Please supply the latest Windows service pack and the latest Internet Explorer update patches on your CDs and make them a prerequisite to going online. Microsoft would love you to do this, techies would love it too and it would close down a lot of spam relays by closing the holes.
The tin foil hat brigade had a cow when AOL turned off the Windows Messenger service to stop messenger spams. What's going to happen the first time an AOL-installed patch kills someone's Windows box? By definition, if you're using AOL you're clueless, and you won't be able to recover from it. Then is AOL next expected to be supporting Windows? I don't think they'll walk down this road, laudable as it may seem.
Hell, why don't we just pass a law that says that our trade policy with a country is the exact mirror image of their trade policy with us?
I've advocated that ever since US cars exported to Japan practically got disassembled on Japanese piers by their version of Customs. If we'd have done the exact same to them, there would have been freighters lined up from here to Midway waiting to unload....
One: How many more jobs must we lose before they become concerned about our middle class and our strength as a consumer market? Two: When will the U.S. have to quit borrowing foreign capital to buy foreign goods that support European and Asian economies while driving us deeper into debt? Three: What jobs will our currently 15 million unemployed workers fill, where and when?
One and two are killer points, and number three leads right back into point one. I've yet to hear anyone try and address those points. It's usually, "I believe in free trade. Hey, go look at that wookie."
Our principal trading partners, Canada, China, Japan and the European Union, all typically maintain annual trade surpluses and pursue balanced trade. Why don't my critics call them protectionists? Why not call them economic isolationists?
Their governments have this weird concept of doing what's right for their citizens. Washington needs to realize who has elected them, who pays their taxes, and, incidentally, whom they swore to serve in their oaths.
Programmers of any country are rarely eloquent speakers and passionate writers even in their native tongue. The skillsets just don't seem to mix that well.
CMDR Taco is a prime example, at least when it comes to writing (never heard him speak; for all I know he's like Clarence Darrow).
First, I said "if it upsets you" and secondly, free trade implies some sort of equality of trade partners. There's no such thing as free trade with China because they aren't a free market (Communist state with near-virtual slave labor), nor with India as they don't have a modern economy. Free trade is only "free" with an equality of partners playing by equal rules. For example, the US vs. Europe. We're also free to boycott who we want.
...and you can plainly identify it as such, boycott the product. Better yet, boycott it and let them know why and then badmouth them to everyone you know.
Yeah, I can see where having someone who specializes in gathering information about a topic and processing and synthesizing it is a poor choice to make intelligent critique about a policy before it is implemented.
[sarcasm] You're absolutely right. In the whole wide world, only a "journalist" (he gets quote marks now because he's lost all credibility for having any objectivity) is capable of distilling all of the issues. [/sarcasm] Next up...Fox News.
...no, not the TLD, but the fact that a journalist is here working on policy and creating news. It's one thing to comment after the fact as Declan does in his articles and in Politech, but this is ridiculous. This is a more blatant abuse than the talking heads on the weekend political talk shows--at least they don't have direct affect on policy.
Am I the only one not busting a nut at the chance of paying $0.99 to download one song? Or $9.99 to download an album? To me this is hardly an improvement over current pricing. Maybe it's just that the stuff I listen to isn't typically available (live trance sets)
Get yerself in enough of a trance and you won't notice....;-)
It also means, that they're basically providing an API to the outlook address book.
They're doing more than that...they need to have drivers to interpret NTFS or FAT32, etc. Pretty soon they'll have creeping featuritis and you'll soon see a full Windows XP Embedded in your BIOS.:)
ConsoleOne (NWadmins supposed replacement) has run on linux for years. Solaris too.
There is no longer a 'need' for 'Netware' tools - almost all modern Novell stuff is webbased, or clientless.
Uhh, right. Sure. That's the theory; the reality is a bit different. Try managing anything to do with Security. Oops, can't do it. You need Win32 NICI. Try managing a GroupWise system. Oops, you need snapins that only work on Windows ConsoleOne, not the server's or Linux's. And so on. Too much is tied to the dependency on a Windows Netware client. If Novell wants to replace Windows on the desktop, they'll have to change that, right? And need I mention that the portal tools only work right with IE for Windows? Isn't THAT a butt-slapper?
