Comment Re:If I wanted consequences (Score 1) 352
Gosh, what they do today with reality...
(Seems I went into the matrix only yesterday.)
I guess I've never used McAfee from a home end user perspective, but from a corporate perspective it is a pretty solid product. (...)
I don't see how any of this is a bad thing. (...)
Home computing is not the bigger market here.
Couldn't agree more. I'm getting tired of whiners who can't help complaining about McAfee... as you mention, I guess they're mostly home users. Last time I used (stopped using) McAfee on a home computer was about 1999.
Been using (managing) it at work for some years now and I'm quite happy. It does take 'some memory' not too much CPU (depends on the config) and it keeps computers are work (reasonably) safe. No software is perfect and this one is no exception, but it's definitely not worse than any other and better than many (or most). And it's definitely more manageable!
I guess this will bring mostly change in the embedded world and possibly in appliances.
Serge
PS: for the conspiracy theorists (help, they're gonna introduce special 'kill AMD feature') get a life (or a brain, or both).
I remember an English teacher of mine writing the following sentence :
"Woman without her man is nothing!"
then he told us to put the commas in the sentence and explain the meaning of the sentence. I kinda like that...
I bet yoda uses a lot of commas
Commas, misplaced, will be.
Didn't you want to write something like...
"Misplaced, Commas, will be"
;)
Turns you into a paraplegic, obviously.
I'm paraplegic you insensitive clod...
Nah, that's the NULL position. That's where programming languages go to die.
Programming languages never die, they just decompile. (hint: http://www.bored.com/agehumor/)
Considering they are having issues with the EU Commission and some European Publishers as to what one may consider as having "passed into the public domain", I believe there are reasons to question what they are doing.
S
(PS: not trying anything... just in a bit of a rush)
And what about copyright holders ?
Google has scanned books that are still under copyright. Now you may go and print those books avoiding the editors and publishers and Google and ODB get a buck each, while the authors and copyright holders (families and such) don't...
So now, it seems that Intellectual Property (in this case it is) only works for some...
File permissions security isn't all that useful on removable media like it is on the boot drive (and other internal drives).
Actually, I'd say that file permission are completely useless on removable media. As someone pointed out :
If I have the drive in my hand, I can plug it into any computer I want and access it as root anyway.
That's why, when you think of security w.r.t. portable drives, you go for encryption !
sma
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.