With the bounties, Microsoft will finally start to fix these issues by plugging criminals instead of security holes.
Doesn't anyone at all see Microsoft becoming a government-like entity, when it neatly circumvents federal antitrust laws and it now starts handing out cash payments to bring in law-breakers?
When the NRA went to Columbine to insult and abuse the locals after their tragedy, they pretty much lost all the legitimacy they had for their viewpoint with me.
Defending the second amendment is one thing, I just don't think the NRA is a competent and legitimate organization. Certainly not a moral organization.
So basically if Symantec wants to add a filter to prevent little kids from looking at the NRA's website, well, then shit on the NRA. They deserve it.
Not really. In fact, the Cuban missile crisis brought the two powers dangerously close to nuclear exchange.
What's more, we now have to contend with former USSR nuke scientists sharing their know-how and fissile material with Muslim fundamentalists, who are *much* harder to keep an eye on.
Let's not get started about keeping track of the cesium navigation markers floating around the backwaters of Siberia, which makes excellent dirty bomb material.
This technology has done little good for the human race except make it cheaper and more efficient to vaporize people we don't like.
Nuclear scientists and "rationalist" apologists have been trying to paint a smiley face on this catastrophe since its inception.
From a cost/benefit analysis, we've lost considerably.
Sweet God I wish I could vote your post as a belligerent troll.
Electricity can do good and bad things. Electricity can fry political prisoners or provide overhead light so that people can study and educate themselves.
However, hydrogen bombs are design to kill millions of people in one go. There is no obvious good utility for an atomic weapon of any kind.
Even Teller expressed regret in 1990 that the initial use of atomic weaponry was not demonstrated on offshore Japan to encourage them to lay down their arms.
The role of scientist is inevitably a moral one because that scientist chooses what to study.
Atomic energy was not researched to develop a clean energy source but to invent a true weapon of mass destruction.
The rest of your post is a therefore a non sequitor and deserves no further comment.
Just as "fair use" rights do not mean DVD companies HAVE to make it possible for you to copy their discs..... it's a technical stumbling block, not a legal one.
Though OT, this is complete nonsense.
What was the whole DeCSS debacle about except to prevent copying by legal mechanisms?
What is interesting about Apple's approach is that it is saying nicely that it will not facilitate ownership transference. "So sorry, but it is not practical."
Even if there was a business model, ala Amazon's used bookstore, to do so, Apple is not interested. "So sorry, but there's no profit in it."
And you can bet that reverse engineering of iTunes files by a third party -- in order to facilitate legal transfer of ownership -- will be quickly smacked down by Apple's legal team.
I love the technology that Apple makes -- but this skates close to fascism with a smiley face.
Notice how cleverly Apple sneaks in how it will not assist in transferring the song's ownership.
Thus, it neatly avoids entangling itself in the 'first sale' right issue by making it entirely an issue of 'practicality'; without offering a mechanism to transfer the Apple ID, Apple locks you into ownership.
On the other hand, the information contained in those textbooks can and will be largely out-of-date in a decade, particularly where the fields of natural sciences and engineering are concerned.
Back in the days before the web, when I was in the K-12 system, I was handed textbooks that were decades old.
If I wanted to write a paper with current information, I would have to travel to the local college library, which had a budget sufficient to pay for today's periodicals and reference materials.
As a taxpayer, I wouldn't mind my tax dollars going to fund access to a textbook that can always grab current information from the web.
The web is here and children should be able to take advantage of that.
Granted, teachers need to be able to leverage this advantage but over time this will become the norm.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away! A-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Seriously though, this election will be won by a simple plurality. So if you vote for this Georgy clown, whoever, you'll make it fractionally easier for Ah-nold to get installed.
*sigh* Welcome to California, I guess.
Check your fruits and vegetables at the border but bring in the nuts!
Updating Windows is free but possible only so long as you keep the later versions of Microsoft IE (and all its incessant insecure baggage) around. So it is really a Faustian pact of sorts.
Moreover, since IE is no longer free in a post-XP world, its only a matter of time before Microsoft stops handing out free patches.
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For consumers, yes, that's true. But for organizations, there is usually a different support structure.
In any case, tech support will tell you to reinstall or talk to your local support provider, who will be told to reinstall. I doubt that SuSE could or would do any different.
