What you're asking for is a fantasy. It's a pretty dark and troubling fantasy where everyone is having their papers checked at any point in time. You decry big government and then in the next breath talk about locking down the borders. Locked down borders pretty much require implementing a full on police state.
I would much rather have the government dumping all of my communications into a huge database and mining it for outliers than having the cops bothering me for my papers.
More than likely it will be some poor folks walking through a shopping mall who catch a body full of explosively projected bolts and washers. Or perhaps given the widespread availability of firearms here in America, it will be some person who ends up crippled after catching a couple of bullets. Before I get roasted as some anti-gun nut, I'm all for concealed carry and I believe we should be able to defend ourselves.
Lets look at it from the other side. Lets make the assumption that the ongoing investigations are really into people who have the intent to do harm. The odds are very good that they are investigating people who are planning or connected with the planning of violent acts against American people (that's you, me and a large majority of the/. posters). I'm going to further suggest that the investigations they are pursuing are legitimate investigations because resources are limited and the law enforcement community isn't going to be wasting their time on cases that won't bare fruit. To back that up, I'm going to link an article to the very recent Denver/NYC investigation. (http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODU3ODFmYjM5ZjNjYmE0ZTlkYjc0MjM4YTg5Y2MwMzU=)
My position is that there really are ongoing investigations into legitimate threats. I use the term legitimate to mean that they are capable and likely inclined to eventually do harm to people.
Given that there are legitimate threats and peoples lives are at stake, how can you say that you want those operations compromised? Does your sense of moral outrage trump someone's LIFE?
It isn't like the cops are randomly breaking into people's homes and hauling off the people who they happen to find in possession of marijuana and cocaine. They are conducting investigations into extremists who are looking to kill people. Not just individual people, but groups of them... the larger the group of people killed, the better.
You mention the need for "a more-solid door" and continuing to live in peace. Increased surveillance on potentially disruptive members of society is one of those solid doors.
Exactly. I was reading the Wall Street Journal on the way into work this morning and I realized that I had already read all of the major stories that they were covering.
I haven't been playing FPS games lately because the PC versions eventually turn into hack fests and the controls for the console games just aren't on the same level as the mouse/keyboard combination. That being said, I really want to play Modern Warfare 2. I have both a PS3 and a PC. I'd like to purchase the PC version, but I hate the idea of playing against people with aimbots because it just takes the fun out of the game.
Do you think that Activision has sufficient anti-cheat protection for the PC release, or should I just suck it up and buy the PS3 version?
Drive images, maybe. There is no way the ~500megabyte drive that ran Windows 3.0 would still be running XP. The minimum spec for drive space is 1.5GB. That's three times as much as the average disk size when people were running Windows 3.0.
I think you're right on in your observations. I've been using Microsoft OSes long enough to not want to be the first person to adopt a new one. When Vista came out I stayed on XP. My only exposure to Vista was when a couple of friends of mine bought new computers and I helped them get setup, installed software for them, etc. It really was as bad as everyone said it was. The UI was SLOW. It was frustratingly slow. It was take it back to the store and demand a refund because the computer is broken slow.
I just got done installing Win7 because sooner or later MS is going to EOL XP. My co-worker has been running Win7 since the betas and hasn't had any problems with it. My initial impression is a good one. I had it installed, fully patched and running in less than 30 minutes on a pretty standard dual core with 2GB of RAM. I doubt that it will run on some of the old 2.2ghz Celeron boxes in the office, but I'm not dreading the OS showing up on any new hardware that we might purchase in the next couple of years.
Win7 / Vista just continues the trend with MS software. It's not done until SP2.
Lets see here... 6 lock ups and disk drives failing to wake up. That sounds like bad hardware, not a bad OS. In all seriousness you either have bad RAM, a bad mainboard, or both.
I think you're full of shit. A workstation that ran Windows 3.0 couldn't handle XP. I worked on 3.11 machines. They were 486DX2/66s and first generation Pentiums. Most of them maxed out at 64MB of RAM.
While I agree it is suspicious that iTunes and the Google Toolbar were the only applications that Windows 7 ask that particular user to uninstall, it should be made clear that Windows 7 did not impede the user from using that software or foist a MS application on him.
Microsoft isn't the only company that has problems with the Google Toolbar during upgrades. I've gone through a few Firefox upgrades. On more than one occasion I've been told that the version of the Google Toolbar that I had installed couldn't be upgraded and that I would have to manually download a newer version.
From everything I've seen it only relates to multi-core processors. To be more specific, I think that most of the real savings are only being realized on Intel's latest processors because only the latest processors support the power saving features that are being leveraged by Win7 and WS08R2.
