written in WordPerfect (the format was available, if not quite open).
We wrote the documentation first and it was great. That was when I learned to hate Smalltalk's layout, so I changed its pretty printer to make some sense and used that instead to indent the output.
Think of it as a M$ key-logger, file downloader and as nasty a virus as you Never wanna get (okay Marburg & Ebola are worse.)
Think of your mother (and some evangelist,) walking in on you and a 'friend' as you're doing the deed.
Now worry about what Bill G.'s got in mind: "You WILL update to this new windiows 'eXcreTa!' won't you?"
Come to think of it, Bill'll have all your credit card info so you may find that tour computer has jus ordered the latest 'upgrade' for you, and a whole lot of crap you'd never listen to on Microsoft new music site...
I just hates the damn whole lot of em. With their Maginot line and their people not bein' properly mortified when Chiraq's wife & mistress both show up at his funeral and runnin'und nekkid under their clothes.
Vulnerability is a structural defect. If you write software that's invulnerale it won't get brought down by an attack. That's all that means however. Nobody will have heard of it.
Popularity is a question of marketing having NOTHING to do with quality. You can sell hamburgers to vegetarians if you know how to market stuff (im)properly.
but for the remaining 90% of the planet, its a big deal because they won't have to be limited (or sold an unplayable disk,) by the manufacturers.
Your argument doesn't cut any ice apart from those lucky enough to have been born in the right place.
Ever try to use an appliance bought in Europe (220 volts) in America (110 volts)? How about, ever had to suport two Vvltage standards?
That's a problem for the Chinese and everybody else who works in a global marketplace. Its ineffficient and leads to duplication of resurces.
For them both, its a win because, for the consumer it means not discovering thay the shiny new disk they just paid for, that said it what ever format it was, film or other data, was actually a skeet target.
The so called problems of collecting the data aren't problems at all.
While we were napping while watching the Gummint for Big Brother tendencies, private companies (ChoicePoint, the 3 credit reporting bureaus et alia,) have taken over the duties of collecting the data.
The thousands of databases are for sale in an amalgamation of unregulated, internet-enabled market place. At an unprecedented pace and in unexpected ways every little detail of your lives is open to scruteny. (For more details read "No Place To Hide", by Robert O'Harrow, Jr., Publisher: Free Press, (2005), ISBN: 0-7432-5480-5 )
And what's more, these companies KNOW that their data is unreliable and has errors but they sell it anyway under the principle of "its close enough for Gummint work".
And its all legal because the private sector is NOT subject to the constraints that we put Gummint through.
It also frees the Gummint from Freedom of Information rules since they are merely 'using and then tossing away the files'. The Gumming is NOT keeping tabs on you, the database aggregators are.
This means that you can get caught up in a cascade of errors which start of with some fool dumpster diving behind a store and end up with you facing prison for something that was done without your knowledge. Along the way, your credit history has been wrecked, your security clearances may have been revoked, you may have been fired and people may have been hurt of killed by somebody using your name.
Because they aren't liable and because our criminal agencies are still tied up into jurisdictions, unlike the data aggregators, identity thieves are taking full advantage of the wealth of the gullible.
To be fair, you are only gullible if you thing that it can't happen to you. Otherwise, you are playing roulete like the rest of us. Or you may have discovered that a generalized and unfocused paranioa is the one of the legacies of the Internet.
It CAN happen to anyone. The mechanism is an untargeted attack on information, yours and everyone elses' out there.
It may have already happened to you and, because of the legal to aggregator jurisdictional assymetries, you may well be and truly screwed.
The details are leaking because the aggregators aren't water tight about data coming out (identity theft en masse) any more that they are about data coming in (identity theft being committed one datum at a time by one thief.)
Repeat the second scenario X million times and you begin to see the scale of the data aggregator's problems. They suffer one theft of thousands of records. And a million people suffer the loss of one record, their own.
The assymetry means that potentially, you're getting screwed over by someone you're unlikely to ever meet but you'll be paying for the fine vacation he had, the new stereo he bought, all the things you would have wished that you could have afforded but now never will because of some psychopath with your ID and an easy scam to pull.
I used to get their mail-box cloggers until I got a recent wind-fall. Now there's nary a peep.
They must be set to investigate accounts across the planet for accounts with a given range of average balances (though they set the bottom pretty damn low.)
And if you think they can't get access to everybody's financial data like that, read "No Place To Hide" by Robert O'Harrow, Jr. Publisher: Free Press, (2005) ISBN: 0-7432-5480-5
He just has to screw with somebody's legitimate data source and he's going to get screwed.
These ways of defeating P2P are most useless and wrong headed.
You're arguing merits that don't matter to Dell
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Its that Intel does all their board development so that Dell doesn't have to.
That way they save on product R&D money so their boxes can get out the door for less.
Dell is primarily a box stuffing and repackaging company. They don't do R&D except on their own supply chain management. They ship more and build boxen cheaper. They don't care about better. Nobody notices except the geeks, who only buy one box at a time. Dell wants to ship thousands.
R&D on the bopx is just expense to Dell and that cuts into their profits (and executive compensation.)