I think I'd still like to see the numbers. I'm suspicious that it was a case of supporting a homegrown company more than a financial decision.
I thought the main reason that Munich went with SuSE is because of cost. But looking at the numbers, I don't see the savings:
Pricing
SuSE sells SLD only in combination with a maintenance programme that covers a minimum of five desktops. The five-desktop, one-year maintenance contract, along with an installation kit, runs at $598, with $99.80 for each additional desktop. A 10-client, one-year contract costs $998 with the installation kit and further discounts kick in for higher-volume customers.
As an education customer, I can buy a perpetual license of Windows XP Professional for $59 per CPU, and $15 for an installation disc. This is not a one-year contract, but a license that is owned for that CPU for its life.
I'm not a Microsoft fan (I'm a Mac person, mostly) but since governments get even better software pricing than education, I would be curious to know what Munich was offered to use Windows over Linux.
From the above description, I don't see SuSE's offering as competitively priced. (Even if it was a longer term license!)
Where am I wrong?
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Engineering an self-replicating organism to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere would be a bad idea. The biochemistry of plant life is based around sucking this out of the atmosphere for us. Maintaining a proper ratio of all the gases in the atmosphere is key to keeping all terrestial life systems from collapsing.
Perhaps instead of allowing a bacteria to kill off all vegetation on Earth, which in turn would put all animal life in a bad spot, we should perhaps focus more on our behaviors. Deforestation and fossil fuel consumption are the main reasons why this is a problem.
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With the bounties, Microsoft will finally start to fix these issues by plugging criminals instead of security holes.
Doesn't anyone at all see Microsoft becoming a government-like entity, when it neatly circumvents federal antitrust laws and it now starts handing out cash payments to bring in law-breakers?
When the NRA went to Columbine to insult and abuse the locals after their tragedy, they pretty much lost all the legitimacy they had for their viewpoint with me.
Defending the second amendment is one thing, I just don't think the NRA is a competent and legitimate organization. Certainly not a moral organization.
So basically if Symantec wants to add a filter to prevent little kids from looking at the NRA's website, well, then shit on the NRA. They deserve it.
-Alex
Apple gives you an incredibly powerful application for free, and you Windows losers bow and scrape to find any reason at all to whine and complain.
Just buy some fucking memory already.
-Alex
Seems like Sun is doing what it can to keep it that way too. What a shame...
-Alex
Too bad about the fellow getting burnt.
At least now we can watch someone sue the pants off of Nokia.
-Alex
Smokers chose to be slaves.
Here's another cool quotable:
It's hard to feel much pity for people who throw away their freedom.
-Alex
Not really. In fact, the Cuban missile crisis brought the two powers dangerously close to nuclear exchange.
What's more, we now have to contend with former USSR nuke scientists sharing their know-how and fissile material with Muslim fundamentalists, who are *much* harder to keep an eye on.
Let's not get started about keeping track of the cesium navigation markers floating around the backwaters of Siberia, which makes excellent dirty bomb material.
This technology has done little good for the human race except make it cheaper and more efficient to vaporize people we don't like.
Nuclear scientists and "rationalist" apologists have been trying to paint a smiley face on this catastrophe since its inception.
From a cost/benefit analysis, we've lost considerably.
-Alex
Sweet God I wish I could vote your post as a belligerent troll.
Electricity can do good and bad things. Electricity can fry political prisoners or provide overhead light so that people can study and educate themselves.
However, hydrogen bombs are design to kill millions of people in one go. There is no obvious good utility for an atomic weapon of any kind.
Even Teller expressed regret in 1990 that the initial use of atomic weaponry was not demonstrated on offshore Japan to encourage them to lay down their arms.
The role of scientist is inevitably a moral one because that scientist chooses what to study.
Atomic energy was not researched to develop a clean energy source but to invent a true weapon of mass destruction.
The rest of your post is a therefore a non sequitor and deserves no further comment.
Though OT, this is complete nonsense.
What was the whole DeCSS debacle about except to prevent copying by legal mechanisms?
What is interesting about Apple's approach is that it is saying nicely that it will not facilitate ownership transference. "So sorry, but it is not practical."
Even if there was a business model, ala Amazon's used bookstore, to do so, Apple is not interested. "So sorry, but there's no profit in it."
