As others have pointed out, recovering the information is quite a lot of work. The equipment alone would not necessarily fit within the 2.5" standard for harddrives. There is a sizeable distance between something being theoretically possible some time in the future and something being economically feasible at this point in time.
I'm curious how this would work with non-productive non-stressful but literally two-things-at-the-same-time multitasking. In virtually all of the examples I've read here citing real-world situations it always goes to trying to increase productivity, which inevitably leads to increased expectations and stress. What about things one can easily back out of? I started doing things like this a few years back for kicks. One example is videogames: I often control two characters at once (one hand on each controller). Just yesterday with some friends I was playing two vs "two." It's certainly far more difficult and often confusing but - for me - it's relaxing. I'd hate to think my hobbies - where I run to relax after a stressful day - could cause atrophy.
That was just in the first book. Had you read on: it took 15,000 years for humanity and machines to right their wrongs and learn to live in peace with each other.
Think bigger than that. Even if they aren't your ISP nor the ISP of whoever you want to talk to, your traffic will very likely flow through pipes they own. It's respectable to boycott them for this but it isn't going to keep them from watching much of what you do online.
If you have that kind of trust with your kid, and taught him well, then for them there's no need for this new stuff to keep them off myspace. Keep in mind this is intended to keep out kids who want to get on without their parents permission. The healthy relationship you seem to share with your kid won't have any use for this, but such a relationship is rare. Most parents I've known never cared to actually justify their reasons for anything to their children, assuming the children should do as their told because they are the children; the end. It's only natural for children under such parenting to try to sneak onto myspace, and for these untrusting closed parents to take stupid efforts to stop them rather than explain why.
It may not be broken, per se, but just a few posts above someone was talking about how they moved from Yahoo! Mail to Gmail. Losing people like that is close enough to "broken" to demand change. Whether they are going in the right direction is another matter.
TW in Ohio has actually been relatively good to me. My linux-distro-of-the-month bittorrenting has been going strong. I just finished downloading eeeXubuntu 7.10R3, no problems what so ever.
I'm not entirely convinced that HD-DVD would necessarily win if MS put HD-DVD's in the '360s. It's a huge risk without all that big of a payout. The pot odds weren't good. It seems reasonable to back HD-DVD with a way out should things go south as MS has. SONY has a lot more to benefit from the success of blu-ray, sufficiently enough that risking the viability of the PS3 may be a worthwhile, if gutsy, choice. There's [b]plenty[/b] of things with which one could fault MS, but beyond their inept marketing they do business damn well.
With physical access to the machine you can easily get anything unencrypted, irrelevant of OS. Boot of your own device (CD/DVD/flash/floppy/whatever) and there's no issue logging into root on your own OS. If the BIOS is locked and won't let you boot off another device rip out the battery for a bit. Heck, just take the harddrive and put it into your machine. Nothing is secure if the attacker has physical access, irrelevant of OS. If you can't do this on Linux without physical access or root I'd consider it secure.
What he's saying is that good ethics do in fact lead to increased profit, over the long term. Ethics as plenty to do with it. Breaking laws and chopping up grandmas could lead to short-term gain but inevitably will lead to losses by those who are upset by such actions. While the situation is vastly simpler, game theory's prisoner dilemma, in a sense, mathematically proves this (so long as the population is sufficiently mixed in good/evil, as it is in reality). X company does good for me I'll reciprocate it and back them further; visa versa for Y company which managed to piss me off. It's not that complicated of a concept; the reason it isn't more wide-spread is the short-term thinking that's sadly prevalent today.
While you may not have meant it, your comment pokes at another plausible reason for McAfee to dislike FOSS. After switching to Linux a ways back, I never even had a reason to buy McAfee products. Their business is dependent on vulnerable software for them to come in and protect; clearly any solid development model would be a threat to their wellbeing. It's not (just?) problems with FOSS software that bothers McAfee, it's FOSS's strengths, too.
If I understand this correctly, there'll be an uproar of sorts if it doesn't support Linux (a la BBC iPlayer). Even if they don't half-ass it, but put a huge amount of effort into getting a DRM scheme to work on an FOSS OS it'll still get broken pretty damn quickly, even if the DRM stuff itself is in binary.
