I, personally, would rather simply limit my kid to.edu sites. I think.com is just about as dangerous, nasty, and evil as.prn. Do we really want to let Disney, Sony, AOLTW, and Microsoft warp our childrens' minds from an early age (as ours were warped by GE, GM, BoA, etc. in the '70's)?
If we could set strict standards for who can call themselves a.edu (or.org) then we can block 99% of the porn out there from young impressionable eyes.
That's not racial. It's cultural. People can choose their culture. Especially in America. You only have to be a hick if you wanna be like Jim-Bob down the street, and if you envy his detailed knowledge of WWF and his pickup truck.
I don't know about that. while XP *does* look to me to be a rip-off of Aqua, there's just a character to XP that Aqua does not have that's just. . . cartoony. Aqua may be too colorful, a bit frivolous, a bit "i have more CPU cycles than I know what to do with" - but it's not cartoony. It's very slick - from the translucency of the buttons and dock, to the drop shadows, and genie effect. XP doesn't even rate as a cheap rip-off.
This is not at all odd. By displaying a Netscape icon - they're visually telling the ad's target audience, the Unix person who may be thinking of migrating to OS X, that OS X does run alternative browsers - because most Unix-heads are pretty unhappy with Microsoft's offerings on other unix platforms (for instance, Solaris).
By displaying the Office suite icons, they're visually telling the ad's target audience; here's your solution to the problem of not being able to read MS Office files on your Solaris/BSD/Linux/HPUX/AIX/SGI/etc. box.
I agree with you 100% on your opinion of Omni Group's software - but on the other hand, on OS X, iCab is MUCH faster - even though it's rendering is often very quirky - and personally, my choice is Mozilla. Mozilla is much faster than OmniWeb, plus Mozilla has tabbed browsing.
At the consumer level, the most expensive part of the car is the financing.
At the manufacturer level, the most expensive part of the car is actually the wire-harness and electronics. Which, of course, suffers a similar threat from Microsoft software. . .
this is actually a great idea!
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We need a button on Mozilla, to report sites that don't use non-compliant html. Then we can sent the html-compliance police out and have these rogue webmasters' attitudes adjusted.
This kind of technology has TONS of uses. Sites that harvest email addresses for spammers. Sites with misleading or false advertising. Sites with poor UI design.
I've also been fantasizing about a movie series of the whole Elric of Melnibone books. Obviously with a Blue Oyster Cult soundtrack. Possibly starring Jerry Busey (he's not an albino, but his father played one in Lethal Weapon - they're so pale, they can pass for one).
What should be illegal is designing and distributing a lame operating system which makes it impossible for the user to tell what each and every process running on the machine is and does, and who installed it, at what time, and how, and where the process was commanded to start from, and what effective rights that process has - And all this information needs to be made available to the user in a format easy enough for my mother in law to understand.
Remove the veil of secrecy, the obscurity, and you remove the cover under which viruses operate, and you eliminate 90% of their opportunity to spread and cause damage.
Now, I'm specifically talking about trojans.
For viruses - each and every file containing executable code should also be registered to a central database or listing on each individual machine, (which can be validated against the vendor's "official list" where we're talking about commercial code - and for open source, well, if the guy's writing his own binaries, he can, and should, validate them himself) and each of these files should be validated by checksum - maybe even md5, and changes logged and timestampped in this database. If you can see the changes happening to your binaries - and if that data is easily and quickly accessible, then you can catch viruses too.
I don't see why this is such a problem - other than the fact that it's a bit of extra infrastructure and overhead, and would eat into the economic efficiency of the software industry.
In other words: Viruses are possible, because the software manufacturers don't want to invest in a prevention infrastructure.
I'm pretty sure gold, which does not oxidize, would still be around, and any worked or fashioned gold jewelry would be a dead givaway. I don't believe that there are any examples of that in existance which are known to be "inexplicably old".
"A man that would sacrifice his freedom for security deserves neither. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." -Montesquieu, The Rights of British America
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Here's a good point:
The cold war sent us to the moon in what was the biggest and most expensive international pissing contest in the history of mankind.
The politicians said: hey, lets humor the scientists and the futurists out there, and toss them a couple of bucks and have them give those pinko commies a black eye.
Then, once the mission was accomplished, and no more profit was to be seen, they pulled the rug out from under it.
And we have since "languished in low earth orbit for 30 years".
Taligent didn't bomb. The BlueBox (Classic environment) evolved from the effort to make Copeland Backwards compatible. At least that's what a former employee of Taligent tells me.
IIRC, NBC was just copying off of the VERY successful model CNN pioneered for the Gulf War. Don't you remember the Gulf War? The event that propelled CNN to it's skyrocketing success? They had their own Gulf War logo, their own Gulf War theme song - da works. Prior to the Gulf War, CNN was really not taken very seriously as a news organization at all. But the fact that people could turn to them 24 hours a day for the latest coverage, and the fact that they had guys IN Baghdad the night the bombing started, I think were the real reasons CNN became so popular. But I guess when copying success, they'd rather focus on the logos and theme songs. Quite pathetic, really.
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maybe people want to PRODUCE dvds. Ooops, sorry, Microsoft missed the boat on that one. (compared to Apple.)
I, personally, would rather simply limit my kid to .edu sites. I think .com is just about as dangerous, nasty, and evil as .prn. Do we really want to let Disney, Sony, AOLTW, and Microsoft warp our childrens' minds from an early age (as ours were warped by GE, GM, BoA, etc. in the '70's)?
