[...] nobody in SQA ever tried it out, even once.
Is there any other possible explanation?
Maybe:
SQA could have tested it many times, with every version of Windows, but this could signal a widespread infection of user32.dll that AVG correctly identified, but incorrectly corrected. I consider this scenario equally likely, especially with a windows worm 'sploit out there that I _know_ some people didn't patch the vulnerability to until the first, second, or third coffee shop they visited.
The earliest evils weren't the boxcars. It was "Papieren Bitte!" for everyone, then yellow stars for select few, then eventually boxcars for those with yellow stars.
I had somewhere to be, and the convenience of just showing it won out. To invoke Godwin: I probably would have complicit in the early evils of Nazi Germany.
Laws are different in different states. Just before CompUSA closed, I had a manager and security guard refuse to let me leave the building until I showed them my receipt. After some arguing, I gave in, then laughed in derision at the manager, saying this draconian policy is why CompUSA was losing business. Seems like Circuit City followed suit.
It's all air-conditioning's fault. To get to sleep in the summer under EDT, people need to run the A/C more later in the evening than they would under EST. With a set-back thermostat, A/C runs fewer hours in the day under EST.
The poster compared it to apt-get. Apt get allows for updates and upgrading as well as checking for dependencies. I repeat... how is an app store like a repository???
Never once has [iphone app store] supplied the source code for me.
How did the source code requirement suddenly crop up? It wasn't in GGP. Source is not necessary for an MS Windows app store/repo anyway. If this keeps my family members from downloading crap from stupidweatherbugspywareriddledsite.example.com , I think it's a good thing.
I tried to like Suse and opensuse post Novell, but the mono-based auto-update system kept hanging, and I had to write a cron job to force kill the processes and restart the auto-updates. Not to mention that SLED didn't ever get mozilla thunderbird packages because they thought evolution should be good enough for anyone. I switched to a more grown up distro after a year of trying to get Suse to work as Novell intended.
This technology, if adopted by the military, will probably only be useful against civilians.
Or unsophisticated military. Against other sophisticated military, it's good to have the tech first because that allows research into counter-tech sooner. One way to beat the enemy is to force them to spend too much in resources keeping a stalemate.
Hello operator? Oh that's right, you have to punch in the numbers nowadays.
Wait! I know this! Oh yeah! 867-5309. Lois? Wait. Damn you Tommy Two Tones!
Well that leaves only one thing: 111, 1111, Lois? Damn.
111, 111 2, Lois? Damn.
Give rich people your money, they know better?? But don't worry- it will benefit you!
That sounds eerily familiar; what party - led by rich people - wants to spread the wealth?
They didn't even try to disguise that. They just out and said it. Give us all the wealth, and it wil benefit you and the economy.
You're misstating the trickle-down theory; it's really "Let us keep and invest the wealth we have instead of forcing us to give it to the government, and it will benefit you and the economy". Argue with reality, not fantasy.
There's one guarunteed spender: The poor. They need the money, and they will instantly stimulate the economy.
When I was poor, I was the worst thing for the economy; when I got money that was unexpected, I saved, saved, saved. I was the reverse of a guaranteed spender, and I didn't invest my money, because I couldn't afford risk, so no one benefited from my saved money.
(And then the twist at the end: Bush goes on to deliver checks to everybody, and then buys AIG and a few banks, and becomes the most socialist president we've ever had. WTF??)
Power; politicians are all about accumulating it. Trust no one beyond your County officials.
Hopefully HD-DVD, BluRay, HD-TV will all completely fail and something else a lot more open will take its place.
You're joking, right? Digital broadcasts are just the start (and required by law). Soon, all broadcasters will be foregoing "regular" digital for HD broadcasts complete with broadcast flag.
When I already have groups deployed in LDAP, why do I need to script installers instead just defining policy to install software to that group?
Because of the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well. LDAP isn't a software installation system. Even AD's software installation pales in comparison to real software installation systems built for windows; AD can't even install an EXE file without scripting _and_ mandatory reboots (or encapsulating into an MSI).
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That was totally insensitive. Starbuck had to _die_ for Galactica 1980 to be a reality.
[...] nobody in SQA ever tried it out, even once.
Is there any other possible explanation?
Maybe: SQA could have tested it many times, with every version of Windows, but this could signal a widespread infection of user32.dll that AVG correctly identified, but incorrectly corrected. I consider this scenario equally likely, especially with a windows worm 'sploit out there that I _know_ some people didn't patch the vulnerability to until the first, second, or third coffee shop they visited.
It's a RAEP solution, which sounds like it's probably illegal.
