And one more thing. Don't you think my right to not be tracked by some low life who puts a tag on my car is the same as your right to post as an Anonymous Coward?
What's different here is that each one of those things has become infinitely easier and more likely to be successful due to this technology. Your logic is up there with "Let's give everyone a loaded gun because guns don't kill people, people kill people"
Without this technology the hitman couldn't follow his target without being seen.
Without this technology the thief would not know that you are a 5 hour drive away so he can take his time.
Without this technology an abusive parent/spouse wouldn't know that their victim has run away or to where. The abuser also wouldn't know their hiding place to within a few feet.
Without this technology a rapist wouldn't be able to track his intended victim from the comfort of his own home.
I'm not saying this technology shouldn't be made available because there are a number of positive uses. I'm just saying that before we make it available to criminals, rapists and pedophiles that maybe, just maybe we might want to think about the consequences first.
I'm not the person who posted the original comment but I'll give you a few examples.
A hitman (or is it hitperson) can track their intended target without being seen and wait for them to be in an isolated location
A criminal can leisurely rob your house because they put a tag on your car and they know exactly where you and your car are. Instead of just having a few easy to carry items stolen you come home to find everything of value gone because the thief knew exactly how long he could take.
An abusive spouse/parent can impose even more control over their victim and even track them down when the abused spouse/child try to run away.
A rapist could sit in a mall parking lot and wait for a woman to get out of her car and go inside. He could then put a tag on her car and follow her around at a distance until the right moment to strike.
Since Windows allows you to use an HTML page as your background I would say it is a big deal.
Suppose some malicious person exploits one of the other bugs in IE to download an HTML page that contains this bug and set it as your Windows background.
Do you think Windows will be able to recover when that background HTML rendering crashes? If it's just a bug and no big deal why don't you give it a try.
If Microsoft is going to continue to imbed the browser into every facet of the Windows interface they better make damn well it is bulletproof. Remember, it was Microsoft that said the browser was part of the operating system. This "bug" you refer to is really an OS bug not just an application bug.
I just took my car in for servicing and along with other things I asked them to replace a burnt out lightbulb in the dashboard. The cost: $5CDN lightbulb, $105CDN for the labour. Apparently they have to remove the entire dashboard to get at it. I guess it's the "impossible to get at" part of Douglas Adams' quote.
So I'm driving around with a burnt out lightbulb in my dashboard.
The first application I worked on after graduation was a 2000 line program written by a developer whose favourite statement was "ALTER GOTO". I ran the program through a restructuring tool and this 2,000 line unreadable program became a a properly structured 15,000 line slightly readable program.
I eventually replaced it with a 5,000 line program that included a number of major enhancements. When I ran my program through the same tool it only grew to about 5,200 lines.
Never underestimate the ability of a bad coder to make any language unreadable.
Perhaps you should read the article. Taken from the Office Depot memo (emphasis added):
Please be aware that Office Depot is immediately requiring all products that connect to a Personal Computer and Notebook Computer must pass these Designed for Windows XP logo requirements to be considered for retail distribution through our stores.
I believe the phrase "all products" would include anything non-Windows as well.
You have avoided my central point that applets are for the most part historical relics.
I think the point of Sun's case against Microsoft is that they have essentially killed Java on the desktop primarily through the deployment of an incompatible thus making applets historical relics.
The question is would that had happened if Microsoft hadn't done the things it did. If the case shows that Microsoft directly contributed to the decline of Java on the desktop through illegal monopoly behaviour then some remedy must implemented. An appropriate remedy would be to force Microsoft itself to be the one to correct the damage they did by delivering a Sun JVM with every copy of Windows and Windows updates.
the recording companies did bring us Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Eminem, etc
What are your drunk??? How could you put Led Zeppelin and Eminem in the same sentence? Eminem is a perfect example of what's wrong with the current music industry. Crank out the same drivel from no talent hacks and blame file-sharing for falling CD sales.
People aren't stealing music - they're bored!!!!
Before you accuse me of being a Napster whore, I disagree with listening to downloaded music without compensating the artists. However, I am against compensating an industry that values flash over substance and marketability over talent.
The record companies should realize that their current model has been made obsolete by the internet. Rather than trying to maintain their tired industry why not try different ways to make money. I can think of two things off the top of my head.
1) Stop gouging the consumer on CDs. They could cut CD prices in half and still make a reasonable profit. In all this business about file-sharing why did it not occur to anyone in the music industry that one of the reasons people are doing this is because prices are too high. People don't want to be criminals and if they are charged a reasonable price they would buy more.
2) Use CDs/file-sharing as a vehicle to promote concerts and make the money there. For this to work the price of concert tickets would have to drop, tour budgets would have to be reduced and the artists would have to perform more often. If you don't think it will work this is similar to the model used in the 60's. 45's were used to promote artists and concerts were the big money makers.
