..after the initial release then pull, the bricked PCs, the host of security issues and the whole general fuck up that MS have done over vista so far I predict a cautious, "if I must", approach from sys admins with every possible protection and back-up in place. This is not going to be a stampede for the latest secure patches. Truly MS has been a shot in the foot release for them.
Second the poster higher up: it will sure be interested to see how many of the wait for SP1 adopters now follow through and adopt.
Given the general widely held feeling about the the superiority of XP over Vista I cannot see many people clamoring to do so. But on the flip argument MS will withdraw XP soon to try and force adoption of Vista - this would leave many potential customers between a brick and a hard place.
No bother to me - I've been linux only at home for ~8 years (so I guess I'm biased) - but we sure live in interesting times.
Everybody is entitled to their viewpoint, this is mine. I realise that it might not agree with some of the/.ters here - but its what I think.
Suppose there is a technology that the police can use that can identify people from the minutest detail left at a crime scene? Suppose it promises to reduce crime and make the world a safer place?
I really do not buy the "privacy is everything argument" because I really do not believe there is a case to answer to here. Suppose the UK went ahead and ordered a mandatory ID card and DNA samples for all. What then? Do I really think that my move would be monitored by an evil government agency intent on watching my every moment? Of course not.
The simple fact is that is some Orwellian agent wanted to monitor my every move in the UK then he could anyhow, if however he wanted to solve that murder up the road the he probably could not. Any effective security for any given population generally comes from one of two things: education and control. I do not believe education as a society is an effective practical answer, so that leaves control.
DNA sampling is a tool. Nothing more. The police would not take samples and say "its you! you were on the scene! you're the killer" - they would take samples and use them to locate people *then* they investigate people on their own merit. Eliminating them from the inquiry and then moving on.
What do we have to lose with a DNA database? Already computers track our purchases, cars, mobile phone - to kid ourselves there is something worth protecting is insane. Yet some of the knee jerk reactions are just unbelievable in the this one instance.
Lets look at some hard facts on the existing 4.5m people on the database (out of ~65m population). Already there are over 5.2% of the entire population of the UK on the database - its coming people whether you want it too or not.
In 2005 45k matches were found from crime scenes and directly solved, these included 422 homicides and 645 rapes, and these numbers are going up. The police were able to identify the perpetrators and then confirm they were the criminals by additional means. Without the database how many of these crimes would of been solved?
The recent rape and murder of Sally Bowman was solved via the database, the murderer got in a fight at a bar nine months later and would found with a positive match from the crime scene.
The 5 prostitutes killed in Ipswich last year were solved by the DNA database.
From the home office documentation this is their sample case "In Canterbury in 1988, an 11 year old and a nine year old girl were raped and indecently assaulted. In Derby in 2001, a shoplifter was arrested and a DNA sample taken. His DNA matched the 1998 crime scene samples. The offender pleaded guilty to the 1988 offenses and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment."
Face it the system *IS* finding criminals and matching them to their crimes.
Currently only people convicted or arrested and detained are added to the database - but given the compelling results so far a compulsory scheme seems only a matter of time.
The point is that there is much to gain from a compulsory scheme, and not so much to fear. I'm not going to state the trite argument "if you have nothing to fear" - I simply don't think there is a vast evil conspiracy obsessed with my every move. Sorry if this is a bit rambling!
yaaay! design that holodeck for me. the sooner I can move into my virtual world and live my my simulated Monica Bellucci and her three simulated identical sisters the better (though I might have to debug and apply a patch for her personality).
oh wait? they are *only* working on the personality? damn.
oh well, at least the cleaner will not need a mop and bucket.
but seriously: you wait until telemarketers and con men get hold of an artificial personality that can hold several hundred conversations simultaneously - play the numbers and you talk people into anything.
even if OOXML is approved (and lets face it deep wallet large multinationals have a habit of winning these things) its name is MUD everywhere. I really cannot see anybody using it (has MS made it their standard yet?) and the "de facto" standard has a good chance of being ODF. Sooner or later MS will have to accept that.
As for the "agreement" any decisions or choices offered by any corporation will always be biased and in their interests instead of the users.
The point is that people who gamble rarely understand the odds. Those that do understand the odds and the house percentage don't unusually gamble. Or if they gamble then they count cards as well.
whereas I derive a lot of pleasure about hearing the **AA and their cronies getting hosed I'm a little confused here.
how is jurisdiction defined in 'net terms? physical address of the "investigator"? physical address of the "guilty" party? location of all the 'net infrastructure? where the summons where served? seems like this is far from evident to me.
can they simply serve a warrant from a location where they are licensed?
heh. reminds me of a colleague who traveled to china once - but before he left he argued with his wife.
her revenge? she packed a set of carving knives in his hand luggage.