If AMD wants to get into bed with Dell, they'll have to do the same thing as Intel: just about all the product R&D.
because they think that the'll "get away with it(C)" and that some acts are without consequence.
With the coming of computers and the 'Net, that option is rapidly coming to a close. The same revolution in information processing that make us possible is also making THEM[1] posssible. And that's is the end of (y)our civil liberties. They're spinning it your way in the guise of efficiency, security and convenience and, damn it, its all of that, but it also requires you to surrender all of your rights to privacy.
Enjoy going out for a walk under clear open skies, free from cameras recording your every move, for one last time. Oops! Too late.
1] No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society (Hardcover) by Robert O'Harrow, Publisher: Free Press (January 12, 2005) ISBN: 0743254805
Okay they're old so it shouldn't be such a 'Glorious Prime-Time Event (TM)' or that much of a loss, after all they're old, even taking into consideration that they really know how to conserve their strength (read fight really really dirty.)
Actually. given the asymmetric warfare that we seem to be engaging in, it would seem a better adaptation to do so.
The old codgers can go out and fight and die for out better tomorrows (since the young have so many more of them stretching out in time.)
As for the middle-aged, they can make up their minds to stay and party or go to the front with the old debris, (simultaneously solving the social security crisis and the health care crisis.)
Before you get on my case about my 'Swiftian' solution ('How do you solve over population and the potato famine in Ireland? Eat the young!) think about it. Its what the old are doing to the young right now.
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In which case, what's this crap about reverse engineering?
I CAN'T see the language that something uses? (Why is it full of BAD WORDS?)
What's M$ trying to pull?
written in WordPerfect (the format was available, if not quite open).
We wrote the documentation first and it was great. That was when I learned to hate Smalltalk's layout, so I changed its pretty printer to make some sense and used that instead to indent the output.
Why is this thing even posted? "Bad guy furthers his scummyness!"
Yeah, you have to look at it from his point of view.
"ALL MONEY IS MINE! IF YOU HAVE ANY, KNOW THAT I'LL BE COMING ROUND LATER!"
Yeah Bill, we know. The internet isn't big enough for your balls and anybody else.
Think of it as a M$ key-logger, file downloader and as nasty a virus as you Never wanna get (okay Marburg & Ebola are worse.)
Think of your mother (and some evangelist,) walking in on you and a 'friend' as you're doing the deed.
Now worry about what Bill G.'s got in mind: "You WILL update to this new windiows 'eXcreTa!' won't you?"
Come to think of it, Bill'll have all your credit card info so you may find that tour computer has jus ordered the latest 'upgrade' for you, and a whole lot of crap you'd never listen to on Microsoft new music site...
Nothing I wanna see. YUCK!!!
And what about that Princess Lay-Ya?
And I don't want to talk about Empress Amigdala. (You do kno where your amigdala is located, dontcha?)
Too bad Han's solo...
Ask some one who knows me ... I AM
Am I really that bad
-Gowan
Romans were about 1600 year too early (pre British Empire & the East India Company) for that.
I just hates the damn whole lot of em. With their Maginot line and their people not bein' properly mortified when Chiraq's wife & mistress both show up at his funeral and runnin'und nekkid under their clothes.
Its a darn sin I tells yas.
If its not yesterday, they want to make sure you're old enough to actually remember the Mac OS 1.x and Win3.1 (And Compaq's beige luggable and ...)
Its a REAL pain having to work with a pre-internet OS.
Sorry but it looks like he's trying to make all case modders pay him on his patent.
The glowing toilet crap is just that, crap. And about as likely to sell.
But, from what I read, "All your case mods are belong to him."
Vulnerability is a structural defect. If you write software that's invulnerale it won't get brought down by an attack. That's all that means however. Nobody will have heard of it.
Popularity is a question of marketing having NOTHING to do with quality. You can sell hamburgers to vegetarians if you know how to market stuff (im)properly.
but for the remaining 90% of the planet, its a big deal because they won't have to be limited (or sold an unplayable disk,) by the manufacturers.
Your argument doesn't cut any ice apart from those lucky enough to have been born in the right place.
Ever try to use an appliance bought in Europe (220 volts) in America (110 volts)? How about, ever had to suport two Vvltage standards?
That's a problem for the Chinese and everybody else who works in a global marketplace. Its ineffficient and leads to duplication of resurces.
For them both, its a win because, for the consumer it means not discovering thay the shiny new disk they just paid for, that said it what ever format it was, film or other data, was actually a skeet target.
1)M$ gives up on Longhorn, has a BarBQue, adopts Linux and moves all its goodies over onto it.
2) M$ gets a solid OS base.
3) Linux gets a decent desktop. (Okay its no Mac but still.)
4) $$$
The so called problems of collecting the data aren't problems at all.
While we were napping while watching the Gummint for Big Brother tendencies, private companies (ChoicePoint, the 3 credit reporting bureaus et alia,) have taken over the duties of collecting the data.
