That's what the rest of the U.S. has been saying for years now; it hasn't really made an impression yet, but we're hoping that sometime before the end of his term he'll figure out that the U.S. also includes areas called "New York", "Los Angeles", and "North Texas" (i.e. everything else).
Frankly, if it hadn't been for 9/11, I don't think he ever would have acknowledged that there's a whole world outside the borders of Texas^WAmerica.
Well, except in Illinois at least, where all driver's license renewals are mailed directly to the Secretary of State. Of course, half of the state buildings have his name on them too; apparently there's some sort of persistent megalomania that afflicts ICANN cronies as well as Illinois Secretaries of State.
But here's the thing - the advantage of this approach is that it exposes people to new literature that they might not look for in the library. Usually in the library I head towards the classics and/or science fiction; but if I happened across a book on a bus, I might read something that I never would have picked up otherwise.
Also, the library will only want to stock so many copies of a book due to limited shelf space; this way gets more copies out into the reading population.
Or so it would seem to me; I've never actually come across one of these books myself but I'll keep my eye out for them now:)
If management wants to have the data center monitored 24x7, then they should staff three shifts of operators, not expect one guy to be on call 24x7. I think you're more "chained" if they let you go home but can wake you at any hour of the night.
Maybe they got their cost numbers from the same place the Mitnick prosecution did? There really needs to be more justification for those numbers before they are used in court; I wonder if a defense attorney can challenge them at all?
"Broadband" refers to the signalling scheme, not necessarily the amount of bandwidth you are allotted. It's just a fortunate coincidence for the cable companies that most people think of "broadband" as being ever so much more bandwidth. It is more bandwidth than dialup, but not necessarily an immense amount more.
Yeah, I agree with that, but on the other hand that argument has been somewhat unconvincing when it comes to "deep linking" court cases. Your reasoning seems sound to me, but I think we'll need a few court rulings that public web servers do implicitly authorize all access before I feel too comfortable.
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It's true, the stupid will always be at the mercy of the virus writers. But there's a big difference between doing normal activities like opening your email and getting zapped by a virus, and doing something dangerous like downloading a file, making it executable, and then running it in order to get zapped by a virus. Windows users have problems with both direct and incidental virus propagation; if Linux has managed to cut out the virus propagation that the user didn't do anything to cause, then I think it's a step in the right direction.
And you'd tell that "pissed off Linux user" exactly what you'd tell a pissed-off Windows user who ran something they got in the mail: don't be so trusting next time. Users who are too trusting can be retrained; Outlook that's too trusting and is on thousands of desktops is the big problem.
Aren't you supposed to say "charnel house" in there somewhere? Stick to the script already!
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1) Linux doesn't get viruses BECAUSE no one is writing viruses for linux. I know it's a tautology,
but were Linux to take off, I think we'd see an interest from the script-kiddie development
centers of the world. Linux doesn't have the critical mass to support a worldwide virus. No
Outlook - no virus.
I think you answered your own question - Linux doesn't get viruses because it doesn't have a worldwide distribution of an insecure virus propagation tool. Unless script-kiddies are going to first write Outlook for Linux, and then market the hell out of it for a few years, then I don't think any amount of Linux-based virus development is going to cause Linux problem on the scale that the Windows world has seen. Lack of virus-writing interest is not what's saving Linux.
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Now, no one asked me any of these things prior, during, or after the first or
second pricing. I'm not sure that this matters. But if it does, here it is: The Yahoo!
deal I worked on, if it resembles the deal the CARP ruling was built on, was
designed so that there would be less competition, and so that small webcasters
who needed to live off of a "percentage-of-revenue" to survive, couldn't.
P.S. Does anyone else who lost moderator access on the Thread of Doom find that they can't get any stories submitted any more, or is it just me? I'm beginning to cultivate a healthy persecution complex:)
Those are the slashbots that are always carrying on about how the world should work like Ayn Rand said it should, right?:)
Not to say that I didn't like The Fountainhead; I'm just not sure if I want to live my life in a similar vein, or live amongst people who are doing so.
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As long as you kill somebody for their cash and hide the body so that the murder isn't discovered for a day or so, you have some time to move the money. Same thing with credit cards - until the database has the "Danger, Will Robinson" bit set, you're home free to use the purloined material.