"damn you, you silly little man! I already told you nobody has fiddled with my luggage!" - needless to say the knives and his argumentative nature meant that he missed his original flight. ho ho..
I wonder how the **AA will blame this on digital piracy and those pesky college kids...?
This, coupled with the fact that some major studios have pulled some **AA funding, and the fact that they have attempted to make money buy pissing off their user base (hopefully) spells the end for the **AA.
In the words of Monty Python "and there was much rejoicing!"
what we need is driver moderation. if somebody consistently cuts people up, brakes sharply and tail gates then other drivers will mod him. when his scores drops under a certain amount he is warned, beyond that he is banned for a week or so. beyond that the ban gets longer. maybe a financial incentive like cheaper insurance/tax for good behavior.
in other words give the driving community the means to control itself with a suitable preventative system - each driver can only mod another driver once a weeks and small lapses are ironed out.
after all, if everybody drove sensibly with a nice large gap then the odds of many of these traffic phenomena forming is reduced. clever software would give a weighting to people who's mods followed the mainstream of recommendations maybe.
so.. what are the odds of the robotic rover being hit by a very high speed mass impacting in an attempt to locate hydrogen fired from another NASA section?
I can see it now... "mission controller! we did not find any hydrogen, but we picked up large amounts of refined titanium, gold and radioactive isotopes! aliens!"
meanwhile in another room perplexed and gloomy tech monitor their screens in woe and confusion, whilst listening to the cheers next door...
NEC - yes thats right the major international corp. - found a entire fake NEC outfit working in China, complete with factories, hundreds of employees, using the same logo, letterheads and even staff ID badges. They found out when kit started coming back for repair that they had not even made. its still one of my favorite China fake goods stories, because you just could not make it up.
The hardest thing is sometimes to persuade people that what they are doing in actually wrong in the first place, I guess this is the case with Shareaza.
build modular components that can be combined, recycled and handed down. the trick to being green is to mandate power efficiency and buy/recycle intelligently.
for computers it maddens me that people get a top of the range high power monster to browse the net and do word processing, when their old PC would of done the job fine. MS and their ilk persuade people to upgrade by relying on things like redundant feature creep and security FUD to stop them using older versions, but in reality older versions could be relied on to do the work if security patches were updated.
you do not need a quad core 2GB machine to read email, but you do need a whizzy machine to run vista and thats were MS makes their money. use that older PC as a work horse for 5 years instead of 1 and you have been five times more green.
on another note with LCD screen, I was thinking the other month if anybody has every consider a LCD monitor where the backplate can be tilted down flat with a mirror surface to shine sunlight up into the back of the screen - aka a natural backlight? i ask as thats one of the major power drains on a laptop and you would not need that much sunlight to make it readable.
roll on an epaper laptop with flash storage for extreme low power/long battery usage. how an "Asus EEE-Paper"?
still at least the Pakistanis will now the spared the inevitable custard pie and ridicule videos that will now flood youtube parodying this fuck up.
I'm more in favor of this being motivated by the large number of vote rigging videos and independent news vids floating around youtube that are outside of Pakistani government control.
Meanwhile if you invent a really cool technology that saves millions you only get payment for, what, 20 years?
Seems a little disproportionate/unfair - I mean like a good tune as much as the next person, but I don't see it having the same impact as many new inventions can. Sounds harsh if the inventor of a third world solar powered incubator, or a new catheter, or a water purification kit gets money for only 20 years whilst the writer of the crazy frog can get money for 95. What is the world coming to?
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One thing is for certain..
..after the initial release then pull, the bricked PCs, the host of security issues and the whole general fuck up that MS have done over vista so far I predict a cautious, "if I must", approach from sys admins with every possible protection and back-up in place. This is not going to be a stampede for the latest secure patches. Truly MS has been a shot in the foot release for them.
Second the poster higher up: it will sure be interested to see how many of the wait for SP1 adopters now follow through and adopt.
Given the general widely held feeling about the the superiority of XP over Vista I cannot see many people clamoring to do so. But on the flip argument MS will withdraw XP soon to try and force adoption of Vista - this would leave many potential customers between a brick and a hard place.
No bother to me - I've been linux only at home for ~8 years (so I guess I'm biased) - but we sure live in interesting times.
Everybody is entitled to their viewpoint, this is mine. I realise that it might not agree with some of the /.ters here - but its what I think.
Suppose there is a technology that the police can use that can identify people from the minutest detail left at a crime scene? Suppose it promises to reduce crime and make the world a safer place?
