The real reason is that having two+ women would obviously lower the women's expectations of being able to lead the man around by the nose while at the same time they would be in competition with each other.
At the same time it would teach the man to ignore more of the drivel...
Obviously MS has an in with msNBC but the choice to force the use of a relatively uncommon 'Flash wannabe' is close to Vista marketing tactics.
If given a choice any web designer would choose Flash or just go straight for wmv/mpg/avi. The only reason to choose an unadopted distribution method is because of the arrogance of the distributor.
Wife wanted an old Volvo wagon to haul the dog and stuff in it. Looked on ebay, Auto Trader and Yahoo. There isn't a single Volvo wagon with a manual trans west of the Mississippi!
BTW - Most of the major car rental agencies will rent cars with a manual gearbox... ... In Europe!
Otherwise they'd ticket people who fail to yield, make illegal lane changes and tailgate...
Each of those is a ticketable offense, as is the catch-all "reckless driving". They're just quite a bit more difficult to spot.
The point is that the police departments make no effort to enforce them. They enforce two things: Speed and Intoxication.
It is hard to argue with drunk driving. Having a moving object that ways 3000+ lbs cruising with no brains in control is a good use of traffic enforcement.
But speed?
Everyone "Knows" that speed is dangerous. The problem is that the facts don't support what you think you "Know". Lets try hard statistics (that they don't tell you because they aren't sexy).
- 80% of fatal traffic accidents happen at 45mph or less. (We spend most of our time in SoCal a 5mph on the freeway)
- The California Highway Patrol used to have a list of the top 20 root causes of accidents.
#4 on the list with 16 percent was driving too slow!
#16 on the list with a fraction of one percent was driving to fast.
- In the mid 80s the NHTSA commissioned a report to show how many lives 55mph saved. The report was delayed 18 months because they didn't get the results they wanted. After massaging/spinning the statistics for a year and a half the best they could come up with is if they ignored the vast improvements in auto safety each life that they saved cost 150 man/years of extra time on the road. An analysis of the data showed that the safest speed to travel was 10 to 15 mph faster then the flow of traffic. (Car and Driver had a great analysis of it)
Now if you consider the vast improvements in auto and tire safety it becomes obvious that the actual risk from driving went UP because of the 55mph limit. The 1st obvious reason is because if you are crawling along at a speed that doesn't require that you pay attention people won't pay attention. (Refer back to the bit about moving objects with no brains controlling them...) A second reason is they had bred a generation of drivers that were unsafe a 55 because they had learned "aiming skills" instead of "driving skills".
Traffic enforcement is about revenue. Fear a government that has become so disconnected that it thinks you are its source of income instead of thinking that it is supposed to serve you.
Oh and back to the original point of this thread...
Ben Franklin would have a conniption. The United States was the land of freedom. If it wants to become that again then it needs to ALWAYS error on the side of freedom. You think these things make you safer? More secure? Security is a FEELING. They are protecting you from things that aren't a credible threat. The government can NEVER make you safe unless they lock you in a closet. You are mortal!!! Life has a 100% mortality rate. Being safe is never the point unless your eyes are closed. LIVING is the point. Go out and live and don't worry. You might experience some things that have a little risk involved with them. If you do you will probably smile because you are LIVING!
... and having generally shitty surge protection and power filtering.
I really don't like to consider an APC UPS a power filter. I just don't trust it, especially the desktop models...
If I am seriously protecting something (like my home theater) I put an ISObar in front of it.
I have had hundreds of APC UPSes that never had a problem. The one that ate my server just happened to be the one for the core database running a mail order company... 14 days before Christmas. At that point we were doing $90k a day.
The reason I remember the exact minute it failed was I had my bag in hand and was walking toward the door when the server alarm went off.
18 hours later I found out from the backup software vendor that there was a bug in the software that meant it wouldn't restore any rights information so the server configuration was totally lost.
The backup that saved us was a DOS batch file that copied everything down to a PC. 43 hours later I was able to actually go home.
After the blowup they finally approved the request for a secondary server.
