That's weird, my work machine is a 15" MBP... and I don't see the BSoDs (black, not blue), frequent reboots, dropped wifi, or the cursing in general that the 'doze users commonly do.
It's also easier to have an OS that does both the necessary evil of MS Office/Outlook, and at the same time gives me a usable bash shell without having to use PuTTY, Cygwin, or something similar.
But you know, YMMV...
When was the last time Apple actually built their computers?
The Mac Pro desktops are all allegedly built in the US.
Do not underestimate Dell. Their ability to sell laptops by the pallet to corporations is impressive.
Their ability to sell servers by the truckload to corporations is even more impressive... until a decent blade solution arrives that isn't so rectum-stretching expensive (*cough*CiscoUCS*cough*), I suspect that Dell will be around for a *very* long time...
(same with HP, come to think of it.)
Agreed with sibling... Charter is among the least evil telcom corporations out there.
Now CenturyStink and Comcrap...
To clarify... much worse for the president's political party and their chances in upcoming (next year's) elections.
Otherwise I doubt that they give a damn.
This is simply Congress saying they aren't important enough or don't want to be bothered with doing their job. Such a law is only good when quick action is needed to be taken. We are well beyond that point.
Actually, the original rationale was to give the president full legal authority to retaliate in the case of a nuclear attack on the US (at the time it was a real enough possibility). It made sense at the time, since requiring Congress to quickly convene at least a quorum and declare war, then have everyone scramble for the fallout shelter... all within 30 minutes? Yeah, no, that would be stupid.
Not saying that the power hasn't been abused (every single president since Johnson has done so), but it had a real reason for existing in the first place.
People are stupid if they don't realize a password is like a key.
They do, and the problem is that they treat it exactly like one. When you buy a lock, do you immediately re-key it? No: you use it as-is. Now maybe if the key looked very suspicious, like say it was a perfect sine or square wave or it was completely smooth, then you might ask the blacksmith whether that's normal. I bet those shopkeepers would be asking the same of their POS installer if the password was "123456" or "111111".
But to their (and my) untrained eye, "166816" looks reasonably random. It looks as random as my Schlage house key does. Maybe there's a locksmith forum where experts are making fun of me for not changing my obviously default lock. After all, they can tell at a glance that I have the standard factory issue! How stupid am I for using it without making my own pattern!
No, I think you're exactly wrong. People think of these passwords as keys. They use the ones manufacturers give them. They hand them out to the same staff that have keys to the front door and cash drawers. They don't routinely change them when people quit. They don't audit their usage. They treat them just like the little medal danglies on the ring in their pocket, no more, no less. We've done a very poor job of telling them why they should think otherwise.
But if you listen to the FAA... drones *could* kill people and therefore we must fine their operators huge sums (Raphael Pirker for example) and we must enact new regulations that says they can't be used by terrorist organisations such as Amazon.com or DHL without expensive and difficult to get permissions. What do you mean that's a different type of drone? You mean the ones that kill can be used by the US government with impunity against the evil and the innocent alike -- while the ones that don't kill are increasingly restricted and constrained by regulation?
Good work America! (NOT).
If you have your phone set to connect to any available network, re-connect to wifi networks you have joined before, and to continually broadcast those SSIDs one by one until it receives a response, then don't be surprised to get owned every now and then you're following the 802.11 standard correctly.
If your phone is set to connect to networks with names like "attwifi" or "xfinitiwifi", then... well, that's what it will do.
Actually, after giving the article another read-through, I think I got it wrong in the summary.
Are you sure you're a Slashdot submitter?
Oh, I see you're new here. Don't worry, after a while you'll stop caring about having anything correct in the summary at all.
Problem solved.
So you're saying I should have to go and pay Microsoft for that Window 8 crap just so my girlfriend can continue to load music on her iPod?
Or you could just buy it directly through the device like everyone else does. I haven't bought music through a desktop iTunes app in a long time.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.