And you can bet that reverse engineering of iTunes files by a third party -- in order to facilitate legal transfer of ownership -- will be quickly smacked down by Apple's legal team.
I love the technology that Apple makes -- but this skates close to fascism with a smiley face.
-Alex
Notice how cleverly Apple sneaks in how it will not assist in transferring the song's ownership.
Thus, it neatly avoids entangling itself in the 'first sale' right issue by making it entirely an issue of 'practicality'; without offering a mechanism to transfer the Apple ID, Apple locks you into ownership.
-Alex
If they do not fit into a standard rack enclosure, I would be curious to learn what customization was required to rack the G5s.
(Especially seeing as a G5 XServe will probably be at least several months away -- at least until most of the desktop orders can be filled.)
-Alex
$1.2M could buy an awful lot of dead trees.
On the other hand, the information contained in those textbooks can and will be largely out-of-date in a decade, particularly where the fields of natural sciences and engineering are concerned.
Back in the days before the web, when I was in the K-12 system, I was handed textbooks that were decades old.
If I wanted to write a paper with current information, I would have to travel to the local college library, which had a budget sufficient to pay for today's periodicals and reference materials.
As a taxpayer, I wouldn't mind my tax dollars going to fund access to a textbook that can always grab current information from the web.
The web is here and children should be able to take advantage of that.
Granted, teachers need to be able to leverage this advantage but over time this will become the norm.
Embrace change, don't fear it.
-Alex
For a moment there, I thought the headline read: Apple Switches THC for hash...
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away! A-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Seriously though, this election will be won by a simple plurality. So if you vote for this Georgy clown, whoever, you'll make it fractionally easier for Ah-nold to get installed.
*sigh* Welcome to California, I guess.
Check your fruits and vegetables at the border but bring in the nuts!
So where do I send people to get infected?
-Alex
Penguins live on the other side of the earth -- they probably won't care too much about this.
Cheers,
Alex
Updating Windows is free but possible only so long as you keep the later versions of Microsoft IE (and all its incessant insecure baggage) around. So it is really a Faustian pact of sorts.
Moreover, since IE is no longer free in a post-XP world, its only a matter of time before Microsoft stops handing out free patches.
-Alex
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I wonder how difficult it would be to run OS X on a machine like that described in the article.
If a dual processor G5 is $3K and a 4-way IBM PPC970 workstation is $3500, it seems like a no-brainer over which one to pick.
-Alex
Where is the pull-down menu for modding this up to Delicious?
You're just bitter because you have to use IRIX.
For consumers, yes, that's true. But for organizations, there is usually a different support structure.
In any case, tech support will tell you to reinstall or talk to your local support provider, who will be told to reinstall. I doubt that SuSE could or would do any different.
I think I'd still like to see the numbers. I'm suspicious that it was a case of supporting a homegrown company more than a financial decision.
-Alex
I thought the main reason that Munich went with SuSE is because of cost. But looking at the numbers, I don't see the savings:
Pricing
SuSE sells SLD only in combination with a maintenance programme that covers a minimum of five desktops. The five-desktop, one-year maintenance contract, along with an installation kit, runs at $598, with $99.80 for each additional desktop. A 10-client, one-year contract costs $998 with the installation kit and further discounts kick in for higher-volume customers.
As an education customer, I can buy a perpetual license of Windows XP Professional for $59 per CPU, and $15 for an installation disc. This is not a one-year contract, but a license that is owned for that CPU for its life.
I'm not a Microsoft fan (I'm a Mac person, mostly) but since governments get even better software pricing than education, I would be curious to know what Munich was offered to use Windows over Linux.
From the above description, I don't see SuSE's offering as competitively priced. (Even if it was a longer term license!)
Where am I wrong?
Engineering an self-replicating organism to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere would be a bad idea. The biochemistry of plant life is based around sucking this out of the atmosphere for us. Maintaining a proper ratio of all the gases in the atmosphere is key to keeping all terrestial life systems from collapsing.
Perhaps instead of allowing a bacteria to kill off all vegetation on Earth, which in turn would put all animal life in a bad spot, we should perhaps focus more on our behaviors. Deforestation and fossil fuel consumption are the main reasons why this is a problem.
Doesn't this article read like a really cheesy episode of "Law and Order"?