A RAEP-ier solution would be even worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Xtacles
The earliest evils weren't the boxcars. It was "Papieren Bitte!" for everyone, then yellow stars for select few, then eventually boxcars for those with yellow stars.
I had somewhere to be, and the convenience of just showing it won out. To invoke Godwin: I probably would have complicit in the early evils of Nazi Germany.
Laws are different in different states. Just before CompUSA closed, I had a manager and security guard refuse to let me leave the building until I showed them my receipt. After some arguing, I gave in, then laughed in derision at the manager, saying this draconian policy is why CompUSA was losing business. Seems like Circuit City followed suit.
(I would quote the final result but /. won't allow that many "junk" characters.. let's hope that doesn't cripple this entire discussion.)
Interesting that a site for nerds doesn't allow a lot of characters commonly used in source code.
It's all air-conditioning's fault. To get to sleep in the summer under EDT, people need to run the A/C more later in the evening than they would under EST. With a set-back thermostat, A/C runs fewer hours in the day under EST.
Which is why Indiana was good for this study. If Arizona ever falls to the dark idiocy of bi-annual time change, it will be able to provide more data.
The poster compared it to apt-get. Apt get allows for updates and upgrading as well as checking for dependencies. I repeat... how is an app store like a repository???
Never once has [iphone app store] supplied the source code for me.
How did the source code requirement suddenly crop up? It wasn't in GGP. Source is not necessary for an MS Windows app store/repo anyway. If this keeps my family members from downloading crap from stupidweatherbugspywareriddledsite.example.com , I think it's a good thing.
That's the support role; you reload muskets and toss them to your squad.
I would totally play a Battlefield:1864.
It's been around for a while (at least 8 years).
Try 30+ years
I tried to like Suse and opensuse post Novell, but the mono-based auto-update system kept hanging, and I had to write a cron job to force kill the processes and restart the auto-updates. Not to mention that SLED didn't ever get mozilla thunderbird packages because they thought evolution should be good enough for anyone. I switched to a more grown up distro after a year of trying to get Suse to work as Novell intended.
This technology, if adopted by the military, will probably only be useful against civilians.
Or unsophisticated military. Against other sophisticated military, it's good to have the tech first because that allows research into counter-tech sooner. One way to beat the enemy is to force them to spend too much in resources keeping a stalemate.
( cd /dir/to/copy ; tar cf - . ) | ssh user@host " ( cd /place/to/copy/to ; tar xvf - ) "
or something like it
Hello operator? Oh that's right, you have to punch in the numbers nowadays.
Wait! I know this! Oh yeah! 867-5309. Lois? Wait. Damn you Tommy Two Tones!
Well that leaves only one thing: 111, 1111, Lois? Damn.
111, 111 2, Lois? Damn.
Humans are habitual by nature. Regularly using telnet at home, one runs the risk of accidentally using telnet outside the home.
Give rich people your money, they know better?? But don't worry- it will benefit you!
That sounds eerily familiar; what party - led by rich people - wants to spread the wealth?
They didn't even try to disguise that. They just out and said it. Give us all the wealth, and it wil benefit you and the economy.
You're misstating the trickle-down theory; it's really "Let us keep and invest the wealth we have instead of forcing us to give it to the government, and it will benefit you and the economy". Argue with reality, not fantasy.
There's one guarunteed spender: The poor. They need the money, and they will instantly stimulate the economy.
When I was poor, I was the worst thing for the economy; when I got money that was unexpected, I saved, saved, saved. I was the reverse of a guaranteed spender, and I didn't invest my money, because I couldn't afford risk, so no one benefited from my saved money.
(And then the twist at the end: Bush goes on to deliver checks to everybody, and then buys AIG and a few banks, and becomes the most socialist president we've ever had. WTF??)
Power; politicians are all about accumulating it. Trust no one beyond your County officials.
The FCB is human, ergo...
English comprehension != reading comprehension. I explicitly kept the concepts of digital and HD separate in GP.
Hopefully HD-DVD, BluRay, HD-TV will all completely fail and something else a lot more open will take its place.
You're joking, right? Digital broadcasts are just the start (and required by law). Soon, all broadcasters will be foregoing "regular" digital for HD broadcasts complete with broadcast flag.
When I already have groups deployed in LDAP, why do I need to script installers instead just defining policy to install software to that group?
Because of the Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well. LDAP isn't a software installation system. Even AD's software installation pales in comparison to real software installation systems built for windows; AD can't even install an EXE file without scripting _and_ mandatory reboots (or encapsulating into an MSI).
Active Directory -> openLDAP & kerberos
WSUS -> cfengine or something similar
The tinker toys are all in the box...
Can't be. The Sun isn't covered in Canadian forests.