Upgrading a Microsoft OS is asking for trouble. Backup your data, format the drive and install a fresh copy of Win7. I've dealt with way to may past problems doing Win98 -> Win2K and Win2K -> WinXP upgrades (not to mention NT4 to Win2K on the server side). You will always be better off with a fresh installation.
Exactly. On Real World and other shows of the same ilk the producers purposefully find people who are more than likely not going to be able to get along with each other. It's a good bet that the experimenters will go to great lengths to take an almost polar opposite approach when selecting their subjects for the Martian experiment.
People go along with the program because they enjoy the "benefits" provided by the program. In the case of organizations like ChoicePoint and the credit bureaus, people like having access to credit. People like being able to spend money that they don't have. Just look at Congress and the rest of America. I read something the other day that said the debt load of America is over 100% (it was around 120%, down from 130%+ a few years ago).
People are willing to give up their rights so that they can have access to credit. Our entire system is a system of credit. Credit is created from debt. Banks "borrow" money from the Federal Reserve and that borrowed money is then lent out in the form of credit. In order to take part in the system, people need to build a "credit history". The system is rigged against people who want to use cash or live within their means. Any money saved is destroyed by inflation.
In short, the American people are debt slaves. We are all slaves to the system. Of course the travesty is that we are one of the most resource rich countries on the planet. We could feed all of our people and still have food left over to ship overseas. Yet we have people starving, we have people suffering from obesity and all sorts of health problems related to poor diet.
Now we're seeing that America is going to experience a "slow recovery" while countries like China and India are picking up steam. That isn't accident. It isn't some sad twist of fate, or bad luck on our part. The third world is easier to exploit. There are billions of people in China who don't understand the evils of credit. Americans are tapped out. We can't service our debt so the financial system is abandoning us. In reality, Americans aren't any smarter than Indians or Chinese or Africans or anyone else. We're all humans who have been blessed by good fortune with working minds. The only thing that separated America from the rest of the world was our manufacturing base, and our financial system. The manufacturing base is gone and the financial system is leaving with it.
You know, you're right. It's not like there are any examples of governments working with large computer companies to monitor and track large populations of people. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
...tie power savings to the manual screen lock feature. In Windows, the WindowsKey+L locks the workstation. It would be great if a second or two after the workstation is locked, the monitor turns off and the drives spin down. That would provide good power savings and avoid the problem of having to determine whether or not the user really wants their workstation to conserve energy.
China is simply the testing ground where they are working out all of the bugs with the hardware and software. When all of the censorship was happening in Iran around the time of the disputed elections, it came out that Nortel was working with the Iranian government to filter the internet traffic coming in and out of the country. It wouldn't surprise me if multi-national corporations weren't playing similar rolls in China's networking infrastructure. If not Nortel, then Cisco, or Juniper, or one of the other major players in networking equipment.
It's a poorly kept secret within the United States government that the whole consumer oriented push of the internet has been in part a ploy to get people accustomed to interacting with computers. I've talked to operators associated with DHS who have told me that what they see coming in the next couple of decades is a full blown, total information awareness style population tracking program. The government wants to be able to fully account for all of the resources each individual is using, down to what they buy a the grocery store, how much they are spending on health care, and obviously, what sort of interactions they are having with law enforcement. The big concern that the government is trying to get out ahead of is global warming. They're really concerned with food shortages and want to have a program in place to implement rationing if/when the time comes. Just think of it as a really big ERP system.
I primarily use Microsoft software (I know, get out the pitchforks) and over the years I have occasionally run AMD chips after being overcome by various AMD biased friends of mine. I've never been able to put my finger on it, but Windows simply doesn't run as well on AMD chips as it does on Intel chips. I always end up switching back to Intel. This article is just an example of why. Intel and Microsoft are in bed with each other, and Microsoft will always be putting out the code to take full advantage of the Intel chips. It wouldn't surprise me if Intel gives Microsoft the heads up on new features far in advance. It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft works with Intel and encourages them to develop certain features in their processors that will help the Microsoft code base execute faster.
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What you're asking for is a fantasy. It's a pretty dark and troubling fantasy where everyone is having their papers checked at any point in time. You decry big government and then in the next breath talk about locking down the borders. Locked down borders pretty much require implementing a full on police state.
I would much rather have the government dumping all of my communications into a huge database and mining it for outliers than having the cops bothering me for my papers.
