The problem isn't whether M$ supports a standard's adoption. They supported HTML but...
IE renders differntly than many other browsers, which all look more similar to each other than IE (thinking FF, Opera and Safari here).
IE supported non-standard tags (like, say ActiveX)
Because of IE's automatic market penetration, their extensions (no doubt patented) and misrepresntations of the standard (maybe patented) became standard on the web.
Remember: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Plus, then they will "comply to open standards" removing a EU/Mass./Whoever-else objection to using their software.
For accounts I don't care who access (like my free nytimes.com account), and in fact want people to crack to mess up the tracking data, I use the same password across all of them.
For infrequently used sites I choose a strong password, and forget it. Then, whenever I need that password, I get them to e-mail me a new one.
For accounts I use often and care about, I suck it up and memorize it. Pull a word or two, scramble the letters, add some numbers and punctuation randomly. Oftentimes, just thinking of that word, and cause I'm predicatable, I can recreate the password.
They did use a tracking becon. As far as they can tell, it is still working, to a couple km (diameter) circle. Unfortunately it landed in mountainous terrain, and "go[ing] towards the signal" is a physical impossiblity. (Okay, not impossible, but quite difficult). Also, the terrain is messing with the signals.
Next week (no hurry I suppose), the manufacturers of the tracking device are bringing more sensitive equipment and more experienced searchers to search for it.
That's not fair, to expect Office 97 to run fine on Vista. Well actually it is. If you had followed all of Microsoft's best practices, and work the platform as designed....you end up right where we are at today.
In 1997, under the Win95/98 model, there was no significant administrator vs. user account. In fact, I don't recall multiple accounts per machine. They finally added an administrator account and user account distinction that was easily accessible, and you blame the Office developers for not anticipating what the OS team would do??
I do agree with most of your registry bashing however.
No, he, as a QA guy, reproduced a known crashing bug in a piece of software, told his boss about it who decided, "That condition won't occur." And when the shit hit the fan, the boss said "The QA guy assured me that the conditions were XY and Z which could not have been the case on the production server.
How about copyright laws that recognize that their purpose is to allow artists to profit from their work for a period of time. However, the works are for the benefit of humanity. So no, even if you originally made it, you cannot alter works you've published and become part of the culture. No raping the first three movies Lucas.
Of course, creating derivative works is something that Lucas has a right to do (whether other people should or not is a different question).
The problem is not the electoral college. The problem is many states have instituted "winner-take-all" rules. This is a poor trade, since it enhances that one state's importance in the election at the cost of disenfranchising a portion of its electorate. By contrast, if all states split up the electors according to the vote, then the importance of states will be dependent on how many voters (they think) could be swayed. Which is a good thing.
The problem with direct election is that it ignores the safeguards built in to prevent a tyranny of the majority, ensuring candidates have broad appeal.
Four questions about bendable screens (which I love the idea of. I would have to update my laptop if they come out with those.) I am not a scientist, so I have no clue what the answers could be.
Since we don't have LED monitors yet, only plasma, DLP, CRT and LCD, would we actually be able to make Nano-light fiber monitors
100 volts of electricity to make light that can only be seen in a dark room? Would we be able to power this via a battery for any length of time, and would I get electricuted if I dropped it?(1)
Is there any degree of control for which elements in the strand light up?
Are we limited to monochrome screens, or will we use three elements (Lithium, Copper and Cobolt??) for RGB?
Do you mean most influential to the evolution of the web? Then Prodigy, AOL, the first Graphics enabled browser (Mozilla?), Amazon, and Yahoo! have to be on your list (leaving off all the underlying technologies)
Do you mean what right now what sites are using the most? Then Flash, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP, and Java belong on the list.
Do you mean best written? Then the list should include Google Search, heck, I'm getting tired. The point is there are still a lot more categories.
So I hereby request that users say what category of Greatness their choice meets, and remember that many these categories have the subcategories of for users and developers. A few exampes follow:
Influential
Popular
Well-designed
Useful
Prevelant
Enabling (differing from Useful in that GMail is Useful, but MySQL is Enabling)
Youtube is going to be clogged with eight-billion videos of clips out of context and "deep" bad voiceovers explaining why [Candidate X] is the worst/best thing after the devil/Jesus
And the annoyance of having links of all of them e-mailed to me pales to the joy that America is becoming (slightly) more democratic
Given the odds that some child conceived, somewhere, will have a genetic defect (not to mention prenatal difficulties, post-natal trauma, disease,...), should we all stop having them?