.edu (or .org) then we can block 99% of the porn out there from young impressionable eyes.
If we could set strict standards for who can call themselves a
That's not racial. It's cultural. People can choose their culture. Especially in America. You only have to be a hick if you wanna be like Jim-Bob down the street, and if you envy his detailed knowledge of WWF and his pickup truck.
Shouldn't this be:
"Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Larnin'"?
Now if only I could share the same history and bookmarks between my PC-based-Mozilla at work, and my Mac-based-Mozilla at home. . .
I don't know about that. while XP *does* look to me to be a rip-off of Aqua, there's just a character to XP that Aqua does not have that's just. . . cartoony. Aqua may be too colorful, a bit frivolous, a bit "i have more CPU cycles than I know what to do with" - but it's not cartoony. It's very slick - from the translucency of the buttons and dock, to the drop shadows, and genie effect. XP doesn't even rate as a cheap rip-off.
This is not at all odd.
By displaying a Netscape icon - they're visually telling the ad's target audience, the Unix person who may be thinking of migrating to OS X, that OS X does run alternative browsers - because most Unix-heads are pretty unhappy with Microsoft's offerings on other unix platforms (for instance, Solaris).
By displaying the Office suite icons, they're visually telling the ad's target audience; here's your solution to the problem of not being able to read MS Office files on your Solaris/BSD/Linux/HPUX/AIX/SGI/etc. box.
I agree with you 100% on your opinion of Omni Group's software - but on the other hand, on OS X, iCab is MUCH faster - even though it's rendering is often very quirky - and personally, my choice is Mozilla. Mozilla is much faster than OmniWeb, plus Mozilla has tabbed browsing.
Okay then, Brad Pitt. . . with some white makeup.
um - doesn't diesel exhaust also cause a buttload of health problems from asthma to cancer? No thanks on the diesel.
telnet and ftp sessions still open?
At the consumer level, the most expensive part of the car is the financing.
At the manufacturer level, the most expensive part of the car is actually the wire-harness and electronics. Which, of course, suffers a similar threat from Microsoft software. . .
We need a button on Mozilla, to report sites that don't use non-compliant html. Then we can sent the html-compliance police out and have these rogue webmasters' attitudes adjusted.
This kind of technology has TONS of uses.
Sites that harvest email addresses for spammers.
Sites with misleading or false advertising.
Sites with poor UI design.
god, I love it!
I've also been fantasizing about a movie series of the whole Elric of Melnibone books. Obviously with a Blue Oyster Cult soundtrack. Possibly starring Jerry Busey (he's not an albino, but his father played one in Lethal Weapon - they're so pale, they can pass for one).
What should be illegal is designing and distributing a lame operating system which makes it impossible for the user to tell what each and every process running on the machine is and does, and who installed it, at what time, and how, and where the process was commanded to start from, and what effective rights that process has -
And all this information needs to be made available to the user in a format easy enough for my mother in law to understand.
Remove the veil of secrecy, the obscurity, and you remove the cover under which viruses operate, and you eliminate 90% of their opportunity to spread and cause damage.
Now, I'm specifically talking about trojans.
For viruses - each and every file containing executable code should also be registered to a central database or listing on each individual machine, (which can be validated against the vendor's "official list" where we're talking about commercial code - and for open source, well, if the guy's writing his own binaries, he can, and should, validate them himself)
and each of these files should be validated by checksum - maybe even md5, and changes logged and timestampped in this database. If you can see the changes happening to your binaries - and if that data is easily and quickly accessible, then you can catch viruses too.
I don't see why this is such a problem - other than the fact that it's a bit of extra infrastructure and overhead, and would eat into the economic efficiency of the software industry.
In other words: Viruses are possible, because the software manufacturers don't want to invest in a prevention infrastructure.
It makes me feel icky all over.
Just like that time when Uncle Jim touched me in my private place, out behind his barn.
I'm pretty sure gold, which does not oxidize, would still be around, and any worked or fashioned gold jewelry would be a dead givaway. I don't believe that there are any examples of that in existance which are known to be "inexplicably old".
What destroyed the ancients?
onerous copyright protection laws.
naw, that's why god created Dremels!
. . . preceeded by about 20 years by:
"A man that would sacrifice his freedom for security deserves neither. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time."
-Montesquieu, The Rights of British America
vegetables: it's what food eats.
Here's a good point:
The cold war sent us to the moon in what was the biggest and most expensive international pissing contest in the history of mankind.
The politicians said: hey, lets humor the scientists and the futurists out there, and toss them a couple of bucks and have them give those pinko commies a black eye.
Then, once the mission was accomplished, and no more profit was to be seen, they pulled the rug out from under it.
And we have since "languished in low earth orbit for 30 years".
There's yer "innovation in the name of war".
Taligent didn't bomb. The BlueBox (Classic environment) evolved from the effort to make Copeland Backwards compatible. At least that's what a former employee of Taligent tells me.
:)
Okay, Taligent bombed
IIRC, NBC was just copying off of the VERY successful model CNN pioneered for the Gulf War. Don't you remember the Gulf War? The event that propelled CNN to it's skyrocketing success? They had their own Gulf War logo, their own Gulf War theme song - da works. Prior to the Gulf War, CNN was really not taken very seriously as a news organization at all. But the fact that people could turn to them 24 hours a day for the latest coverage, and the fact that they had guys IN Baghdad the night the bombing started, I think were the real reasons CNN became so popular. But I guess when copying success, they'd rather focus on the logos and theme songs. Quite pathetic, really.
I thought IBM was the "com" in .com(mercial).