The goal of a corporation in capitalism is to maximize their profit. They would have to invest massively in developing and maintaining a OS and wouldn't get much more revenue, so what's the point?
Installing Ubuntu from within Windows
ubuntu-install.exe... nuff said... might not make it though... it is listed as 'dangling' which means it can't be scheduled or has circular dependancies... no idea why it can't be made to work.
Don't whether that's a good idea. But imagine the possibilities that such an exe-file would have as a spam-email attachement: "Mark Shuttlewort wants you to click on this link." or "Bigger hard drive, better performance! Click below!"
They might just install a rootkit like software on your PC when you are away. Like they would do with your phone since forty years. They are not very transparent about the technical side and the idiotic bosh of tech-illiterate politicians blurs the whole thing even more.
What is known is this:
-They want to install some kind of software on your computer.
-This can be done remotely or manually. (And there are statements that they want to install it manually.)
-They then want to retrieve information from your computer.
-For this they need at least access to your hard disk and your internet communication
-To use the information they must get it from your computer to one of their computers.
-And thus some channel to get the information out of your PC.
Figure out yourself what technical solutions my do the job.
Their main line of argumentation is: we used to bug their phone, now they use the internet thus we now need to somehow bug their computer. This is not allowed yet, so we must change the law and then develop a solution that will do the job.
And that's definitively not funny. States tend to extend their power as much as people let them do so and Germans have several times in history failed to oppose this tendency. I'm saying that as a holder of a German passport. As far as I can see Germany is currently not worse than the USA or the UK, but some politicians in Germany long for the possibilities the US government currently has or even for more.
They will come through you house door, not your firewall and install it manually. (At least that's what the police says, the politicians maunder about attachments and the like.) But, whether it will be platform independent and thus run on your FreeBSD Desktop is an unanswered question.
When you strip off all that crackhead talk of the politicians, the police wants a mean to bug your computer just like your phone. It is technically feasible and not crazy. But as far as I am concerned it's politically wrong.
(btw there was a talk about this topic at the CCC's hacker camp this summer.)
The whole article is totally bizarre and buzzword populated begging for attention. Not only will it predict the actions of nearly every bunch of lunatics it will also "display data in graphical, 3-D and other forms that can be quickly grasped".
Please! We have a highly complex situation, with a lot of different agents and a long genesis, and literally millions of different contextual factors influencing the situation and they take all this munch and crunch it a little with fancy buzzword concepts and put it in a pie chart?
This is an insultingly brazen self-adulation.
While the software ultimately could save millions of lives,...
I think it shows how ambiguously the whole community feels.
As far as I am concerned we should see spammers as opponent and respecting opponents is a good thing. They have done some clever moves over the last years and I still wait for a good answer from the community. I wouldn't expect much useful from companies like Microsoft here. I think the spammers utilize much of the best concepts that are around and I think an answer can only be a community driven (i.e. open source) decentralized countermove.
http://www.okopipi.org/ that someone already mentioned above (or below), is a starting point. I think projects like these will lead to more useful things than just spam-fighting and I hope more people would devote time to this field.
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What do you expect someone to do, answer every mail that comes with an attachment with "Sorry I couldn't read your email, it was obsolete, it contained an attachment."?
Mini-ITX form factor is 6.7" x 6.7", this one has a 4.7" x 4.5" (x 1.5) case.
So it's closer to Nano-ITX with 4.7" x 4.7" but this one is even smaller. I don't know which size the motherboard actually has, but if it's an ITX it can only be Pico-ITX but it's probably some embedded computing form factor like ETX.
English is actually a good example why the mathematical approach is inappropriate. Your step between Beowulf and Chaucer is the crucial. In this period the linguistic situation in Britain became rather complex, while the vast majority of people continued to speak Anglo-Saxon (a West Germanic language of the Anglo-Frisian branch), the Norman nobility spoke Anglo-Norman, while the clergy used Latin. (Not to forget the different celtic tongues used by the people in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland.) All this produced a contact situation in which social (prestige) factors and political developments influenced the linguistic "evolution".
