No, whats really scary is just how common it is for blind-MS hate and Linux fanboi-ism to cause people who should know better to do things like run with Windows Update turned off.
Many companies will not install patches - even the automatic Windows Update ones - until they have a chance to test it themselves and make sire that the patch doesn't inadvertently break mission critical applications.
Sometimes, even with known issues, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't...
I happen to like the fact that all three OS's I use (Ubuntu, OSX and Windows) patch themselves automatically for critical updates. I don't get butthurt about any of the three keeping themselves updated.
Wait until you get a call at 4:30 AM from an irate boss complaining that [Killer App A] is no longer working because a patch overwrote a DLL and it's now *your* problem.
If Automatic Update works for you - that's great for you. But for a lot of companies, automatic updates is like playing Russian roulette with a Glock 9mm...
TorrentSpy should press criminal charges against the MPAA.
Industrial Espionage is still illegal, and purchasing internal emails maybe fall under Industrial Espionage statutes. I am not a lawyer, but in my opinion TorrentSpy should look into filing criminal charges against the MPAA, or the agent of the MPAA that authorized the purchase of these emails, and the person that sold those emails to the MPAA.
Unfortunately this simulation is a bit... unsound. Not everyone that catches the flu shows symptoms, nor do they miss work. Instead, they just infect those that they work with, and I don't seen anything in the article that leads me to believe that they're factoring this in.
This might be an interesting study, but the money might be better spent just reminding people to wash their hands frequently. That simple act alone can save billions of dollars nationwide in time lost due to illness in the workplace.
It's disgusting how many people will sneeze, use the bathroom, whatever, and don't wash their hands afterwards.
Actually, this should be looked at as a business opportunity - I'm sure there's lots of profit that could be made delivering broadband access to rural areas.
I'm surprised that the cable company wouldn't offer it. DSL is more restricted by distance, but I also have to wonder if Fiber would be a better solution for these people.
Again, it's a terrific business oppotunity - if this guy's willing to spend $450 on a T1 line, I bet he'd be willing to spend $75/month for a fiber connection.
The other aspect is technical support costs: Companies spend a lot of money making "Factory Re-install" discs for users who get a virus, get hacked, or install a trojan.
Since viruses are not as big of a concern on Linux (about the worst one could do is screw up a user account) companies will spend less money on technical support if they are a Linux OEM.
Lowering the cost of doing business goes directly to a company's bottom line and increases profits. Imagine that - making money on Free Software!
"Clearly, Simmons, everyone who has an internet connection is a potential criminal, and we need to keep tabs on these potential criminals in case they, at some point, intentionally break international copyright law."
"Here, here!"
"So we need access to this data, and if anyone opposes it - they must be hiding something other than just a guilty conscience."
This is why there is a need for more than one security level. If one anti-theft device fails, there should be a backup - whether it's a simple thing such as "The Club" or a retrieval mechanism like LoJack.
It's amazing that people will invest so much money in a car and won't take any additional steps to protect that investment.
That's actually a very competitive price point for AMD. A Core 2 Duo clocked at 2.67 Ghz is $559 (reference)
Personally, I'd love one of these processors - especially for a datacenter that I manage. I noticed a huge increase in throughput when we switched over our datacenter from Windows Server to Red Hat Enterprise (x86_64), and I'm not sure the memory starved Intel chips can keep up with the AMD HyperTransport architecture.
(Until Intel leap-frogs AMD, then AMD leap-frogs Intel, and we all benefit!)
I agree, a centralized API would make it far too easy for stalkers. But the article makes a flawed assumption - that people on Facebook want to be connected on MySpace and vice versa, and you (IMHO) can't make that assumption.
I can certainly see how my personal decision to use marijuana, whose health effects are considered to be "nil"--as compared to drinking and overeating--by all but the most rabidly distorted medical studies
I'd have given you 5 troll points if you claimed that
the international cabal of investment bankers and targeted internet harassers secretly also run the UK.
Because no one has ever seen with their own eyes a homeless bum strung out with reefer madness? You must be invisible!
HomelessInLaJolla claims to have a 500 MHz laptop, before that he'd claim to be posting from the Public Library in LaJolla. You should pop in there around noonish when he usually starts posting to see if he's there.
One other slashdotter did, and HILJ was not where he claimed to be.
Phone calls to the library have also garnered responses from people not knowing who he is.
This has led more than one to suggest that this troll is not really homeless at all.
It's "Fab Fore", not Fab Four, you dumpster diving moron.
Hey does the aluminum foil from old Wendy's burgers work better at keeping the CIA mind control rays out of your head than regular foil does?
At the end of the day, if you can hear it, you can record it, and if you can see it, you can videotape it. It might not be a "perfect digital copy", but neither is a lossy format like OGG or MP3.
Besides, the lack of quality doesn't seem to bother people downloading torrents of a movie some clown recorded with a camcorder, complete with audience noise.
