With a car that fast, who needs an airplane to crash and burn beyond recognition? I wonder if every cell will have a Sony mark on it.
It's a good thing the Authorities at Homeland Security are keeping us safe by putting all the electronic devices in people's luggage, where they will be well insulated and impossible to put out. Thanks guys, I really was afraid of some asshole lighting my airplane on fire before you saved me.
people probably don't know what Firefox is, and if they do, some of them probably don't want to change old habbits.
Nuts. People are learning and those that know show a marked preference to a browser that's actually been improved over the last five years. FF installed on a computer is going to be used because it's going to be the default browser. In every instance, it's there because the machine's owner thinks IE sucks and that FF will reduce maintenance of their machines. Why else would they bother? User choice? Ha ha ha.
There are two cases of install and both likely make FF the default browser. The first, and more common than you expect, case is a Linux box. IBM has rolled out thin clients at the Union of my University and they are heavily used. The second case is FF on Windoze for security and compatibility reasons. Obviously, FF will be the default on such a machine and IE might even be hidden. Yes, some people might have Apple set ups but they will mostly use Safari.
Only a fanboy would bother to pull up a non default browser, so the ignorant will learn and once they learn they like. Only the most stubborn of people still use IE by choice if they are familiar with any other browser. The only reasonable explanation I've ever heard for an IE preference was familiarity with shortcuts. Fair enough, that's a habit that will die hard. It's not one that makes life as easy as it could be, however. Watching them browse with a bazillion open and overlapping windows was painful to say the least and the same kinds of shortcuts are available on all the more feature packed alternatives. Most people who spend any time with another browser soon loath IE.
Of all the things you can bring onto a plane, one of it's own waste products must be the worst. It's commonly availabe but people often pay a premium for the a version that's been reverse osmosis purified. I hope the FBI starts tracking those people! If they don't the terrorists will win.
Malhmold is not the only person who thinks the goals were larger than humiliating Hezbolla. Some say the Bush administration wanted Syria and Iran. Conquering that much of the middle east might indeed have triggered a war with Russia, Turkey and even China and Europe. It's a good thing that did not happen, but there's still time for Israel's incompetent and murderous military leaders to blunder themselves into a wider conflict. All they have to do is provoke Syria on the new border.
The point isn't to "Demand that the server be taken down," but rather for law enforcement personnel to go to the channel and find who is giving the botnet commands, then track that user down and prosecute him for what he is doing.
If true, that's hardly a problem unique to IRC. The root cause remains Windoze.
The purpose of the RIAA lawsuits is not to make money from settlements. It's to scare people away from engaging in copyright infringment. As such, it's not in the interests of the RIAA to appear to have a heart. Moreover, every single one of you who's going to go home tonight and tell your friends about the big, bad, RIAA, is doing exactly what they hope you'll do.
No, it's not working they way they want. People see the entire RIAA represented music industry as a greedy dinosaur that's enacted a bunch of really bad laws which they are abusing beyond the intent of any legislative intent. It's backfired on them big time and they are going to lose the basis of their suits and might even face long overdue copyright reform that will eliminate their obsolete business model.
The IRS tried the intimidation approach once and what they got was Ronald Reagan and a twenty five year bitch slap. It's been a long long time since the IRS has confiscated property from anyone but blatant scoff laws and real criminals. The purpose of the IRS is revenue, not ruin. Anyone who thinks the RIAA is more powerful than the IRS is deluding themselves.
When you act like they are acting, retribution is swift. Me telling my friends all about the RIAA's behavior is going to do two things the RIAA really does not want. People are going to be that much less likely to buy music and people are going to rethink copyright law. These cases make the copyright lawyers look really stupid and none of this talk is fun. People don't want anything to do with party poopers like the RIAA. Music is supposed to be fun, unifying and shared.
Brilliant. I'm going to start a company right away, and I'll make sure to hire lots of developers to pay me.
Make sure to give them "dumbed down" tools and only let people who pay you use the results. Call it the "Ricky Rat" Club or something. Prediction: another big xbox flop.
Can you provide proof that they actually sabotage [reference.com] (as in deliberately subvert) other software?
