So now there will be more targets for a potential hacker to choose from. It's not enough that Microsoft would store the data, someone with a dubious security trackrecord. Now we have an untold number of other places that can be attacked. Why doesn't anyone realise that the only safe way to do this is to store the data on secured, portable hardware that can be taken with the owner of the information?
Most people who are over the legal limit are not coherent enough to know that they are drunk. That's why the limit is there. Now you want them to take a test and interpert the results them selves? Maybe we need a brethalizer test before posts to/.
I was talking with my 8 year old cousin the other day and we were playing with one of his new LEGO toys. It was an alien that rode on some sort of hover scooter. I started to take pieces off of the scooter and rearange them. He got this horrified look on his face. "No, that's not how it goes!", he said. He quickly put it back the "correct" way, and went back to playing with it in the intended format. This is not an unimaginative child. Are our kids learning too much obedince?
Disclaimer: I have no kids yet, but will in September, then all of you parents can laugh all you want.
The big advantage I see to Grafiti (sp?) is that I don't have to look at my palm to keep writing. I can be looking at the person I'm talking too, or at a presenters screen. Try to do that with a keyboard no matter how optomized it is.
Of course they have a reason to suspect you. You bought their product right. So you must be planning to do something criminal. Oh wait, that's the RIAA.
If consumers are using the smart cards, the merchants will be forced to buy readers that can deal with them.
How do you figure this? Surely the new smart cards will work in the old readers, although you can't use the new "features". Why would the merchant go out and buy a new reader just so their customers can type in a PIN number? The only way to get merchants onboard is if you pay them, or make their customer's cards invlid to the old reader. And why would I as a consumer buy a card that won't work in half of the world wide readers?
Wait a minute. You canceled an $8k card in order to get a "cool" new card that was transparent? I think the only thing that is transparent is your inate stupidity.
Not until 6 August did I learn that these heavy pumpkins had been the 509th's practice bombs for the atomic bomb they dropped that morning on Hiroshima. The pumpkin charts could be used for offset bombing with atomic bombs.
Why would you need to offset bomb with an atomic bomb? I would think you could drop it pretty much anywhere since it's going to destroy everything for several miles!
It would be great if Palm adopted Be as their new OS, however, I hope this doesn't turn into another Mozilla where a great product is released too late to be a factor after the MS steamroller has taken over. At least it would be a bonus to us loyal Palm users.
The real harm from Code Red I was the amount of traffic it generated. Your white hat worm would cause the same traffic problems if not more since it wouldn't know when to stop.
Don't just bitch, let the people who use gator know that you don't like the type of advertising they are using. Here is a list of gator clients from the gator.com website.
Barnes & Noble
Cheaptickets
Chrysler
Columbia House
CSFB
Dell
Delta
Diners Club
Discover
Earthlink
eBay
Eddie Bauer
ESPN
Expedia
Fortune
FTD
Half.com
Handspring
Hotjobs
Mazda
MSN
New York Times
NextCard
Omaha Steaks
People Magazine
Priceline
Progressive
Providian
Radisson Hotels
Reflect
Segrams
Sears
Sports Illustrated
Time
The only way I can explain it is that most people use Microsoft software, and what we use must be the best, right?
I don't want to get modded into the gutter, but doesn't this describe *nix users just as well as it does MS users? Look at the BSD vs Linux wars. It's human nature to believe that you made the right choice. Maybe that's why we are so hateful toward Microsoft. Because they're not what we choose to run.
I'm not saying we should all run and and buy from Bill, but it might help us be more tolerant of MS users.
Any chance of something like this coming to the Palm OS? I know Palm Inc has no sound, but I've got a Handera, and would love to have it read me a book while I'm in the car or where ever.
Of course, without Jobs, it would have taken much longer to get GUI to the masses if it ever made it. Linux could really use a Steve Jobs to bring Linux to the masses. God Bless Linus, but he just is not the kind of person that Linux needs at this point in it's lifecycle.
