For those interested, YouTube has a video of WizKid's home media user interface in action. You can also see a video of the "emotional" expression movements.
The poster who said that Ubuntu kernels are not affected was incorrect, at least partially. The exploit code works as advertised on my Ubuntu machines, both of which are running 7.10 with the latest generic kernel image.
These people were paid to say, "Hey, um, terrorists might use the global communications network to communicate with one another." Better tear it down.
Glad our taxes are going to good use.
I hope this deal will not go through. I use Google's products over Yahoo's as a matter of taste; I find Yahoo's pages too cluttered to be aesthetically pleasing. Be that as it may, the last thing I want to see is Yahoo going under; which, in my humble opinion, is exactly what this deal would amount to in the long run. Microsoft has a long history of buying out innovative companies and products and subsequently turning them into Passport/Live/insert-buzzword-here clones with vastly inferior functionality than their previous iterations. If Microsoft buys Yahoo! and slowly runs it into the ground, slowly replacing Yahoo's key engineers with Microsoft people, what major competitor will be left to offer (real) innovative competition to Google?
I respect all the good that Google has done the Internet as a whole, but I am not blind to the fact that the corporation is now a publicly traded company, and thus subject to the whims of shareholders. If Google's most threatening competitor becomes stagnant, or even regressive, how will Google justify research and development costs to its shareholders?
Maybe I'm wrong and Microsoft will retain Yahoo!'s management and employees more or less as they are, but I doubt it. I see this deal as injurious to innovation in OS-independent web technologies.
The argument goes something along the lines of: "If god wanted them to have kids he would let them do it normally." I am not a particularly religious person, and this is one example of something that I don't understand about large religious organizations. How can they apply this stance so selectively amongst various medical technologies? For instance, why is it an affront to God for a married couple to use artificial insemination to achieve childbirth but not for a heart patient to use a pacemaker? By the reasoning above, if God wanted your grandfather's heart to beat, He would let it do so normally.
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For those interested, YouTube has a video of WizKid's home media user interface in action. You can also see a video of the "emotional" expression movements.
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Clearly, the future of Linux supercomputing is in dire jeopardy.
The poster who said that Ubuntu kernels are not affected was incorrect, at least partially. The exploit code works as advertised on my Ubuntu machines, both of which are running 7.10 with the latest generic kernel image.
These people were paid to say, "Hey, um, terrorists might use the global communications network to communicate with one another." Better tear it down. Glad our taxes are going to good use.
I hope this deal will not go through. I use Google's products over Yahoo's as a matter of taste; I find Yahoo's pages too cluttered to be aesthetically pleasing. Be that as it may, the last thing I want to see is Yahoo going under; which, in my humble opinion, is exactly what this deal would amount to in the long run. Microsoft has a long history of buying out innovative companies and products and subsequently turning them into Passport/Live/insert-buzzword-here clones with vastly inferior functionality than their previous iterations. If Microsoft buys Yahoo! and slowly runs it into the ground, slowly replacing Yahoo's key engineers with Microsoft people, what major competitor will be left to offer (real) innovative competition to Google? I respect all the good that Google has done the Internet as a whole, but I am not blind to the fact that the corporation is now a publicly traded company, and thus subject to the whims of shareholders. If Google's most threatening competitor becomes stagnant, or even regressive, how will Google justify research and development costs to its shareholders? Maybe I'm wrong and Microsoft will retain Yahoo!'s management and employees more or less as they are, but I doubt it. I see this deal as injurious to innovation in OS-independent web technologies.