Ok back on subject
A UPS isn't even a panacea... I had a server lose 3 out of 4 HDs in a 4 hour period. (The 3rd drive went at 4:57 PM Thursday Dec 11th 1997. Not that I would remember...) When I looked at the service history on it it had been losing drives for 8 months at an accelerating rate.
Turns out that the 3000va rack mount wonder UPS from that big, well known vendor was the problem. The switching unit in it was sending spikes into the equipment.
They wouldn't warranty it so I ended up putting a Triplite ISObar surge suppressor between it and the server in our test environment and it was in service for years after that.
We just slashdotted his life! (Trying to figure out why I think it is so funny but it just cracks me up...)
Meh. He's selling his current living conditions. He'll continue to live; if he's happy, he's still "winning," just like any of us. I'm not losing just because someone has more stuff than me (see George Carlin on that). BTW- It will be hard to see George since this weekend...
The OEMs are still going to supply computers loaded with XP. The license for Vista Business gives you the right to 'downgrade' to XP Pro. You can order a computer loaded with XP and it comes with a license for Vista.
We switched over to the Vista licensed option of the Dell Optiplex almost a month ago. Dell will be shipping with XP for at least a year and the downgrade rights extend into 2010.
There is no issue except that I am sure Microsoft is reporting this as a sale of Vista instead of a failure of Vista...
I read an article in the last year that talked about using liquid hydrogen to cool super conducting transmission lines and also being used as an infrastructure to distribute hydrogen for use in cars, fuel cells, etc...
A combination of communication combined with punishment is probably the best choice in this case.
A short and sweet note clearly explaining the problem should solve the problem...
... if you wrap it around a brick and carefully place it part way through the windshield.
(The brick will help insure that the wind doesn't blow the note away!)
Large computer companies are always interested in any major market segment. Apple hasn't handed Balmer anything though. Apple is still small compared to Microsoft and unless Apple can ship a network centric product it won't take the business end of the market.
The real thing is that Microsoft has become so disconnected and arrogant that it has put itself in a position that its customers are willing (and wanting) to find any viable alternative to their products.
I really believe that Microsoft believes their own stories. If you go to a computer/electronics store you won't find a choice between computers with Vista and XP. You will find Vista rammed down the consumer's throat. I think they really believe that the customers are really choosing Vista over XP even though they have no choice.
As far as businesses: The company I work for purchases lots of computers from Dell (100+ a month) and last week I changed our purchasing from ordering only machines with XP licenses to only ordering systems with Vista licenses... ... But the truth is a little different. The large OEMs are selling computers with Vista Business licenses but are loading Windows XP on them as the downgrade rights allow. We have no intention of starting to even look at actually using Vista for more then a year.
I'm certain that Microsoft will lie to themselves and tally this up as a successful sale of Vista instead of a customer who wants no part of it but is going to pick up the license for the same price and hedge his bets.
When a company lies to itself and loses focus on trying to meet customer needs it is walking the road to failure. The only question is if there is a David out there that can capitalize on Goliath's faltering. (Can Linux pull a major rabit out of their hat? I just don't see it...)
Your all looking at the wrong server. (not to mention RTFA...) The article isn't talking about medical records systems or doctor/hospital systems. The abstract clearly says it is a court system serving up civil case records. Health care systems? Huh???
The server http://www.riverside.courts.ca.gov/ is just the main directory for all of the court's web presence. You did notice that there aren't any personal documents there didn't you?
The court records are served up from: http://public-access.riverside.courts.ca.gov/
The Microsoft tags are conspicuously absent. In fact the cleanliness of the headers would lead me to believe it was some sort *nix box. It doesn't make a difference because the problem isn't the OS.
The problem is the data that they are serving up. They have a legal requirement to clean the records of tax ID numbers so this will probably be cleaned up now that they have been publicly embarassed.
Maybe someone should tell MADD that they would probably have better luck getting their message out if they didn't take positions that are somewhere between sophomoric and insane.
If they really think that people are so completely unable to distinguish games from reality then they should understand that it means that people are so stupid that they can't be educated to stop drinking and driving anyway.
There is the question of if the information in the article is even accurate to begin with. I searched http://support.microsoft.com/ for 3 of the KB articles that it listed, (KB950719, KB950720, & KB950721) and none of them showed up. Google only showed links back to that article...
