> You don't have to tolerate them! Taco just said you can buy a subscription and disable them!
I believe I was anticipating the *fact* that slashdot readers are exactly the ones (myself included) that *will not* simply put up with an irritating imposition on their web browsing. I assume Taco knows this, which makes me think that the subscription fees will be "higher, rather than lower" than those at ars technica.
That is why I want the information in advance, before those ridiculous (and predictably unpopular) ads poison the well of Slashdotter good will.
Or do you think that we will all just put up with it in advance of some reasoned explanation regarding subscriptions?
Given the tiny amounts of money that would be freed up by shutting down NASA, I find this suggestion to be basically ludicrous. Out of a $1.7 trillion national budget, the US Government can more than afford to fund a sane and forward looking space program. As for other priorities, they are just that, other priorities. Presumably we are all capable of walking *and* chewing gum at the same time.... even government.
I think that NASA should exist -- indeed it should be bigger than it is.
That said, the spending of the agency needs to be fundamentally reviewed -- and some long-term strategic goals set. The space station is a nice means to an end, but it is not the end in itself. Right now it is a money pit, sucking NASA's budget dry and preventing other initiatives from being launched.
To summarize: if all NASA is doing is the space station, it is time to wind the agency down. In a world where a zero-based review of space policy gives us proper priorities, however, NASA should be preserved, expanded, and shielded from day to day budget debates.
I am not laughing. I take what you say at faith value.
Thank you. From a user who doesn't know what software you design, but appreciates that there are people in this world who still simply want to help improve things.
Threads like this are why I stay glued to Slashdot.
In a country where people regularly protest business using the social security number as a unique identifier, I can't wait to see the congressional hearings once this hits the fan.
>Note: according to this article, the change does not prevent Black Ice or other programs from running per se -- but it does require them to use updated versions tailored for XP.
At first when I read the headline I was outraged. Then at the end of the story I read that XP only prevents "older" versions of thes programs from working because they violate what may be an "improved" security model.
The last thing that we should be doing is criticizing MS for making their OS more security.
Especially given the whining and gloating that goes on around here whenever IIS or some other MS product suffers a security problem.
Whoever writes up the stories around here needs to get a life.
Well. When I look around my house and see how many different linux distros, from suse to redhat to mandrake I have around, I guess *I* spend more on linux than I have on windows 9x or others. The only windows operating systems I have around here either came with machines I purchased, or are left over from machines that died.
He is not a "criminal" until he is convicted a crime. I might add that this habit the US has of extraterritorially claiming jurisdiction over foreign nationals for acts they commit ON FOREIGN SOIL is nonsensical, and bound to backfire on Americans some day. Imagine the stink the US would kick up when a US citizen is arrested for actions he committed WHILE IN THE US!, but is then prosecuted for in a third country.
Sound impossible?
That is what has happened here.
And don't even get me started on Adobe and "corporate morality!"
Yes it is. I was at an Office XP release event two weeks ago, and this was one of the major functions demonstrated. They even had corporate types showing their specialized smart tags used for internal order processing and inventory control.
The corporations involved were Lockheed Martin and a smaller local database consulting firm.
I was not going to intervene in this hysteria, but I have to point out one thing.
Microsoft releases in Office XP functionality that allows any user to write HIS OR HER OWN SMART TAGS. Please people, get a grip and inform yourselves about the topic before spouting off at the mouth.
Also, some applications of this technology (its relationship to XML) will allow for a much smarter use of the web in intranets (order processing systems, etc.). I know, that's in the corporate environment. So many of the "carpers" around here will dismiss this point as irrelevant.
i am well aware of how wonderful Canada is. I emigrated there from the UK when I was 12 years old. My only point was that Canada has the luck of being able to avoid global responsibilities because its "best friend", often takes care of the dirty work.
Unlike one of the commentators on this, I am prepared to be rude.
Do you know anything about the imperial histories of Sweden, Russia, and the wars in the Baltic that ended around 200 years ago? The idea that imperial powers never create anything is belied by the facts of the cultures and languages that they leave behind, not to mention the legal systems.
As for Canada, as a fellow Canadian, I never cease to be amazed by the sanctimony of some of my fellow citizens. The US spends more on aid, and takes more refugees and immigrants than most of the developed world combined. It also is exceedingly rich.
