I gave up my 7[012]XXX.XXXX range id when AOL bought Compuserve. I can't even remember my old id - but it was a Dallas, TX Zip Code:) Had my first account in 1988 as a sophmore in college. It was much more enjoyable than the Internet of its day (newsgroups weren't as compelling as CompuServe weather, forums, AP newswire, etc. I even recall when AOL started the beta WWW preview...(yes, I was a member in 1993-4).
How is this different from my HSI Cox connection providing my home telephone service over the cable modem connection? Except that I don't own/lease/see the cisco equipment, can't check vmail online...and only pay $13/mo for the service? Did I mention that they dropped my normal cable modem rates $10/mo when I signed up? (So, yes, I get local phone service for $3 + fed/state/local taxes).
As a daily user of Mac OS X (10.1.3) I know why there is no IE icon, but several Office X icons: IE 5.1 for OS X sucks air. My first day with OS X (mid March) was the only day I used IE 5.1 as a primary browser. After struggling with the download mal-feature in IE (OMGeekness! Could an FTP client be THAT difficult to implement?) I quickly downloaded Mozilla 0.9.x and haven't regreted for a minute. Mozilla, with the tabs, is quick and stable. Since an early April nightly build multi-column display works correctly and the textarea scrollbars problem has at least been entered into Bugzilla (by me). And, if you've ever tried to establish an HTTPS connection using IE 5.1, good freakin' luck; especially if there's anything out of wack with the certificate vis a vis the URL you're using (hint: IE 5.1 won't let you continue if there's a problem).
So, no anti-MS conspiracy here; it's just the desktop of an actual user.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Name the company that will allow another company to store all of its customer data. There isn't one.
Notice I did not mention a specific company in the above paragraph. That's because it is a general rule, not a relative one.
Your hospital example is a good one. Which hospital will allow another company to hold all its paitent data? Not a one exists.
Hailstorm, besides being a great moniker for a DDoS attack (!), was to be the middle man holding customer data. Every company I've dealt with views that data as an asset, not a liability. You lease cars and buildings but you own your data.
Businesses are not against Microsoft, in case you hadn't noticed. That MS has had some very publicized security failures of late and has garnered ill-will from many doesn't help matters. But even if...oh, what's an example of a company everyone likes and trusts...hey - there isn't one. Which is why companies like to hold on to their own data.
I will not have a single repository storing my information -- all my accounts and what not -- unless that repository is my brain. Period.
Opposition to Hailstorm isn't an anti-Microsoft thing. As a matter of fact, most businesses want to have in their own domain the information provided by their customers, without a middle man.
So, people (like me) and businesses (like mine) don't WANT a single repository, thank you very much. Forget this issue.
What Heyning's group is doing is to compare the DNA sequence of a elements from a mitochondrial gene, cytochrome b, isolated from different dolphins or whales. Mitochondrial DNA is unique, in that it does not mix with nuclear DNA and is only transmitted to offspring from the mother, not the father. This means that since different species do not interbreed, species specific differences in mitochondrial DNA sequences will be more pronounced than in the more "typical" gene sequence. By grouping individual animals by mitochondrial DNA sequences, they can then use this to go back and identify subtle differences in physiology that you otherwise couldn't do with the small subpopulation of beached whales.
Reporterette: Pause, blink and and stare vacantly. At last offer up, perkily --
Wow, we really don't know all there is to know about our big California-coast visiting friends, do we?
Why is it that a story about a new species of whale does not tell us what the new species' name is, what the similar species name is or what factors of the DNA distinguish the two from each other, yet we're treated to a number of sentences about "even off the coast of California" we don't know everything, and "even from these big animals everyone loves" we don't know everything.
It's funny; I started out reading the article to find out something I didn't know and instead was told something I already knew - that I don't know everything.
It's enough to make me swear off popular reporting of scientific stories.
You have no idea. In the mid 80's I attended University of North Texas and enjoyed the BBS one of our esteemed student VAX system admins hacked up (very nice, actually). We allowed anyone to access the system but with their real names, or some close approximation. One freshman was, well, a real butthole - a troll in modern parlance. He was banned from the BBS eventually but would still enter the BBS via fake names (a TOS violation, you might say).
Think Signal 11 towards the end...
Anyway, this guy was a pest and one night, as the sys admins and I were chatting via talk, he logged into the VAX and then the BBS as, I'll never forget this, "Carl Marks". So, he's not well read, either. We decided to tell him to cut it out once and for all. Looking at the port he logged into we traced his incoming session to an on-campus extension (if only he had come from outside the campus network by dialing out to one of the external phone numbers for community use, we never could have identified him) and dialed his room number -- busy. We got him.