I would like to popularize a term:
"Civilized to death"
"Civilized" is an illusion. It is a consensual illusionary construct of your social conditioning. We do need some sort of social structure so we can all get along, but when you start to think that there is some innate 'higher truth' in your view of what is civilized then you are stepping into fantasy world.
100 years ago we didn't have the weird idea that eating an animal was a tragedy. We weren't less civilized then either. (Watch some TV. After that if you still think we were less 'civilized' then you need to get off your high horse so you can be trampled...) We just had different social norms and we weren't so divorced from our food supply.
Hmmm... I could clone my own tissue for sale and put up a giant sign that reads "Eat Me".
Might be worth it. You could market it to help settle divorce desputes...
I have met more then one person who is allergic to animal protein. They could eat eggs but if it was cooked in bacon grease it would cause instant hives.
(One did say that the only form of meat that she did miss was bacon...)
I fail to see this as PETA doing something constructive. They have managed to divorce themselves from the natural order of things so far that they don't realize that there is such a thing as a food chain.
I think we need a good old fashioned coliseum. We can send PETA to the lions! (Christians are so 'last millennium'!) Maybe they will recall the way nature works as the lions snack away on entrails...
Instead of a movie they need to watch cable. Force them to watch the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet nature shows.
If they are at all awake they will either realize that the whole world is designed around the idea of one thing eating another. (Or they might decide that God screwed up as they watch the lion take down that gazelle...)
Remember if they weren't intended to be eaten they wouldn't have been made out of meat!
Social engineering requires some sort of social interaction. Just because it is a human involved with an action it doesn't make it a social action.
If a guy accidentally drops a $5 bill so I can pick it up off the street there is no social component. If someone distracts him so he drops the 5 then there is a social component. Looking at an inanimate object is not a social behavior.
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The real reason is that having two+ women would obviously lower the women's expectations of being able to lead the man around by the nose while at the same time they would be in competition with each other.
At the same time it would teach the man to ignore more of the drivel...
Obviously MS has an in with msNBC but the choice to force the use of a relatively uncommon 'Flash wannabe' is close to Vista marketing tactics.
If given a choice any web designer would choose Flash or just go straight for wmv/mpg/avi. The only reason to choose an unadopted distribution method is because of the arrogance of the distributor.
I think they outlawed sticks in California.
... In Europe!
Wife wanted an old Volvo wagon to haul the dog and stuff in it. Looked on ebay, Auto Trader and Yahoo. There isn't a single Volvo wagon with a manual trans west of the Mississippi!
BTW - Most of the major car rental agencies will rent cars with a manual gearbox...
Otherwise they'd ticket people who fail to yield, make illegal lane changes and tailgate...
Each of those is a ticketable offense, as is the catch-all "reckless driving". They're just quite a bit more difficult to spot.
The point is that the police departments make no effort to enforce them. They enforce two things: Speed and Intoxication.
It is hard to argue with drunk driving. Having a moving object that ways 3000+ lbs cruising with no brains in control is a good use of traffic enforcement.
But speed?
Everyone "Knows" that speed is dangerous. The problem is that the facts don't support what you think you "Know". Lets try hard statistics (that they don't tell you because they aren't sexy).
- 80% of fatal traffic accidents happen at 45mph or less. (We spend most of our time in SoCal a 5mph on the freeway)
- The California Highway Patrol used to have a list of the top 20 root causes of accidents.
#4 on the list with 16 percent was driving too slow!
#16 on the list with a fraction of one percent was driving to fast.
- In the mid 80s the NHTSA commissioned a report to show how many lives 55mph saved. The report was delayed 18 months because they didn't get the results they wanted. After massaging/spinning the statistics for a year and a half the best they could come up with is if they ignored the vast improvements in auto safety each life that they saved cost 150 man/years of extra time on the road. An analysis of the data showed that the safest speed to travel was 10 to 15 mph faster then the flow of traffic. (Car and Driver had a great analysis of it)
Now if you consider the vast improvements in auto and tire safety it becomes obvious that the actual risk from driving went UP because of the 55mph limit. The 1st obvious reason is because if you are crawling along at a speed that doesn't require that you pay attention people won't pay attention. (Refer back to the bit about moving objects with no brains controlling them...) A second reason is they had bred a generation of drivers that were unsafe a 55 because they had learned "aiming skills" instead of "driving skills".