No, it takes a court of law to prove something like that. All I can do is point you to the DRDos and Netscape trails, where your government used M$ internal emails to prove sabotage and other nasty behavior. You will have trouble finding the DRDOS case because M$ and SCO had it shredded.
1.125*59=66.375 in gnumeric. Yes, it rounds to 66.38. So it's not really a problem and you can beat the author to the punch by looking at the gnumeric source.
Find a way to make the average user patch software. As wonderful as it would be if all software was completely bug free and contained no security holes, it's simply impossible.
It's very easy with Debian's stable distribution:
point to security.debian.org
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
That's it, all done and it never breaks anything.
If it were that easy to upgrade commercial software, users would do it but it's not. Commercial software lacks both the resources to fix things and the ability to co operate so that everything is in one place. Worse, some nameless companies in Redmond use their "patch" system to change EULAs and sabotage other people's software. It's unlikely the average user will ever bother to wade through the cesspool of monthly critical patches from every vendor to brave the very real risk is breakage of their holy, one and only PC. They are going to sit back and laugh at those who do when they too, just like M$ themselves, get broken.
If you're running norton you've got bigger problems than this worm.
Is that true? I don't have any of these problems and would like to find out. Is there a Debian version of this Norton? What kinds of problems can I expect if I install it?
Suppose the bots all used AIM or MSN Messenger servers. Would you demand that those be taken down?
The weak point is not IRC or any other communications method. The weak point is software that's so easy to exploit it has new "critical" patches every month [insert tampon jokes here].
All should show up pre 1999. They look just as good as Windows 98 did and were widely deployed and easy to get. They might also have included a screen shot of TWM to show how things progressed.
Gnome used Enlightenment until they moved to Sawfish. The history has just begun
Of course, everyone should see the first web browser from 1990 (actually a screen shot from 1993, but much the same) running on a Next.
It might be hard to dig up screenshots all of desktops, but not much harder than the ones they found. It's nice to see someone including KDE in the line up so people can see a little of what they have been missing, like Virtual desktops, since the early 90's.
the Mersenne Twister plus any unknown piece of data as a seed is good enough at resisting everything our current understanding of mathematics can throw at it.... [blah blah blah]... in terms of practical application this gets a near zero.
Oh, so you would not want to have an $85 seed generator would you? If 1.3 million possible combinations are not good enough for you, you could always combine more hits to get any resolution you wanted. Then you feed that back into your twister or whatever. This eliminates the non random nature of your seed, which is a traditional weak point.
I never got tabs, they're often incorrect and missing a lot of information.
Well, that's why they are independent works and the take down is harassment. From the site owner:
I have long been of the understanding that an original, by-ear transcription of a song, which is a duplicate of no copyrighted work and which generally deviates substantially from the work on which it is based is the property of its transcriber, and not the original composer of the song.
If you are doing cover songs with a band, you might spring for the $5 to "get it right". The music industry itself gets things screwed up all the time as a quick glance at the career of Jimmi Hendrix shows. They got his album art wrong, his recordings screwed up and finally he's buried under a plaque of a right handed guitar and is still missing a promissed statue of himself. With screw ups like that, do you think they can get all the notes right? Maybe, maybe not. If copright did not live forever, it would all be fixed by now.
Outside the industry, where the vast majority of us live, people like my wife just want some basic directions to learn with. All most people care about are the basics. Before the internet, they would get them by listening to the record over and over again and meticulously transcribing what they though they heard. People still do that, but now they can share the results and everyone wins. The version people hear is often easier to play and sounds better than the original. Sometimes it's not, but you always get a choice.
Everyone but a few self defeating pigopolists that is. As you pointed out, the greed heads want to charge you more for the sheet music than an actual recording. This will really be the end of most of their sales. One of the only reasons people still listen to fifty year old music like the Beatles is because they are fun to sing yourself. If those idiots make it hard for people to enjoy what they sell, people will move on.
Upgrade to GPL. W2k? What, besides discomfort and headache, does it have that any of the major Linux distributions don't? If you don't want to be browbeaten, quit fooling around with people who browbeat you.
Their pocket OS is still around and now a strong player though in a weak market of PDAs
Weak? Don't you mean destroyed?