The thousands of databases are for sale in an amalgamation of unregulated, internet-enabled market place. At an unprecedented pace and in unexpected ways every little detail of your lives is open to scruteny. (For more details read "No Place To Hide", by Robert O'Harrow, Jr., Publisher: Free Press, (2005), ISBN: 0-7432-5480-5 )
And what's more, these companies KNOW that their data is unreliable and has errors but they sell it anyway under the principle of "its close enough for Gummint work".
And its all legal because the private sector is NOT subject to the constraints that we put Gummint through.
It also frees the Gummint from Freedom of Information rules since they are merely 'using and then tossing away the files'. The Gumming is NOT keeping tabs on you, the database aggregators are.
This means that you can get caught up in a cascade of errors which start of with some fool dumpster diving behind a store and end up with you facing prison for something that was done without your knowledge. Along the way, your credit history has been wrecked, your security clearances may have been revoked, you may have been fired and people may have been hurt of killed by somebody using your name.
Because they aren't liable and because our criminal agencies are still tied up into jurisdictions, unlike the data aggregators, identity thieves are taking full advantage of the wealth of the gullible.
To be fair, you are only gullible if you thing that it can't happen to you. Otherwise, you are playing roulete like the rest of us. Or you may have discovered that a generalized and unfocused paranioa is the one of the legacies of the Internet.
It CAN happen to anyone. The mechanism is an untargeted attack on information, yours and everyone elses' out there.
It may have already happened to you and, because of the legal to aggregator jurisdictional assymetries, you may well be and truly screwed.
The details are leaking because the aggregators aren't water tight about data coming out (identity theft en masse) any more that they are about data coming in (identity theft being committed one datum at a time by one thief.)
Repeat the second scenario X million times and you begin to see the scale of the data aggregator's problems. They suffer one theft of thousands of records. And a million people suffer the loss of one record, their own.
The assymetry means that potentially, you're getting screwed over by someone you're unlikely to ever meet but you'll be paying for the fine vacation he had, the new stereo he bought, all the things you would have wished that you could have afforded but now never will because of some psychopath with your ID and an easy scam to pull.
I used to get their mail-box cloggers until I got a recent wind-fall. Now there's nary a peep.
They must be set to investigate accounts across the planet for accounts with a given range of average balances (though they set the bottom pretty damn low.)
And if you think they can't get access to everybody's financial data like that, read "No Place To Hide" by Robert O'Harrow, Jr. Publisher: Free Press, (2005) ISBN: 0-7432-5480-5
You are so 0WN3D but it NOT by the HaX0rs.
(Sorry I'm finishing a stats exam and I'm giong nuts here.)
Or are you the actual 'AI engine' and someone has stolen your ant farm?
He just has to screw with somebody's legitimate data source and he's going to get screwed.
These ways of defeating P2P are most useless and wrong headed.
Its that Intel does all their board development so that Dell doesn't have to.
That way they save on product R&D money so their boxes can get out the door for less.
Dell is primarily a box stuffing and repackaging company. They don't do R&D except on their own supply chain management. They ship more and build boxen cheaper. They don't care about better. Nobody notices except the geeks, who only buy one box at a time. Dell wants to ship thousands.
R&D on the bopx is just expense to Dell and that cuts into their profits (and executive compensation.)
If AMD wants to get into bed with Dell, they'll have to do the same thing as Intel: just about all the product R&D.
Intel didn't lose anything.
because they think that the'll "get away with it(C)" and that some acts are without consequence.
With the coming of computers and the 'Net, that option is rapidly coming to a close. The same revolution in information processing that make us possible is also making THEM[1] posssible. And that's is the end of (y)our civil liberties. They're spinning it your way in the guise of efficiency, security and convenience and, damn it, its all of that, but it also requires you to surrender all of your rights to privacy.
Enjoy going out for a walk under clear open skies, free from cameras recording your every move, for one last time. Oops! Too late.
1] No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society (Hardcover)
by Robert O'Harrow, Publisher: Free Press (January 12, 2005) ISBN: 0743254805
Okay they're old so it shouldn't be such a 'Glorious Prime-Time Event (TM)' or that much of a loss, after all they're old, even taking into consideration that they really know how to conserve their strength (read fight really really dirty.)
Actually. given the asymmetric warfare that we seem to be engaging in, it would seem a better adaptation to do so.
The old codgers can go out and fight and die for out better tomorrows (since the young have so many more of them stretching out in time.)
As for the middle-aged, they can make up their minds to stay and party or go to the front with the old debris, (simultaneously solving the social security crisis and the health care crisis.)
Before you get on my case about my 'Swiftian' solution ('How do you solve over population and the potato famine in Ireland? Eat the young!) think about it. Its what the old are doing to the young right now.
Its easier to trust 1,000,000,000 people in a surveilance system where 1,000 people are potentially corrupted but the 'good work' goes on.
And don't forget you never know who is watching you but you KNOW some one is because you're doing the same thing to other randomly selected watchers.
"Quid custodes ipso custodes? Omnia!"
Who will watch the watchers? Everybody!
They are putting 1 person in 1,000,000 at potential risk and they are minigating that risk by putting the same people on surveilance of each other.
Brilliant solution, if a bit man-power intensive. But they have the man-power to throw at the problem.
That would be a great way to get rid of them.
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