Traffic enforcement is about revenue. Fear a government that has become so disconnected that it thinks you are its source of income instead of thinking that it is supposed to serve you.
Oh and back to the original point of this thread...
Ben Franklin would have a conniption. The United States was the land of freedom. If it wants to become that again then it needs to ALWAYS error on the side of freedom. You think these things make you safer? More secure? Security is a FEELING. They are protecting you from things that aren't a credible threat. The government can NEVER make you safe unless they lock you in a closet. You are mortal!!! Life has a 100% mortality rate. Being safe is never the point unless your eyes are closed. LIVING is the point. Go out and live and don't worry. You might experience some things that have a little risk involved with them. If you do you will probably smile because you are LIVING!
. . .
... and having generally shitty surge protection and power filtering.
I really don't like to consider an APC UPS a power filter. I just don't trust it, especially the desktop models...
If I am seriously protecting something (like my home theater) I put an ISObar in front of it.
I have had hundreds of APC UPSes that never had a problem. The one that ate my server just happened to be the one for the core database running a mail order company... 14 days before Christmas. At that point we were doing $90k a day.
The reason I remember the exact minute it failed was I had my bag in hand and was walking toward the door when the server alarm went off.
18 hours later I found out from the backup software vendor that there was a bug in the software that meant it wouldn't restore any rights information so the server configuration was totally lost.
The backup that saved us was a DOS batch file that copied everything down to a PC. 43 hours later I was able to actually go home.
After the blowup they finally approved the request for a secondary server.
Less filling but tastes great!
Ok back on subject
A UPS isn't even a panacea... I had a server lose 3 out of 4 HDs in a 4 hour period. (The 3rd drive went at 4:57 PM Thursday Dec 11th 1997. Not that I would remember...) When I looked at the service history on it it had been losing drives for 8 months at an accelerating rate.
Turns out that the 3000va rack mount wonder UPS from that big, well known vendor was the problem. The switching unit in it was sending spikes into the equipment.
They wouldn't warranty it so I ended up putting a Triplite ISObar surge suppressor between it and the server in our test environment and it was in service for years after that.
Never trust any piece of equipment...
I work with real boobs...
I have to see them.
Just what we need.
More complex porn...
(Trying to figure out why I think it is so funny but it just cracks me up...) Meh. He's selling his current living conditions. He'll continue to live; if he's happy, he's still "winning," just like any of us. I'm not losing just because someone has more stuff than me (see George Carlin on that). BTW- It will be hard to see George since this weekend...
I was just disappointed that it didn't bounce up and down while making all the wound up R2-D2 sounds.
It was more like R2-D2 kicking back...
(maybe some smoke coming out?)
The OEMs are still going to supply computers loaded with XP. The license for Vista Business gives you the right to 'downgrade' to XP Pro. You can order a computer loaded with XP and it comes with a license for Vista.
We switched over to the Vista licensed option of the Dell Optiplex almost a month ago. Dell will be shipping with XP for at least a year and the downgrade rights extend into 2010.
There is no issue except that I am sure Microsoft is reporting this as a sale of Vista instead of a failure of Vista...
I read an article in the last year that talked about using liquid hydrogen to cool super conducting transmission lines and also being used as an infrastructure to distribute hydrogen for use in cars, fuel cells, etc...
A combination of communication combined with punishment is probably the best choice in this case.
... if you wrap it around a brick and carefully place it part way through the windshield.
(The brick will help insure that the wind doesn't blow the note away!)
A short and sweet note clearly explaining the problem should solve the problem...
No one is thinking mainstream enough.
Think Bart Simpson getting throttled by Homer. Matt Groening is going down!
(The Simpsons... Now that is a pathway to a sick porn addiction!)
Large computer companies are always interested in any major market segment. Apple hasn't handed Balmer anything though. Apple is still small compared to Microsoft and unless Apple can ship a network centric product it won't take the business end of the market.
