And yet, hundreds of thousands of people visit real-life casinos around the world every year. The fact that you lose money in the hopes of winning money hasn't stopped anyone yet. I don't understand why SL would stop gambling for the reason that "the house" is cheating. US legalities, sure, but not over that.
I'm planning on getting a portable iPod speaker system and playing back audiobooks to the kid while I putter around the house. That way, he or she (I'm hoping for the former) will learn real English rather than baby talk.
Either that or the baby will grow up thinking the Vatican is witholding information about Jesus' bloodline and the role of Mary Magdalene. On second thought, maybe you should stay away from the Dan Brown audiobooks...
I thought this quote near the end of page three was very interesting:
The Linux kernel mailing list is the way to communicate with the kernel developers. To put it mildly, the Linux kernel mailing list (lkml) is about as scary a communication forum as they come. Most people are absolutely terrified of mailing the list lest they get flamed for their inexperience, an inappropriate bug report, being stupid or whatever. And for the most part they're absolutely right. There is no friendly way to communicate normal users' issues that are kernel related. Yes of course the kernel developers are fun loving, happy-go-lucky friendly people. Just look at any interview with Linus and see how he views himself.
I think the kernel developers at large haven't got the faintest idea just how big the problems in userspace are. It is a very small brave minority that are happy to post to lkml, and I keep getting users telling me on IRC, in person, and via my own mailing list, what their problems are. And they've even become fearful of me, even though I've never viewed myself as a real kernel developer.
Just trawl the normal support forums (which I did for Gentoo users as a way of finding bug reports often because the users were afraid to tell me) and see how many obvious kernel related issues there are. I'd love to tell them all to suddenly flood lkml with their reports of failed boots with various kernels, hardware disappearing, stopping working suddenly, memory disappearing, trying to use software suspend and having your balls blown off by your laptop, and so on.
And there are all the obvious bug reports. They're afraid to mention these. How scary do you think it is to say 'my Firefox tabs open slowly since the last CPU scheduler upgrade'? To top it all off, the enterprise users are the opposite. Just watch each kernel release and see how quickly some $bullshit_benchmark degraded by.1% with patch $Y gets reported. See also how quickly it gets attended to.
What kind of steps could the LKML folks take to reconnect with the average user? What steps could Linux communities take to connect their average users with the LKML?
On the other hand it is doubtful that by not using a password manager security levels would be raised, since the resultant need to remember passwords often induces users to choose simplistic passwords and use them on multiple sites.
Don't tell me that the presence of an in-browser password manager has anything to do with the strength of the password. The only thing stopping people from using simplistic passwords is the quality of the IT department's restrictions. I bet every salesperson in my office would use "gocubsgo" as their password if our IT department didn't demand at least one capital letter and a number. As such, their passwords are now "goCubsgo2007".
Don't tell me that an in-browser password manager stops people from using the same password everywhere. The average person sees "password" and a single phrase comes to mind. "Oh, my password is '12345'", they say to themselves, and enter that. They don't sit there and think, "Oh, I should keep my bank account password separate from my MySpace password."
Those two issues aside, people always use password managers of some kind or another. The difference is whether or not they are vulnerable to an attack. I happen to manage my passwords by memorizing them, whereas my father keeps his monitor covered in sticky notes. My password manager is more secure against people sitting at my desk, while his is more secure against old age, and both of them are safe from internet crackers.
I don't think there's much we can do about increasing people's password security other than increasing awareness and forcing better password standards.
So it runs on plant material found in oceans... now if it could only move underwater as well as break atmosphere, we could dub it an "Octopus" and force all our flight attendants to say, "Queen Atreus and the Kingdom of Boron wish you a peaceful welcome aboard."
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear... And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear is gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
All we need now is to integrate these packs with some processor-type lifeforms and voila, Bio-Neural Gel Packs. Everyone's least favorite Star Trek Captain is closer than you think.
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And yet, hundreds of thousands of people visit real-life casinos around the world every year. The fact that you lose money in the hopes of winning money hasn't stopped anyone yet. I don't understand why SL would stop gambling for the reason that "the house" is cheating. US legalities, sure, but not over that.
Back to work, I guess.
I've got this awesome new Firefox plugin called ISPBlock Plus. It blocks all the packets your ISP is sending you in-flight. No more ads!
What kind of steps could the LKML folks take to reconnect with the average user? What steps could Linux communities take to connect their average users with the LKML?
The two greatest resources I've found for finding Linux wireless card drivers are:
h p?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list /
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.p
Between those two, I've never had a problem finding drivers. Maybe you could point your friend in that direction.
+1 Insightful.
Don't tell me that an in-browser password manager stops people from using the same password everywhere. The average person sees "password" and a single phrase comes to mind. "Oh, my password is '12345'", they say to themselves, and enter that. They don't sit there and think, "Oh, I should keep my bank account password separate from my MySpace password."
Those two issues aside, people always use password managers of some kind or another. The difference is whether or not they are vulnerable to an attack. I happen to manage my passwords by memorizing them, whereas my father keeps his monitor covered in sticky notes. My password manager is more secure against people sitting at my desk, while his is more secure against old age, and both of them are safe from internet crackers.
I don't think there's much we can do about increasing people's password security other than increasing awareness and forcing better password standards.
So it runs on plant material found in oceans... now if it could only move underwater as well as break atmosphere, we could dub it an "Octopus" and force all our flight attendants to say, "Queen Atreus and the Kingdom of Boron wish you a peaceful welcome aboard."
I'd drink wine with spice, but I'd be afraid it would turn my eyes all blue.
Any time you have to put (Funny) in the title... it's not.
I installed this on my Windows 2000 box yesterday and I haven't seen any problems so far. *shrug* Maybe it's just a Win XP thing.
I totally agree... The GIMP reminds me of Enlightenment these days... hurry up and do something big already!
Those 40 hours are game-world time, not real-world time.
Uh... WTF?
All we need now is to integrate these packs with some processor-type lifeforms and voila, Bio-Neural Gel Packs. Everyone's least favorite Star Trek Captain is closer than you think.
Actually, if you read the PDF, it says this:
It's the Vista Business and Vista Ultimate vesions. Get it right, Slashdot.
Someone needs to tell Zonk that removing one vowel won't reload Slashdot on his iPhone any faster.