MS should focus on its core competency, which is hardware. Drop all these other side projects like the search engine, the news site, the OS.. Go back to making great mice, keyboards and joysticks. They used to be the best, and now that they are sidetracked with all these other projects they are losing focus, and it's starting to show.
Judges, police chiefs and others -- when you took the oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, this is what is referred to by "domestic".
Yeah, but Kodak is dying. They were somewhat innovative last century, but they have failed to evolve to meet the challenges of this century. They're going to have to use the new 'legal' business model to stay alive, and that will only last so long..
This is a fantastic example of why the source code of any voting system needs to be open, so that all 'bugs' such as these will be transparent. In this case, it's too bad the people are so starry-eyed by the fact that they can vote electronically (look ma, no ballot!) that they have been lulled into trusting the system outright.
If the source were open, the/. analysis team would be on it and already have the problem diagnosed and solved.
What we need to be asking is this:
Who fought to get these systems installed?
Why?
A detailed analysis of the source code, along with an investigation of why these 'errors' occur, may help answer those questions.
According to this article there's lots of good stuff worth looking into:
(pasted from the link above)
The Lunar rocks may also be examined according to the chemicals that they contain. Such analysis indicates:
They are rich in refractory elements, which are elements such as calcium (Ca), Aluminum (Al), and Titanium (Ti) that form compounds having high melting points.
They are poor in the light elements such as hydrogen (H).
There is high abundance of elements like Silicon (Si) and Oxygen (O).
The high concentration of rare metals like Titanium, and the availability of abundant amounts of Silicon and Oxygen has led to serious proposals about mining and manufacturing operations in the future for the Moon.
Yes there is lots of stuff on the moon worth bothering with. The moon can be mined for fuel and construction materials. Plus, with a little bit of gravity, it is SO much easier to build stuff on the moon than in the weightless enclosed environment of a space station in LEO. And while it may be easier to launch from the LaGrange point we still have to build it and get it up there. I say let's launch an army of constructo-bots to the Moon! (then years later after all that shit is finished we'll send the people:)
If you want to explore this connection further, note that the primary SCO attorney (Hatch) is the son of a famous LDS senator. Makes you wonder if the government is pulling some strings.
This may seem crazy at first but the more I think about it the more it seems like a Good Idea.
End users individually suing SCO! With the idea from the Windows Refund article, how about if thousansd of end users take SCO to court for the same reasons Red Hat is..
I'm unfortunately not a lawyer but perhaps some lawyer type on here can make up a standard form letter that end users can take to their local courthouse to initiate a small claims action against SCO.
You have to be able to show you were harmed in some way.. surely it can't be that hard to prove that the FUD that SCO is promulgating has harmed your business. Small Claims (at least in NY) is good for up to $3,000 in damages so the independent Linux consultants should at least be able to come up with a couple hundred to a thousand dollars of damanges, at least for the time spent explaining to your clients what the suit is all about, and attempting to reassure your clients that all is going to be OK.
Folks, this is a problem that needs taken care of. SCO has labeled YOU as Fair Game. It's time to return the favor. Make sure to document your time!
Maybe someone who IAL (is a lawyer) can determine if this will work. If not, surely there is something else that the geek collective can do.
Actually, even though the article says nothing about using IP, the debunker brings up some points that would actually make IP a great choice -
Using NAT and some individual 10.x.x.x networks would give you a great network of com stations that you could send stuff to individually or over a broadcast.
Wow, the more I think about it the more ideas I come up with. Teams of multiplayer paintball style games with wireless headsets, different channels of streamed MP3 background music, selectable by the player.. intercoms are only the beginning.
I have a better idea. Build a huge man-made island, several miles square. Fill it with ultra-high performance wind generators. Better yet, build a few of them - some for the Atlantic and some for the Pacific - and transport them to locations of hurricanes and tropical storms, or just where it is windy.. Generate clean power sight unseen.
This will never happen because NCR and Microsoft are in bed with each other. They have been in bed with each other for years. Much of the code in Windows was written by NCR programmers.
Just like when Wang sued Netscape - it was right after Microsoft and Wang got in bed together.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it to Comdex but did anybody see if Agenda Computing was there with their Linux handheld? According to this page on their site they are there, but I haven't seen any comments on/. about it yet. Has anybody been able to check it out?