That's a good example of how M$ style dominance does not always lead to M$ making any money. They and Intel used their OS "lever" and a slew of lawsuits to destroy Palm and other competitors in that space. What's left over in the US is a bunch of Windoze only crap that has yet to live up to the Sharp Zaurus or even the Handspring Visor. No one's buying it because it does not work right.
They will try to do the same thing to iPod by sabotaging iTunes and Windoze will be worth that much less.
This, more than anything else will kill Microsoft. The only thing that made Windoze worth while was that other people's gadgets would work with it.
The question is, "Is unregulated wire tapping of citizens with out oversight more effective than regulated wire tapping with oversight and a 24 hour grace period?"
This bust came from an informant not wire tapping. Someone who knew the suspects did the right thing and turned them in before they could kill innocent people. Wire tapping provided details, but it was not the out of control tap everyone without rule of law tapping big brother types advocate. Sooner or later the wiretap freaks will score a hit, but this is not it.
I don't know about a grace period. Once you have a warrent there is no further need for delay. Part of the linked article was US speculation on why they waited so long to nab the bad guys and how much risk that caused.
So Microsoft intentionally ships crappy software so that spammers will disrupt communication among open source programmers? Did I get that right?
I think you intentionally missed it.
Microsoft is making the best of things they can't change. They are incapable of shipping a good product because non free development does not work. Spammers take advantage of that. Because M$ can not or will not simply fix their software, they must impose limitations on everyone else or they will lose market share. They try to impose those limits through vendors and by getting bad laws passed. Those laws would make it easier for them to keep their position.
None of that, of course, will stem the flood of spam and M$ is liable to take advantage of that too. It would be very easy for them to hire PR firms to collect email addresses to put on spamlists as they Astroturf various message boards. Disrupting free software communications is a stated goal of theirs.
I imagine a lot of it is a denial of service attack. Microsoft is not alone in this. A lot of spam is pure malice. It does not have contact information for a sale or even build brand awareness. Microsoft understands that free software depends on communications between programmers and users and they seek to disrupt it.
Microsoft is unique in wanting to limit network services ISP's have to offer. By creating a problem, such as 80% of the world's spam coming from their broken operating system at the end of cable modems, they gain power as a provider of policy and solutions that cover the majority of the world's computers. Such policies include forced patching which can push new EULAs, and network restrictions that nullify many free software networking advantages. My ISP forces everyone to use their SMTP server with it's arbitrary limits and they told me that M$ and AOL forced them to do it. They also limit upload speed to little better than I could get from DSL. Other infamous suggestions are charging a fee for all email and limiting online advertising to a few "trusted" companies such as themselves. From the problem they create, they seek to gain further advantage and power.
Free software and free networks threaten Microsoft. Their business model depends on selling people second rate software to perform each and every task. They gain adherents by spiffs and arbitrary grants of privilege in an asymmetric computing world. Free software does better than theirs does and makes not grade user status or create arbitrary divisions between "servers" and "work stations" as the eight flavors of Vista do. Why fork over cash to be treated like a serf when you could have all the king's software? Because M$ aims to destroy all simple networking and data exchange protocols, as outlined in their 1998 Halloween Documents. They want to make it as expensive and difficult as possible to leave them. If they don't, people will flock to the vast savings free software has to offer. Free networks and protocols give people the freedom to move.
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Don't go back to school. Degrees don't guarantee jobs, and you can (and should teach) yourself in a few weeks what takes months to cover in school.
People I know who got a CS degree know fundamentals that are important to understand and can better evaluate the buzzword of the month. When you try to do it yourself, you are left with holes that can mislead you.
You already know your best advisers. You have a degree in film. There's plenty of tech in film, so see if you can't get in from that angle. Ask some of your former professors what they think. If they don't know, they know someone who does and what kind of career paths there are. They should also be able to recommend schools that fit. The people at your "mundane" job may also know things, if it's in any way related to film.
It's no where near too late if you manage not to dump everything you already know.
Masonite, styro-foam insulation and liquid nails make a good, quick hard case. You can add layers of squishy foam to further cushion a fall if you want. I put them in my laptop bags. If I have to go someplace soon, I'm going to pack my laptop back inside my clothes canvas bag. That should be good enough for the 12 foot fall you should expect your luggage to experience and in turn be hit by the corner of a hard case from the same distance.