... But the truth is a little different. The large OEMs are selling computers with Vista Business licenses but are loading Windows XP on them as the downgrade rights allow. We have no intention of starting to even look at actually using Vista for more then a year.
The real thing is that Microsoft has become so disconnected and arrogant that it has put itself in a position that its customers are willing (and wanting) to find any viable alternative to their products.
I really believe that Microsoft believes their own stories. If you go to a computer/electronics store you won't find a choice between computers with Vista and XP. You will find Vista rammed down the consumer's throat. I think they really believe that the customers are really choosing Vista over XP even though they have no choice.
As far as businesses: The company I work for purchases lots of computers from Dell (100+ a month) and last week I changed our purchasing from ordering only machines with XP licenses to only ordering systems with Vista licenses...
I'm certain that Microsoft will lie to themselves and tally this up as a successful sale of Vista instead of a customer who wants no part of it but is going to pick up the license for the same price and hedge his bets.
When a company lies to itself and loses focus on trying to meet customer needs it is walking the road to failure. The only question is if there is a David out there that can capitalize on Goliath's faltering. (Can Linux pull a major rabit out of their hat? I just don't see it...)
Your all looking at the wrong server. (not to mention RTFA...) The article isn't talking about medical records systems or doctor/hospital systems. The abstract clearly says it is a court system serving up civil case records. Health care systems? Huh???
The server http://www.riverside.courts.ca.gov/ is just the main directory for all of the court's web presence. You did notice that there aren't any personal documents there didn't you?
The court records are served up from: http://public-access.riverside.courts.ca.gov/
The Microsoft tags are conspicuously absent. In fact the cleanliness of the headers would lead me to believe it was some sort *nix box. It doesn't make a difference because the problem isn't the OS.
The problem is the data that they are serving up. They have a legal requirement to clean the records of tax ID numbers so this will probably be cleaned up now that they have been publicly embarassed.
Maybe someone should tell MADD that they would probably have better luck getting their message out if they didn't take positions that are somewhere between sophomoric and insane.
If they really think that people are so completely unable to distinguish games from reality then they should understand that it means that people are so stupid that they can't be educated to stop drinking and driving anyway.
There is the question of if the information in the article is even accurate to begin with. I searched http://support.microsoft.com/ for 3 of the KB articles that it listed, (KB950719, KB950720, & KB950721) and none of them showed up. Google only showed links back to that article...
The question on my mind is, where do the nutrients necessary to grow meat vats come from?
The nutrients will come from the large chemical factories that will displace vast portions of natural habitat.(Thank god for civilized progress!)
I would like to popularize a term:
"Civilized to death"
"Civilized" is an illusion. It is a consensual illusionary construct of your social conditioning. We do need some sort of social structure so we can all get along, but when you start to think that there is some innate 'higher truth' in your view of what is civilized then you are stepping into fantasy world.
100 years ago we didn't have the weird idea that eating an animal was a tragedy. We weren't less civilized then either. (Watch some TV. After that if you still think we were less 'civilized' then you need to get off your high horse so you can be trampled...) We just had different social norms and we weren't so divorced from our food supply.
"Here is that pound of flesh you ordered..."
I have met more then one person who is allergic to animal protein. They could eat eggs but if it was cooked in bacon grease it would cause instant hives.
(One did say that the only form of meat that she did miss was bacon...)
I fail to see this as PETA doing something constructive. They have managed to divorce themselves from the natural order of things so far that they don't realize that there is such a thing as a food chain.
I think we need a good old fashioned coliseum. We can send PETA to the lions! (Christians are so 'last millennium'!) Maybe they will recall the way nature works as the lions snack away on entrails...
Instead of a movie they need to watch cable. Force them to watch the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet nature shows.
If they are at all awake they will either realize that the whole world is designed around the idea of one thing eating another. (Or they might decide that God screwed up as they watch the lion take down that gazelle...)
Remember if they weren't intended to be eaten they wouldn't have been made out of meat!
Check out "social" on dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social
Social engineering requires some sort of social interaction. Just because it is a human involved with an action it doesn't make it a social action.
If a guy accidentally drops a $5 bill so I can pick it up off the street there is no social component. If someone distracts him so he drops the 5 then there is a social component. Looking at an inanimate object is not a social behavior.