curious. but im sure your case is not the first case, and there are solutions out there for it. thats one of the benefits of an os that has been around for long.
anyone with a reliable antivirus/firewall that works (like kaspersky pure) will just be able to keep using it. in fact, i would question anyone who trusted microsoft with their 'security updates' as morons. microsoft repeatedly broke more than they fixed in many previous patches and packs. these patches are security liabilities in themselves.
on top of this, xp is tested and weathered. windows 7 is yet not. windows 8 isnt even out.
as long as you employ a very good security software to check everything that happens on a computer, you have no need of security patches by and large, only except extreme circumstances - but be sure - good security software companies even take the o/s vulnerabilities into account.
and no - if you are employing a good antivirus (kaspersky etc) and NOT a resource hog that screws resources more than it does any good (norton et al), you will have no problems running both an active (proactive setting) antivirus on something like a 4 gig ram, amd 4800+ cpu old (5-6 years) generation computer AND still game at the same time. (wow, simulations, fallout 3 modded, whatever ). things like norton are not antiviruses - THEY are viruses themselves.
and 46% of users, as you see, dont give two flying shits about all the non-brokenness you described to be in win 7. their computer just works. and that's that.
Because it just works, and that's all people need ? When will software industry wake up to the fact that users have gotten over 'upgrade cycles' and are now aware that they are just means for software companies to continually sell products to customers and make revenue ?
And no - dont blabber about 'the many great features' that are in win7 or something - get the message : people dont need them. you may think they do, but they disagree - thats another fixation in software industry; 'these features are great ! you have to have it !' -> no they dont. they just need to have what they need, and that's all there is to it.
hence the reason for a whopping 46% share of xp, even in its fallen down state.
are you aware that, troll or not, that post gave us an opportunity to voice an important point, and people are discussing on it ? that's what's important. we cannot just bring someone from tea party here and make them post on purpose.
iran is posturing and threatening. its not like in the past 6 months united states of invaderica has not been trying to build up a war with iran, then sent spy drones, agents and whatnot into their country.
then why dont you go fight in that fucking naval battle and die, yourself ? instead of other people dying for your enjoyment and corporations' profit ? you would do all of us a favor and also go out with a bang.
you are incorrect. first, increasing decentralization in production and planning reduces need for centralization, naturally. this has been so throughout history. second, with increasing technology, centralization for running complex or large scale operations becomes increasingly unnecessary. you can see this from many technologies on the internet (from filesharing to tor or etc) to systems that run physical production systems that are spread to many countries as a single entity.
however, lets say that even these are not correct, and it is as you say - there is no relevance : central planning and distribution does not mean central planning decides how much of what you need. leave aside that it does not necessarily decide anything regarding your moral or political choices. central planning is just an engineering concept that manufactures demanded goods and services as per the received demand and distributes them to their demandees.
ownership of stuff is the key - everyone has equal share in this. its not the running of the system, but sharing the output of the system.
if you gather tens of thousands of people in an area, such things dont happen. yeah. and if they do happen, they totally eliminate movements. like how black panthers and their ilk have invalidated civil rights movement. oh wait - they didnt... so what the fuck you were saying again ?
Pro-SOPA study on DNS filtering cites censorship research
A recent paper written by Daniel Castro of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation and promoted by the MPAA on Capitol Hill argues in favor of DNS filtering to block access to copyright-infringing sites. In an effort to argue the effectiveness of DNS filtering, Castro cites research from Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society that suggests that "no more than 3 percent of Internet users in countries that engage in substantial filtering use circumvention tools."
What is worth noting here is that the countries cited in the Berkman Center paper--China, Iran, the UAE, Armenia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Burma, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam--are all countries that engage in pervasive censorship of the Internet. Therefore, Castro is basically saying that since DNS filtering works for repressive regimes, it can work in the United States too!
It is also worth noting that the US Department of State has put significant resources into more than a dozen circumvention tools over the past few years. In other words, those same tools that Castro hopes American citizens won't use to access pirated content are in fact funded by the US government.
see. there are these whoresons (with all due and proper great respect for each and every whore on the planet) who are trying to grab all of you by the balls as hard as they can and screw you up.
and yet you are calling stallman 'nutjob'. then what are you going to call these people ? sociopaths ? what are you going to do ? 'dismiss' them ? do you think it will work ?
maybe it is time that you reconsidered your opinions and the possibility that you would be better off getting behind that nutjob you were calling a nutjob just a few weeks ago with all power you have left.