I think you misunderstood the intent:
"Passengers who[se profile] raise[s] questions [in the minds of airport security] would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening."
A bit different from "Passengers who ask questions..."
+5 Insightful? I think not. By your interpretation, the security drone(s) at the airport would be interpreting your profile. In other words, above and beyond the Stop, Go and Maybe that the TSA's database will have said. So to do that, the airport authorities would have to have direct access to LOTS of your information. I don't even think the TSA is that stupid. One could read that "profile" to mean looks, behavior, etc, but that has nothing to do with the color coding which has already been assigned. Contextually, it has to be the profile that CAPPS has tossed together.
One of the things that got me started on Caldera oh-so-long ago (whenever COL 1.3 was out) was their Netware integration and tools (having an NDS client when ncpfs was just bindery) and a KDE version of Netware Admin. I'm wondering if there's anything Novell-y in this, or if it's Just Another Distro.
Modded insightful? Office doesn't even support right to left languages.
Yes, it does.
Get with the flow of the discussion, chum. Office for the Mac doesn't support right to left languages. That's a big reason why Israel's government has their ban. Of course, being adjudged a monopoly was the other reason. Yeah, the original poster should have been a touch more specific but....
Hell, you can't even get a lot of linux users to buy a commercial distro, much less any software that runs on it. This isn't flamebait, this is the sad, cold truth. Note I didn't say all, but wayyyyy too many.
Wow this is a major scandal! I expect to watch it on the news tonight.
Oh wait.. it's the same comapanies...
Well at least I'll hear about on the radio...
Oh wait those are the same companies too...
Well at least they will discuss it in the next session of congress...
Oh right I keep forgeting.....
And here I just burned up the last of my mod points.:-( Just wait til we have the Time-Warner party, the Viacom party or the (god forbid) Clear Channel party, each with Michael Powell as their candidate.:-)
Question with the sort of thing this case deals with is where the crime is actually committed. I think that as long as he hosted stuff on a server in Australia and he was in Australia, it does not matter which US copyrights he violated, he did not commit a crime in the US, so he shouldn't be extradited. How can he possibly break US law without being in the US or doing anything in the US?
But how is this functionally different than the Skylarov case? Substitute DMCA for copyright and coming to the US instead of being extradited and the core issue is the same: a foreigner in a foreign land allegedly violating US laws that weren't laws in the home country and then being punished in the US. If nothing else, this is a stronger case because copyright is more internationally recognized than the DMCA (good thing, that).
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Please supply the latest Windows service pack and the latest Internet Explorer update patches on your CDs and make them a prerequisite to going online. Microsoft would love you to do this, techies would love it too and it would close down a lot of spam relays by closing the holes.
The tin foil hat brigade had a cow when AOL turned off the Windows Messenger service to stop messenger spams. What's going to happen the first time an AOL-installed patch kills someone's Windows box?
By definition, if you're using AOL you're clueless, and you won't be able to recover from it. Then is AOL next expected to be supporting Windows? I don't think they'll walk down this road, laudable as it may seem.
Hell, why don't we just pass a law that says that our trade policy with a country is the exact mirror image of their trade policy with us?
I've advocated that ever since US cars exported to Japan practically got disassembled on Japanese piers by their version of Customs. If we'd have done the exact same to them, there would have been freighters lined up from here to Midway waiting to unload....
One: How many more jobs must we lose before they become concerned about our middle class and our strength as a consumer market? Two: When will the U.S. have to quit borrowing foreign capital to buy foreign goods that support European and Asian economies while driving us deeper into debt? Three: What jobs will our currently 15 million unemployed workers fill, where and when?
One and two are killer points, and number three leads right back into point one. I've yet to hear anyone try and address those points. It's usually, "I believe in free trade. Hey, go look at that wookie."
Our principal trading partners, Canada, China, Japan and the European Union, all typically maintain annual trade surpluses and pursue balanced trade. Why don't my critics call them protectionists? Why not call them economic isolationists?
Their governments have this weird concept of doing what's right for their citizens. Washington needs to realize who has elected them, who pays their taxes, and, incidentally, whom they swore to serve in their oaths.
Programmers of any country are rarely eloquent speakers and passionate writers even in their native tongue. The skillsets just don't seem to mix that well.