Ha! How long do you suppose it will be before the carnivore source is actually posted to the net? With all the ISPs, and all the hacker types that work at them, I would gamble that it would happen within weeks. Just how secure is that black box?
Imagine how fashionable it will be to wear your Carnivore tie over your Carnivore t-shirt while listening to your Carnivore mp3 (maybe we can even get the old metal band, Carnivore, to play it, just for kicks).
Yes, folks, you're going to need to encrypt those messages from now on. This will turn out to be another FBI foot bullet, because it will spur the development of better, easier to use encryption tools, and the average Joe will embrace encryption when he learns all his emails are subject to being spied upon.
If Big Brother wants to calm anybody's fears about Carnivore, they should give L0pht, 2600, and their friends at Antionline free and unfettered access to one of the machines for a week. Let them do an independent review and post a nice report on its capabilities, along with demonstrations of how easy it is for the individual FBI agent to 'improperly' use the device.
Is there enough propellant left in these things to maybe slingshot the moon and orbit Mars? If so, we could use Iridium to form a cheap communications array for future Moon and Mars missions. We could send about forty of 'em to Mars and 20 to the Moon, and still have a few spares hanging out in Earth orbit..
It would be great to have a true, accurate and complete record of all the history of the computer industry, esp. before Microsoft changes it all (as we have seen they have tried).
You also have to watch out for the Smithsonian - they seem to not always have their facts straight either (http://www.yale.edu/scimag/Archives/Vol71/Tesla.h tml) (great article - you can see the 'patent wars' have been going on eversince the patent system was started).
So a private, complete, subjective history of all the computer happenings, devoid of corporate influence, would be a really Good Thing.
One of those billion-dollar missions supposedly 'lost' by the government... really a probe to see if we could destroy an incoming object. A comet is a real good choice because they are easy to spot and we can get a good idea of what happens by its tail reaction.
I mean, I'm sure we're going to coincidentally have all these powerful telescopes pointed at some obscure comet at just the right time...
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MS should focus on its core competency, which is hardware.
Drop all these other side projects like the search engine, the news site, the OS..
Go back to making great mice, keyboards and joysticks.
They used to be the best, and now that they are sidetracked with all these other projects they are losing focus, and it's starting to show.
Judges, police chiefs and others -- when you took the oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, this is what is referred to by "domestic".
Applied to chickens - I wonder how many legs we would be able to get out of a chicken before we could harvest the breast? Or wings, for that matter.
Makes me wonder if it'll run on BSD
Mr. Tammet, could you please upload a WAV file?
K12Linux
...warp drive
Yeah, but Kodak is dying. They were somewhat innovative last century, but they have failed to evolve to meet the challenges of this century. They're going to have to use the new 'legal' business model to stay alive, and that will only last so long..
This is a fantastic example of why the source code of any voting system needs to be open, so that all 'bugs' such as these will be transparent. In this case, it's too bad the people are so starry-eyed by the fact that they can vote electronically (look ma, no ballot!) that they have been lulled into trusting the system outright.
/. analysis team would be on it and already have the problem diagnosed and solved.
If the source were open, the
What we need to be asking is this:
Who fought to get these systems installed?
Why?
A detailed analysis of the source code, along with an investigation of why these 'errors' occur, may help answer those questions.
According to this article there's lots of good stuff worth looking into:
(pasted from the link above)
The Lunar rocks may also be examined according to the chemicals that they contain. Such analysis indicates:
They are rich in refractory elements, which are elements such as calcium (Ca), Aluminum (Al), and Titanium (Ti) that form compounds having high melting points.
They are poor in the light elements such as hydrogen (H).
There is high abundance of elements like Silicon (Si) and Oxygen (O).
The high concentration of rare metals like Titanium, and the availability of abundant amounts of Silicon and Oxygen has led to serious proposals about mining and manufacturing operations in the future for the Moon.
Yes there is lots of stuff on the moon worth bothering with. The moon can be mined for fuel and construction materials. Plus, with a little bit of gravity, it is SO much easier to build stuff on the moon than in the weightless enclosed environment of a space station in LEO. And while it may be easier to launch from the LaGrange point we still have to build it and get it up there. I say let's launch an army of constructo-bots to the Moon! (then years later after all that shit is finished we'll send the people:)
I mean, come on. We need a base on our own moon! It can be mined for fuel and we can launch stuff from there. Saves so much on fuel and metal...
