There's a reason we don't have flying cars: people tend to drive (despite their skill level) like idiots in the first place.
I understand their intent here: sometimes breaking the rules helps the common 'herd'. I agree. And I take driving very seriously every time- no cellphone, no texting, no makeup...you get the idea.
But merely "driving like a jerk" is a discription of someone cutting off another driver, for instance. He stops, cars behind him stop, and so on- NOT what they're talking about here.
PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE because what they have to offer is important and easily misunderstood!
There's another one, but she's not checked in for a while. She's currently WALKING AROUND THE GLOBE and we don't know where she is, lately: http://photogypsy.org/
It's about taking computers/HAM equipment/etc with us on our journeys. Steve Roberts (microship.com) has been doing it since about 1983!
Only *this* climate is right, all others are wrong? Any change that happens (LIKE THE 3,000 RECORD SETTING LOWS IN AMERICA FOR JULY TEMPS) and GlobalWarming(TM) robots say that it, too, is global warming. Whether it's hotter or colder, both ways are because we drive cars and enjoy eating dinner by electric light.
What's wrong with them? This isn't science: it's religion!
Isn't this the stuff stranding folks at sea with bad (nautical) engines, caused by ethanol?
I sure hope I'm right; I'd like to think there was *anything* that could touch the effeciency of fossil fuels, but do we have land available for growing both food and fuel?
The winner of this digital explosion also shut it down for the last 20-25 years by 'partnering', crushing, or outright STEALING such good ideas that you just can't get investor money for Windows-based projects.
Why do you think the internet, with it's web-based, not Windows-based tech continues to grow?
Linus might think it a 'disease', but I have a hard time being 'fair' when it comes to a people that very nearly shut down the tsunami so all the profits could be theirs. Work for a company shut down by their lawyers (or their fragile software) and you'll feel the same way.
So I'm charmed to hear what he remembers of those days. Imagine the thousands of employers unable to remember their early days, bringing technology up, because they never got to grow under the thumb of the modern "Phone Company". (AKA monopoly, for you young kids out there.)
Maybe it's time to let others think, work, and grow too?
No one has enough money in the budget for security, until a break-in nearly disables them. What are the chances? (Fire your security staff, and find out!)
Similarly, making copies of Windows to deploy on your business floor and ask "what are the chances?" and you'll find out. *I*didn't*call*, but a year or so after I left, I was told the company trying to get ME to pirate Microsoft Windows 98 got a visit from the BSA. And as you all know, they don't leave without a fire alarm being pulled or a $100,000 check.
When the budget thins, you cut extras; security isn't an extra. Though, putting Ubuntu on your Windows boxes will save you some real cash. And help security.
Remember that about 10% of the Windows machines are no longer under the control of their owners....and "click-through rate" is perhaps the ONE variable that will sell Bing (Bling? Whatever, it's crap) to the world.
30 years of lying to people makes people untrusting...
Civics and history have suffered, too; that's how we voted for a guy with 150 DAYS of experience, without asking who his icons were. Most people don't know how the government works, and when voters don't understand the process, the media tells them who to vote for.
"Vote Smith for change!" or "Vote Clyde for the children!" all sound good, but with modern bills, named for their opposites, like the "Freedom of Choice" bill that takes away the choice of working for a union, and makes the vote no longer secret AND permits the thugs to park on your door, where's the choice?
I keep tellin' ya: it's a coup. That's pronouced "COO" and is a French word roughly meanging takeover-of-the-government, for all of you in Government School like I was.
I've always wondered how Microsoft will manage to lose a great deal of it's money....this is it. Hey, it worked for Gateway- they got sold! Kinda like Starbucks, on the edge of staying in business, there are things you try in desperation. (Starbucks is considering a rename and selling alchohol).
Africa's a big place. This will help conditions, there.
But if they really want conditions to improve (like, in having available food) they're gonna have to get some freedoms, continent-wide.