More than likely it will be some poor folks walking through a shopping mall who catch a body full of explosively projected bolts and washers. Or perhaps given the widespread availability of firearms here in America, it will be some person who ends up crippled after catching a couple of bullets. Before I get roasted as some anti-gun nut, I'm all for concealed carry and I believe we should be able to defend ourselves.
Thank you. Out of the 200+ posts I've read in this thread, you seem to be the only person who actually understands what is going on.
Lets look at it from the other side. Lets make the assumption that the ongoing investigations are really into people who have the intent to do harm. The odds are very good that they are investigating people who are planning or connected with the planning of violent acts against American people (that's you, me and a large majority of the /. posters). I'm going to further suggest that the investigations they are pursuing are legitimate investigations because resources are limited and the law enforcement community isn't going to be wasting their time on cases that won't bare fruit. To back that up, I'm going to link an article to the very recent Denver/NYC investigation. (http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODU3ODFmYjM5ZjNjYmE0ZTlkYjc0MjM4YTg5Y2MwMzU=)
My position is that there really are ongoing investigations into legitimate threats. I use the term legitimate to mean that they are capable and likely inclined to eventually do harm to people.
Given that there are legitimate threats and peoples lives are at stake, how can you say that you want those operations compromised? Does your sense of moral outrage trump someone's LIFE?
It isn't like the cops are randomly breaking into people's homes and hauling off the people who they happen to find in possession of marijuana and cocaine. They are conducting investigations into extremists who are looking to kill people. Not just individual people, but groups of them... the larger the group of people killed, the better.
You mention the need for "a more-solid door" and continuing to live in peace. Increased surveillance on potentially disruptive members of society is one of those solid doors.
Exactly. I was reading the Wall Street Journal on the way into work this morning and I realized that I had already read all of the major stories that they were covering.
I haven't been playing FPS games lately because the PC versions eventually turn into hack fests and the controls for the console games just aren't on the same level as the mouse/keyboard combination. That being said, I really want to play Modern Warfare 2. I have both a PS3 and a PC. I'd like to purchase the PC version, but I hate the idea of playing against people with aimbots because it just takes the fun out of the game.
Do you think that Activision has sufficient anti-cheat protection for the PC release, or should I just suck it up and buy the PS3 version?
Drive images, maybe. There is no way the ~500megabyte drive that ran Windows 3.0 would still be running XP. The minimum spec for drive space is 1.5GB. That's three times as much as the average disk size when people were running Windows 3.0.
I think you're right on in your observations. I've been using Microsoft OSes long enough to not want to be the first person to adopt a new one. When Vista came out I stayed on XP. My only exposure to Vista was when a couple of friends of mine bought new computers and I helped them get setup, installed software for them, etc. It really was as bad as everyone said it was. The UI was SLOW. It was frustratingly slow. It was take it back to the store and demand a refund because the computer is broken slow.
I just got done installing Win7 because sooner or later MS is going to EOL XP. My co-worker has been running Win7 since the betas and hasn't had any problems with it. My initial impression is a good one. I had it installed, fully patched and running in less than 30 minutes on a pretty standard dual core with 2GB of RAM. I doubt that it will run on some of the old 2.2ghz Celeron boxes in the office, but I'm not dreading the OS showing up on any new hardware that we might purchase in the next couple of years.
Win7 / Vista just continues the trend with MS software. It's not done until SP2.
Sounds like a bad week. Please stay away from Los Angeles, lest whatever OS destroying field you have surrounding you is prone to spreading. ;)
Lets see here... 6 lock ups and disk drives failing to wake up. That sounds like bad hardware, not a bad OS. In all seriousness you either have bad RAM, a bad mainboard, or both.
Looks like he's finally catching on that the industry has passed him by
Three cheers for progress.
I think you're full of shit. A workstation that ran Windows 3.0 couldn't handle XP. I worked on 3.11 machines. They were 486DX2/66s and first generation Pentiums. Most of them maxed out at 64MB of RAM.
While I agree it is suspicious that iTunes and the Google Toolbar were the only applications that Windows 7 ask that particular user to uninstall, it should be made clear that Windows 7 did not impede the user from using that software or foist a MS application on him.
Microsoft isn't the only company that has problems with the Google Toolbar during upgrades. I've gone through a few Firefox upgrades. On more than one occasion I've been told that the version of the Google Toolbar that I had installed couldn't be upgraded and that I would have to manually download a newer version.
From everything I've seen it only relates to multi-core processors. To be more specific, I think that most of the real savings are only being realized on Intel's latest processors because only the latest processors support the power saving features that are being leveraged by Win7 and WS08R2.
http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/idf/2009/sf/ti/day1/ss/f.htm
It's a long video. In short, Intel Nehalem processors are the way to go if you're looking for power savings from MS OSes.