If you want to explore this connection further, note that the primary SCO attorney (Hatch) is the son of a famous LDS senator. Makes you wonder if the government is pulling some strings.
End users individually suing SCO! With the idea from the Windows Refund article, how about if thousansd of end users take SCO to court for the same reasons Red Hat is..
I'm unfortunately not a lawyer but perhaps some lawyer type on here can make up a standard form letter that end users can take to their local courthouse to initiate a small claims action against SCO.
You have to be able to show you were harmed in some way.. surely it can't be that hard to prove that the FUD that SCO is promulgating has harmed your business. Small Claims (at least in NY) is good for up to $3,000 in damages so the independent Linux consultants should at least be able to come up with a couple hundred to a thousand dollars of damanges, at least for the time spent explaining to your clients what the suit is all about, and attempting to reassure your clients that all is going to be OK.
Folks, this is a problem that needs taken care of. SCO has labeled YOU as Fair Game. It's time to return the favor. Make sure to document your time!
Maybe someone who IAL (is a lawyer) can determine if this will work. If not, surely there is something else that the geek collective can do.
Using NAT and some individual 10.x.x.x networks would give you a great network of com stations that you could send stuff to individually or over a broadcast.
Wow, the more I think about it the more ideas I come up with. Teams of multiplayer paintball style games with wireless headsets, different channels of streamed MP3 background music, selectable by the player.. intercoms are only the beginning.
I have a better idea. Build a huge man-made island, several miles square. Fill it with ultra-high performance wind generators. Better yet, build a few of them - some for the Atlantic and some for the Pacific - and transport them to locations of hurricanes and tropical storms, or just where it is windy.. Generate clean power sight unseen.
This will never happen because NCR and Microsoft are in bed with each other. They have been in bed with each other for years. Much of the code in Windows was written by NCR programmers.
Just like when Wang sued Netscape - it was right after Microsoft and Wang got in bed together.
Look what Don Henley is going through.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it to Comdex but did anybody see if Agenda Computing was there with their Linux handheld? According to this page on their site they are there, but I haven't seen any comments on /. about it yet. Has anybody been able to check it out?
Ha! How long do you suppose it will be before the carnivore source is actually posted to the net? With all the ISPs, and all the hacker types that work at them, I would gamble that it would happen within weeks. Just how secure is that black box?
Imagine how fashionable it will be to wear your Carnivore tie over your Carnivore t-shirt while listening to your Carnivore mp3 (maybe we can even get the old metal band, Carnivore, to play it, just for kicks).
Yes, folks, you're going to need to encrypt those messages from now on. This will turn out to be another FBI foot bullet, because it will spur the development of better, easier to use encryption tools, and the average Joe will embrace encryption when he learns all his emails are subject to being spied upon.
If Big Brother wants to calm anybody's fears about Carnivore, they should give L0pht, 2600, and their friends at Antionline free and unfettered access to one of the machines for a week. Let them do an independent review and post a nice report on its capabilities, along with demonstrations of how easy it is for the individual FBI agent to 'improperly' use the device.
Is there enough propellant left in these things to maybe slingshot the moon and orbit Mars? If so, we could use Iridium to form a cheap communications array for future Moon and Mars missions. We could send about forty of 'em to Mars and 20 to the Moon, and still have a few spares hanging out in Earth orbit..
It would be great to have a true, accurate and complete record of all the history of the computer industry, esp. before Microsoft changes it all (as we have seen they have tried).h tml) (great article - you can see the 'patent wars' have been going on eversince the patent system was started).
You also have to watch out for the Smithsonian - they seem to not always have their facts straight either (http://www.yale.edu/scimag/Archives/Vol71/Tesla.
So a private, complete, subjective history of all the computer happenings, devoid of corporate influence, would be a really Good Thing.
One of those billion-dollar missions supposedly 'lost' by the government... really a probe to see if we could destroy an incoming object. A comet is a real good choice because they are easy to spot and we can get a good idea of what happens by its tail reaction.
I mean, I'm sure we're going to coincidentally have all these powerful telescopes pointed at some obscure comet at just the right time...
Sure you can -
you can run it in the Palm OS Emulator.
It's really cool!