The external words on paper are a warning to lecha know big guys with guns will preclude Bad Stuff from happening. No, scribbled words won't guarantee anything, but they're a necessary step before the whole armed take down scenario. The other option, of course, is to have the government keep Bad Stuff from happening without letting anyone know, which I'm not to keen on. I don't like *this* law, no, but that doesn't change the fact that laws do tend to do stuff./. just had an article about a spammer getting caught in the system, if you didn't notice.
There's laws in place to protect people who signed contracts they didn't understand. Can't slip some legalize in a EULA to some videogame requiring someone to give their house up if they click "okay." If they can put that abstract concept into the books I don't see why this one would be a problem. All he wanted with "fair" was to keep someone from just saying they want a billion dollars for something the individual no longer cares to keep on the market in order to get around his proposed change in law. I'm willing to bet a jury would recognize that a single copy of a John Grisham novel is not worth a billion dollars.
He clearly intends on having a more clear-cut, law-friendly way for it to be put into the books. Heck, the idea is that it must remain available - exactly how to go about that is free to be pinned down. A long, exact EULA-style explanation wouldn't really be appropriate in this kind of discussion. I give him props; I didn't previously consider such issues.
Make sure you have "atime" on when your OS mounts your harddrive. It's not full-proof by any means but it could catch a malicious techie who didn't think things through.
I had points knocked-off in an English class for writing "G-d" in a paper; clearly a typo spell check would have caught and unacceptable. Trying to calmly explain what and why I did that resulted in a "stop making excuses" speech. Fuck ignorant teachers. There could very well be a huge difference between what the student did and your example. If he was getting his work done and the program wasn't causing any harm to anyone else it's none of the teacher's business what browser he uses. However it is the faculties responsibility to keep an eye on their students at all times, for their safety. I ended up being a teacher myself and know first hand that this kind of punishment does absolutely nothing to help anyone baring a sadistic streak in the teacher.
I've been in Ohio for 8 years or so, and to be honest I've never had any problems with TW. No throttling of any sort, and when the techs came to install our broadband stuff rather than bitching that I had Linux (They officially only support Windows 'n Mac) they pointed me towards drivers for the wifi cards they gave us. With all the complaints I'm hearing about Comcast and the like I'm pretty happy. It'd be nice if I had another choice, though.
Ogg is used in many videogames. Rockstar's big enough to get attacked every which way over their GTA games, but so far as I know nothing has been brought up over their use of Ogg Vorbis. Theora can be a little trickier, but Vorbis is pretty clean.
No, because they're not allowed to have nuclear energy or high powered computers. (Well, the first one anyways). They've made it pretty clear they have intentions to use them should they get their hands on it. If some lunatic runs at the whitehouse with a chainsaw screaming about killing the president, should we let him through just because he hasn't done it (yet)? Don't get me wrong, the situation isn't quite that clear-cut, but there's a pretty big hole in your logic there.
Why is it so hard to see that its ok to let companies with no practical business model die off? Generally I find it's best to explain with a similar example that's easier for them to imagine. I like playing videogames. It'd be awesome if being a pro-gamer was a viable carrier for someone like myself, but sadly the market is extremely small and the payoff is generally pitiful. So, hypothetically, lets say the government steps in and lets me copyright strategies for games. If someone wants to use the strategy, they have to license it from me. I can go around and sue people who use the strategy without paying up, irrelevant of how completely impractical locking down an idea like this would be. Great, now we have a new business model and I've got my dream job. It should be easy to imagine a world where this isn't true, where the government didn't step in and make such bullshit laws, because it never happened. This isn't a perfect drop-in for the currently discussed music business model, but it hopefully it's sufficient to help people imagine a world without it.
Wait, capitalism wouldn't work because of competition? Pulled some crazy double-logic there. This is exactly why Comcast (and everyone else) should be forced to simply charge what they have too to deliver what they promise, or promise less. If someone else (e.g. Verizon) can do it better for less, consumers win.
