Hah! True, but the theory behind Bob and Clippy is pretty advanced. It came from Brenda Laurel's analysis of human/computer interaction. Not from Melinda French's... sorry, my mind is simply refusing to imagine Bill Gates in a sexual situation.
The kind of feedback you are talking about is useful for tweaking a UI, not for coming up with a novel UI concept to begin with. The kind of 'advanced research' I'm talking about is the sort of stuff that came up with the concepts in the first place. You may want to read some of Brenda Laurel's publications on human/computer interaction, that was the stuff that got bastardized into Bob and Clippy. The idea for the ribbon interface also came out of university research, not Microsoft's labs.
Good point. However, Microsoft Bob was also the result of advanced research into user interface design. So was Clippy. Microsoft has a way of taking very innovative ideas and stripping them of all sanity and usefulness.
Okay, it is a security measure. Just not an effective one. It was never designed to be one, it was designed for testing, development, and backward compatibility. The BSD measures you mention were designed to be security measures, and thus are less trivial to break out of.
"But it is opening up these customers to problems." Nice, textbook FUD/propaganda. Put the thought out there. Deflect attention from your own failings. Lump all 'freeware' DNS into the same basket. Call it 'freeware' instead of Open Source to link it to badly written DOS/Windows programs. Wow, this company is sleazy. It would be such poetic justice for some grey hat hackers to take these goons down.
Open source DNS is tried and true, everyone uses it. No one was ever fired for installing BIND. This new flash in the pan company has been hacked before, how long until they are hacked again? Why trust your DNS to some untested startup using inappropriate buzzwords like 'cloud computing?' Why pay for what you can get for free? Why outsource your DNS to someone who may or may not be here tomorrow? Heh. We can play at the FUD game, too.
Not just ordinarily inedible. Burgers in photographs aren't cooked all the way, instead being browned with a blowtorch. They have cardboard supports inside them, extra sesame seeds glued on with hot glue, glycerin and hairspray added for that extra juicy look, and the whole thing is held together with pins. Yum.
But does this apply to persons only? I hope we'd finally get to know the truth about McDonalds hamburgers. Or can we count them as persons?
Pictures of burgers are representative of the type of burger you can expect, you do not expect the exact burger that is in the photo otherwise they would have to take a lot of photos!
Good for the French anyway, this can only be a positive thing.
Food styling and photography is at least as complicated as fashion styling and photography. People at least do not dry up, wilt, sag, and turn funny colors over the course of an hour under the lights. Burgers are one of the harder foods to style and photograph. The burgers you see in photographs are not even edible. For some interesting tricks of the food stylist/photographer's trade, see here: http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=102996&catId=100406&tid=100008&p=1&title=Food+styling.
That exact cheese is made in dozens of countries. Only in Greece is it called 'feta.' The most common name for the cheese is some variant of 'sirenje.' So call it that and be done with it. Feta means Greek cheese, even though it isn't a specific place-name.
"Welcome, humans! I am ready for you! Fish, plankton, sea greens and cooling from the sea. Fresh as harvest day. Overwhelming, am I not? Are you, too, startled? Am I too removed from your kin?"
That decision, which only holds weight in the EU, comes from a case that is, in my mind, legitimate. Belgium was selling a cow's milk cheese as feta, which is totally wrong. I'm pretty sure 'feta' is semi-generic in the US. But it sure as heck better be a salty, white sheep's milk cheese and not some cow's milk knock off. Blech.
A Philly cheese-steak is a recipe not an ingredient. As I mentioned, you can't claim a syrup is from Vermont if it isn't. These food producing regions always have local quality control boards that ensure products from those regions meet certain standards. Someone from outside those regions could tarnish the name of the region by producing inferior products while piggy backing on the popularity of the quality controlled ingredients that actually come from the place and pass the local quality control standards.
That's like saying an American company can't sell French Fries if they were made in Idaho. I can call the syrup I make in my backyard Vermont Syrup all I want.
Not without a law suit you can't. French Fries are a recipe, not an ingredient. Try selling Idaho russet potatoes that aren't from Idaho and see how long you last.
This system seems to me to adequately protect consumers and producers, while acknowledging the fact that certain designations have become semi-generic. In America, people do not associate Champagne or Parmesan with a particular region, but with a particular taste or style. Champagne is synonymous with sparkling wine, labeling it 'California Champagne' removes any uncertainty as to origins while using a word that consumers are familiar with. While one could call Champagne 'sparkling wine,' what could one even call Parmesan except Parmesan without confusing the consumer even more? Stinky hard Italian style cow's milk cheese?