Yes
Or women should be willing to have sex with me. But damnit, if I cannot get any, I want others not to get any as well/selfpitingrant
WEP comprimised the communication of one retail store. Apparently enough information was stored in that one store to compromise a database with 4 years of records. So, an inside job at that level (assistant cashier probably had enough access to their wires) would be trivial.
A better question... why would 4 years of CC number, etc. be accessible over the internet at all. Why not have that server offline, with updates posted occassionally via sneakernet?
And hash the CC numbers.
And otherwise, protect consumer information.
The DNC lists allow companies to call you if you've "done business" with them in the past (forgot how long). Depending on which removal service he used, and their terms of use, he may have no recourse against those additional faxes.
Which is similar to the reason why so many companies offer free stuff for returning a card, so they can call you for like two years.
The vast majority of Harvard's funding comes from interest on it's endowment ( 2nd in the US after Princeton I believe). As is always the case at big, private schools the alumni make the decisions.
They almost certainly get more in federal funding than from the tuition of the students.
And students are usually a money-loser, as tuition covers only 1/3 to 1/2 of the costs associated with it.
On the other hand, winning a lawsuit against Harvard has to be about as difficult as against any major corporation, so is the RIAA really going to try? Probably not.
It's to ask him for a password that malicious application or user with no sudo access can't enter by themselves, and to give him the application's name so he can be sure that the application that will run is the same application that he just asked for."
Actually, that's exactly what ZoneAlarm does on my system. "iTunes.exe wants to access the internet, Allow or Deny?"
And if I allow something to access the internet, it can access the LAN. If it can run as a server on the internet, it can access the internet. Actually, I think it's the best UI I've seen for permissions.
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Imagine outputting a to-do list with, say, *every* freaking buffer overflow exploit in the Windows code tree.
From what I understand from my friend who works for M$, one of the main reasons it took so bloody long to write Vista was they did precisely that. He may be wrong or the auto-buffer overflow exploit finder may not have been perfect, but at least they're trying.
I believe that the Creator (choose your version) had 6 days pass between creation of the universe and emergence of homo sapien sapien sapien (1). I don't believe time passes consistantly for all observers (2). Therefore I see it as perfectly consistant to believe in both. People more educated in theoretical physics than I agree that this is a possible interpertation, depending on the rate of expansion of the universe, and assuming that the Creator stays at the center while the earth is travelling away from it.
Are you so narrowminded as to assume:
That you understand the way the universe works so well that all seemingly counter-intuitive ideas are automatically wrong.
All religious people are Christian (I'm not).
For the sake of disclosure, I lie to myself quite often, but usually only about my attractiveness to the opposite sex.
IIRC Congress changed the official name of man in the past few years. This is analogous to the Supreme Court ruling the tomato was a vegetable, not a fruit, in the 70's.
*caveat* I believe that only the first one has any place in schools.
I can understand how people can believe in intelligent design. Deal with an omnipotent, omniscient, future-seeing being, and I'm sure he can rig a random game of chance like evolution (or the lotto; I'm looking at you big guy).
What I don't understand is how anyone could believe it's not a religious belief, or that somehow its incongrous(sp?) with strict creationism. After all, IIRC all strict creationism does is shrink the timeline, not alter the order of operations. And didn't some frizzy-haired guy explain that time is relative?
When I was in school (in America, in the 90's, and yes, in the south) we had time set aside during the day for private prayers. I'm fairly religious, but I really don't want my government to interfere with my religion, nor my religion in my government. Apparently, I have discovered some secular concept of 24 hours in a day and believe that, aside from the 8 sleeping, I spent less than 8 in school and thus had plenty of time to pursue my religion (not your Southern Baptistism Principal X.) outside of the few hours a day when I'm trying to learn things that will help me seem knowledgeable latter in life.
Of course, even when it wasn't prayer time, the teachers were horrible, so I suppose it is not that big a loss.
The navigation systems shut down for 13 months, only 2/16 engines work reliably, 2/3 of the wheels failed and pellet gyn failed to fire. Yet they're bringing it back to Earth "in case some asteroid dust had slipped into its collection chamber by chance."
Because they're feeling lucky?