Right, and oddly enough the vast majority of them don't visit slashdot, either. WoW is sufficiently large that it can have a noticable affect on the rest of technology, which happens to be something many slashdot-goers have interest in. WoW primarily distributes it's patches through bittorrent, which Comcast users are having trouble with, many of whom are calling for network neutrality, which has become enough of an issue to be picked up by many currently running for president of the world's current economic and military superpower. A very sizable chunk of those 5.9907 billion actually have some interest in the direction US politics swings. Even if you don't buy that it can affect the world as a whole, it certainly affects at least the tech world - the stuff slashdotters are interested in.
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As others have pointed out, recovering the information is quite a lot of work. The equipment alone would not necessarily fit within the 2.5" standard for harddrives. There is a sizeable distance between something being theoretically possible some time in the future and something being economically feasible at this point in time.
I'm curious how this would work with non-productive non-stressful but literally two-things-at-the-same-time multitasking. In virtually all of the examples I've read here citing real-world situations it always goes to trying to increase productivity, which inevitably leads to increased expectations and stress. What about things one can easily back out of? I started doing things like this a few years back for kicks. One example is videogames: I often control two characters at once (one hand on each controller). Just yesterday with some friends I was playing two vs "two." It's certainly far more difficult and often confusing but - for me - it's relaxing. I'd hate to think my hobbies - where I run to relax after a stressful day - could cause atrophy.
That was just in the first book. Had you read on: it took 15,000 years for humanity and machines to right their wrongs and learn to live in peace with each other.
Think bigger than that. Even if they aren't your ISP nor the ISP of whoever you want to talk to, your traffic will very likely flow through pipes they own. It's respectable to boycott them for this but it isn't going to keep them from watching much of what you do online.
If you have that kind of trust with your kid, and taught him well, then for them there's no need for this new stuff to keep them off myspace. Keep in mind this is intended to keep out kids who want to get on without their parents permission. The healthy relationship you seem to share with your kid won't have any use for this, but such a relationship is rare. Most parents I've known never cared to actually justify their reasons for anything to their children, assuming the children should do as their told because they are the children; the end. It's only natural for children under such parenting to try to sneak onto myspace, and for these untrusting closed parents to take stupid efforts to stop them rather than explain why.
It may not be broken, per se, but just a few posts above someone was talking about how they moved from Yahoo! Mail to Gmail. Losing people like that is close enough to "broken" to demand change. Whether they are going in the right direction is another matter.
TW in Ohio has actually been relatively good to me. My linux-distro-of-the-month bittorrenting has been going strong. I just finished downloading eeeXubuntu 7.10R3, no problems what so ever.
I'm not entirely convinced that HD-DVD would necessarily win if MS put HD-DVD's in the '360s. It's a huge risk without all that big of a payout. The pot odds weren't good. It seems reasonable to back HD-DVD with a way out should things go south as MS has. SONY has a lot more to benefit from the success of blu-ray, sufficiently enough that risking the viability of the PS3 may be a worthwhile, if gutsy, choice. There's [b]plenty[/b] of things with which one could fault MS, but beyond their inept marketing they do business damn well.
With physical access to the machine you can easily get anything unencrypted, irrelevant of OS. Boot of your own device (CD/DVD/flash/floppy/whatever) and there's no issue logging into root on your own OS. If the BIOS is locked and won't let you boot off another device rip out the battery for a bit. Heck, just take the harddrive and put it into your machine. Nothing is secure if the attacker has physical access, irrelevant of OS. If you can't do this on Linux without physical access or root I'd consider it secure.
What he's saying is that good ethics do in fact lead to increased profit, over the long term. Ethics as plenty to do with it. Breaking laws and chopping up grandmas could lead to short-term gain but inevitably will lead to losses by those who are upset by such actions. While the situation is vastly simpler, game theory's prisoner dilemma, in a sense, mathematically proves this (so long as the population is sufficiently mixed in good/evil, as it is in reality). X company does good for me I'll reciprocate it and back them further; visa versa for Y company which managed to piss me off. It's not that complicated of a concept; the reason it isn't more wide-spread is the short-term thinking that's sadly prevalent today.
While you may not have meant it, your comment pokes at another plausible reason for McAfee to dislike FOSS. After switching to Linux a ways back, I never even had a reason to buy McAfee products. Their business is dependent on vulnerable software for them to come in and protect; clearly any solid development model would be a threat to their wellbeing. It's not (just?) problems with FOSS software that bothers McAfee, it's FOSS's strengths, too.
