Ooooh. I hope they're filming us rather than just using goggles. Then they'd be subject to data protection laws, and if requested would have to supply me a copy of the tape of me watching their movie.
Yeah, but it was Mark Thomas though. They went around the outside of government/commercial buildings and then wrote to them, paid his money and got them to send the CCTV footage.
He probably added a stunt of some kind, but it was so long ago I can't remember it.
Mark Steel's the comedian/history lecturer. Loved his lecture on Thomas Paine, and it actually got me to go and read something that's not techie or fiction.
>>2. American football evolved because people got >>tired of the numerous injuries caused by rugby and the colleges changed the game to be less dangerous to players.
>Wimps.
Poorly paraphrased Buffy quote:
Giles - "I've never understood why the Americans consider it macho to have to wear body armour to play a perfectly good game of rugby."
It could be a bug, here's a possible(ish) explanation.
Search the body of the page you get from MSN for 'xfree86'. It's not in the HTML, which means it's a paid for link.
Which means MSNs spider isn't indexing on xfree86, but the frontend is searching on xfree86. This explains why you don't get the same site when searching on Google.
MSN have been testing a new spider recently (see http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum16/1221.htm for a sighting).
Maybe there's a bug somwhere in the MSN code? Or a very warped easter egg? It's not beyond the realms of possibility.
Umm, there's Anderson Consulting and Arthur Andersen Consulting, one's global management and tech consulting, the other's the book cookers. And Accenture used to be Anderson Consulting.
I'm planning on taking my daughter to see it within the year, her middle name is "Eden" and I thought this would be a great way to show her what that name means.
There's a very cool article over at newscientist.com about this (http://archive.newscientist.com/archive.jsp?id=23 044700 free reg required), I read the print version of it. They've got a number of technologies they want to bring to supersonic travel, lengthening the plane being just one of them.
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PDF Virus Spotted
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Quote from the Bugtraq mailing list (not by me!) :
What this means is that virus scanners will now need to "reach inside" PDFs to scan encapsulated files. But what -- as I'm sure our Russian friend Dmitri would ask -- if the PDF is encrypted? Wouldn't the virus checker have to defeat the encryption to see the encapsulated
file? And would it be an illegal "circumvention" mechanism if it did?
--Brett Glass
I think Brett raises a very good point here.
Teehee. Sounds like something I did against Linkexchange when I realised they were "inserting" paid for adverts into the banner cycle. There's a short summary at my old sitePlease ignore all rantings on this site, I was young.
Basically you it used Perl scripts on various servers to flood linkexchange with false banner views. Worked quite well for a while, till they realised.
Missed the point a little I think. No matter what your default homepage is (mine is my local intranet server), IE will direct you to your homepage through their website (i.e. http://www.microsoft.com/redir.dll?erwin.projects. com ). It allows them to know which version of IE you're using.
About once a month when I start IE I get sent to a MS page telling me there's a wonderful new upgrade. AFAIK you can't get around this behaviour, it's a "feature".
We've got a IBM Netfinity 5500 in the office at the moment. There's a sticker on the back with a picture of 4 people lifting the damn thing. (weighs 121 pounds, but boy is it sexy!)
Not sure if this would be a problem, but what if you'd taken a drug in a place where it was legal, i.e. smoked a joint in Amsterdam, and then on the way home the scanner thought you were smuggling.
Is it possible for such chemicals to work their way out through your skin, leaving their presence in the skin flakes that float up into this thing?
Imagine if Microsoft owned its own newspaper that published stories on software issues. I can't imagine anybody trusting a thing they said.
Can anyone say MSNBC? Slate?
To compare VA to Microsoft is inherently wrong. They are both very different companies. Sure the end goal is the same, i.e. make money. But VA has sprung from the Linux community (as mentioned before), a community that monitors and watches movements within companies very very closely. The community is very self critical, you only have to look at the discussions about the way Slashdot works to realise that. Any change in Slashdot would be noticed immediately, and I for one would move to another site if such a thing happened.