What to do? We called the residence hall manager and asked if so-and-so roomed in the room we traced the call to. Sure enough, it was our little troll. We then asked the manager to tell the student to stop using the campus system under an assumed name.
The main sys admin, knowing the manager was on his way up to the room, initiated a talk session with "Carl Marks" and told him the gig was up, we knew who he was and where he roomed, and we were having the authorities come and shut him down. Carl didn't believe us. He talked trash to the sys admin (I can't recall his name) -- this was before "suxors" talk -- and said, "Ha ha, find me."
Here's where things went awry. The residence hall manager, not understanding what we were talking about, decided we were reporting someone hacking into the schools computers. He called the campus police. They came with guns drawn.
The type-fest continnued. "Carl" said, where are you? Taunting us for saying someone was on the way. Basically, the cops were clearing the floor in case of gun fire and were thusly delayed. Suddenly, "Carl" said, "Shit. Someone's at the door. They say they're the police." Sure enough, the campus police, with guns drawn, were banging on the door. When the manager opened the door, they shouted, "Put your hands up and step away fromthe computer." The kid peed in his pants.
After a few minutes "Carl's" talk session started again: "Thank you we have apprehended the suspect" - typed by one of the officers. The manager called the main sys admin and filled in the details above. The kid was arrested and brought to the station. His computer was confiscated. Eventually, Carl dropped out of UNT do to the stress caused by this event.
Our intention was to scare him, but not with the campus police. We explained that he wasn't hacking, but merely using the system's services inappropriately after ample warning. The Dean of Students talked with him - I don't know how that went. The manager went overboard, and the police overreacted.
But we had one heck of a good laugh.
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This is why Jolt Cola came out (circa 1985) with "All the sugar, Twice the Caffiene" -- the Sugar is cane sugar. Yes, it does taste different. Also, if you want (up until the mid 90's at least) sugar cane Coke, go to Mexico.
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By "still available" I meant that it was still possible to buy it. I lived in West Texas at the time and people were stockpiling it. I mean a lot of it. If the taste between Old and Classic were actually different we would have detected it. We didn't. It wasn't. end of story.
That would be so compelling an argument except one thing: old Coke was still available during the New Coke ("No Coke, Pepsi") fiasco. I know because I lived through the escapade.
Oh, the way the page happened to set in my browser I had to scroll to see the conclusion to your sentence beginning: "I have sadly stopped drinking most soft drinks since I noticed that" and I had already filled in the rest with "my butt no longer fits in chairs with arms."
If MS put code in WinNT4 or Word 95 that caused it to stop working at x-date people would be up in arms (I mean guns, not prosthetics), businesses would forgo MS products, sentors would hold hearings and congressmen would play golf (they *always* play golf). Even if MS made a case that the cssrs.exe bug in no-longer-supported NT4 meant it should then flip the switch and disable WinNT4 from ever operating again (assuming that it'd be possible; how do you know it isn't if you don't have the source?) they'd still be lambasted for such a policy.
I didn't come to Open Source to be told what I can and can't do with my system(s).
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I gave up my 7[012]XXX.XXXX range id when AOL bought Compuserve. I can't even remember my old id - but it was a Dallas, TX Zip Code :) Had my first account in 1988 as a sophmore in college. It was much more enjoyable than the Internet of its day (newsgroups weren't as compelling as CompuServe weather, forums, AP newswire, etc. I even recall when AOL started the beta WWW preview...(yes, I was a member in 1993-4).
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How is this different from my HSI Cox connection providing my home telephone service over the cable modem connection? Except that I don't own/lease/see the cisco equipment, can't check vmail online...and only pay $13/mo for the service? Did I mention that they dropped my normal cable modem rates $10/mo when I signed up? (So, yes, I get local phone service for $3 + fed/state/local taxes).
Since Be Isn't then the rule "Apple == everything !Be" means Apple Is everything.
Not unless they wanted to start a Family Feud.
> i saw the "sends other unix boxes to /dev/null" ad
> for the powerbook inside the front cover in
> scientific american last month
but no one reads that smut-rag here.
XDarwin rocks. Why hide a jewel, especially when only the geeks will know what the icon represents?
So, no anti-MS conspiracy here; it's just the desktop of an actual user.
There is a huge difference between a storage company and a middle-man information broker. Are you dense?
Sorry, but you're wrong. Name the company that will allow another company to store all of its customer data. There isn't one.
Notice I did not mention a specific company in the above paragraph. That's because it is a general rule, not a relative one.
Your hospital example is a good one. Which hospital will allow another company to hold all its paitent data? Not a one exists.
Hailstorm, besides being a great moniker for a DDoS attack (!), was to be the middle man holding customer data. Every company I've dealt with views that data as an asset, not a liability. You lease cars and buildings but you own your data.