Upgrading a Microsoft OS is asking for trouble. Backup your data, format the drive and install a fresh copy of Win7. I've dealt with way to may past problems doing Win98 -> Win2K and Win2K -> WinXP upgrades (not to mention NT4 to Win2K on the server side). You will always be better off with a fresh installation.
Exactly. On Real World and other shows of the same ilk the producers purposefully find people who are more than likely not going to be able to get along with each other. It's a good bet that the experimenters will go to great lengths to take an almost polar opposite approach when selecting their subjects for the Martian experiment.
People go along with the program because they enjoy the "benefits" provided by the program. In the case of organizations like ChoicePoint and the credit bureaus, people like having access to credit. People like being able to spend money that they don't have. Just look at Congress and the rest of America. I read something the other day that said the debt load of America is over 100% (it was around 120%, down from 130%+ a few years ago).
People are willing to give up their rights so that they can have access to credit. Our entire system is a system of credit. Credit is created from debt. Banks "borrow" money from the Federal Reserve and that borrowed money is then lent out in the form of credit. In order to take part in the system, people need to build a "credit history". The system is rigged against people who want to use cash or live within their means. Any money saved is destroyed by inflation.
In short, the American people are debt slaves. We are all slaves to the system. Of course the travesty is that we are one of the most resource rich countries on the planet. We could feed all of our people and still have food left over to ship overseas. Yet we have people starving, we have people suffering from obesity and all sorts of health problems related to poor diet.
Now we're seeing that America is going to experience a "slow recovery" while countries like China and India are picking up steam. That isn't accident. It isn't some sad twist of fate, or bad luck on our part. The third world is easier to exploit. There are billions of people in China who don't understand the evils of credit. Americans are tapped out. We can't service our debt so the financial system is abandoning us. In reality, Americans aren't any smarter than Indians or Chinese or Africans or anyone else. We're all humans who have been blessed by good fortune with working minds. The only thing that separated America from the rest of the world was our manufacturing base, and our financial system. The manufacturing base is gone and the financial system is leaving with it.
Sorry for the tirade.
No no no, you messed it all up. THESE are the keywords you're looking for.
SPP, NAU, North American Union, amero, dollar, fraud, SEC, insurrection, revolt, revolution, bloomberg, goldman sachs, G20
Not surprisingly this comment is sitting here unmoderated. Thanks for sharing the real tale of how the vulnerability was discovered.
You know, you're right. It's not like there are any examples of governments working with large computer companies to monitor and track large populations of people. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
...tie power savings to the manual screen lock feature. In Windows, the WindowsKey+L locks the workstation. It would be great if a second or two after the workstation is locked, the monitor turns off and the drives spin down. That would provide good power savings and avoid the problem of having to determine whether or not the user really wants their workstation to conserve energy.
China is simply the testing ground where they are working out all of the bugs with the hardware and software. When all of the censorship was happening in Iran around the time of the disputed elections, it came out that Nortel was working with the Iranian government to filter the internet traffic coming in and out of the country. It wouldn't surprise me if multi-national corporations weren't playing similar rolls in China's networking infrastructure. If not Nortel, then Cisco, or Juniper, or one of the other major players in networking equipment.
It's a poorly kept secret within the United States government that the whole consumer oriented push of the internet has been in part a ploy to get people accustomed to interacting with computers. I've talked to operators associated with DHS who have told me that what they see coming in the next couple of decades is a full blown, total information awareness style population tracking program. The government wants to be able to fully account for all of the resources each individual is using, down to what they buy a the grocery store, how much they are spending on health care, and obviously, what sort of interactions they are having with law enforcement. The big concern that the government is trying to get out ahead of is global warming. They're really concerned with food shortages and want to have a program in place to implement rationing if/when the time comes. Just think of it as a really big ERP system.
What is flame bait about my post? Intel and Microsoft work closely together to optimize the user experience. Must be AMD fans with mod points today.
I primarily use Microsoft software (I know, get out the pitchforks) and over the years I have occasionally run AMD chips after being overcome by various AMD biased friends of mine. I've never been able to put my finger on it, but Windows simply doesn't run as well on AMD chips as it does on Intel chips. I always end up switching back to Intel. This article is just an example of why. Intel and Microsoft are in bed with each other, and Microsoft will always be putting out the code to take full advantage of the Intel chips. It wouldn't surprise me if Intel gives Microsoft the heads up on new features far in advance. It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft works with Intel and encourages them to develop certain features in their processors that will help the Microsoft code base execute faster.