Some countries there are making marked progress. Freedom, work, business, food, and happiness.
Others tolerate (or are powerless to) warlords that steal most-if-not-all the aid that comes in.
Perhaps having the internet, at least on the eastern side, more atrocities will get out, and more freedom-is-better propoganda can get in.
I can't think of any collection of people that need peace, work, and happiness more than the scattered tribes of Africa. Let's all wish them well.
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Remember about three weeks ago, the site(s) that were building it were compromised? Even if it was all worked out, even free, we'd still have a machine that another nation pwned.
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They never should have made PC-hacking so profitable.
Lately a lot of people have been taking up ridiculous mental conflicts. Chief among them is that spending our way to out of debt works. (It doesn't, never has in history, and can't, mathematically: the intent is a coup).
I don't see how anyone trusts Microsoft, a company promising since about 1995 to "get things done faster" and "Make the internet simpler" and "this version is more reliable" but the people running it barely turn it on before buying SOMEONE ELSE'S CODE to keep it from crashing from viruses. And they overlook the circling crowd of 2,000,000 viruses waiting to pounce, should the AV program fail.
This is the company that for about 25 years has shown the market that making a 'killer app' means killing the new company with the new ideas. Sybase, Blue Mountain, Netscape, and so on.
So this corporate bully, this devourer of good ideas, who hasn't told us the truth since DISCO is going to offer GPL code and you would actually try it?
Do you like candy? Won't you get into my van- I have candy!
So now Apple calls the tune for an internet quantity?
Let's talk about the technology-stifling that Microsoft has done for a quarter century! Just try to get an investor to back a program that runs on Windows. Just try. But first talk to Sybase, Netscape, and Blue Mountain Greeting Cards to get a feel for the procedure.
Did that stop anyone? No! We went to the web (and in a way) invented this "cloud" thing that seems to be as much hype as product.
Ya know, if you're on the net, and your business lets a tiny company like Apple to block your access to the entire net....you've got the thing plugged in wrong!
First, kudos on the honesty to post with your own ID.
Second, I'm yanked by this as well. This serves it's opposite purpose, as well as rejecting good Christian practices. (But then, when an abortion bomber strikes, we get blamed for that, too.)
Christianity isn't about perfection; it's about realizing we don't have it, and trying hard to walk the line.
Part of that line is to not bash-convert people. Our intent is to make the word available, answer any questions, but if it isn't wanted, to "shake the dust" off our feet and leave the person alone.
And yeah, "my panties are in a wad" every time legislation points ME out to be a terrorist (like a couple of months ago, by Homeland Security) or every April when another kook organization attempts to pawn-off a lie that Christ never existed.
Unlike you, there WILL be a day when I'll have a gun to my head for being a Christian. Because offering hope has become a 'hate crime'. Because life itself is a crime.
But unlike you, I'm ready to go. Not a 'church-goer', I'm actually a different person since I sought my salvation of Jesus Christ. It's there for you, too; all you have to do is _genuinely_ ask.
Or, you could just hate Christians and snipe at them on websites.
(Can I get someone to troll THIS guy, instead of me this time?)
It's still WAAAY early to ask, probably...but I keep hearing about the VanAllen belts changing- the magnetic north moving faster than before.
Could it be some of the huge volume of H3 is hitting the outer atmosphere, and the heat is causing the resulting H20? (And probably some spare electrons, etc...)?
As a guy who clearly remembers the "smart" cars, with computers doing more and more voluntary things I wish they wouldn't (ever try to be quite and polite, coming home at 3AM in a sleepy, crowded apartment complex? CLICK! CLACK! Lights on! Lights off! Wake the neigbors!) This is precisely as expected.
And can anyone point out the radio-thief that doesn't STEAL your radio, so much as listen to it without permission, so as to require the key in the ignition to be able to listen? I spent three years as a security guard (it's a small town...) it was so annoying. Try a factory-installed radio with a die-hard battery. It takes MONTHS to run that battery down, with constant use.