Not that I'm advocating this, but I could see this becoming a problem. At least until we are all using biometric smartcards with multiple forms of identification to pay for anything, at which point we're back in big brother land again.
Here's hoping this thread really is a troll. It was an interesting one, at least.
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So much for remaining untraceable by paying cash. I think this is the most Big Brother-esque thing I've ever heard.
I thought that the Ark was in a warehouse outside Washington? Or Golgotha the name of that warehouse? They weren't very clear about that at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Woops, replied to the wrong post. I'm agreeing with the guy who has no use for AA fonts at all. They all make me squint, even the supposedly "good" ones.
Or racing stripes. Here's a hint for the auto makers of America: a racing stripe all the way down the center of a pickup truck doesn't make it look any faster; it just makes the driver look like a knob.
Except we're not talking about bug fixes in a daemon; we're talking about learning a new user interface and way of working with every release of the software.
The reason we're seeing the version fatigue is that user interfaces haven't developed enough standards that new features can be added in non-bewildering ways. It's just like the early days of the automobile - as new electrical components were grafted onto them, the interfaces to them were complex and varied by auto maker. But by now there are pretty much standard ways to operate the radio, the headlights, the turn signals, etc.
User interface version fatigue is a sign that software user interface design is an immature field.
I can't make a guess about tracking of me that I haven't seen evidence of, but in terms of privacy-invading actions that I have been aware of, the most seem to stem from buying a house. Perhaps just because this is a matter of public record, but all the sudden you get a ton of junk mail, financial offers, etc. some of which contain fairly private (so I thought) information. I feel like I've lost more privacy as a result of putting down roots in the community than I ever did as your average netizen.
The worst is all the life insurance promotions that are coincidentally for exactly the amount of my mortgage (I think my mortgage company sold me out on that one). From the mail I get, you'd think that home buying is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S.:)
On the other hand, if someone is flinging their private business info out of the windows by the handful onto the street below, you can hardly be blamed for reading any that fell to the street.
If Best Buy didn't want their info read, they shouldn't broadcast it to all and sundry. Likewise with DirecTV, etc. I resist any and all attempts to stop me from intercepting radio signals that are being beamed into my head as we speak:)
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...Or that if Henry Kissinger goes to visit Europe, he might have some problems getting home again :)
That's what the rest of the U.S. has been saying for years now; it hasn't really made an impression yet, but we're hoping that sometime before the end of his term he'll figure out that the U.S. also includes areas called "New York", "Los Angeles", and "North Texas" (i.e. everything else).
Frankly, if it hadn't been for 9/11, I don't think he ever would have acknowledged that there's a whole world outside the borders of Texas^WAmerica.
You don't like his gateway, blackhole it. Problem solved.
Well, except in Illinois at least, where all driver's license renewals are mailed directly to the Secretary of State. Of course, half of the state buildings have his name on them too; apparently there's some sort of persistent megalomania that afflicts ICANN cronies as well as Illinois Secretaries of State.
But here's the thing - the advantage of this approach is that it exposes people to new literature that they might not look for in the library. Usually in the library I head towards the classics and/or science fiction; but if I happened across a book on a bus, I might read something that I never would have picked up otherwise.
Also, the library will only want to stock so many copies of a book due to limited shelf space; this way gets more copies out into the reading population.
Or so it would seem to me; I've never actually come across one of these books myself but I'll keep my eye out for them now :)
Whatever. Just deal with the karma cap like the rest of us.
If management wants to have the data center monitored 24x7, then they should staff three shifts of operators, not expect one guy to be on call 24x7. I think you're more "chained" if they let you go home but can wake you at any hour of the night.
Maybe they got their cost numbers from the same place the Mitnick prosecution did? There really needs to be more justification for those numbers before they are used in court; I wonder if a defense attorney can challenge them at all?
"Broadband" refers to the signalling scheme, not necessarily the amount of bandwidth you are allotted. It's just a fortunate coincidence for the cable companies that most people think of "broadband" as being ever so much more bandwidth. It is more bandwidth than dialup, but not necessarily an immense amount more.
Yeah, I agree with that, but on the other hand that argument has been somewhat unconvincing when it comes to "deep linking" court cases. Your reasoning seems sound to me, but I think we'll need a few court rulings that public web servers do implicitly authorize all access before I feel too comfortable.
