The above poster has clearly stated some unpopular truths about Islam.
It is an unfortunate truth that Islam is basicly incompatible with many of the freedoms of the Western world - all the best wishes and desires of the multiculturalists will not change this basic truth.
Daniel Pipes is just stating unpopular truths - do not kill the messenger, challenge the message if you must.
Standard Operating Procedure for Microsoft is to have a little chat with Asus about their 'nice little business'.
It could go something like this:
Microsoft, "You have a nice business here; you sell a lot of motherboards."
Asus, "We sure do. The motherboard business has been very very good to us."
Microsoft, "And we at Microsoft have always been good to you, right?"
Asus, "Well... there was the tablet fiasco. Remember how you convinced many of us...
Microsoft, "Nevermind that. I am talking about all the help and access you get in order to write all your drivers for Windows. We have always been there for you, right?
Asus, "Well... Vista didn't...
Microsoft, "Forget about Vista for now! Just how far would you get without confidential access to all our operating systems?
Asus, "We couldn't sell any motherboards to Windows users, just Linux, BSD, Solaris...
Microsoft, "In other words, You Would Be SCREWED!"
Asus, *hangs head* "What do you want?"
Microsoft, "We are not happy about your $200 little laptop running Linux."
Asus, "But we can't stop it now - we have taken orders..."
Microsoft, "We want you to offer it with Windows!"
Asus, "But Windows is too big and too expensive and...
Microsoft, "Let me tell you what you are going to do. (1) You are going to raise the price to $400 instead of $200. (2) Then you are going to offer a Windows XP version for $395. (3) Then you are going to make a larger version that will actually work with XP.
Asus, "But our original version is underpowered and doeesn't have enough storage for XP and Office..."
Microsoft, "Too bad. Our customers have to become used to much less performance - haven't you tried Vista yet? And you leave the storage problem to us - once we trim out all the useless crap XP will fit - so will Office. It will still be slow but who cares."
Asus, "But our customers..."
Microsoft, *screaming* "They aren't YOUR customers!!! They are OUR customers!!! The only reason they buy your motherboards and computers is to run OUR operating system. And if you don't cooperate with us, you just may have all kinds of problems getting the information you need to create the drivers for your new products. UNDERSTAND?"
*CRASH*
Asus, "Yeah, sure. We understand Mr. Ballmer... Could I get you another chair?"
Microsoft, "Maybe later. Where are the girls?"
And so it goes, Microsoft Standard Operating Procedure for the last 25 years.
Impressive. Still, I expect you are switching into a resistive load.
These people are talking about 'consuming' 2 watts with an undetermined gigahertz RF output on CMOS. Think standing waves. Think trying to push that kind of output through a 1 mm antenna.
I have played a little with WiFi transceivers putting out 1/10th that power on much larger chips and they run hot.
This is Microsoft publishing all it's APIs along with a list of the patents they claim protect their protocols.
Free for open source developers BUT anybody who commercializes interoperability (OpenOffice, Samba, Mono, C#, Moonlight) will have to pay.
By publishing their protocols and then associating them with their patents they are throwing down the patent troll gauntlet - it is totally incompatible to the GPL and other open/free licenses (BSD).
One good aspect is it will give the patent busters an opportunity to start challenging all of Microsoft's phoney baloney patent portfolio.
Yup - Microsoft is at it again with a whole new play card - if only they could direct their evil into trully productive channels.
"So what you're saying is that creators do not have the very basic property right of right of sale."
That is correct.
I will happily pay artists and performers but not media companies or organizations.
Further, I would limit the life of Copyright in Canada to 30 years or the life of the artist, whichever comes first!
I am tired of artists' grandchildren controlling the copyrights of long deceased artists. Copyright is a special dispensation by government to promote and reward the creative individual - it is not real! The fact that a performance can now be copied and distributed to millions without creativity or talent should totally void exclusive rights.
Artists and performers should create and perform to earn a living! I have paid to see Pink Floyd, The Doors, Led Zepplin and dozens of others, sometimes on many occasions over their life. I have paid to see movies in movie theatres over 30 years and the only reason I don't now is the obnoxious advertisements I am FORCED to watch in order to to see what I paid for. I will PAY for a DVD or CD as a reward to the artists or performers.
The media distribution companies are just parasites that live off the creative juices of the real creators and performers and they want the law to accommodate and enforce their business model at taxpayer's expense.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." -Robert Heinlein, 1939
"they're guessing it was a root password that was stolen"
A pretty good guess, otherwise we could expect to see millions of Apache web servers compromised (there are over 75 million Apache web servers in active service) and anticipate a much greater number of Windows clients infected.