If I understand this correctly, there'll be an uproar of sorts if it doesn't support Linux (a la BBC iPlayer). Even if they don't half-ass it, but put a huge amount of effort into getting a DRM scheme to work on an FOSS OS it'll still get broken pretty damn quickly, even if the DRM stuff itself is in binary.
The external words on paper are a warning to lecha know big guys with guns will preclude Bad Stuff from happening. No, scribbled words won't guarantee anything, but they're a necessary step before the whole armed take down scenario. The other option, of course, is to have the government keep Bad Stuff from happening without letting anyone know, which I'm not to keen on. I don't like *this* law, no, but that doesn't change the fact that laws do tend to do stuff. /. just had an article about a spammer getting caught in the system, if you didn't notice.
There's laws in place to protect people who signed contracts they didn't understand. Can't slip some legalize in a EULA to some videogame requiring someone to give their house up if they click "okay." If they can put that abstract concept into the books I don't see why this one would be a problem. All he wanted with "fair" was to keep someone from just saying they want a billion dollars for something the individual no longer cares to keep on the market in order to get around his proposed change in law. I'm willing to bet a jury would recognize that a single copy of a John Grisham novel is not worth a billion dollars.
'cuz sex sells (page views, advertisements)
He clearly intends on having a more clear-cut, law-friendly way for it to be put into the books. Heck, the idea is that it must remain available - exactly how to go about that is free to be pinned down. A long, exact EULA-style explanation wouldn't really be appropriate in this kind of discussion. I give him props; I didn't previously consider such issues.
Make sure you have "atime" on when your OS mounts your harddrive. It's not full-proof by any means but it could catch a malicious techie who didn't think things through.
I had points knocked-off in an English class for writing "G-d" in a paper; clearly a typo spell check would have caught and unacceptable. Trying to calmly explain what and why I did that resulted in a "stop making excuses" speech. Fuck ignorant teachers. There could very well be a huge difference between what the student did and your example. If he was getting his work done and the program wasn't causing any harm to anyone else it's none of the teacher's business what browser he uses. However it is the faculties responsibility to keep an eye on their students at all times, for their safety. I ended up being a teacher myself and know first hand that this kind of punishment does absolutely nothing to help anyone baring a sadistic streak in the teacher.
I've been in Ohio for 8 years or so, and to be honest I've never had any problems with TW. No throttling of any sort, and when the techs came to install our broadband stuff rather than bitching that I had Linux (They officially only support Windows 'n Mac) they pointed me towards drivers for the wifi cards they gave us. With all the complaints I'm hearing about Comcast and the like I'm pretty happy. It'd be nice if I had another choice, though.
Ogg is used in many videogames. Rockstar's big enough to get attacked every which way over their GTA games, but so far as I know nothing has been brought up over their use of Ogg Vorbis. Theora can be a little trickier, but Vorbis is pretty clean.
No, because they're not allowed to have nuclear energy or high powered computers. (Well, the first one anyways). They've made it pretty clear they have intentions to use them should they get their hands on it. If some lunatic runs at the whitehouse with a chainsaw screaming about killing the president, should we let him through just because he hasn't done it (yet)? Don't get me wrong, the situation isn't quite that clear-cut, but there's a pretty big hole in your logic there.
Wait, capitalism wouldn't work because of competition? Pulled some crazy double-logic there. This is exactly why Comcast (and everyone else) should be forced to simply charge what they have too to deliver what they promise, or promise less. If someone else (e.g. Verizon) can do it better for less, consumers win.
Right, and oddly enough the vast majority of them don't visit slashdot, either. WoW is sufficiently large that it can have a noticable affect on the rest of technology, which happens to be something many slashdot-goers have interest in. WoW primarily distributes it's patches through bittorrent, which Comcast users are having trouble with, many of whom are calling for network neutrality, which has become enough of an issue to be picked up by many currently running for president of the world's current economic and military superpower. A very sizable chunk of those 5.9907 billion actually have some interest in the direction US politics swings. Even if you don't buy that it can affect the world as a whole, it certainly affects at least the tech world - the stuff slashdotters are interested in.