It can afford to "walk and chew gum" at the same time, and anyway, technological investments -- which you seem to take for granted -- have significant downstream benefits.
I shudder to think where we would all be if the historical "wisdom" of Canadian governments would have determined the fate, for example, of the Internet and other communications and computing technologies.
Please ask the Germans and British how they feel about the suppression of their political independence under this "United States of Europe" vision.
One thing the EU currently has in droves is an absence of security-related capabilities -- see Bosnia without US involvement.
I also do not see any European Union controlled nuclear weapons in evidence. Oh wait, the French have them, so that is the continent's nuclear deterrent taken care of.
Funny how a deployed and working missile defense system will invalidate it completely. And the Chinese arsenal is also likely to dwarf that of "Europe". Leaving the US and Russia (the dinosaurs) with the nuclear potential to destroy humanity.
And the "united europeans" standing on the sidelines. Kibitzing.
If it won't make TV any better, it certainlyl won't speed the rapid decline of mass TV.
Being able to "slice and dice" TV material is empowering for viewers. It means that we can filter the drivel before it drowns us.
Tivo is also a linux based platforms that contributes to kernel development. That, and the fact that I am now dependent upon it for real control over my TV watching time (which is in very meager supply) is enough to sell me on the system.
The company is also really cool with hardware hackers who add functionality to their boxes.
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As you said...
> You don't have to tolerate them! Taco just said you can buy a subscription and disable them!
I believe I was anticipating the *fact* that slashdot readers are exactly the ones (myself included) that *will not* simply put up with an irritating imposition on their web browsing. I assume Taco knows this, which makes me think that the subscription fees will be "higher, rather than lower" than those at ars technica.
That is why I want the information in advance, before those ridiculous (and predictably unpopular) ads poison the well of Slashdotter good will.
Or do you think that we will all just put up with it in advance of some reasoned explanation regarding subscriptions?
D
Yeah. I presume that you have looked at ars technica's approach to subscriptions so that you can make this work.
You owe your readers early information on subscriptions. Otherwise, add busting software will make nonsense of your switch to ads plus subscriptions.
Last thing.
Those big mid-page ads on CNET are why I don't go there anymore.
You better have a good explanation for why you think that slashdot folks are willing to tolerate them.
D
Yeah..., like maybe he was fired in order to make room for someone else?
About time.
He was appointed by a democrat wasn't he?
Given the tiny amounts of money that would be freed up by shutting down NASA, I find this suggestion to be basically ludicrous. Out of a $1.7 trillion national budget, the US Government can more than afford to fund a sane and forward looking space program. As for other priorities, they are just that, other priorities. Presumably we are all capable of walking *and* chewing gum at the same time.... even government.
I think that NASA should exist -- indeed it should be bigger than it is.
That said, the spending of the agency needs to be fundamentally reviewed -- and some long-term strategic goals set. The space station is a nice means to an end, but it is not the end in itself. Right now it is a money pit, sucking NASA's budget dry and preventing other initiatives from being launched.
To summarize: if all NASA is doing is the space station, it is time to wind the agency down. In a world where a zero-based review of space policy gives us proper priorities, however, NASA should be preserved, expanded, and shielded from day to day budget debates.
Not to be picky, but this called the "free rider" problem, not the free loader problem.
That's it.
Bye for now.
D
I think that there are guidelines when US-based researchers take the results of biological research overseas for "field tests."
Lest we get an international repeat of the "Tuskeegee Experiment."
Email me if you don't know what that was.
I am not laughing. I take what you say at faith value.
Thank you. From a user who doesn't know what software you design, but appreciates that there are people in this world who still simply want to help improve things.
Threads like this are why I stay glued to Slashdot.
In a country where people regularly protest business using the social security number as a unique identifier, I can't wait to see the congressional hearings once this hits the fan.
>How's that for a response?
Callous, criminal, and immoral, that's how it is.
Narrow minded bastard.
>Note: according to this article, the change does not prevent Black Ice or other programs from running per se -- but it does require them to use updated versions tailored for XP.
At first when I read the headline I was outraged. Then at the end of the story I read that XP only prevents "older" versions of thes programs from working because they violate what may be an "improved" security model.
The last thing that we should be doing is criticizing MS for making their OS more security.