Actually there is a browser-only implementation using the Gecko engine called Phoenix (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/) and it's ~6.1MB. At 7.2MB I guess it is Safari that has some bloat to get rid of.
In the past Microsoft has started a number of projects that haven't made it to delivery. Many of them in an attempt to keep people from switching to a competitor's product. Once that competitor no longer exists then the feature or product is mysteriously dropped.
Besides, since when does a job posting qualify as a product announcement?
Typo aside, according to The Internet Database the three movies cost $297 million to make. If the next two moives make the same as the first they should collective gross almost $2.6 billion. Even with Hollywood's creative accounting they should make a huge profit.
...until they create a "terrorist detector" the size of a credit card this isn't possible. Shifting the blame to the common person isn't going to stop terrorism. The government had more than enough information to detain the 9/11 terrorists, but did nothing. Now they are using it as an excuse to piss all over the Constitution. I won't stand for that. This country IS the Constitution. Without it, we are no better than some piss-ant third world country run by a despot with a funny hat.
So I guess any country that doesn't have your perfect Constitution can't hope to live up to your shining standards. A Constitution so perfect it had to be amended 27 times.
What an arrogant, knee jerk, bullheaded, braindead opinion. The U.S. does not have the corner on the market for so-called "Constitutional Rights". Your public bitches and moans that they want their government to do something about national security and when they do you tell them to get lost. I guess you and your knuckle dragging cousins don't realize that if you want national security then it means more delays when travelling or giving up some of your precious constitutional rights.
You have to pay for security with a loss of freedom.
If you don't trust your government enough to have a national ID card then don't elect them. By the way, your country already has a national ID - it's called the Social Security Number. What's wrong with making a national ID that can be used to simplify national security.
The reality is that most people are very aware that they don't own most intellectual property that they've purchased. We can't republish books under our own names, we can't sell copies of our tapes and DVDs, and we can't give our friends and family CD-R copies of Windows XP. Everyone knows this, and it bothers very few. Nobody is giving up computing because they aren't allowed to redistribute their commercial software.
Yes, but we can lend a book or a DVD to a friend but many software licenses exclude that type of sharing.
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Not to mention running on IBM mainframes. Something that .NET will never be able to do.
If you want scalability from servers to mainframes then Java is the only game in town.
Doughnuts?! Where???
They spent two years "in the planning and focus group stages" and all they could come up with was to change from "Palm" to "PalmOne"?
I'm not saying I can come up with anything better right now but give me two years and I'll bet I can.
And one more thing. Don't you think my right to not be tracked by some low life who puts a tag on my car is the same as your right to post as an Anonymous Coward?
What's different here is that each one of those things has become infinitely easier and more likely to be successful due to this technology. Your logic is up there with "Let's give everyone a loaded gun because guns don't kill people, people kill people"
Without this technology the hitman couldn't follow his target without being seen.
Without this technology the thief would not know that you are a 5 hour drive away so he can take his time.
Without this technology an abusive parent/spouse wouldn't know that their victim has run away or to where. The abuser also wouldn't know their hiding place to within a few feet.
Without this technology a rapist wouldn't be able to track his intended victim from the comfort of his own home.
I'm not saying this technology shouldn't be made available because there are a number of positive uses. I'm just saying that before we make it available to criminals, rapists and pedophiles that maybe, just maybe we might want to think about the consequences first.
Would you prepared if gravity reversed itself? The only thing I can't figure out is how to keep the change in my pockets. I've got it! Nudity!
- A hitman (or is it hitperson) can track their intended target without being seen and wait for them to be in an isolated location
- A criminal can leisurely rob your house because they put a tag on your car and they know exactly where you and your car are. Instead of just having a few easy to carry items stolen you come home to find everything of value gone because the thief knew exactly how long he could take.
- An abusive spouse/parent can impose even more control over their victim and even track them down when the abused spouse/child try to run away.
- A rapist could sit in a mall parking lot and wait for a woman to get out of her car and go inside. He could then put a tag on her car and follow her around at a distance until the right moment to strike.
And that's just off the top of my head.I believe the quoted CNN story already spoiled it. The headline/story here was only reporting information that was freely available elsewhere.
Are you going to bitch at CNN as well?
Don't forget Solaris.
Since Windows allows you to use an HTML page as your background I would say it is a big deal.
Suppose some malicious person exploits one of the other bugs in IE to download an HTML page that contains this bug and set it as your Windows background.
Do you think Windows will be able to recover when that background HTML rendering crashes? If it's just a bug and no big deal why don't you give it a try.
If Microsoft is going to continue to imbed the browser into every facet of the Windows interface they better make damn well it is bulletproof. Remember, it was Microsoft that said the browser was part of the operating system. This "bug" you refer to is really an OS bug not just an application bug.