I really do not buy the "privacy is everything argument" because I really do not believe there is a case to answer to here. Suppose the UK went ahead and ordered a mandatory ID card and DNA samples for all. What then? Do I really think that my move would be monitored by an evil government agency intent on watching my every moment? Of course not.
The simple fact is that is some Orwellian agent wanted to monitor my every move in the UK then he could anyhow, if however he wanted to solve that murder up the road the he probably could not. Any effective security for any given population generally comes from one of two things: education and control. I do not believe education as a society is an effective practical answer, so that leaves control.
DNA sampling is a tool. Nothing more. The police would not take samples and say "its you! you were on the scene! you're the killer" - they would take samples and use them to locate people *then* they investigate people on their own merit. Eliminating them from the inquiry and then moving on.
What do we have to lose with a DNA database? Already computers track our purchases, cars, mobile phone - to kid ourselves there is something worth protecting is insane. Yet some of the knee jerk reactions are just unbelievable in the this one instance.
Lets look at some hard facts on the existing 4.5m people on the database (out of ~65m population). Already there are over 5.2% of the entire population of the UK on the database - its coming people whether you want it too or not.
In 2005 45k matches were found from crime scenes and directly solved, these included 422 homicides and 645 rapes, and these numbers are going up. The police were able to identify the perpetrators and then confirm they were the criminals by additional means. Without the database how many of these crimes would of been solved?
The recent rape and murder of Sally Bowman was solved via the database, the murderer got in a fight at a bar nine months later and would found with a positive match from the crime scene.
The 5 prostitutes killed in Ipswich last year were solved by the DNA database.
From the home office documentation this is their sample case "In Canterbury in 1988, an 11 year old and a nine year old girl were raped and indecently assaulted. In Derby in 2001, a shoplifter was arrested and a DNA sample taken. His DNA matched the 1998 crime scene samples. The offender pleaded guilty to the 1988 offenses and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment."
Face it the system *IS* finding criminals and matching them to their crimes.
Currently only people convicted or arrested and detained are added to the database - but given the compelling results so far a compulsory scheme seems only a matter of time.
The point is that there is much to gain from a compulsory scheme, and not so much to fear. I'm not going to state the trite argument "if you have nothing to fear" - I simply don't think there is a vast evil conspiracy obsessed with my every move. Sorry if this is a bit rambling!
yaaay! design that holodeck for me. the sooner I can move into my virtual world and live my my simulated Monica Bellucci and her three simulated identical sisters the better (though I might have to debug and apply a patch for her personality).
oh wait? they are *only* working on the personality? damn.
oh well, at least the cleaner will not need a mop and bucket.
but seriously: you wait until telemarketers and con men get hold of an artificial personality that can hold several hundred conversations simultaneously - play the numbers and you talk people into anything.
even if OOXML is approved (and lets face it deep wallet large multinationals have a habit of winning these things) its name is MUD everywhere. I really cannot see anybody using it (has MS made it their standard yet?) and the "de facto" standard has a good chance of being ODF. Sooner or later MS will have to accept that.
As for the "agreement" any decisions or choices offered by any corporation will always be biased and in their interests instead of the users.
thats the cue for the CoS to DDOS the wikileaks server and the Striesand Effect to kick in ten seconds later, oh wait - there we go...
doh! doh! doh! I mean wahooo!
The point is that people who gamble rarely understand the odds. Those that do understand the odds and the house percentage don't unusually gamble. Or if they gamble then they count cards as well.
whereas I derive a lot of pleasure about hearing the **AA and their cronies getting hosed I'm a little confused here.
how is jurisdiction defined in 'net terms? physical address of the "investigator"? physical address of the "guilty" party? location of all the 'net infrastructure? where the summons where served? seems like this is far from evident to me.
can they simply serve a warrant from a location where they are licensed?
privacy, shmivacy - what I really want to know is are they going to take our Scrabulous away?
how else am I going to fill the hours spent sitting in front of a computer whilst at work?
if she's "hot"?
/. so you'd better settle for "still warm"..
this is
heh. reminds me of a colleague who traveled to china once - but before he left he argued with his wife.
her revenge? she packed a set of carving knives in his hand luggage.
"damn you, you silly little man! I already told you nobody has fiddled with my luggage!" - needless to say the knives and his argumentative nature meant that he missed his original flight. ho ho..
I wonder how the **AA will blame this on digital piracy and those pesky college kids...?
This, coupled with the fact that some major studios have pulled some **AA funding, and the fact that they have attempted to make money buy pissing off their user base (hopefully) spells the end for the **AA.