However hard you write your web app, if its running anything important, it WILL get hacked. there's nothing on this planet that cannot get hacked if it is a software. even hardware can get hacked if it is running on even read-only software. so, assume it will get hacked, and design so that you will minimize the damage when the app is hacked.
As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us.
stallman said this. and it is happening - private corporations and governments are separately and in conjunction trying to control everything.
so far so good, right ? and you are asking, 'what does this have to do with free software', right ?
are you idiots ? what are we turning to, as this trend gets more serious ? software that is free, and uncontrollable, and circumvents any kinds of bans/gateways/filters ? from tor to proxies, to free oses that thankfully run these ? imagine what would have happened if instead of linux, some jacked up windows nt server was the basis for the web at large today ? all it would take microsoft to twist us in the balls would be to prevent certain software (proxy, vpn) from running on their servers with a 'security update' when local governments requested it and voila !
dont at a moment think that 'they wouldnt do that'. they DO that. we have seen endless cases of repression cooperation, user-busting, shady dealings get to news in slashdot and we discussed under their summaries here, altogether. so, dont at a moment dumb down and think they wouldnt - they ARE doing it.
and what would happen if stallman did not come with those 'radical' ideas, and relentlessly pushed for them ? we would be living in a more closed, private internet, and we would have been already grabbed by our balls long ago. At least now, we are on the cliff's edge - with all this sopa and shit. we maybe have a chance.
so wise up. world history has been exclusively changed for the better by radicals in the last 2 centuries. here's another, and he is talking good stuff. the fact that these stuff may be too futuristic or utopic for you, would just put you in early 1900s moron's shoes if you come up and claim that he is nuts. everyone ranging from wright brothers to nikola tesla were dubbed as nuts at some point. even thomas paine, was shamefully labeled as a lunatic. now noone can dare argue against the principles he had spearheaded, in a scientific environment - they have become de facto basis of freedom of scientific thought from dogma and religion.
if you did not know who even thomas paine was, i am wondering what the fuck you were doing in a thread, labeling someone who was a radical visionary, as a nut.
Don't tell me that a person who doesn't know what a graphic user interface is and that is communist can think and is normal...
you are the fucked up moron here, and your ilk is the one continually voting morons who are passing such dastardly bills into power.
in any other part of the world, after spending this sentence, you wouldnt be even labeled politely with the label of 'stupid'. people would think you were either
a) moron
b) bloodthirsty fascist
but thankfully, in america it is free to be a fascist and then claim to the contrary that everyone else is.
rejoice ! capitalists are going to throw you in infinite detention without cause, LEGALLY, OPENLY, and merrily.
in all kinds of twisted country which bastardized communism with dictatorship, such things were done secretly, behind the doors, without there being anything in the open - they were not particularly compatible with the political ideals.
but, mind-fuckingly, doing such things seems completely compatible with the political ideals of 'freedom' that exists in capitalism ! rejoice !! did i tell that it is going to be openly legal to do so too ?
socialism = big government is the morondom of a travesty that has been produced in america. no such equation exists in other parts of the world in political literature. socialism basically means ownership of means of production by the people equally. it does not matter how you run those tools of production. you can federalize and localize to hell, or you can collect it all at the hands of one big central government.
Yeah. do that. And the next day we are back to stone age.
Exaggeration ? Dont think so. the mafia that runs russia is as strong as the mafia that runs u.s.. And neither mafia would allow the other to kill their important assets in the dirty games they play.
You'd think that the author of world's largest botnet would be dealing in just viagra spam ? think again...