Back to the pseudo-brains in appliances- this is like another release of Windows:
1. New release- great things!
2. No one will buy this new version...everyone will wait.
3. New release! Great things, but many want to keep the old!
4. Repeat, except never defeat viruses nor mature the code.
Glest is OpenSource, too...and if you change the textures on the people and the 'world' a little, you'd have a pretty nice start at a different game. Just another thing to love about OpenSource.
Hey, sure. We flush-n-fill workstations, planet wide in corporate offices. Ya know, maybe we could make friends with aliens and have THEM also scan our computers.
OR WE COULD JUST USE SOMETHING LESS FRAGILE.
Look at the risk; we're always hearing of people losing thousands of dollars, spending most of a decade trying to get it back. TWO MILLION active viruses and another 100,000 every month for the last decade.
Where else do you go buy a product, and then *immediately* buy someone else's product to ensure it makes it through the day? Did you ever buy that thing again?
Yeah, all computers have expolits. Only one manufacturer is installing an express lane.
And no, when Linux machines get larger, they probably won't have viruses, because the people who program it won't abide their existence to sell support contracts.
And it won't take more installed systems- there have been more Linux machines than Macs for like, five years now. (Reported here, iirc)
It can't get much simpler; it can't get much stronger. Why on Earth would anyone presume it faulty, just because it's not identical?
Wake up, people! How many stories like this do we have to read?!?!?!!
Google's not gonna make it as far as they thing. Just another attempt to get the bone-heads to stop using a poor, dangerous, fragile product because people are *used*to*it*. So don't worry about it.
And Microsoft has shown exactly how inept it can be when it tries to do anything BUT an operating system. Remember how their plush-toys took the world by storm? How about that WebTV everyone has?
Forget it; a one-trick, Mega-pony.
OK, I guess I'm gonna "troll" here...
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...but hear the truth: Running a webserver on a machine with TWO MILLION viruses in the wild, a machine that taught us to equate a reset button with another try, is probably not the best idea.
Please listen to me. All computers have hacks. Only one maker of OSs has an express lane.
Only ONE of these needs to get through to ruin your day. As that number climbs (and it does, about 100,000 a month) it becomes harder and harder to turn them away. And while we're on the subject? Where else in your life do you buy something, then immediately get another product from someone else to patch it, so it'll be safe? Did you buy that other thing a second time?
Let's be clear; FTP is insecure. It's why I don't use it; that's why SSH exists. But don't claim it's *more* insecure because your fragile operating system got hacked with it!
Can you tell me the "holy grail" feature of Windows that makes it worth the risk of losing your financial information, and spend nearly a decade trying to get it back? Can you tell me what whiz-bang tool of theirs makes it OK to work for the Russian mob?
Wake up, people! Don't be a statistic! This is product liability.
This is an OS with a huge liability problem. THOUSANDS of people have lost thousands of dollars and years of their lives trying to get it back. There is a stable of some TWO MILLION viruses for it, and 100,000 more each month.
Perhaps the first question is, why would you use Microsoft at all?
But beyond the obvious; Outlook is a sleepy test pilot; it crashes all the time. In fact, two men in Indy have the single job of restoring the crashed mail server *EACH*WEEK* when it goes down.
Like the rest of their arsenal of flashy, good-looking tools of doom, this is another component that just doesn't deliver.
Please: Stop and think. When was the last time you bought a product, then immediately bought someone ELSE'S product to go keep it on the road? Did you buy _that_ product again?
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There's a reason we don't have flying cars: people tend to drive (despite their skill level) like idiots in the first place.
I understand their intent here: sometimes breaking the rules helps the common 'herd'. I agree. And I take driving very seriously every time- no cellphone, no texting, no makeup...you get the idea.
But merely "driving like a jerk" is a discription of someone cutting off another driver, for instance. He stops, cars behind him stop, and so on- NOT what they're talking about here.
PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE because what they have to offer is important and easily misunderstood!
They need SOMEONE to hit bling every time the browser comes up; that crowd will likely give them plenty of hits.
I don't know why they just don't force it as the IE start page...oh, wait: that's MSN.
Here's one (me) http://countermoon.org/ and one who's been on the road for years, over here: http://microship.com./
There's another one, but she's not checked in for a while. She's currently WALKING AROUND THE GLOBE and we don't know where she is, lately: http://photogypsy.org/
It's about taking computers/HAM equipment/etc with us on our journeys. Steve Roberts (microship.com) has been doing it since about 1983!
Only *this* climate is right, all others are wrong? Any change that happens (LIKE THE 3,000 RECORD SETTING LOWS IN AMERICA FOR JULY TEMPS) and GlobalWarming(TM) robots say that it, too, is global warming. Whether it's hotter or colder, both ways are because we drive cars and enjoy eating dinner by electric light.
What's wrong with them? This isn't science: it's religion!
Isn't this the stuff stranding folks at sea with bad (nautical) engines, caused by ethanol?
I sure hope I'm right; I'd like to think there was *anything* that could touch the effeciency of fossil fuels, but do we have land available for growing both food and fuel?
The winner of this digital explosion also shut it down for the last 20-25 years by 'partnering', crushing, or outright STEALING such good ideas that you just can't get investor money for Windows-based projects.
Why do you think the internet, with it's web-based, not Windows-based tech continues to grow?
Linus might think it a 'disease', but I have a hard time being 'fair' when it comes to a people that very nearly shut down the tsunami so all the profits could be theirs. Work for a company shut down by their lawyers (or their fragile software) and you'll feel the same way.
So I'm charmed to hear what he remembers of those days. Imagine the thousands of employers unable to remember their early days, bringing technology up, because they never got to grow under the thumb of the modern "Phone Company". (AKA monopoly, for you young kids out there.)
Maybe it's time to let others think, work, and grow too?
No one has enough money in the budget for security, until a break-in nearly disables them. What are the chances? (Fire your security staff, and find out!)
Similarly, making copies of Windows to deploy on your business floor and ask "what are the chances?" and you'll find out. *I*didn't*call*, but a year or so after I left, I was told the company trying to get ME to pirate Microsoft Windows 98 got a visit from the BSA. And as you all know, they don't leave without a fire alarm being pulled or a $100,000 check.
When the budget thins, you cut extras; security isn't an extra. Though, putting Ubuntu on your Windows boxes will save you some real cash. And help security.
Remember that about 10% of the Windows machines are no longer under the control of their owners....and "click-through rate" is perhaps the ONE variable that will sell Bing (Bling? Whatever, it's crap) to the world.
30 years of lying to people makes people untrusting...
Civics and history have suffered, too; that's how we voted for a guy with 150 DAYS of experience, without asking who his icons were. Most people don't know how the government works, and when voters don't understand the process, the media tells them who to vote for.
"Vote Smith for change!" or "Vote Clyde for the children!" all sound good, but with modern bills, named for their opposites, like the "Freedom of Choice" bill that takes away the choice of working for a union, and makes the vote no longer secret AND permits the thugs to park on your door, where's the choice?
I keep tellin' ya: it's a coup. That's pronouced "COO" and is a French word roughly meanging takeover-of-the-government, for all of you in Government School like I was.
I've always wondered how Microsoft will manage to lose a great deal of it's money....this is it. Hey, it worked for Gateway- they got sold! Kinda like Starbucks, on the edge of staying in business, there are things you try in desperation. (Starbucks is considering a rename and selling alchohol).
This should be fun. Bring it on.
Africa's a big place. This will help conditions, there.
But if they really want conditions to improve (like, in having available food) they're gonna have to get some freedoms, continent-wide.
Some countries there are making marked progress. Freedom, work, business, food, and happiness.