It's true, the stupid will always be at the mercy of the virus writers. But there's a big difference between doing normal activities like opening your email and getting zapped by a virus, and doing something dangerous like downloading a file, making it executable, and then running it in order to get zapped by a virus. Windows users have problems with both direct and incidental virus propagation; if Linux has managed to cut out the virus propagation that the user didn't do anything to cause, then I think it's a step in the right direction.
And you'd tell that "pissed off Linux user" exactly what you'd tell a pissed-off Windows user who ran something they got in the mail: don't be so trusting next time. Users who are too trusting can be retrained; Outlook that's too trusting and is on thousands of desktops is the big problem.
Aren't you supposed to say "charnel house" in there somewhere? Stick to the script already!
I think you answered your own question - Linux doesn't get viruses because it doesn't have a worldwide distribution of an insecure virus propagation tool. Unless script-kiddies are going to first write Outlook for Linux, and then market the hell out of it for a few years, then I don't think any amount of Linux-based virus development is going to cause Linux problem on the scale that the Windows world has seen. Lack of virus-writing interest is not what's saving Linux.
Since I couldn't get this story submitted (too much Microsoft crap to fight through, apparently), this seems like a good place to pass on the story: Cuban says Yahoo!'s RIAA deal was designed to stifle competition
Mark Cuban:
As originally seen at: http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2002/06.htm l#24-jun-2002, although JWZ seems to have taken down that news post at the moment (?).
P.S. Does anyone else who lost moderator access on the Thread of Doom find that they can't get any stories submitted any more, or is it just me? I'm beginning to cultivate a healthy persecution complex :)
Those are the slashbots that are always carrying on about how the world should work like Ayn Rand said it should, right? :)
Not to say that I didn't like The Fountainhead; I'm just not sure if I want to live my life in a similar vein, or live amongst people who are doing so.
As long as you kill somebody for their cash and hide the body so that the murder isn't discovered for a day or so, you have some time to move the money. Same thing with credit cards - until the database has the "Danger, Will Robinson" bit set, you're home free to use the purloined material.
Not that I'm advocating this, but I could see this becoming a problem. At least until we are all using biometric smartcards with multiple forms of identification to pay for anything, at which point we're back in big brother land again.
Here's hoping this thread really is a troll. It was an interesting one, at least.
So much for remaining untraceable by paying cash. I think this is the most Big Brother-esque thing I've ever heard.
I thought that the Ark was in a warehouse outside Washington? Or Golgotha the name of that warehouse? They weren't very clear about that at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Woops, replied to the wrong post. I'm agreeing with the guy who has no use for AA fonts at all. They all make me squint, even the supposedly "good" ones.
Or racing stripes. Here's a hint for the auto makers of America: a racing stripe all the way down the center of a pickup truck doesn't make it look any faster; it just makes the driver look like a knob.
Hear hear! If I never see another anti-aliased glyph, it will be too soon. Just say no to blurry letters.
You know, when he said he liked italics, he was joking. Right?
Except we're not talking about bug fixes in a daemon; we're talking about learning a new user interface and way of working with every release of the software.
The reason we're seeing the version fatigue is that user interfaces haven't developed enough standards that new features can be added in non-bewildering ways. It's just like the early days of the automobile - as new electrical components were grafted onto them, the interfaces to them were complex and varied by auto maker. But by now there are pretty much standard ways to operate the radio, the headlights, the turn signals, etc.
User interface version fatigue is a sign that software user interface design is an immature field.
I can't make a guess about tracking of me that I haven't seen evidence of, but in terms of privacy-invading actions that I have been aware of, the most seem to stem from buying a house. Perhaps just because this is a matter of public record, but all the sudden you get a ton of junk mail, financial offers, etc. some of which contain fairly private (so I thought) information. I feel like I've lost more privacy as a result of putting down roots in the community than I ever did as your average netizen.
The worst is all the life insurance promotions that are coincidentally for exactly the amount of my mortgage (I think my mortgage company sold me out on that one). From the mail I get, you'd think that home buying is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. :)
On the other hand, if someone is flinging their private business info out of the windows by the handful onto the street below, you can hardly be blamed for reading any that fell to the street.
If Best Buy didn't want their info read, they shouldn't broadcast it to all and sundry. Likewise with DirecTV, etc. I resist any and all attempts to stop me from intercepting radio signals that are being beamed into my head as we speak :)