Especially given the whining and gloating that goes on around here whenever IIS or some other MS product suffers a security problem.
Whoever writes up the stories around here needs to get a life.
Well. When I look around my house and see how many different linux distros, from suse to redhat to mandrake I have around, I guess *I* spend more on linux than I have on windows 9x or others. The only windows operating systems I have around here either came with machines I purchased, or are left over from machines that died.
He is not a "criminal" until he is convicted a crime. I might add that this habit the US has of extraterritorially claiming jurisdiction over foreign nationals for acts they commit ON FOREIGN SOIL is nonsensical, and bound to backfire on Americans some day. Imagine the stink the US would kick up when a US citizen is arrested for actions he committed WHILE IN THE US!, but is then prosecuted for in a third country.
Sound impossible?
That is what has happened here.
And don't even get me started on Adobe and "corporate morality!"
ROT13 Indeed.
Unbelievable.
D
>Apparently the author thinks these are unsolveable mathematical mysteries...I sincerely hope he's not representative of the average man.
I hope so too, but I fear he may be....
D
Yes it is. I was at an Office XP release event two weeks ago, and this was one of the major functions demonstrated. They even had corporate types showing their specialized smart tags used for internal order processing and inventory control.
The corporations involved were Lockheed Martin and a smaller local database consulting firm.
I was not going to intervene in this hysteria, but I have to point out one thing.
Microsoft releases in Office XP functionality that allows any user to write HIS OR HER OWN SMART TAGS. Please people, get a grip and inform yourselves about the topic before spouting off at the mouth.
Also, some applications of this technology (its relationship to XML) will allow for a much smarter use of the web in intranets (order processing systems, etc.). I know, that's in the corporate environment. So many of the "carpers" around here will dismiss this point as irrelevant.
what about India and China?
i am well aware of how wonderful Canada is. I emigrated there from the UK when I was 12 years old. My only point was that Canada has the luck of being able to avoid global responsibilities because its "best friend", often takes care of the dirty work.
D
Posts like this are why I still pay attention to slashdot.
bravo
D
Unlike one of the commentators on this, I am prepared to be rude.
Do you know anything about the imperial histories of Sweden, Russia, and the wars in the Baltic that ended around 200 years ago? The idea that imperial powers never create anything is belied by the facts of the cultures and languages that they leave behind, not to mention the legal systems.
As for Canada, as a fellow Canadian, I never cease to be amazed by the sanctimony of some of my fellow citizens. The US spends more on aid, and takes more refugees and immigrants than most of the developed world combined. It also is exceedingly rich.
It can afford to "walk and chew gum" at the same time, and anyway, technological investments -- which you seem to take for granted -- have significant downstream benefits.
I shudder to think where we would all be if the historical "wisdom" of Canadian governments would have determined the fate, for example, of the Internet and other communications and computing technologies.
D.
Please ask the Germans and British how they feel about the suppression of their political independence under this "United States of Europe" vision.
One thing the EU currently has in droves is an absence of security-related capabilities -- see Bosnia without US involvement.
I also do not see any European Union controlled nuclear weapons in evidence. Oh wait, the French have them, so that is the continent's nuclear deterrent taken care of.
Funny how a deployed and working missile defense system will invalidate it completely. And the Chinese arsenal is also likely to dwarf that of "Europe". Leaving the US and Russia (the dinosaurs) with the nuclear potential to destroy humanity.
And the "united europeans" standing on the sidelines. Kibitzing.
You are wrong. You are closed minded and a bigot.
The only way any non-white country ever did anything technical is by stealing it from someone else, right?!
dimwit
Canada is the best. But seriously, shouldn't Israel be on the list?
D
If it won't make TV any better, it certainlyl won't speed the rapid decline of mass TV.
Being able to "slice and dice" TV material is empowering for viewers. It means that we can filter the drivel before it drowns us.
Tivo is also a linux based platforms that contributes to kernel development. That, and the fact that I am now dependent upon it for real control over my TV watching time (which is in very meager supply) is enough to sell me on the system.
The company is also really cool with hardware hackers who add functionality to their boxes.
D
They call them Stanalone Units (SA) because they also market DirecTivo units that are jointly licensed with DirecTV.
Check out the Tivo forum on AVS (www.avsforum.com) if you want more information.
D