Others tolerate (or are powerless to) warlords that steal most-if-not-all the aid that comes in.
Perhaps having the internet, at least on the eastern side, more atrocities will get out, and more freedom-is-better propoganda can get in.
I can't think of any collection of people that need peace, work, and happiness more than the scattered tribes of Africa. Let's all wish them well.
Remember about three weeks ago, the site(s) that were building it were compromised? Even if it was all worked out, even free, we'd still have a machine that another nation pwned.
:
They never should have made PC-hacking so profitable.
Lately a lot of people have been taking up ridiculous mental conflicts. Chief among them is that spending our way to out of debt works. (It doesn't, never has in history, and can't, mathematically: the intent is a coup).
I don't see how anyone trusts Microsoft, a company promising since about 1995 to "get things done faster" and "Make the internet simpler" and "this version is more reliable" but the people running it barely turn it on before buying SOMEONE ELSE'S CODE to keep it from crashing from viruses. And they overlook the circling crowd of 2,000,000 viruses waiting to pounce, should the AV program fail.
This is the company that for about 25 years has shown the market that making a 'killer app' means killing the new company with the new ideas. Sybase, Blue Mountain, Netscape, and so on.
So this corporate bully, this devourer of good ideas, who hasn't told us the truth since DISCO is going to offer GPL code and you would actually try it?
Do you like candy? Won't you get into my van- I have candy!
That everyone here thought this wasn't happening at all, or that this is 40,000,000 names, etc in one place?
Surely the bot-lists maintained by Wikipedia weren't my imagination...
So now Apple calls the tune for an internet quantity?
Let's talk about the technology-stifling that Microsoft has done for a quarter century! Just try to get an investor to back a program that runs on Windows. Just try. But first talk to Sybase, Netscape, and Blue Mountain Greeting Cards to get a feel for the procedure.
Did that stop anyone? No! We went to the web (and in a way) invented this "cloud" thing that seems to be as much hype as product.
Ya know, if you're on the net, and your business lets a tiny company like Apple to block your access to the entire net....you've got the thing plugged in wrong!
Linux is still free. Make with it, what you want.
First, kudos on the honesty to post with your own ID.
Second, I'm yanked by this as well. This serves it's opposite purpose, as well as rejecting good Christian practices. (But then, when an abortion bomber strikes, we get blamed for that, too.)
Christianity isn't about perfection; it's about realizing we don't have it, and trying hard to walk the line.
Part of that line is to not bash-convert people. Our intent is to make the word available, answer any questions, but if it isn't wanted, to "shake the dust" off our feet and leave the person alone.
And yeah, "my panties are in a wad" every time legislation points ME out to be a terrorist (like a couple of months ago, by Homeland Security) or every April when another kook organization attempts to pawn-off a lie that Christ never existed.
Unlike you, there WILL be a day when I'll have a gun to my head for being a Christian. Because offering hope has become a 'hate crime'. Because life itself is a crime.
But unlike you, I'm ready to go. Not a 'church-goer', I'm actually a different person since I sought my salvation of Jesus Christ. It's there for you, too; all you have to do is _genuinely_ ask.
Or, you could just hate Christians and snipe at them on websites.
(Can I get someone to troll THIS guy, instead of me this time?)
It's still WAAAY early to ask, probably...but I keep hearing about the VanAllen belts changing- the magnetic north moving faster than before.
Could it be some of the huge volume of H3 is hitting the outer atmosphere, and the heat is causing the resulting H20? (And probably some spare electrons, etc...)?
As a guy who clearly remembers the "smart" cars, with computers doing more and more voluntary things I wish they wouldn't (ever try to be quite and polite, coming home at 3AM in a sleepy, crowded apartment complex? CLICK! CLACK! Lights on! Lights off! Wake the neigbors!) This is precisely as expected.