Slashdot Mirror
It won’t be long until every household has a cheap, teleoperated robot that can be logged into remotely, mark my words.
and what happens when its hacked ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
educate yourself.
curious. but im sure your case is not the first case, and there are solutions out there for it. thats one of the benefits of an os that has been around for long.
anyone with a reliable antivirus/firewall that works (like kaspersky pure) will just be able to keep using it. in fact, i would question anyone who trusted microsoft with their 'security updates' as morons. microsoft repeatedly broke more than they fixed in many previous patches and packs. these patches are security liabilities in themselves.
on top of this, xp is tested and weathered. windows 7 is yet not. windows 8 isnt even out.
as long as you employ a very good security software to check everything that happens on a computer, you have no need of security patches by and large, only except extreme circumstances - but be sure - good security software companies even take the o/s vulnerabilities into account.
and no - if you are employing a good antivirus (kaspersky etc) and NOT a resource hog that screws resources more than it does any good (norton et al), you will have no problems running both an active (proactive setting) antivirus on something like a 4 gig ram, amd 4800+ cpu old (5-6 years) generation computer AND still game at the same time. (wow, simulations, fallout 3 modded, whatever ). things like norton are not antiviruses - THEY are viruses themselves.
and 46% of users, as you see, dont give two flying shits about all the non-brokenness you described to be in win 7. their computer just works. and that's that.
and ? you would just remove them all, and reinstall them all, and sweat nothing in the process. no 'security feature' would block your way.
Because it just works, and that's all people need ? When will software industry wake up to the fact that users have gotten over 'upgrade cycles' and are now aware that they are just means for software companies to continually sell products to customers and make revenue ?
And no - dont blabber about 'the many great features' that are in win7 or something - get the message : people dont need them. you may think they do, but they disagree - thats another fixation in software industry; 'these features are great ! you have to have it !' -> no they dont. they just need to have what they need, and that's all there is to it.
hence the reason for a whopping 46% share of xp, even in its fallen down state.
are you aware that, troll or not, that post gave us an opportunity to voice an important point, and people are discussing on it ? that's what's important. we cannot just bring someone from tea party here and make them post on purpose.
iran is posturing and threatening. its not like in the past 6 months united states of invaderica has not been trying to build up a war with iran, then sent spy drones, agents and whatnot into their country.
i see ignorance is as popular in america as ever.
some want people die for others' enjoyment, others play moron for others' enjoyment. one of these are much more noble than the other. guess which.
then why dont you go fight in that fucking naval battle and die, yourself ? instead of other people dying for your enjoyment and corporations' profit ? you would do all of us a favor and also go out with a bang.
summarizes current situation very well.
you are incorrect. first, increasing decentralization in production and planning reduces need for centralization, naturally. this has been so throughout history. second, with increasing technology, centralization for running complex or large scale operations becomes increasingly unnecessary. you can see this from many technologies on the internet (from filesharing to tor or etc) to systems that run physical production systems that are spread to many countries as a single entity.
however, lets say that even these are not correct, and it is as you say - there is no relevance : central planning and distribution does not mean central planning decides how much of what you need. leave aside that it does not necessarily decide anything regarding your moral or political choices. central planning is just an engineering concept that manufactures demanded goods and services as per the received demand and distributes them to their demandees.
ownership of stuff is the key - everyone has equal share in this. its not the running of the system, but sharing the output of the system.
concept 'filter' includes regular expressions against any kind of code execution attempt or injection attempts.
if you gather tens of thousands of people in an area, such things dont happen. yeah. and if they do happen, they totally eliminate movements. like how black panthers and their ilk have invalidated civil rights movement. oh wait - they didnt ... so what the fuck you were saying again ?
scotland yard did.
Pro-SOPA study on DNS filtering cites censorship research A recent paper written by Daniel Castro of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation and promoted by the MPAA on Capitol Hill argues in favor of DNS filtering to block access to copyright-infringing sites. In an effort to argue the effectiveness of DNS filtering, Castro cites research from Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society that suggests that "no more than 3 percent of Internet users in countries that engage in substantial filtering use circumvention tools." What is worth noting here is that the countries cited in the Berkman Center paper--China, Iran, the UAE, Armenia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Burma, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam--are all countries that engage in pervasive censorship of the Internet. Therefore, Castro is basically saying that since DNS filtering works for repressive regimes, it can work in the United States too! It is also worth noting that the US Department of State has put significant resources into more than a dozen circumvention tools over the past few years. In other words, those same tools that Castro hopes American citizens won't use to access pirated content are in fact funded by the US government.
see. there are these whoresons (with all due and proper great respect for each and every whore on the planet) who are trying to grab all of you by the balls as hard as they can and screw you up.
and yet you are calling stallman 'nutjob'. then what are you going to call these people ? sociopaths ? what are you going to do ? 'dismiss' them ? do you think it will work ?
maybe it is time that you reconsidered your opinions and the possibility that you would be better off getting behind that nutjob you were calling a nutjob just a few weeks ago with all power you have left.