What kind of a dream world are you living in? Microsoft still holds a vast majority of the Desktop OS market and except for a minority of technical people, most users will fall right in line and upgrade to Winffice XP. Microsoft is very far from faltering in the non-technical, real-user world. Come up for air once in a while.
Mr. Gates illustrates the precise reason the GPL exists. Or at least in part. One of the reasons it exists and is needed, is that some people in the developer community will simply take code, and not contribute to the development of the project as a whole. By using the GPL, you can ensure that any new work based on the old will have to benefit the entire project, not just one member.
You can image how much of the Open Source code would have ended up in MS products long ago if not for the GPL.
A more important opt-in vs. opt-out question is from the developer side. MS says they have a meta tag that can disallow the links, but think about all of the pages that are out there that will never be updated. There should be a meta tag to allow this "feature" not the other way around.
Where else do people go? I tend to use Yahoo alot for email and bookmarks as well as mainstream news. I hit Slashdot for tech news, and I hit web developer sites for industry developments. Are people actually spending hours in chat rooms? I can't see that happening. I tend to use the web as a tool to get the things done I need to get done and to keep informed. What are ya'all doing out there.
This is a little off-topic. What is the deal with some of the new ergonomic keyboards that have changed the layout of the Insert, Page Up, Home, etc. buttons? The normal configuration is 2 down and 3 across. I got a new Micron and it came with the buttons 3 down and 2 across. I hesitate to mention it, but it is a Microsoft keyboard. Another fiendish plot or just poor engineering?
While it's refreshing to see that he's not some overly polished politician, he seems to be unable to put together a clear sentence. A sample sentence might go something like this.
The thing does something that the other things are not sure they can't do. So it's great!
I like that fact that he seems more human, but I would like someone who can express himself better to act as an advisor.
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So now there will be more targets for a potential hacker to choose from. It's not enough that Microsoft would store the data, someone with a dubious security trackrecord. Now we have an untold number of other places that can be attacked. Why doesn't anyone realise that the only safe way to do this is to store the data on secured, portable hardware that can be taken with the owner of the information?
* The OSS community's mistrust of Java and Sun and anything related to them.
Why would that have anything to do with why PHP is better than Java? Your other points are good though.
If we don't actually go to war over this, I will be more than surprised.
Who would we go to war with? The terrorists are so elusive and nomadic, where and who can you attack?
Most people who are over the legal limit are not coherent enough to know that they are drunk. That's why the limit is there. Now you want them to take a test and interpert the results them selves? Maybe we need a brethalizer test before posts to /.
I was talking with my 8 year old cousin the other day and we were playing with one of his new LEGO toys. It was an alien that rode on some sort of hover scooter. I started to take pieces off of the scooter and rearange them. He got this horrified look on his face. "No, that's not how it goes!", he said. He quickly put it back the "correct" way, and went back to playing with it in the intended format. This is not an unimaginative child. Are our kids learning too much obedince?
Disclaimer: I have no kids yet, but will in September, then all of you parents can laugh all you want.
The big advantage I see to Grafiti (sp?) is that I don't have to look at my palm to keep writing. I can be looking at the person I'm talking too, or at a presenters screen. Try to do that with a keyboard no matter how optomized it is.
Of course they have a reason to suspect you. You bought their product right. So you must be planning to do something criminal. Oh wait, that's the RIAA.
If consumers are using the smart cards, the merchants will be forced to buy readers that can deal with them.
How do you figure this? Surely the new smart cards will work in the old readers, although you can't use the new "features". Why would the merchant go out and buy a new reader just so their customers can type in a PIN number? The only way to get merchants onboard is if you pay them, or make their customer's cards invlid to the old reader. And why would I as a consumer buy a card that won't work in half of the world wide readers?
Wait a minute. You canceled an $8k card in order to get a "cool" new card that was transparent? I think the only thing that is transparent is your inate stupidity.
Great article! But this has be puzzled.
Not until 6 August did I learn that these heavy pumpkins had been the 509th's practice bombs for the atomic bomb they dropped that morning on Hiroshima. The pumpkin charts could be used for offset bombing with atomic bombs.
Why would you need to offset bomb with an atomic bomb? I would think you could drop it pretty much anywhere since it's going to destroy everything for several miles!