Wrong. Those are designations of origins. Champagne and Parma are actual places. You can make parmesan or champagne, but you can't call it such (in Europe, anyway) because such a designation would denote that the foodstuff actually came from that region, and if it sucked, it would reflect poorly on the region. In the USA, a syrup producer in Kansas could not call their product 'Vermont maple syrup.' Calling a cheese 'Parmesan' or a sparkling wine 'Champagne' is like calling a syrup 'Vermont.'
AFAIK, Hummus, falafel, and so forth are generic names for foods traditional to dozens of countries. Nasi lemak means 'rice in cream' and is also not a designation of origin, therefore, attempting to copyright it is ridiculous and no other country is going to honor Malaysia's demands. Not that we in the US honor Europe's protected designations of origins anyway.
Clinton and Obama are cut from the same cloth: corporatist centrists. I voted for both of them as the lesser of two evils. The Patriot act wasn't even Clinton's worst mistake, that has to go to NAFTA. Yeah, that's right labor, the Dems sold you out, and they will this time, too.
Anyways, I've been a jerk, and I'm sorry. Rough week for me.
GPSs in cars are a stupid idea, but I'm more worried by the idea that insurance companies will use them than the government. Eventually, though, privately operated cars will be a thing of the past as all cars will be required to have and use computer autopilots under the control of centralized traffic management systems, at least in big cities.
Privacy is going away, and there's no stopping that. But privacy was only a bandaid on the real problem anyhow. The real problem is an imbalance of power regarding the ability to gather and act on information. If we can easily tell when someone else is gathering info on us and acting on it in a harmful way, and we can tell potentially everyone in the world about it, we won't need privacy. If privacy is going away, we simply need to ensure that it goes away for every entity out there. Complete transparency and the ability for anyone to communicate with billions of people will be the solution that privacy never was.
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I wonder if these devices lock you in with a control rod inserted into your anus, like Mr. Garrison's IT?
Yes, it's a great idea, the only problem is making it actually work. Some folks have been trying for almost fifty years.
Okay, I need ten ccs of brain bleach, stat.
Meh. This exact issue has been discussed here before, and the same non-conclusions reached.
Or a kernel exploit. But face it, the facts are chroot was not designed as a security measure.
Hah! True, but the theory behind Bob and Clippy is pretty advanced. It came from Brenda Laurel's analysis of human/computer interaction. Not from Melinda French's... sorry, my mind is simply refusing to imagine Bill Gates in a sexual situation.
The kind of feedback you are talking about is useful for tweaking a UI, not for coming up with a novel UI concept to begin with. The kind of 'advanced research' I'm talking about is the sort of stuff that came up with the concepts in the first place. You may want to read some of Brenda Laurel's publications on human/computer interaction, that was the stuff that got bastardized into Bob and Clippy. The idea for the ribbon interface also came out of university research, not Microsoft's labs.
Good point. However, Microsoft Bob was also the result of advanced research into user interface design. So was Clippy. Microsoft has a way of taking very innovative ideas and stripping them of all sanity and usefulness.
Nice one. :)
Okay, it is a security measure. Just not an effective one. It was never designed to be one, it was designed for testing, development, and backward compatibility. The BSD measures you mention were designed to be security measures, and thus are less trivial to break out of.
Read at -1 if you are confused by a response that seems to be a nonsequiter.
First, chroot is not a security measure. It was not designed as such, and it will not protect you from knowledgeable intruders.
Sure, BIND has had problems, but as you mentioned, the newest version is pretty tight. What's the take-away from this? Keep your servers patched. Duh.
"But it is opening up these customers to problems." Nice, textbook FUD/propaganda. Put the thought out there. Deflect attention from your own failings. Lump all 'freeware' DNS into the same basket. Call it 'freeware' instead of Open Source to link it to badly written DOS/Windows programs. Wow, this company is sleazy. It would be such poetic justice for some grey hat hackers to take these goons down.
Open source DNS is tried and true, everyone uses it. No one was ever fired for installing BIND. This new flash in the pan company has been hacked before, how long until they are hacked again? Why trust your DNS to some untested startup using inappropriate buzzwords like 'cloud computing?' Why pay for what you can get for free? Why outsource your DNS to someone who may or may not be here tomorrow? Heh. We can play at the FUD game, too.
Youngster? Hah, I wish. Married nine years. Glad someone got the subtext though :).
Not just ordinarily inedible. Burgers in photographs aren't cooked all the way, instead being browned with a blowtorch. They have cardboard supports inside them, extra sesame seeds glued on with hot glue, glycerin and hairspray added for that extra juicy look, and the whole thing is held together with pins. Yum.