No. It's MY "laser".
I just took my car in for servicing and along with other things I asked them to replace a burnt out lightbulb in the dashboard. The cost: $5CDN lightbulb, $105CDN for the labour. Apparently they have to remove the entire dashboard to get at it. I guess it's the "impossible to get at" part of Douglas Adams' quote.
So I'm driving around with a burnt out lightbulb in my dashboard.
Oh, say it's not so!
The first application I worked on after graduation was a 2000 line program written by a developer whose favourite statement was "ALTER GOTO". I ran the program through a restructuring tool and this 2,000 line unreadable program became a a properly structured 15,000 line slightly readable program.
I eventually replaced it with a 5,000 line program that included a number of major enhancements. When I ran my program through the same tool it only grew to about 5,200 lines.
Never underestimate the ability of a bad coder to make any language unreadable.
Perhaps you should read the article. Taken from the Office Depot memo (emphasis added):
I believe the phrase "all products" would include anything non-Windows as well.
You have avoided my central point that applets are for the most part historical relics.
I think the point of Sun's case against Microsoft is that they have essentially killed Java on the desktop primarily through the deployment of an incompatible thus making applets historical relics.
The question is would that had happened if Microsoft hadn't done the things it did. If the case shows that Microsoft directly contributed to the decline of Java on the desktop through illegal monopoly behaviour then some remedy must implemented. An appropriate remedy would be to force Microsoft itself to be the one to correct the damage they did by delivering a Sun JVM with every copy of Windows and Windows updates.
the recording companies did bring us Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Eminem, etc
What are your drunk??? How could you put Led Zeppelin and Eminem in the same sentence? Eminem is a perfect example of what's wrong with the current music industry. Crank out the same drivel from no talent hacks and blame file-sharing for falling CD sales.
People aren't stealing music - they're bored!!!!
Before you accuse me of being a Napster whore, I disagree with listening to downloaded music without compensating the artists. However, I am against compensating an industry that values flash over substance and marketability over talent.
The record companies should realize that their current model has been made obsolete by the internet. Rather than trying to maintain their tired industry why not try different ways to make money. I can think of two things off the top of my head.
1) Stop gouging the consumer on CDs. They could cut CD prices in half and still make a reasonable profit. In all this business about file-sharing why did it not occur to anyone in the music industry that one of the reasons people are doing this is because prices are too high. People don't want to be criminals and if they are charged a reasonable price they would buy more.
2) Use CDs/file-sharing as a vehicle to promote concerts and make the money there. For this to work the price of concert tickets would have to drop, tour budgets would have to be reduced and the artists would have to perform more often. If you don't think it will work this is similar to the model used in the 60's. 45's were used to promote artists and concerts were the big money makers.
If they can put those things in tires, they can put them in condoms, too.
Yeah, but think of the reader they would use to scan it.
Actually there is a browser-only implementation using the Gecko engine called Phoenix (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/) and it's ~6.1MB. At 7.2MB I guess it is Safari that has some bloat to get rid of.
In the past Microsoft has started a number of projects that haven't made it to delivery. Many of them in an attempt to keep people from switching to a competitor's product. Once that competitor no longer exists then the feature or product is mysteriously dropped.
Besides, since when does a job posting qualify as a product announcement?
Typo aside, according to The Internet Database the three movies cost $297 million to make. If the next two moives make the same as the first they should collective gross almost $2.6 billion. Even with Hollywood's creative accounting they should make a huge profit.
I almost fell out of my chair ROTFLMFAO. Thanks for making my day.
So I guess any country that doesn't have your perfect Constitution can't hope to live up to your shining standards. A Constitution so perfect it had to be amended 27 times.
What an arrogant, knee jerk, bullheaded, braindead opinion. The U.S. does not have the corner on the market for so-called "Constitutional Rights". Your public bitches and moans that they want their government to do something about national security and when they do you tell them to get lost. I guess you and your knuckle dragging cousins don't realize that if you want national security then it means more delays when travelling or giving up some of your precious constitutional rights.
You have to pay for security with a loss of freedom.
If you don't trust your government enough to have a national ID card then don't elect them. By the way, your country already has a national ID - it's called the Social Security Number. What's wrong with making a national ID that can be used to simplify national security.
We should all be so lucky.
The reality is that most people are very aware that they don't own most intellectual property that they've purchased. We can't republish books under our own names, we can't sell copies of our tapes and DVDs, and we can't give our friends and family CD-R copies of Windows XP. Everyone knows this, and it bothers very few. Nobody is giving up computing because they aren't allowed to redistribute their commercial software.
Yes, but we can lend a book or a DVD to a friend but many software licenses exclude that type of sharing.