Microsoft on the other hand has a long history of using subversion and underhand tactics. Also the average MSNBC reader knows very little about the setup there, about the internal politics and people behind the news. It's closed source (oh my god what a concept: Open Source journalism, try fitting the GPL onto that one!), whereas at Slashdot there is constat debate and argument, could you ever imagine a discussion such as this happening on MSNBC or Slate? Think not.
As long as we keep talking, watching and listening we can keep Slashdot safe.
What could be better then US Government coming down on MS like a ton of bricks?
Well Microsofts replies for one thing:
"At the heart of this case is whether a successful American company can continue to improve its products for the benefit of consumers. This is precisely what Microsoft did by developing new versions of the Windows operating system with built-in support for the Internet." - Bill Gates
This is the only part of the Governments case that Microsoft has the slightest chance of being able to refute.
Okay so bundling IE with MS was helpful to the rookies and was therefore defensable.But no one can deny the way MS levered IE through other companies because, as the report states, it's the only way to explain how Microsoft were acting. Why spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting something you're giving away for free? Unless of course you're trying to protect Windows.
Also note the complete lack of a retort against the Java accusations. Again because it's clear what Microsoft were doing. Protecting their biggest money earner by illegal damaging other peoples technology.
Far from "innovating" and "promoting competition" (I swear if I hear another MS employee say those phrases again I'll strangle them), they've crushed anything that's had the potential to release from a world locked into Windows.
I dearly want to see Linux running on every desktop with a whole host of applications and I think we've come a step nearer with the publication of this report.
True Linux stands on its own technical merits, and no doubt would one day surpass Windows. But the findings of Judge Penfold will give even the most dedicated MSphile something to think about. Even better is now Microsofts competitors will be able to stand their ground, we've already seen an increase in the interest commercial companies are taking in Linux, other operating systems and whole open source movement.
This report and the rest of the trial will make the entire techology industry stronger. Sure it's going to seriously hurt Microsoft, but I don't think the world needs them anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
Ooooh. I hope they're filming us rather than just using goggles. Then they'd be subject to data protection laws, and if requested would have to supply me a copy of the tape of me watching their movie.
Time to check each cinemas policy...
Yeah, but it was Mark Thomas though. They went around the outside of government/commercial buildings and then wrote to them, paid his money and got them to send the CCTV footage.
He probably added a stunt of some kind, but it was so long ago I can't remember it.
Mark Steel's the comedian/history lecturer. Loved his lecture on Thomas Paine, and it actually got me to go and read something that's not techie or fiction.
>>2. American football evolved because people got >>tired of the numerous injuries caused by rugby and the colleges changed the game to be less dangerous to players.
:
>Wimps.
Poorly paraphrased Buffy quote
Giles - "I've never understood why the Americans consider it macho to have to wear body armour to play a perfectly good game of rugby."
Dell have already taken that step.
Dell CEO Replaced by Calcutta Orangutan
Aaaah a plush CEO.
It could be a bug, here's a possible(ish) explanation.
Search the body of the page you get from MSN for 'xfree86'. It's not in the HTML, which means it's a paid for link.
Which means MSNs spider isn't indexing on xfree86, but the frontend is searching on xfree86. This explains why you don't get the same site when searching on Google.
MSN have been testing a new spider recently (see http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum16/1221.htm for a sighting).
Maybe there's a bug somwhere in the MSN code? Or a very warped easter egg? It's not beyond the realms of possibility.
Umm, there's Anderson Consulting and Arthur Andersen Consulting, one's global management and tech consulting, the other's the book cookers. And Accenture used to be Anderson Consulting.
news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/ usandersen030702ind.html
I'm planning on taking my daughter to see it within the year, her middle name is "Eden" and I thought this would be a great way to show her what that name means.
There's a very cool article over at newscientist.com about this (http://archive.newscientist.com/archive.jsp?id=23 044700 free reg required), I read the print version of it. They've got a number of technologies they want to bring to supersonic travel, lengthening the plane being just one of them.
Quote from the Bugtraq mailing list (not by me!) :
What this means is that virus scanners will now need to "reach inside" PDFs to scan encapsulated files. But what -- as I'm sure our Russian friend Dmitri would ask -- if the PDF is encrypted? Wouldn't the virus checker have to defeat the encryption to see the encapsulated file? And would it be an illegal "circumvention" mechanism if it did?