If you want something fast for ordinary luggage, go to wall mart and see if any of the gun cases are big enough. They have plastic shells and squishy foam liners.
Nothing is fool proof so I'm going to avoid travel if I can until this stuff blows over again.
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With a car that fast, who needs an airplane to crash and burn beyond recognition? I wonder if every cell will have a Sony mark on it.
It's a good thing the Authorities at Homeland Security are keeping us safe by putting all the electronic devices in people's luggage, where they will be well insulated and impossible to put out. Thanks guys, I really was afraid of some asshole lighting my airplane on fire before you saved me.
not
http://www.pacmanhattan/
Now I'm going to go read the site before the bots pick up the mistake and start DOSing it.
people probably don't know what Firefox is, and if they do, some of them probably don't want to change old habbits.
Nuts. People are learning and those that know show a marked preference to a browser that's actually been improved over the last five years. FF installed on a computer is going to be used because it's going to be the default browser. In every instance, it's there because the machine's owner thinks IE sucks and that FF will reduce maintenance of their machines. Why else would they bother? User choice? Ha ha ha.
There are two cases of install and both likely make FF the default browser. The first, and more common than you expect, case is a Linux box. IBM has rolled out thin clients at the Union of my University and they are heavily used. The second case is FF on Windoze for security and compatibility reasons. Obviously, FF will be the default on such a machine and IE might even be hidden. Yes, some people might have Apple set ups but they will mostly use Safari.
Only a fanboy would bother to pull up a non default browser, so the ignorant will learn and once they learn they like. Only the most stubborn of people still use IE by choice if they are familiar with any other browser. The only reasonable explanation I've ever heard for an IE preference was familiarity with shortcuts. Fair enough, that's a habit that will die hard. It's not one that makes life as easy as it could be, however. Watching them browse with a bazillion open and overlapping windows was painful to say the least and the same kinds of shortcuts are available on all the more feature packed alternatives. Most people who spend any time with another browser soon loath IE.
Malhmold is not the only person who thinks the goals were larger than humiliating Hezbolla. Some say the Bush administration wanted Syria and Iran. Conquering that much of the middle east might indeed have triggered a war with Russia, Turkey and even China and Europe. It's a good thing that did not happen, but there's still time for Israel's incompetent and murderous military leaders to blunder themselves into a wider conflict. All they have to do is provoke Syria on the new border.
If true, that's hardly a problem unique to IRC. The root cause remains Windoze.
Leave me out.
The purpose of the RIAA lawsuits is not to make money from settlements. It's to scare people away from engaging in copyright infringment. As such, it's not in the interests of the RIAA to appear to have a heart. Moreover, every single one of you who's going to go home tonight and tell your friends about the big, bad, RIAA, is doing exactly what they hope you'll do.
No, it's not working they way they want. People see the entire RIAA represented music industry as a greedy dinosaur that's enacted a bunch of really bad laws which they are abusing beyond the intent of any legislative intent. It's backfired on them big time and they are going to lose the basis of their suits and might even face long overdue copyright reform that will eliminate their obsolete business model.
The IRS tried the intimidation approach once and what they got was Ronald Reagan and a twenty five year bitch slap. It's been a long long time since the IRS has confiscated property from anyone but blatant scoff laws and real criminals. The purpose of the IRS is revenue, not ruin. Anyone who thinks the RIAA is more powerful than the IRS is deluding themselves.
When you act like they are acting, retribution is swift. Me telling my friends all about the RIAA's behavior is going to do two things the RIAA really does not want. People are going to be that much less likely to buy music and people are going to rethink copyright law. These cases make the copyright lawyers look really stupid and none of this talk is fun. People don't want anything to do with party poopers like the RIAA. Music is supposed to be fun, unifying and shared.
Make sure to give them "dumbed down" tools and only let people who pay you use the results. Call it the "Ricky Rat" Club or something. Prediction: another big xbox flop.
No, it takes a court of law to prove something like that. All I can do is point you to the DRDos and Netscape trails, where your government used M$ internal emails to prove sabotage and other nasty behavior. You will have trouble finding the DRDOS case because M$ and SCO had it shredded.
