready."
If another company did this, say a company starting with "G" people would be screaming bloody murder over such an excuse.
Apple gets a free pass why?
Umm...no. Nothing to see here, move along. From TFA -
Not surprising.
If the ATO is already monitoring its workers to the nth degree, why would they be announcing more monitoring.
I once did some work for the ATO, you need a background check to enter the building, police clearance to walk around unescorted, you are told up front everything you do and say is recorded, a joke can land you in court, you can be charged if you casually read something off someone's desk. You have to check in and check out with security. No photos, there are area's where you're not even permitted to carry your phone at all.
I dont believe in the slash-conspiracy that the gubbermit is bad and evil, all this security is necessary, the ATO has the largest database of the personal details of Australians, from car purchases to monthly pay stubs and there are corporations that would kill for that kind of data, the ATO's mandate is to keep it safe.
So I fully believe that this would be for OH&S (Occupational Health and Safety) because 1. Australian Government departments are very big on OH&S and 2. If the ATO is not already monitoring their own computers to a paranoid degree, they're doing it wrong.
We have offered deals through Groupon and generally a lot of them are given as gifts, and promptly forgotten/binned by their recipients.
This is in fact Groupon's business model. You pay for nothing, they keep the money. The business offering the deal only gets paid when they have provided the service.
So, in effect Groupon is a scam?
It
Only
Does
Trolling.
I highly doubt that any manufacturer, even Apple will remove Ethernet from their production lines.
What you've done here is taken your POV and projected that onto the world, claiming your experience is indicative of everyone.
It's not, you are in fact in the minority.
Wired networks will exist for a very long time, when Ethernet becomes obsolete it will be replaced by another wired technology (IP over Fibre Channel). Wireless is useless for large file transfers, when I want to move 7 GB of avi's from my laptop to my media centre (they are in the same room), my wireless N network is slower then my USB 2.0 hard disk. People, especially at work will transfer a lot of files.
First the music section installs rootkits on the computers of paying customers, then the gaming division removes OtherOS and starts a witch-hunt on GeoHot and others who want to tinker with the products they bought legally.
Sorry, but I don't have any desire to wait until the phone division finds a way to take an even bigger dump on the heads of their customer base.
It's just SE's new revenue generation plan.
1) Tell people to install Linux on their phones.
2) Sue people for installing Linux on SE phones.
3) ??????
4) Profit.
It needs to go further then that. A judge needs to be able to rule that a litigant is vexatious and say: "This was an utter waste of the courts time again, you are barred from suing for the next 5 (or so) years, now get out of my court."
Being declared a vexatious litigator has an extremely hurdle to overcome. And that hurdle being the constitutional right of access to the courts. One frivolous lawsuit would not be nearly enough to be declared vexatious. It would take dozens of such cases.
Which is exactly what I mean, not just in number of cases but severity. I live in Australia where you can be declared a vexatious litigant and it takes a lot to get to that point, as it should be. Only three people have been declared vexatious litigants by Australia's high courts, two of them for repeated cases against the commonwealth (the state of Australia) claiming they commonwealth did not have the right to issue banknotes. Obviously, a limit on court access should be a very serious matter, even here a vexatious litigant is not denied complete access to the court as is the case with David James Lindsey.
But judges should have that power (with the right to appeal before a panel of higher judges or some other means of recourse in case the ruling is unfair). The legal system needs a bit of housecleaning or at least the capability, just the idea of being declared a vexatious litigant will scare some patent trolls.
Because Apple hasn't attracted any interest in the past few years during its moderate rise in popularity?
There, fixed that for you. Apple's have only gotten out of the 2% of computers in the last 2 or 3 years. Even now they struggle to get 5% worldwide.
/.er will always point out, malware is a business and business take a long time to react to changes in the marketplace. Malware attacks on phones are new, very new as there was
Now back onto topic, as a clued in
A) Never a market for phone malware.
B) Phones were never powerful enough to be useful.
C) Too many different types of phones to make any attack worthwhile. Cost would have been way too high to get every single Symbian model out there.
Take note of the last one. IOS drops that cost a lot, making malware on phones economically viable. Further more, IOS has proven itself to be quite vulnerable in the past, you do know that jailbreaking is done by exploiting a vulnerability dont you. Feel free to use the "jailbreak me" PDF vulnerability as an example. The only reason it hasn't been exploited is because there's more profit in Windows malware.
Claiming you are automagically protected when you've never even been attacked is naive at best. It's like Lisa's (Simpson) tiger repelling rock, you cant use the fact that there are no tigers around the rock as proof of it's tiger repelling abilities.
Agreed. Sometimes, it seems that the judge in this case or that is a tired old fart without a clue about technology. All the smartass young lawyers come in, talk over the judge's head, and argue asinine bullshit that the judge might only understand if an impartial third party spent months explaining to him. It's about time some judges cut through all the bullshit, and put the lawyers in their place.
"Stop squabbling, children, I WILL DECIDE what is important, and what is not. Sit down, shut up, and OBEY ME!!!"
It needs to go further then that. A judge needs to be able to rule that a litigant is vexatious and say:
"This was an utter waste of the courts time again, you are barred from suing for the next 5 (or so) years, now get out of my court."
That is, until the Nagios box loses (partial) network connectivity and after a couple of minutes regains connectivity. A shitstorm of DOWN/UP mails will be racing towards your spool.
That's why you make the Nagios box a dependency for all other hosts and services. You only get a single up and down alert as Nagios is considered a blocking outage.
Been that way since version 2 at least (I didn't start using Nagios until version 2).
Leaving flap detection enabled on a high volume public facing web site, that's a good way to get a shit storm of up/down notifications.