--Brett Glass
I think Brett raises a very good point here.
Wow, I've been looking for a service like this for ages. Decent independant music with reasonable charges. Wahoo! You just got another customer.
at the end of each page.Tis a very very poor site. Can anyone say antialias?
Teehee. Sounds like something I did against Linkexchange when I realised they were "inserting" paid for adverts into the banner cycle. There's a short summary at my old site Please ignore all rantings on this site, I was young.
Basically you it used Perl scripts on various servers to flood linkexchange with false banner views. Worked quite well for a while, till they realised.
Missed the point a little I think. No matter what your default homepage is (mine is my local intranet server), IE will direct you to your homepage through their website (i.e. http://www.microsoft.com/redir.dll?erwin.projects. com ). It allows them to know which version of IE you're using.
About once a month when I start IE I get sent to a MS page telling me there's a wonderful new upgrade. AFAIK you can't get around this behaviour, it's a "feature".
Cool, I'll be able to drop Shard Squads next to those pesky peacekeepers.
We've got a IBM Netfinity 5500 in the office at the moment. There's a sticker on the back with a picture of 4 people lifting the damn thing. (weighs 121 pounds, but boy is it sexy!)
Not sure if this would be a problem, but what if you'd taken a drug in a place where it was legal, i.e. smoked a joint in Amsterdam, and then on the way home the scanner thought you were smuggling.
Is it possible for such chemicals to work their way out through your skin, leaving their presence in the skin flakes that float up into this thing?
Could cause a lot of false results. Any ideas?
Imagine if Microsoft owned its own newspaper that published stories on software issues. I can't imagine anybody trusting a thing they said.
Can anyone say MSNBC? Slate?
To compare VA to Microsoft is inherently wrong. They are both very different companies. Sure the end goal is the same, i.e. make money. But VA has sprung from the Linux community (as mentioned before), a community that monitors and watches movements within companies very very closely. The community is very self critical, you only have to look at the discussions about the way Slashdot works to realise that. Any change in Slashdot would be noticed immediately, and I for one would move to another site if such a thing happened.
Microsoft on the other hand has a long history of using subversion and underhand tactics. Also the average MSNBC reader knows very little about the setup there, about the internal politics and people behind the news. It's closed source (oh my god what a concept: Open Source journalism, try fitting the GPL onto that one!), whereas at Slashdot there is constat debate and argument, could you ever imagine a discussion such as this happening on MSNBC or Slate? Think not.
As long as we keep talking, watching and listening we can keep Slashdot safe.
True, but what about sodium lamps and hydropondics? The best exotic (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) plants are grown inside!
What could be better then US Government coming down on MS like a ton of bricks?
Well Microsofts replies for one thing:
"At the heart of this case is whether a successful American company can continue to improve its products for the benefit of consumers. This is precisely what Microsoft did by developing new versions of the Windows operating system with built-in support for the Internet." - Bill Gates
This is the only part of the Governments case that Microsoft has the slightest chance of being able to refute.
Okay so bundling IE with MS was helpful to the rookies and was therefore defensable.But no one can deny the way MS levered IE through other companies because, as the report states, it's the only way to explain how Microsoft were acting. Why spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting something you're giving away for free? Unless of course you're trying to protect Windows.
Also note the complete lack of a retort against the Java accusations. Again because it's clear what Microsoft were doing. Protecting their biggest money earner by illegal damaging other peoples technology.
Far from "innovating" and "promoting competition" (I swear if I hear another MS employee say those phrases again I'll strangle them), they've crushed anything that's had the potential to release from a world locked into Windows.
I dearly want to see Linux running on every desktop with a whole host of applications and I think we've come a step nearer with the publication of this report.
True Linux stands on its own technical merits, and no doubt would one day surpass Windows. But the findings of Judge Penfold will give even the most dedicated MSphile something to think about. Even better is now Microsofts competitors will be able to stand their ground, we've already seen an increase in the interest commercial companies are taking in Linux, other operating systems and whole open source movement.
This report and the rest of the trial will make the entire techology industry stronger. Sure it's going to seriously hurt Microsoft, but I don't think the world needs them anymore.
"it's fucking seabird flavour"