DRM is a waste of resources that only annoys the legal users of the media.
The real pirates will find work around. Hardware DRM? Yeah, right, because no one hacks hardware with a soldering iron.
In a separate report, Becta offered the opinion that schools should avoid Vista for at least another year, since neither Vista nor Office 2007 offers any compelling reasons for schools to upgrade.
Another problem is that the "dynamic network tuning" will not work with all routers and switches, causing a massive increase in cost to replace the network hardware.
Especially since without the NSA's help, Windows would likely have even more holes and problems and might even frustrate the average user enough to either demand that MS fixes the problems, or worse: massive refund drives or even a class action lawsuit.
Still, even with the NSA's support, Vista seems to have a lot of problems, especially where the IP "receive window size" is concerned.
While there may be over 100 million web sites, not all have any semblence of unique content. Between phishing sites and domain registrars that pre-register domains and re-sell those domains (leaving adds to some search engine as a default), there's no way there's 100 million+ different sites out on the web.
That would be an interesting statistic - how many web sites are there with unique content?
Scientists: We have this theory, that we can not adequately test, nor can we reliably reproduce this in a lab, but we're scientists so you have to believe us even though we might be right and we might be just talking out of our asses.
From reading on this subject, they believe the human and chimp lines may have switched some genetic material through the X Chromosome.
Fine. Reproduce it in a lab, and then I'll give credence to your monkey-fucker theory. Until then, you just go right on ahead making fun of creationists who have no more, and no less, credible, reproducible evidence than is presented here.
This is nothing more than a guess as to what happened, and isn't good science.
There's two distinct movements, and in 2020 we could see one trend finally win out over the other, for better or for worse.
One trend is the Open Source movement, the other is the closed source / DRM movement.
The way I see it, one of two things could happen: Computing becomes nearly free, due to lower and lower hardware costs and free operating systems, with entertainment at our fingertips, or... an extreme DRM lockdown where only "trusted" devices may connect and Linux becomes contraband.
Golbez is Cecil's brother, Rosa and Cecil get married and rule Baron, Edge and Rydia hook up and rule Edge's Kingdom, Edward becaomes a King, FuSoYa and Golbez go back to the moon, and the Palom and Porom go back to Mysidia, as the Mysidian Elder was able to remove their petrification.
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No, whats really scary is just how common it is for blind-MS hate and Linux fanboi-ism to cause people who should know better to do things like run with Windows Update turned off.
Many companies will not install patches - even the automatic Windows Update ones - until they have a chance to test it themselves and make sire that the patch doesn't inadvertently break mission critical applications.
Sometimes, even with known issues, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't...
I happen to like the fact that all three OS's I use (Ubuntu, OSX and Windows) patch themselves automatically for critical updates. I don't get butthurt about any of the three keeping themselves updated.
Wait until you get a call at 4:30 AM from an irate boss complaining that [Killer App A] is no longer working because a patch overwrote a DLL and it's now *your* problem.
If Automatic Update works for you - that's great for you. But for a lot of companies, automatic updates is like playing Russian roulette with a Glock 9mm...
Find anything yet?
Nothing yet, sir.
Find anything yet?
Nothing yet, sir.
How about you?
We ain't found shit!
You already have that feature - it's called a "Channel Lock".
TorrentSpy should press criminal charges against the MPAA.
Industrial Espionage is still illegal, and purchasing internal emails maybe fall under Industrial Espionage statutes. I am not a lawyer, but in my opinion TorrentSpy should look into filing criminal charges against the MPAA, or the agent of the MPAA that authorized the purchase of these emails, and the person that sold those emails to the MPAA.
Unfortunately this simulation is a bit... unsound. Not everyone that catches the flu shows symptoms, nor do they miss work. Instead, they just infect those that they work with, and I don't seen anything in the article that leads me to believe that they're factoring this in.
This might be an interesting study, but the money might be better spent just reminding people to wash their hands frequently. That simple act alone can save billions of dollars nationwide in time lost due to illness in the workplace.
It's disgusting how many people will sneeze, use the bathroom, whatever, and don't wash their hands afterwards.
Actually, this should be looked at as a business opportunity - I'm sure there's lots of profit that could be made delivering broadband access to rural areas.
I'm surprised that the cable company wouldn't offer it. DSL is more restricted by distance, but I also have to wonder if Fiber would be a better solution for these people.
Again, it's a terrific business oppotunity - if this guy's willing to spend $450 on a T1 line, I bet he'd be willing to spend $75/month for a fiber connection.
The other aspect is technical support costs: Companies spend a lot of money making "Factory Re-install" discs for users who get a virus, get hacked, or install a trojan.
Since viruses are not as big of a concern on Linux (about the worst one could do is screw up a user account) companies will spend less money on technical support if they are a Linux OEM.
Lowering the cost of doing business goes directly to a company's bottom line and increases profits. Imagine that - making money on Free Software!