Businesses are not against Microsoft, in case you hadn't noticed. That MS has had some very publicized security failures of late and has garnered ill-will from many doesn't help matters. But even if...oh, what's an example of a company everyone likes and trusts...hey - there isn't one. Which is why companies like to hold on to their own data.
Opposition to Hailstorm isn't an anti-Microsoft thing. As a matter of fact, most businesses want to have in their own domain the information provided by their customers, without a middle man.
So, people (like me) and businesses (like mine) don't WANT a single repository, thank you very much. Forget this issue.
ok - tell us about living off EasyBake Oven produce.
San Diego is that way, anyway. Nice place to visit and retreat back to Orange County.
If anyone is in a position to identify WT...
- What Heyning's group is doing is to compare the DNA sequence of a elements from a mitochondrial gene, cytochrome b, isolated from different dolphins or whales. Mitochondrial DNA is unique, in that it does not mix with nuclear DNA and is only transmitted to offspring from the mother, not the father. This means that since different species do not interbreed, species specific differences in mitochondrial DNA sequences will be more pronounced than in the more "typical" gene sequence. By grouping individual animals by mitochondrial DNA sequences, they can then use this to go back and identify subtle differences in physiology that you otherwise couldn't do with the small subpopulation of beached whales.
Reporterette: Pause, blink and and stare vacantly. At last offer up, perkily --Wow, we really don't know all there is to know about our big California-coast visiting friends, do we?
It's funny; I started out reading the article to find out something I didn't know and instead was told something I already knew - that I don't know everything.
It's enough to make me swear off popular reporting of scientific stories.
Think Signal 11 towards the end...
Anyway, this guy was a pest and one night, as the sys admins and I were chatting via talk, he logged into the VAX and then the BBS as, I'll never forget this, "Carl Marks". So, he's not well read, either. We decided to tell him to cut it out once and for all. Looking at the port he logged into we traced his incoming session to an on-campus extension (if only he had come from outside the campus network by dialing out to one of the external phone numbers for community use, we never could have identified him) and dialed his room number -- busy. We got him.
What to do? We called the residence hall manager and asked if so-and-so roomed in the room we traced the call to. Sure enough, it was our little troll. We then asked the manager to tell the student to stop using the campus system under an assumed name.
The main sys admin, knowing the manager was on his way up to the room, initiated a talk session with "Carl Marks" and told him the gig was up, we knew who he was and where he roomed, and we were having the authorities come and shut him down. Carl didn't believe us. He talked trash to the sys admin (I can't recall his name) -- this was before "suxors" talk -- and said, "Ha ha, find me."
Here's where things went awry. The residence hall manager, not understanding what we were talking about, decided we were reporting someone hacking into the schools computers. He called the campus police. They came with guns drawn.
The type-fest continnued. "Carl" said, where are you? Taunting us for saying someone was on the way. Basically, the cops were clearing the floor in case of gun fire and were thusly delayed. Suddenly, "Carl" said, "Shit. Someone's at the door. They say they're the police." Sure enough, the campus police, with guns drawn, were banging on the door. When the manager opened the door, they shouted, "Put your hands up and step away fromthe computer." The kid peed in his pants.
After a few minutes "Carl's" talk session started again: "Thank you we have apprehended the suspect" - typed by one of the officers. The manager called the main sys admin and filled in the details above. The kid was arrested and brought to the station. His computer was confiscated. Eventually, Carl dropped out of UNT do to the stress caused by this event.
Our intention was to scare him, but not with the campus police. We explained that he wasn't hacking, but merely using the system's services inappropriately after ample warning. The Dean of Students talked with him - I don't know how that went. The manager went overboard, and the police overreacted.
But we had one heck of a good laugh.
- The yearly nude pinup calender for that complete workshop feel
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That's what the web browser is for...1) look like a FrontPage2000 template
2) have a GIF image?
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This is why Jolt Cola came out (circa 1985) with "All the sugar, Twice the Caffiene" -- the Sugar is cane sugar. Yes, it does taste different. Also, if you want (up until the mid 90's at least) sugar cane Coke, go to Mexico.
By "still available" I meant that it was still possible to buy it. I lived in West Texas at the time and people were stockpiling it. I mean a lot of it. If the taste between Old and Classic were actually different we would have detected it. We didn't. It wasn't. end of story.
Oh, the way the page happened to set in my browser I had to scroll to see the conclusion to your sentence beginning: "I have sadly stopped drinking most soft drinks since I noticed that" and I had already filled in the rest with "my butt no longer fits in chairs with arms."
I didn't come to Open Source to be told what I can and can't do with my system(s).
Sounds like "Final Exit" - someone call Dr Kervorkian!