Of course one can model any change of state over time using a mathematical evolutionary approach, but it won't help in understanding what actually happened. Current mathematical approaches to language change are much to over-simplified to discover anything significant, but if it makes them happy, I guess it won't hurt anyone.
Thanks, a really interesting link, and definitely a more interesting approach (e.g. "Learning to Estimate Potential Territory in the Game of Go") than a brute force approach.
(Now, I'm sittin' here reading this AI/go stuff, instead of reading slashdot - which I actually should do in order to avoid working on the conference paper that is due on Friday. Thanks.)
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but exhaustive search just seems like a waste of time and effort.
...and is just awfully boring. The whole chess/go playing thing, as far as I am concerned, is a mean to get new intelligent solutions to decision making/inference/... problems.
A not so successful program that would actually incorporate traditional strategic concepts would be an interesting solution. For example, if a program would actually be able to handle a concept like aji, roughly (latent) potential - now, that would be elegant, that would be interesting.
Black Pepper (or White Pepper) I guess, except in a China restaurant, where you would probably call it Sichuan Pepper, which again is a very different plant. And on some occasions you'll have Cayenne Pepper , which in turn is made from a kind of chili, and thus is also called chili pepper.
Actually, pepper just means "that hot stuff on the table and/or food" and is not very helpful, when talking about plant species.
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So you think they would go the Ubuntu way, I say they would go the OS X way.
But neither of it will happen.
What would they gain from that?
The goal of a corporation in capitalism is to maximize their profit. They would have to invest massively in developing and maintaining a OS and wouldn't get much more revenue, so what's the point?
Don't whether that's a good idea.
But imagine the possibilities that such an exe-file would have as a spam-email attachement: "Mark Shuttlewort wants you to click on this link." or "Bigger hard drive, better performance! Click below!"
trolling is a stupid sport. copy&past trolling is even more boring.
let me be the first to say: "old post!"
Pffffff, without a few thousand dollar tube amplifier no compensation.
Home theatre. No tubes? Lame!
No, no, no, wrong - imagine a botnet of those.
You could even go phishing with such a botnet.
They might just install a rootkit like software on your PC when you are away. Like they would do with your phone since forty years. They are not very transparent about the technical side and the idiotic bosh of tech-illiterate politicians blurs the whole thing even more.
What is known is this:
-They want to install some kind of software on your computer.
-This can be done remotely or manually. (And there are statements that they want to install it manually.)
-They then want to retrieve information from your computer.
-For this they need at least access to your hard disk and your internet communication
-To use the information they must get it from your computer to one of their computers.
-And thus some channel to get the information out of your PC.
Figure out yourself what technical solutions my do the job.
Their main line of argumentation is: we used to bug their phone, now they use the internet thus we now need to somehow bug their computer. This is not allowed yet, so we must change the law and then develop a solution that will do the job.
Shouldn't that be:
In Nazi Germany IBM computers kill you.
And that's definitively not funny. States tend to extend their power as much as people let them do so and Germans have several times in history failed to oppose this tendency. I'm saying that as a holder of a German passport. As far as I can see Germany is currently not worse than the USA or the UK, but some politicians in Germany long for the possibilities the US government currently has or even for more.
That's why the campaign against this trojan and the telecommunications data retention law is called Stasi 2.0
(The man on the logo is the Minister of the Interior Schäuble.)
They will come through you house door, not your firewall and install it manually. (At least that's what the police says, the politicians maunder about attachments and the like.) But, whether it will be platform independent and thus run on your FreeBSD Desktop is an unanswered question.
When you strip off all that crackhead talk of the politicians, the police wants a mean to bug your computer just like your phone. It is technically feasible and not crazy. But as far as I am concerned it's politically wrong.
(btw there was a talk about this topic at the CCC's hacker camp this summer.)
I second that.
The whole article is totally bizarre and buzzword populated begging for attention. Not only will it predict the actions of nearly every bunch of lunatics it will also "display data in graphical, 3-D and other forms that can be quickly grasped".
Please! We have a highly complex situation, with a lot of different agents and a long genesis, and literally millions of different contextual factors influencing the situation and they take all this munch and crunch it a little with fancy buzzword concepts and put it in a pie chart?