However hard you write your web app, if its running anything important, it WILL get hacked. there's nothing on this planet that cannot get hacked if it is a software. even hardware can get hacked if it is running on even read-only software. so, assume it will get hacked, and design so that you will minimize the damage when the app is hacked.
yeah he would .... hahahahaa ....
And do blanket filtering. never trust input. always filter to extreme, as long as you can get away with it. as much as you can get away with it.
As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us.
stallman said this. and it is happening - private corporations and governments are separately and in conjunction trying to control everything.
so far so good, right ? and you are asking, 'what does this have to do with free software', right ?
are you idiots ? what are we turning to, as this trend gets more serious ? software that is free, and uncontrollable, and circumvents any kinds of bans/gateways/filters ? from tor to proxies, to free oses that thankfully run these ? imagine what would have happened if instead of linux, some jacked up windows nt server was the basis for the web at large today ? all it would take microsoft to twist us in the balls would be to prevent certain software (proxy, vpn) from running on their servers with a 'security update' when local governments requested it and voila !
dont at a moment think that 'they wouldnt do that'. they DO that. we have seen endless cases of repression cooperation, user-busting, shady dealings get to news in slashdot and we discussed under their summaries here, altogether. so, dont at a moment dumb down and think they wouldnt - they ARE doing it.
and what would happen if stallman did not come with those 'radical' ideas, and relentlessly pushed for them ? we would be living in a more closed, private internet, and we would have been already grabbed by our balls long ago. At least now, we are on the cliff's edge - with all this sopa and shit. we maybe have a chance.
so wise up. world history has been exclusively changed for the better by radicals in the last 2 centuries. here's another, and he is talking good stuff. the fact that these stuff may be too futuristic or utopic for you, would just put you in early 1900s moron's shoes if you come up and claim that he is nuts. everyone ranging from wright brothers to nikola tesla were dubbed as nuts at some point. even thomas paine, was shamefully labeled as a lunatic. now noone can dare argue against the principles he had spearheaded, in a scientific environment - they have become de facto basis of freedom of scientific thought from dogma and religion.
if you did not know who even thomas paine was, i am wondering what the fuck you were doing in a thread, labeling someone who was a radical visionary, as a nut.
Don't tell me that a person who doesn't know what a graphic user interface is and that is communist can think and is normal...
you are the fucked up moron here, and your ilk is the one continually voting morons who are passing such dastardly bills into power.
in any other part of the world, after spending this sentence, you wouldnt be even labeled politely with the label of 'stupid'. people would think you were either
a) moron
b) bloodthirsty fascist
but thankfully, in america it is free to be a fascist and then claim to the contrary that everyone else is.
rejoice ! capitalists are going to throw you in infinite detention without cause, LEGALLY, OPENLY, and merrily.
in all kinds of twisted country which bastardized communism with dictatorship, such things were done secretly, behind the doors, without there being anything in the open - they were not particularly compatible with the political ideals.
but, mind-fuckingly, doing such things seems completely compatible with the political ideals of 'freedom' that exists in capitalism ! rejoice !! did i tell that it is going to be openly legal to do so too ?
socialism = big government is the morondom of a travesty that has been produced in america. no such equation exists in other parts of the world in political literature. socialism basically means ownership of means of production by the people equally. it does not matter how you run those tools of production. you can federalize and localize to hell, or you can collect it all at the hands of one big central government.
Yeah. do that. And the next day we are back to stone age.
...
Exaggeration ? Dont think so. the mafia that runs russia is as strong as the mafia that runs u.s.. And neither mafia would allow the other to kill their important assets in the dirty games they play.
You'd think that the author of world's largest botnet would be dealing in just viagra spam ? think again
The question is, what HP will give back to open source community in return.