I imagine the board meeting went like this:
"Clearly, Simmons, everyone who has an internet connection is a potential criminal, and we need to keep tabs on these potential criminals in case they, at some point, intentionally break international copyright law."
"Here, here!"
"So we need access to this data, and if anyone opposes it - they must be hiding something other than just a guilty conscience."
"Besides, we're doing it for the children."
This is why there is a need for more than one security level. If one anti-theft device fails, there should be a backup - whether it's a simple thing such as "The Club" or a retrieval mechanism like LoJack.
It's amazing that people will invest so much money in a car and won't take any additional steps to protect that investment.
That's actually a very competitive price point for AMD. A Core 2 Duo clocked at 2.67 Ghz is $559 (reference)
Personally, I'd love one of these processors - especially for a datacenter that I manage. I noticed a huge increase in throughput when we switched over our datacenter from Windows Server to Red Hat Enterprise (x86_64), and I'm not sure the memory starved Intel chips can keep up with the AMD HyperTransport architecture.
(Until Intel leap-frogs AMD, then AMD leap-frogs Intel, and we all benefit!)
I agree, a centralized API would make it far too easy for stalkers. But the article makes a flawed assumption - that people on Facebook want to be connected on MySpace and vice versa, and you (IMHO) can't make that assumption.
I'll give you 4 troll points for that one.
I'd have given you 5 troll points if you claimed that the international cabal of investment bankers and targeted internet harassers secretly also run the UK.
Because no one has ever seen with their own eyes a homeless bum strung out with reefer madness? You must be invisible!
HomelessInLaJolla claims to have a 500 MHz laptop, before that he'd claim to be posting from the Public Library in LaJolla. You should pop in there around noonish when he usually starts posting to see if he's there.
One other slashdotter did, and HILJ was not where he claimed to be.
Phone calls to the library have also garnered responses from people not knowing who he is.
This has led more than one to suggest that this troll is not really homeless at all.
It's "Fab Fore", not Fab Four, you dumpster diving moron.
Hey does the aluminum foil from old Wendy's burgers work better at keeping the CIA mind control rays out of your head than regular foil does?
Not only does GMail have a much better spam filter, but Google will proabbly do what MS won't - aggressively delete spammer email addresses.
Besides, most spam is generated from zombie windows boxes in South Korea, anyways.
Still, if you don't want spam, don't publish your email address and only give it to competent people.
At the end of the day, if you can hear it, you can record it, and if you can see it, you can videotape it. It might not be a "perfect digital copy", but neither is a lossy format like OGG or MP3.
Besides, the lack of quality doesn't seem to bother people downloading torrents of a movie some clown recorded with a camcorder, complete with audience noise.
DRM is a waste of resources that only annoys the legal users of the media.
The real pirates will find work around. Hardware DRM? Yeah, right, because no one hacks hardware with a soldering iron.
Another problem is that the "dynamic network tuning" will not work with all routers and switches, causing a massive increase in cost to replace the network hardware.
Especially since without the NSA's help, Windows would likely have even more holes and problems and might even frustrate the average user enough to either demand that MS fixes the problems, or worse: massive refund drives or even a class action lawsuit.
Still, even with the NSA's support, Vista seems to have a lot of problems, especially where the IP "receive window size" is concerned.
While there may be over 100 million web sites, not all have any semblence of unique content. Between phishing sites and domain registrars that pre-register domains and re-sell those domains (leaving adds to some search engine as a default), there's no way there's 100 million+ different sites out on the web.
That would be an interesting statistic - how many web sites are there with unique content?
From reading on this subject, they believe the human and chimp lines may have switched some genetic material through the X Chromosome.
Fine. Reproduce it in a lab, and then I'll give credence to your monkey-fucker theory. Until then, you just go right on ahead making fun of creationists who have no more, and no less, credible, reproducible evidence than is presented here.
This is nothing more than a guess as to what happened, and isn't good science.
(Oh well... fuck it... it's only karma.)
This sentence should be gut busting hysterical then:
Tommy was a toaster that ran rubber marathons in search of an autonomous chicken breast marinated with intergalactic motor oil.
I know what Dexter's Laboratory is, by the way. It still doesn't make Trip Master Karma-Whore's post funny.
Mod parent down. -1, Dumbass.
One trend is the Open Source movement, the other is the closed source / DRM movement.
The way I see it, one of two things could happen: Computing becomes nearly free, due to lower and lower hardware costs and free operating systems, with entertainment at our fingertips, or... an extreme DRM lockdown where only "trusted" devices may connect and Linux becomes contraband.
And I'm Red Foreman, so I'm an expert on who is and who isn't a dumbass.
Golbez is Cecil's brother, Rosa and Cecil get married and rule Baron, Edge and Rydia hook up and rule Edge's Kingdom, Edward becaomes a King, FuSoYa and Golbez go back to the moon, and the Palom and Porom go back to Mysidia, as the Mysidian Elder was able to remove their petrification.