This is an insultingly brazen self-adulation.
Ok, I changed my mind I'm gonna die laughing.
It actually is:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/
But better to miss the key, than sending a whole university to Abu Dhabi (UAE).
I have to go back to my flipping work....
I think it shows how ambiguously the whole community feels.
As far as I am concerned we should see spammers as opponent and respecting opponents is a good thing. They have done some clever moves over the last years and I still wait for a good answer from the community. I wouldn't expect much useful from companies like Microsoft here. I think the spammers utilize much of the best concepts that are around and I think an answer can only be a community driven (i.e. open source) decentralized countermove.
http://www.okopipi.org/ that someone already mentioned above (or below), is a starting point. I think projects like these will lead to more useful things than just spam-fighting and I hope more people would devote time to this field.
just my 2cents
Ok if you want a pro Vista comment, here you go:
AFAIK, Vista hasn't killed anybody, yet.
Ok, can we now go on discuss stuff that matters?
Yeah, they could sell them on eBay.
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Great, the next cracker related headlines will be about some Chinese kiddie who breaks into a copier in a remote corridor of the DoD. Yay, Xerox.
But this list thing actually shows, that the summary:
is totally bogus.
On the other side, this could be a wonderful Clippy revenant:"It looks like you're scanning a secret..."
What do you expect someone to do, answer every mail that comes with an attachment with "Sorry I couldn't read your email, it was obsolete, it contained an attachment."?
You only send emails I presume.
Mini-ITX form factor is 6.7" x 6.7", this one has a 4.7" x 4.5" (x 1.5) case.
So it's closer to Nano-ITX with 4.7" x 4.7" but this one is even smaller. I don't know which size the motherboard actually has, but if it's an ITX it can only be Pico-ITX but it's probably some embedded computing form factor like ETX.
robotic insectoid black micro helicopters!
/* puts on his tin-foil head */
/*screams*/ with frickin' laser beams ...aaaaah!
English is actually a good example why the mathematical approach is inappropriate. Your step between Beowulf and Chaucer is the crucial. In this period the linguistic situation in Britain became rather complex, while the vast majority of people continued to speak Anglo-Saxon (a West Germanic language of the Anglo-Frisian branch), the Norman nobility spoke Anglo-Norman, while the clergy used Latin. (Not to forget the different celtic tongues used by the people in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland.) All this produced a contact situation in which social (prestige) factors and political developments influenced the linguistic "evolution".
Of course one can model any change of state over time using a mathematical evolutionary approach, but it won't help in understanding what actually happened. Current mathematical approaches to language change are much to over-simplified to discover anything significant, but if it makes them happy, I guess it won't hurt anyone.
Yes they can, but they think it means Redmond's Frickin' own Canon. And in that 552 reads:
And as far as I can see they implemented their RFC coherently in every single product, not only hotmail.
Thanks, a really interesting link, and definitely a more interesting approach (e.g. "Learning to Estimate Potential Territory in the Game of Go") than a brute force approach.
(Now, I'm sittin' here reading this AI/go stuff, instead of reading slashdot - which I actually should do in order to avoid working on the conference paper that is due on Friday. Thanks.)
...and is just awfully boring. The whole chess/go playing thing, as far as I am concerned, is a mean to get new intelligent solutions to decision making/inference/... problems.
A not so successful program that would actually incorporate traditional strategic concepts would be an interesting solution. For example, if a program would actually be able to handle a concept like aji, roughly (latent) potential - now, that would be elegant, that would be interesting.
Black Pepper (or White Pepper) I guess, except in a China restaurant, where you would probably call it Sichuan Pepper, which again is a very different plant. And on some occasions you'll have Cayenne Pepper , which in turn is made from a kind of chili, and thus is also called chili pepper.
Actually, pepper just means "that hot stuff on the table and/or food" and is not very helpful, when talking about plant species.
Ok stop it. Emacs/vi and GPL/BSD are bad enough if you go on like this we will also have a Fender/Gibson flamewar. What's next Beatles/Rolling Stones?