Just yesterday you were modded down to -1 for attempting the same "joke".
So, you read my posts before you mod them? Great. Would you like to subscribe to my newsletter, Buggy?
Find a way to make the average user patch software. As wonderful as it would be if all software was completely bug free and contained no security holes, it's simply impossible.
It's very easy with Debian's stable distribution:
That's it, all done and it never breaks anything.
If it were that easy to upgrade commercial software, users would do it but it's not. Commercial software lacks both the resources to fix things and the ability to co operate so that everything is in one place. Worse, some nameless companies in Redmond use their "patch" system to change EULAs and sabotage other people's software. It's unlikely the average user will ever bother to wade through the cesspool of monthly critical patches from every vendor to brave the very real risk is breakage of their holy, one and only PC. They are going to sit back and laugh at those who do when they too, just like M$ themselves, get broken.
If you're running norton you've got bigger problems than this worm.
Is that true? I don't have any of these problems and would like to find out. Is there a Debian version of this Norton? What kinds of problems can I expect if I install it?
Suppose the bots all used AIM or MSN Messenger servers. Would you demand that those be taken down?
The weak point is not IRC or any other communications method. The weak point is software that's so easy to exploit it has new "critical" patches every month [insert tampon jokes here].
Of course, everyone should see the first web browser from 1990 (actually a screen shot from 1993, but much the same) running on a Next.
It might be hard to dig up screenshots all of desktops, but not much harder than the ones they found. It's nice to see someone including KDE in the line up so people can see a little of what they have been missing, like Virtual desktops, since the early 90's.
the Mersenne Twister plus any unknown piece of data as a seed is good enough at resisting everything our current understanding of mathematics can throw at it. ... [blah blah blah] ... in terms of practical application this gets a near zero.
Oh, so you would not want to have an $85 seed generator would you? If 1.3 million possible combinations are not good enough for you, you could always combine more hits to get any resolution you wanted. Then you feed that back into your twister or whatever. This eliminates the non random nature of your seed, which is a traditional weak point.
I never got tabs, they're often incorrect and missing a lot of information.
Well, that's why they are independent works and the take down is harassment. From the site owner:
I have long been of the understanding that an original, by-ear transcription of a song, which is a duplicate of no copyrighted work and which generally deviates substantially from the work on which it is based is the property of its transcriber, and not the original composer of the song.
If you are doing cover songs with a band, you might spring for the $5 to "get it right". The music industry itself gets things screwed up all the time as a quick glance at the career of Jimmi Hendrix shows. They got his album art wrong, his recordings screwed up and finally he's buried under a plaque of a right handed guitar and is still missing a promissed statue of himself. With screw ups like that, do you think they can get all the notes right? Maybe, maybe not. If copright did not live forever, it would all be fixed by now.
Outside the industry, where the vast majority of us live, people like my wife just want some basic directions to learn with. All most people care about are the basics. Before the internet, they would get them by listening to the record over and over again and meticulously transcribing what they though they heard. People still do that, but now they can share the results and everyone wins. The version people hear is often easier to play and sounds better than the original. Sometimes it's not, but you always get a choice.
Everyone but a few self defeating pigopolists that is. As you pointed out, the greed heads want to charge you more for the sheet music than an actual recording. This will really be the end of most of their sales. One of the only reasons people still listen to fifty year old music like the Beatles is because they are fun to sing yourself. If those idiots make it hard for people to enjoy what they sell, people will move on.
Upgrade to GPL. W2k? What, besides discomfort and headache, does it have that any of the major Linux distributions don't? If you don't want to be browbeaten, quit fooling around with people who browbeat you.
Their pocket OS is still around and now a strong player though in a weak market of PDAs
Weak? Don't you mean destroyed?
That's a good example of how M$ style dominance does not always lead to M$ making any money. They and Intel used their OS "lever" and a slew of lawsuits to destroy Palm and other competitors in that space. What's left over in the US is a bunch of Windoze only crap that has yet to live up to the Sharp Zaurus or even the Handspring Visor. No one's buying it because it does not work right.
They will try to do the same thing to iPod by sabotaging iTunes and Windoze will be worth that much less.
