Good point, because the Windows security model has been SO much better ...
Posts by Armando 123
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Apple requires Mac App Store candidates to be sandboxed
Americans' right to hang fake balls on trucks left dangling
Meh
I once owned a pickup truck -- useful if you go hunting and fishing, which I no longer do, or if you own a house, which I do. However, I never put fake plums on it.
Personally, I think these people are idiots but I'd prefer to see them with these things if they desire to have them. I makes it easier for us to spot the kind of drivers who would do this, just like a Korean car makes it easier to spot the kind of driver who knows nothing about driving.
Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments
Maybe not gross misconduct, but five will get you ten that this person was one of the more troublesome employees for that boss. It's very difficult to flat-out fire people these days, lawsuits being what they are, so often layoffs can act as a way to clear out people with much lower threat of legal action.
OTOH
This says nothing about FORMER employers ...
In fact, if I told you about one particular former boss being an incompetent Ivy League with the social skills of a honey badger and all the classic behavior of a poorly-endowed prison b*tch, my former employers could do nothing about it. The former boss, OTOH, could sue, but the moment he took the stand I'd be proven right. In fact, if you talk to former coworkers, you could quickly find out just which company and which boss I'm talking about.
I've generally liked my bosses -- it's part of how I weigh job offers -- but that one ...
Swiss boffins produce working cloth made of GOLD
India uncloaks new thorium nuke plants
Beeb measures Blighty in doormats
Airline strikes, unions outraged
Possibly, but perhaps it could be argued that the union was killing the company and that it HAD to be broken for the company to compete. Whether that's true or not I can't say, but I would but the lawyers would find evidence to support it ... just as the union lawyers would find a way to disprove it, of course.
"He's American (or illiterate): he thinks unions = communism."
Right, because as an American who grew up in a union town back when , I know that unions = fascism.
Seriously, this was back in the 70s when things were ... very similar to today, come to think of it. I remember my dad's union went on strike for nine months and finally agree to a raise of five cents an hour. And they only agreed then because the company made things for the military and supplies were getting low. And about half of the strikes we had to endure back then were union-union strikes. Another union, run by a different mob family, kept trying to muscle in.
HP systems group honcho bails after Meg flip-flops
Safe as Windows: Smartphones' security nightmare
OpenBSD 5.0 reveals MAD-themed release
Biden: The internet ain't broke, let's not fix it
The Silicon Valley mirror-tocracy
Oddly enough
"These things aren't going to sell well in Indonesia. Or Indiana."
Funny you should say that. More traditional companies -- retail, insurance, restaurants, etc -- will often try new products and services in places like Indiana or Iowa before rolling out nationwide. So however and wherever they come up with an idea, they test before doing a big national rollout. I wonder if Silicon Valley could learn from this, though obviously a web service is a bit different.
UK.gov threatens to 'pull plug' on smart meter rollout
The Register Guide on how to stay anonymous (part 1)
Huhr
"Because of a peculiarity of how the Chrome AdBlock works, you need to tweak it to protect yourself from tracking."
Wait, something for Chrome (by Google) has to be fiddled with to protect your anonymity and keep people from tracking your web habits? I am shocked, *SHOCKED* I say, to read this.
Blogger freaks after airport lackey fondles checked-in vibrator
Huh
"a New York-based lawyer and blogger"
And my sympathy meter is now wedged firmly at 0.
All seriousness aside, a friend once played a joke on an unsuspecting (and unliked) roommate by sneaking an aluminum foil-wrapped dildo into her carry-on bag. Those wild, carefree days seem to be forever gone, alas.
BioWare Baldur's Gate
You know
Just last night we were talking about new computers and I was wondering what we would then do with that ten-year-old G4 iMac that is still in good shape. Now I know what to do. Baldur's Gate! Baldur's Gate II! Neverwinter Nights! Civilization III! Etc etc etc.
All the better, really, if the computer is "old and slow and uncool and NGKH, Dad!", as now *I'll* get a chance to play a game or two ...
Good ol BG!
I loved this and BGII. Fantastic gaming for the day (still holds up surprisingly well), great plots and subplots, good graphics, and good NPC characters. Speaking of which, how in the name of all that is holy could you have a Baldur's Gate review and not mention Minsc and Boo?!?!
"Butts will be kicked liberally! Right, Boo?"
*squeak*!
Asus eyes Android, Windows 8 tablets in 2012
China responds to satellite hack charge: 'Nuh-uh!'
Canada founded on 'relentless pursuit of beaver'
Pete Townshend condemns Apple as 'digital vampire'
Android 'stands on Microsoft's shoulders', says MS lawyer
A minor point, but over at http://www.apple-history.com/ they have information on the Xerox/Apple/GUI thing, with accounts by Frank Ludolph, who worked at Xerox then worked on the Apple Lisa desktop. Xerox got there first, but Apple was working on a GUI as well and a lot of the shared ideas probably go back in time to another person/entity/etc. Bruce Horn's account (http://www.apple-history.com/?page=gui_horn1) is interesting, as is Jeff Raskin's response and corrections.
Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil
Demand for Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 rockets, C devs still best paid
Boss leaves robot in charge of office
Job-seeking university bods panic over incriminating online info
Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and Sun staffers' privates
German boffins BREAK LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS!
Google exec: 'Corporations ignore human rights'
Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’
Father-of-three attacked teen after Call of Duty jibes
My hero
Let's face it, 13 year olds probably need a beating, and those who mock older, bigger guys in spite of warnings to stop probably need a life lesson in restraint.
Seriously, who has dealt with teenagers and NOT felt like doinking them in the eyes, like Moe did to Larry and Curly? Hell, I felt like doing this to teenagers when *I* was a teenager.
Alas, our nimminy-pimminy laws, written by bleeding heart lawyers with no grip on reality and no marketable job skills, make this a legal minefield. Also, the concept of "the jerk needed hangin'" doesn't float with most judges these days. Usually I just drink sourmash, light a stogie, and tell the little wankers what it's like to get a b______ from a Polish lingerie model while driving a Maserati at 150MPH on the Nurburgring.
Jaguar recalls over 17,600 X-types in the UK
Intel, MS destined to remain tablet underdogs
US carrier smartphone sales slip
Apple flat-screen TV rumor rises yet again
Just seven solar cars reach Adelaide alive
Cable employee admits replacing Superbowl feed with porn
Jobs was 'working on future product day before he died'
Keep in mind that Apple may have more money than the US government, but they've earned it. They create products and service that people want and are willing to pay for. Whereas the US government, like all governments, create things that are either unwanted or would be better done by the private sector. Honestly, if they didn't hold a loaded IRS to your head, would you pay for 85% of this stuff?
Or, to quote the excellent documentary Yes Prime Minister, budgets are not about what's needed, it's about how much you can get and then figuring out what to do with it.