And can anyone point out the radio-thief that doesn't STEAL your radio, so much as listen to it without permission, so as to require the key in the ignition to be able to listen? I spent three years as a security guard (it's a small town...) it was so annoying. Try a factory-installed radio with a die-hard battery. It takes MONTHS to run that battery down, with constant use.
Back to the pseudo-brains in appliances- this is like another release of Windows:
1. New release- great things!
2. No one will buy this new version...everyone will wait.
3. New release! Great things, but many want to keep the old!
4. Repeat, except never defeat viruses nor mature the code.
Glest is OpenSource, too...and if you change the textures on the people and the 'world' a little, you'd have a pretty nice start at a different game. Just another thing to love about OpenSource.
OK, so 6B on the planet, at least 2B are Chinese...they're going to get biometrics from 1/2 the country?
OH! That'd be the 'untouchables', those who do the grunt work and die in the streets.
(If it were untrue, you could complain....)
Hey, sure. We flush-n-fill workstations, planet wide in corporate offices. Ya know, maybe we could make friends with aliens and have THEM also scan our computers.
OR WE COULD JUST USE SOMETHING LESS FRAGILE.
Look at the risk; we're always hearing of people losing thousands of dollars, spending most of a decade trying to get it back. TWO MILLION active viruses and another 100,000 every month for the last decade.
Where else do you go buy a product, and then *immediately* buy someone else's product to ensure it makes it through the day? Did you ever buy that thing again?
Yeah, all computers have expolits. Only one manufacturer is installing an express lane.
And no, when Linux machines get larger, they probably won't have viruses, because the people who program it won't abide their existence to sell support contracts.
And it won't take more installed systems- there have been more Linux machines than Macs for like, five years now. (Reported here, iirc)
It can't get much simpler; it can't get much stronger. Why on Earth would anyone presume it faulty, just because it's not identical?
Wake up, people! How many stories like this do we have to read?!?!?!!
Google's not gonna make it as far as they thing. Just another attempt to get the bone-heads to stop using a poor, dangerous, fragile product because people are *used*to*it*. So don't worry about it.
And Microsoft has shown exactly how inept it can be when it tries to do anything BUT an operating system. Remember how their plush-toys took the world by storm? How about that WebTV everyone has?
Forget it; a one-trick, Mega-pony.
...but hear the truth: Running a webserver on a machine with TWO MILLION viruses in the wild, a machine that taught us to equate a reset button with another try, is probably not the best idea.
Please listen to me. All computers have hacks. Only one maker of OSs has an express lane.
Only ONE of these needs to get through to ruin your day. As that number climbs (and it does, about 100,000 a month) it becomes harder and harder to turn them away. And while we're on the subject? Where else in your life do you buy something, then immediately get another product from someone else to patch it, so it'll be safe? Did you buy that other thing a second time?
Let's be clear; FTP is insecure. It's why I don't use it; that's why SSH exists. But don't claim it's *more* insecure because your fragile operating system got hacked with it!
Can you tell me the "holy grail" feature of Windows that makes it worth the risk of losing your financial information, and spend nearly a decade trying to get it back? Can you tell me what whiz-bang tool of theirs makes it OK to work for the Russian mob?
Wake up, people! Don't be a statistic! This is product liability.
I'd mod this response UP!
Now *there* is a telling attitude.
This is an OS with a huge liability problem. THOUSANDS of people have lost thousands of dollars and years of their lives trying to get it back. There is a stable of some TWO MILLION viruses for it, and 100,000 more each month.
Perhaps the first question is, why would you use Microsoft at all?
But beyond the obvious; Outlook is a sleepy test pilot; it crashes all the time. In fact, two men in Indy have the single job of restoring the crashed mail server *EACH*WEEK* when it goes down.
Like the rest of their arsenal of flashy, good-looking tools of doom, this is another component that just doesn't deliver.
Please: Stop and think. When was the last time you bought a product, then immediately bought someone ELSE'S product to go keep it on the road? Did you buy _that_ product again?