Most of the comments have been offering simple ways to dump less C02 in the air. The prize is expressly to remove CO2 we've already added, so solar/nuclear power, less driving gas, etc. wouldn't count.
Nor would the various other schemes.
But my nifty idea is to spin the entire atmosphere. The CO2, being heavier than most air, but heavier than ozone, would form a layer all it's own. Then all we need is planes with ram-scoops to collect the C02, and later pipe it up to space in large tubes.
Are hurricanes/tornados a "negative environmental impact"?
Actually, I don't think M$ was in the wrong. You were actually sharing a 1.2 gig file which purported to be copyrighted content. Would you think it unreasonable if you had filled the file with random 1's and 0's? If you had posted a linux distro's source code?
To what degree do you think they should be forced to match the file's content with what it claims to be? What if you use a proprietary compression format?
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The problem isn't whether M$ supports a standard's adoption. They supported HTML but...
Remember: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Plus, then they will "comply to open standards" removing a EU/Mass./Whoever-else objection to using their software.
For accounts I don't care who access (like my free nytimes.com account), and in fact want people to crack to mess up the tracking data, I use the same password across all of them.
For infrequently used sites I choose a strong password, and forget it. Then, whenever I need that password, I get them to e-mail me a new one.
For accounts I use often and care about, I suck it up and memorize it. Pull a word or two, scramble the letters, add some numbers and punctuation randomly. Oftentimes, just thinking of that word, and cause I'm predicatable, I can recreate the password.
They did use a tracking becon. As far as they can tell, it is still working, to a couple km (diameter) circle. Unfortunately it landed in mountainous terrain, and "go[ing] towards the signal" is a physical impossiblity. (Okay, not impossible, but quite difficult). Also, the terrain is messing with the signals.
Next week (no hurry I suppose), the manufacturers of the tracking device are bringing more sensitive equipment and more experienced searchers to search for it.
In 1997, under the Win95/98 model, there was no significant administrator vs. user account. In fact, I don't recall multiple accounts per machine. They finally added an administrator account and user account distinction that was easily accessible, and you blame the Office developers for not anticipating what the OS team would do??
I do agree with most of your registry bashing however.
See Mom, I told you I have good reasons for not going outside.
No, he, as a QA guy, reproduced a known crashing bug in a piece of software, told his boss about it who decided, "That condition won't occur." And when the shit hit the fan, the boss said "The QA guy assured me that the conditions were XY and Z which could not have been the case on the production server.
How about copyright laws that recognize that their purpose is to allow artists to profit from their work for a period of time. However, the works are for the benefit of humanity. So no, even if you originally made it, you cannot alter works you've published and become part of the culture. No raping the first three movies Lucas.
Of course, creating derivative works is something that Lucas has a right to do (whether other people should or not is a different question).
I know it's off topic, but...
The problem is not the electoral college. The problem is many states have instituted "winner-take-all" rules. This is a poor trade, since it enhances that one state's importance in the election at the cost of disenfranchising a portion of its electorate. By contrast, if all states split up the electors according to the vote, then the importance of states will be dependent on how many voters (they think) could be swayed. Which is a good thing.
The problem with direct election is that it ignores the safeguards built in to prevent a tyranny of the majority, ensuring candidates have broad appeal.
Four questions about bendable screens (which I love the idea of. I would have to update my laptop if they come out with those.) I am not a scientist, so I have no clue what the answers could be.
Do you mean most influential to the evolution of the web? Then Prodigy, AOL, the first Graphics enabled browser (Mozilla?), Amazon, and Yahoo! have to be on your list (leaving off all the underlying technologies)
Do you mean what right now what sites are using the most? Then Flash, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP, and Java belong on the list.
Do you mean best written? Then the list should include Google Search, heck, I'm getting tired. The point is there are still a lot more categories.
So I hereby request that users say what category of Greatness their choice meets, and remember that many these categories have the subcategories of for users and developers. A few exampes follow:
Youtube is going to be clogged with eight-billion videos of clips out of context and "deep" bad voiceovers explaining why [Candidate X] is the worst/best thing after the devil/Jesus
And the annoyance of having links of all of them e-mailed to me pales to the joy that America is becoming (slightly) more democratic
Yes
Or women should be willing to have sex with me. But damnit, if I cannot get any, I want others not to get any as well /selfpitingrant
WEP comprimised the communication of one retail store. Apparently enough information was stored in that one store to compromise a database with 4 years of records. So, an inside job at that level (assistant cashier probably had enough access to their wires) would be trivial. A better question... why would 4 years of CC number, etc. be accessible over the internet at all. Why not have that server offline, with updates posted occassionally via sneakernet? And hash the CC numbers. And otherwise, protect consumer information.