In the words of Monty Python "and there was much rejoicing!"
heh.
what we need is driver moderation. if somebody consistently cuts people up, brakes sharply and tail gates then other drivers will mod him. when his scores drops under a certain amount he is warned, beyond that he is banned for a week or so. beyond that the ban gets longer. maybe a financial incentive like cheaper insurance/tax for good behavior.
in other words give the driving community the means to control itself with a suitable preventative system - each driver can only mod another driver once a weeks and small lapses are ironed out.
after all, if everybody drove sensibly with a nice large gap then the odds of many of these traffic phenomena forming is reduced. clever software would give a weighting to people who's mods followed the mainstream of recommendations maybe.
by all means use fiction to explore consequences, educate, and provoke discussion - but never forget for a moment that it *is* fiction.
..and sees income shrivel up and die as much as their reputation has with vista.
so.. what are the odds of the robotic rover being hit by a very high speed mass impacting in an attempt to locate hydrogen fired from another NASA section?
I can see it now... "mission controller! we did not find any hydrogen, but we picked up large amounts of refined titanium, gold and radioactive isotopes! aliens!"
meanwhile in another room perplexed and gloomy tech monitor their screens in woe and confusion, whilst listening to the cheers next door...
well now, lets hope they have better luck looking for hydrogen deposits then the Beagle Martian impacter of a few years ago...!
I mean, seriously, we can get two robotic rover probes on Mars for >3 years but are reduced to slinging a dumb mass to the moon?
nah, its no problem - a good martian winter downpour will wash the dust off. and, voila, the problem is eliminated.
:)
they'll need to get close to one of the canals if they want to wash of some of the sand clogging the treads as well.
NEC - yes thats right the major international corp. - found a entire fake NEC outfit working in China, complete with factories, hundreds of employees, using the same logo, letterheads and even staff ID badges. They found out when kit started coming back for repair that they had not even made. its still one of my favorite China fake goods stories, because you just could not make it up.
Think I'm joking? I assure you I am not, here are some references...
http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800416910_1800007_NT_5c0424e2.HTM
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187200176
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/technology/01pirate.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/slick-pirates-seize-entire-brand/2006/05/29/1148754904830.html
The hardest thing is sometimes to persuade people that what they are doing in actually wrong in the first place, I guess this is the case with Shareaza.
build modular components that can be combined, recycled and handed down. the trick to being green is to mandate power efficiency and buy/recycle intelligently. for computers it maddens me that people get a top of the range high power monster to browse the net and do word processing, when their old PC would of done the job fine. MS and their ilk persuade people to upgrade by relying on things like redundant feature creep and security FUD to stop them using older versions, but in reality older versions could be relied on to do the work if security patches were updated. you do not need a quad core 2GB machine to read email, but you do need a whizzy machine to run vista and thats were MS makes their money. use that older PC as a work horse for 5 years instead of 1 and you have been five times more green. on another note with LCD screen, I was thinking the other month if anybody has every consider a LCD monitor where the backplate can be tilted down flat with a mirror surface to shine sunlight up into the back of the screen - aka a natural backlight? i ask as thats one of the major power drains on a laptop and you would not need that much sunlight to make it readable. roll on an epaper laptop with flash storage for extreme low power/long battery usage. how an "Asus EEE-Paper"?
still at least the Pakistanis will now the spared the inevitable custard pie and ridicule videos that will now flood youtube parodying this fuck up.
I'm more in favor of this being motivated by the large number of vote rigging videos and independent news vids floating around youtube that are outside of Pakistani government control.
...she never realized that they monitored her internet usage at the proxy server?
(naturally they would of blocked certain protocols...)
haha. at the risk of lowering the tone they could finally do away with all those zips!
btw. if you don't know what a gimp suit is I strongly suggest you don't do a google image search on them for the sake on yer eyeballs.
in soviet russia, the dating chat bot wants 96% of you (but will settle for your bank details)
for those who have not been following this story, look here..
http://www.betanews.com/article/Seductive_Russian_chat_bot_tries_to_steal_your_private_data/1197588297
sounds like this idea would make the malicious cyber bot more effective and being your perfect match.
the Streisand effect should be kicking in about now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Meanwhile if you invent a really cool technology that saves millions you only get payment for, what, 20 years?
Seems a little disproportionate/unfair - I mean like a good tune as much as the next person, but I don't see it having the same impact as many new inventions can. Sounds harsh if the inventor of a third world solar powered incubator, or a new catheter, or a water purification kit gets money for only 20 years whilst the writer of the crazy frog can get money for 95. What is the world coming to?