The significance of this story is not that Windows clients are the target, the significance is that the infecting agent is originating from Apache/Linux servers.
According to the story (did you read it), it appears to be a situation where the root password has been compromised, not the applications or operating system.
Problems with IIS were as a result of vulns in the application and/or Windows operating system - totally different problem.
Would you blame a lock company if the user left his keys in the lock?
From Story"Perhaps Microsoft didn't go there because it didn't have the evidence to support a case for the deal harming consumers"
I don't think Microsoft really considers consumers that way. If they did, do you really think Microsoft would be stuffing Vista down consumer's throats?
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There can be no patent on a games and the copyright on the board must be pretty narrow - certainly does not cover the essentials of the game.
The only legitimate complaint could be the title but that is going to be tough.
I REALLY hope Scrabulous kicks their butt in court.
Ed
Search the HD for a home address, there must be one somewhere. Failing that, look for names and then look them up in a phone book.
Once you have an address, drop over and open up a big can of Whop Ass.
What could be simpler?
Ed
The above poster has clearly stated some unpopular truths about Islam.
It is an unfortunate truth that Islam is basicly incompatible with many of the freedoms of the Western world - all the best wishes and desires of the multiculturalists will not change this basic truth.
Daniel Pipes is just stating unpopular truths - do not kill the messenger, challenge the message if you must.
Ed
Standard Operating Procedure for Microsoft is to have a little chat with Asus about their 'nice little business'.
It could go something like this:
Microsoft, "You have a nice business here; you sell a lot of motherboards."
Asus, "We sure do. The motherboard business has been very very good to us."
Microsoft, "And we at Microsoft have always been good to you, right?"
Asus, "Well... there was the tablet fiasco. Remember how you convinced many of us...
Microsoft, "Nevermind that. I am talking about all the help and access you get in order to write all your drivers for Windows. We have always been there for you, right?
Asus, "Well... Vista didn't...
Microsoft, "Forget about Vista for now! Just how far would you get without confidential access to all our operating systems?
Asus, "We couldn't sell any motherboards to Windows users, just Linux, BSD, Solaris...
Microsoft, "In other words, You Would Be SCREWED!"
Asus, *hangs head* "What do you want?"
Microsoft, "We are not happy about your $200 little laptop running Linux."
Asus, "But we can't stop it now - we have taken orders..."
Microsoft, "We want you to offer it with Windows!"
Asus, "But Windows is too big and too expensive and...
Microsoft, "Let me tell you what you are going to do. (1) You are going to raise the price to $400 instead of $200. (2) Then you are going to offer a Windows XP version for $395. (3) Then you are going to make a larger version that will actually work with XP.
Asus, "But our original version is underpowered and doeesn't have enough storage for XP and Office..."
Microsoft, "Too bad. Our customers have to become used to much less performance - haven't you tried Vista yet? And you leave the storage problem to us - once we trim out all the useless crap XP will fit - so will Office. It will still be slow but who cares."
Asus, "But our customers..."
Microsoft, *screaming* "They aren't YOUR customers!!! They are OUR customers!!! The only reason they buy your motherboards and computers is to run OUR operating system. And if you don't cooperate with us, you just may have all kinds of problems getting the information you need to create the drivers for your new products. UNDERSTAND?"
*CRASH*
Asus, "Yeah, sure. We understand Mr. Ballmer... Could I get you another chair?"
Microsoft, "Maybe later. Where are the girls?"
And so it goes, Microsoft Standard Operating Procedure for the last 25 years.
Ed (UnDead)
But I would also stop 70% of my CD/DVD purchases.
Ed
"Here's a 60 GHz PA that's about 50 mW"
Now that is fascinating!
Perhaps 2 watts at these frequencies isn't out of the question.
Thanks for the heads up.
Ed
"My company is putting 600mW through 9mm^2"
Impressive. Still, I expect you are switching into a resistive load.
These people are talking about 'consuming' 2 watts with an undetermined gigahertz RF output on CMOS. Think standing waves. Think trying to push that kind of output through a 1 mm antenna.
I have played a little with WiFi transceivers putting out 1/10th that power on much larger chips and they run hot.
Just sounds too good to be true.
Ed
I don't think so.
The dimensions that are discussed are unrealistic when considering heat dissipation let alone power conduction at that scale.