Isn't it better to report all possible breaches, including false alarms, so things can be dealt with earlier (and cheaper)?
The DNC lists allow companies to call you if you've "done business" with them in the past (forgot how long). Depending on which removal service he used, and their terms of use, he may have no recourse against those additional faxes. Which is similar to the reason why so many companies offer free stuff for returning a card, so they can call you for like two years.
The vast majority of Harvard's funding comes from interest on it's endowment ( 2nd in the US after Princeton I believe). As is always the case at big, private schools the alumni make the decisions. They almost certainly get more in federal funding than from the tuition of the students. And students are usually a money-loser, as tuition covers only 1/3 to 1/2 of the costs associated with it. On the other hand, winning a lawsuit against Harvard has to be about as difficult as against any major corporation, so is the RIAA really going to try? Probably not.
All Open Source software is meaningless. In fact all non-M$ software is meaningless.
Actually, that's exactly what ZoneAlarm does on my system. "iTunes.exe wants to access the internet, Allow or Deny?"
And if I allow something to access the internet, it can access the LAN. If it can run as a server on the internet, it can access the internet. Actually, I think it's the best UI I've seen for permissions.
Don't worry everyone, this problem was fixed yesterday: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/18 25230
No bandwidth, No servers, No problem
From what I understand from my friend who works for M$, one of the main reasons it took so bloody long to write Vista was they did precisely that. He may be wrong or the auto-buffer overflow exploit finder may not have been perfect, but at least they're trying.
I believe that the Creator (choose your version) had 6 days pass between creation of the universe and emergence of homo sapien sapien sapien (1). I don't believe time passes consistantly for all observers (2). Therefore I see it as perfectly consistant to believe in both. People more educated in theoretical physics than I agree that this is a possible interpertation, depending on the rate of expansion of the universe, and assuming that the Creator stays at the center while the earth is travelling away from it.
Are you so narrowminded as to assume:
For the sake of disclosure, I lie to myself quite often, but usually only about my attractiveness to the opposite sex.
I can understand how people can believe in intelligent design. Deal with an omnipotent, omniscient, future-seeing being, and I'm sure he can rig a random game of chance like evolution (or the lotto; I'm looking at you big guy).
What I don't understand is how anyone could believe it's not a religious belief, or that somehow its incongrous(sp?) with strict creationism. After all, IIRC all strict creationism does is shrink the timeline, not alter the order of operations. And didn't some frizzy-haired guy explain that time is relative?
When I was in school (in America, in the 90's, and yes, in the south) we had time set aside during the day for private prayers. I'm fairly religious, but I really don't want my government to interfere with my religion, nor my religion in my government. Apparently, I have discovered some secular concept of 24 hours in a day and believe that, aside from the 8 sleeping, I spent less than 8 in school and thus had plenty of time to pursue my religion (not your Southern Baptistism Principal X.) outside of the few hours a day when I'm trying to learn things that will help me seem knowledgeable latter in life.
Of course, even when it wasn't prayer time, the teachers were horrible, so I suppose it is not that big a loss.
The navigation systems shut down for 13 months, only 2/16 engines work reliably, 2/3 of the wheels failed and pellet gyn failed to fire. Yet they're bringing it back to Earth "in case some asteroid dust had slipped into its collection chamber by chance." Because they're feeling lucky?
Nor would the various other schemes.
But my nifty idea is to spin the entire atmosphere. The CO2, being heavier than most air, but heavier than ozone, would form a layer all it's own. Then all we need is planes with ram-scoops to collect the C02, and later pipe it up to space in large tubes.
Are hurricanes/tornados a "negative environmental impact"?
Actually, I don't think M$ was in the wrong. You were actually sharing a 1.2 gig file which purported to be copyrighted content. Would you think it unreasonable if you had filled the file with random 1's and 0's? If you had posted a linux distro's source code? To what degree do you think they should be forced to match the file's content with what it claims to be? What if you use a proprietary compression format?