This, more than anything else will kill Microsoft. The only thing that made Windoze worth while was that other people's gadgets would work with it.
The question is, "Is unregulated wire tapping of citizens with out oversight more effective than regulated wire tapping with oversight and a 24 hour grace period?"
This bust came from an informant not wire tapping. Someone who knew the suspects did the right thing and turned them in before they could kill innocent people. Wire tapping provided details, but it was not the out of control tap everyone without rule of law tapping big brother types advocate. Sooner or later the wiretap freaks will score a hit, but this is not it.
I don't know about a grace period. Once you have a warrent there is no further need for delay. Part of the linked article was US speculation on why they waited so long to nab the bad guys and how much risk that caused.
So Microsoft intentionally ships crappy software so that spammers will disrupt communication among open source programmers? Did I get that right?
I think you intentionally missed it.
Microsoft is making the best of things they can't change. They are incapable of shipping a good product because non free development does not work. Spammers take advantage of that. Because M$ can not or will not simply fix their software, they must impose limitations on everyone else or they will lose market share. They try to impose those limits through vendors and by getting bad laws passed. Those laws would make it easier for them to keep their position.
None of that, of course, will stem the flood of spam and M$ is liable to take advantage of that too. It would be very easy for them to hire PR firms to collect email addresses to put on spamlists as they Astroturf various message boards. Disrupting free software communications is a stated goal of theirs.
"What tools do you suggest for trying to grok a large Access mess?"
A bottle of whiskey and a bottle of wine. Good luck.
I imagine a lot of it is a denial of service attack. Microsoft is not alone in this. A lot of spam is pure malice. It does not have contact information for a sale or even build brand awareness. Microsoft understands that free software depends on communications between programmers and users and they seek to disrupt it.
Microsoft is unique in wanting to limit network services ISP's have to offer. By creating a problem, such as 80% of the world's spam coming from their broken operating system at the end of cable modems, they gain power as a provider of policy and solutions that cover the majority of the world's computers. Such policies include forced patching which can push new EULAs, and network restrictions that nullify many free software networking advantages. My ISP forces everyone to use their SMTP server with it's arbitrary limits and they told me that M$ and AOL forced them to do it. They also limit upload speed to little better than I could get from DSL. Other infamous suggestions are charging a fee for all email and limiting online advertising to a few "trusted" companies such as themselves. From the problem they create, they seek to gain further advantage and power.
Free software and free networks threaten Microsoft. Their business model depends on selling people second rate software to perform each and every task. They gain adherents by spiffs and arbitrary grants of privilege in an asymmetric computing world. Free software does better than theirs does and makes not grade user status or create arbitrary divisions between "servers" and "work stations" as the eight flavors of Vista do. Why fork over cash to be treated like a serf when you could have all the king's software? Because M$ aims to destroy all simple networking and data exchange protocols, as outlined in their 1998 Halloween Documents. They want to make it as expensive and difficult as possible to leave them. If they don't, people will flock to the vast savings free software has to offer. Free networks and protocols give people the freedom to move.
Don't go back to school. Degrees don't guarantee jobs, and you can (and should teach) yourself in a few weeks what takes months to cover in school.
People I know who got a CS degree know fundamentals that are important to understand and can better evaluate the buzzword of the month. When you try to do it yourself, you are left with holes that can mislead you.
You already know your best advisers. You have a degree in film. There's plenty of tech in film, so see if you can't get in from that angle. Ask some of your former professors what they think. If they don't know, they know someone who does and what kind of career paths there are. They should also be able to recommend schools that fit. The people at your "mundane" job may also know things, if it's in any way related to film.
It's no where near too late if you manage not to dump everything you already know.
Masonite, styro-foam insulation and liquid nails make a good, quick hard case. You can add layers of squishy foam to further cushion a fall if you want. I put them in my laptop bags. If I have to go someplace soon, I'm going to pack my laptop back inside my clothes canvas bag. That should be good enough for the 12 foot fall you should expect your luggage to experience and in turn be hit by the corner of a hard case from the same distance.
If you want something fast for ordinary luggage, go to wall mart and see if any of the gun cases are big enough. They have plastic shells and squishy foam liners.
Nothing is fool proof so I'm going to avoid travel if I can until this stuff blows over again.