But does this apply to persons only? I hope we'd finally get to know the truth about McDonalds hamburgers. Or can we count them as persons?
Pictures of burgers are representative of the type of burger you can expect, you do not expect the exact burger that is in the photo otherwise they would have to take a lot of photos!
Good for the French anyway, this can only be a positive thing.
Food styling and photography is at least as complicated as fashion styling and photography. People at least do not dry up, wilt, sag, and turn funny colors over the course of an hour under the lights. Burgers are one of the harder foods to style and photograph. The burgers you see in photographs are not even edible. For some interesting tricks of the food stylist/photographer's trade, see here: http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=102996&catId=100406&tid=100008&p=1&title=Food+styling.
That exact cheese is made in dozens of countries. Only in Greece is it called 'feta.' The most common name for the cheese is some variant of 'sirenje.' So call it that and be done with it. Feta means Greek cheese, even though it isn't a specific place-name.
"Welcome, humans! I am ready for you! Fish, plankton, sea greens and cooling from the sea. Fresh as harvest day. Overwhelming, am I not? Are you, too, startled? Am I too removed from your kin?"
Look, that's just putting a band-aid on the problem. You can't just xerox a product to make an identical copy.
That decision, which only holds weight in the EU, comes from a case that is, in my mind, legitimate. Belgium was selling a cow's milk cheese as feta, which is totally wrong. I'm pretty sure 'feta' is semi-generic in the US. But it sure as heck better be a salty, white sheep's milk cheese and not some cow's milk knock off. Blech.
A Philly cheese-steak is a recipe not an ingredient. As I mentioned, you can't claim a syrup is from Vermont if it isn't. These food producing regions always have local quality control boards that ensure products from those regions meet certain standards. Someone from outside those regions could tarnish the name of the region by producing inferior products while piggy backing on the popularity of the quality controlled ingredients that actually come from the place and pass the local quality control standards.
That's like saying an American company can't sell French Fries if they were made in Idaho. I can call the syrup I make in my backyard Vermont Syrup all I want.
Not without a law suit you can't. French Fries are a recipe, not an ingredient. Try selling Idaho russet potatoes that aren't from Idaho and see how long you last.
This system seems to me to adequately protect consumers and producers, while acknowledging the fact that certain designations have become semi-generic. In America, people do not associate Champagne or Parmesan with a particular region, but with a particular taste or style. Champagne is synonymous with sparkling wine, labeling it 'California Champagne' removes any uncertainty as to origins while using a word that consumers are familiar with. While one could call Champagne 'sparkling wine,' what could one even call Parmesan except Parmesan without confusing the consumer even more? Stinky hard Italian style cow's milk cheese?
Wrong. Those are designations of origins. Champagne and Parma are actual places. You can make parmesan or champagne, but you can't call it such (in Europe, anyway) because such a designation would denote that the foodstuff actually came from that region, and if it sucked, it would reflect poorly on the region. In the USA, a syrup producer in Kansas could not call their product 'Vermont maple syrup.' Calling a cheese 'Parmesan' or a sparkling wine 'Champagne' is like calling a syrup 'Vermont.'
AFAIK, Hummus, falafel, and so forth are generic names for foods traditional to dozens of countries. Nasi lemak means 'rice in cream' and is also not a designation of origin, therefore, attempting to copyright it is ridiculous and no other country is going to honor Malaysia's demands. Not that we in the US honor Europe's protected designations of origins anyway.
Clinton and Obama are cut from the same cloth: corporatist centrists. I voted for both of them as the lesser of two evils. The Patriot act wasn't even Clinton's worst mistake, that has to go to NAFTA. Yeah, that's right labor, the Dems sold you out, and they will this time, too.
Anyways, I've been a jerk, and I'm sorry. Rough week for me.
GPSs in cars are a stupid idea, but I'm more worried by the idea that insurance companies will use them than the government. Eventually, though, privately operated cars will be a thing of the past as all cars will be required to have and use computer autopilots under the control of centralized traffic management systems, at least in big cities.
Privacy is going away, and there's no stopping that. But privacy was only a bandaid on the real problem anyhow. The real problem is an imbalance of power regarding the ability to gather and act on information. If we can easily tell when someone else is gathering info on us and acting on it in a harmful way, and we can tell potentially everyone in the world about it, we won't need privacy. If privacy is going away, we simply need to ensure that it goes away for every entity out there. Complete transparency and the ability for anyone to communicate with billions of people will be the solution that privacy never was.