It would be great if Palm adopted Be as their new OS, however, I hope this doesn't turn into another Mozilla where a great product is released too late to be a factor after the MS steamroller has taken over. At least it would be a bonus to us loyal Palm users.
The real harm from Code Red I was the amount of traffic it generated. Your white hat worm would cause the same traffic problems if not more since it wouldn't know when to stop.
Don't just bitch, let the people who use gator know that you don't like the type of advertising they are using. Here is a list of gator clients from the gator.com website.
Barnes & Noble
Cheaptickets
Chrysler
Columbia House
CSFB
Dell
Delta
Diners Club
Discover
Earthlink
eBay
Eddie Bauer
ESPN
Expedia
Fortune
FTD
Half.com
Handspring
Hotjobs
Mazda
MSN
New York Times
NextCard
Omaha Steaks
People Magazine
Priceline
Progressive
Providian
Radisson Hotels
Reflect
Segrams
Sears
Sports Illustrated
Time
The only way I can explain it is that most people use Microsoft software, and what we use must be the best, right?
I don't want to get modded into the gutter, but doesn't this describe *nix users just as well as it does MS users? Look at the BSD vs Linux wars. It's human nature to believe that you made the right choice. Maybe that's why we are so hateful toward Microsoft. Because they're not what we choose to run. I'm not saying we should all run and and buy from Bill, but it might help us be more tolerant of MS users.
Any chance of something like this coming to the Palm OS? I know Palm Inc has no sound, but I've got a Handera, and would love to have it read me a book while I'm in the car or where ever.
Of course, without Jobs, it would have taken much longer to get GUI to the masses if it ever made it. Linux could really use a Steve Jobs to bring Linux to the masses. God Bless Linus, but he just is not the kind of person that Linux needs at this point in it's lifecycle.
What kind of a dream world are you living in? Microsoft still holds a vast majority of the Desktop OS market and except for a minority of technical people, most users will fall right in line and upgrade to Winffice XP. Microsoft is very far from faltering in the non-technical, real-user world. Come up for air once in a while.
Nate
Mr. Gates illustrates the precise reason the GPL exists. Or at least in part. One of the reasons it exists and is needed, is that some people in the developer community will simply take code, and not contribute to the development of the project as a whole. By using the GPL, you can ensure that any new work based on the old will have to benefit the entire project, not just one member.
You can image how much of the Open Source code would have ended up in MS products long ago if not for the GPL.
Nate
A more important opt-in vs. opt-out question is from the developer side. MS says they have a meta tag that can disallow the links, but think about all of the pages that are out there that will never be updated. There should be a meta tag to allow this "feature" not the other way around.
Nate
Where else do people go? I tend to use Yahoo alot for email and bookmarks as well as mainstream news. I hit Slashdot for tech news, and I hit web developer sites for industry developments. Are people actually spending hours in chat rooms? I can't see that happening. I tend to use the web as a tool to get the things done I need to get done and to keep informed. What are ya'all doing out there.
Nate
Around 1995 is when I disovered the internet . . . Then the web got all commercial.
So, the web was non-commerical for about a year and a half?
Nate
Ahhh Yahoo uses Google for their search engine. But then Yahoo's not a rebelious new company (anymore), so slashdotters shouldn't support it.
Nate
This is a little off-topic. What is the deal with some of the new ergonomic keyboards that have changed the layout of the Insert, Page Up, Home, etc. buttons? The normal configuration is 2 down and 3 across. I got a new Micron and it came with the buttons 3 down and 2 across. I hesitate to mention it, but it is a Microsoft keyboard. Another fiendish plot or just poor engineering?
Nate
While it's refreshing to see that he's not some overly polished politician, he seems to be unable to put together a clear sentence. A sample sentence might go something like this.
The thing does something that the other things are not sure they can't do. So it's great!
I like that fact that he seems more human, but I would like someone who can express himself better to act as an advisor.
Nate
Wouldn't it be cheaper to replace them each time rather than spend 6 man-weeks cleaning a window?
Nate