Further, it is a far cry from ideal lab results to real world conditions with the myriad of problems facing super high frequency technology!
I smell a rain dance - a promotional announcement to attract financial angels.
Ed
This is Microsoft publishing all it's APIs along with a list of the patents they claim protect their protocols.
Free for open source developers BUT anybody who commercializes interoperability (OpenOffice, Samba, Mono, C#, Moonlight) will have to pay.
By publishing their protocols and then associating them with their patents they are throwing down the patent troll gauntlet - it is totally incompatible to the GPL and other open/free licenses (BSD).
One good aspect is it will give the patent busters an opportunity to start challenging all of Microsoft's phoney baloney patent portfolio.
Yup - Microsoft is at it again with a whole new play card - if only they could direct their evil into trully productive channels.
Oh well.
Ed
For this to work, you must be a gamer *and* you must have a brain.
OK.
Ed
Sounds like a marriage made in heaven.
Ed
I understand from my Vista using comrades that SP1 does almost nothing to speed up the sloth like speed of Vista.
Here is what they say:
Still slow.
Still annoying.
Still driver deficient.
Still legacy program incompatibles.
Still expensive.
I think Microsoft is just putting a little lipstick on that pig and hoping for the best.
Ed
Jusst curious.
Ed
Does religion automatically deserve to be respected?
What if a religion promotes violence to ensure it's establishment?
What if a religion requires death for attempting to leave?
What if a religion clearly stated women were inferior?
What if a religion reduced humanity to mere animals in submission to Allah?
Do I really have to respect that religion?
There is no God. There is no Allah. There is no Tetragrammaton.
Religion is the work of the devil.
"So what you're saying is that creators do not have the very basic property right of right of sale."
That is correct.
I will happily pay artists and performers but not media companies or organizations.
Further, I would limit the life of Copyright in Canada to 30 years or the life of the artist, whichever comes first!
I am tired of artists' grandchildren controlling the copyrights of long deceased artists. Copyright is a special dispensation by government to promote and reward the creative individual - it is not real! The fact that a performance can now be copied and distributed to millions without creativity or talent should totally void exclusive rights.
Artists and performers should create and perform to earn a living! I have paid to see Pink Floyd, The Doors, Led Zepplin and dozens of others, sometimes on many occasions over their life. I have paid to see movies in movie theatres over 30 years and the only reason I don't now is the obnoxious advertisements I am FORCED to watch in order to to see what I paid for. I will PAY for a DVD or CD as a reward to the artists or performers.
The media distribution companies are just parasites that live off the creative juices of the real creators and performers and they want the law to accommodate and enforce their business model at taxpayer's expense.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the
notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the
public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged
with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face
of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange
doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor
corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of
history be stopped, or turned back."
-Robert Heinlein, 1939
Ed
Rightholders, NO!
Ed
"Please let me know what the last critical security flaw for IIS was. I'd love to know."
I don't know. I don't run (any) Windows or IIS. I do know that Microsoft.com hides behind a protective curtain of Linux proxy servers.
"Also, let me know how many critical security flaws there have been for Apache in the last year or so."
None that I have come across - and I do run LAMP stacks; it is SO EASY to make a LAMP stack bullet proof.
Ed
"It could be only Apache on a certain distro, with a certain version."
Yet another persuasive argument to avoid the technological mono-culture that is Microsoft Windows.
Ed
"they're guessing it was a root password that was stolen"
A pretty good guess, otherwise we could expect to see millions of Apache web servers compromised (there are over 75 million Apache web servers in active service) and anticipate a much greater number of Windows clients infected.
The significance of this story is not that Windows clients are the target, the significance is that the infecting agent is originating from Apache/Linux servers.
Ed
According to the story (did you read it), it appears to be a situation where the root password has been compromised, not the applications or operating system.
Problems with IIS were as a result of vulns in the application and/or Windows operating system - totally different problem.
Would you blame a lock company if the user left his keys in the lock?
Ed
"LRH's scam shows how easy it is to start a new religion that survives and gains passionate adherents after the death of its founders."
Just ask Mohammad.
Ed
If all the rats are gone; what will my mother in law eat?
Ed
Didn't they already try exploring asteroids?
I seem to remember the NewsReel.
Ed
From Story"Perhaps Microsoft didn't go there because it didn't have the evidence to support a case for the deal harming consumers"
I don't think Microsoft really considers consumers that way. If they did, do you really think Microsoft would be stuffing Vista down consumer's throats?
Ed
And I thought Uncle Gomorrah had it tough.
Ed