CMDR Taco is a prime example, at least when it comes to writing (never heard him speak; for all I know he's like Clarence Darrow).
What happened to that free markets thing?
First, I said "if it upsets you" and secondly, free trade implies some sort of equality of trade partners. There's no such thing as free trade with China because they aren't a free market (Communist state with near-virtual slave labor), nor with India as they don't have a modern economy. Free trade is only "free" with an equality of partners playing by equal rules. For example, the US vs. Europe.
We're also free to boycott who we want.
...and you can plainly identify it as such, boycott the product. Better yet, boycott it and let them know why and then badmouth them to everyone you know.
Yeah, I can see where having someone who specializes in gathering information about a topic and processing and synthesizing it is a poor choice to make intelligent critique about a policy before it is implemented.
[sarcasm] You're absolutely right. In the whole wide world, only a "journalist" (he gets quote marks now because he's lost all credibility for having any objectivity) is capable of distilling all of the issues. [/sarcasm]
Next up...Fox News.
...no, not the TLD, but the fact that a journalist is here working on policy and creating news. It's one thing to comment after the fact as Declan does in his articles and in Politech, but this is ridiculous. This is a more blatant abuse than the talking heads on the weekend political talk shows--at least they don't have direct affect on policy.
After the clamouring for ogg support that all other stores outright reject, I can see big things for these guys
Yup, they will capture that huge Ogg Vorbis community. And it's mountains of disposable cash.
Beautiful use of sarcasm! Remember, music, like software and information, wants to be free....;-)
Music Labels are there to CREATE musicians, not to find true talent.
Errr, they're there to make money for the company and their stockholders....Everything else is ancillary.
Am I the only one not busting a nut at the chance of paying $0.99 to download one song? Or $9.99 to download an album? To me this is hardly an improvement over current pricing. Maybe it's just that the stuff I listen to isn't typically available (live trance sets)
Get yerself in enough of a trance and you won't notice....;-)
It also means, that they're basically providing an API to the outlook address book.
:)
They're doing more than that...they need to have drivers to interpret NTFS or FAT32, etc. Pretty soon they'll have creeping featuritis and you'll soon see a full Windows XP Embedded in your BIOS.
ConsoleOne (NWadmins supposed replacement) has run on linux for years. Solaris too. There is no longer a 'need' for 'Netware' tools - almost all modern Novell stuff is webbased, or clientless.
Uhh, right. Sure. That's the theory; the reality is a bit different. Try managing anything to do with Security. Oops, can't do it. You need Win32 NICI. Try managing a GroupWise system. Oops, you need snapins that only work on Windows ConsoleOne, not the server's or Linux's. And so on. Too much is tied to the dependency on a Windows Netware client. If Novell wants to replace Windows on the desktop, they'll have to change that, right?
And need I mention that the portal tools only work right with IE for Windows? Isn't THAT a butt-slapper?
I think you misunderstood the intent:
"Passengers who[se profile] raise[s] questions [in the minds of airport security] would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening."
A bit different from "Passengers who ask questions..."
+5 Insightful? I think not. By your interpretation, the security drone(s) at the airport would be interpreting your profile. In other words, above and beyond the Stop, Go and Maybe that the TSA's database will have said. So to do that, the airport authorities would have to have direct access to LOTS of your information. I don't even think the TSA is that stupid.
One could read that "profile" to mean looks, behavior, etc, but that has nothing to do with the color coding which has already been assigned. Contextually, it has to be the profile that CAPPS has tossed together.
. Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening
I wonder what would happen if one was to wear their "Suspected Terrorist" pin as John Gilmore did to a flight....
One of the things that got me started on Caldera oh-so-long ago (whenever COL 1.3 was out) was their Netware integration and tools (having an NDS client when ncpfs was just bindery) and a KDE version of Netware Admin.
I'm wondering if there's anything Novell-y in this, or if it's Just Another Distro.
Modded insightful? Office doesn't even support right to left languages.
Yes, it does.
Get with the flow of the discussion, chum. Office for the Mac doesn't support right to left languages. That's a big reason why Israel's government has their ban. Of course, being adjudged a monopoly was the other reason.
Yeah, the original poster should have been a touch more specific but....
Hell, you can't even get a lot of linux users to buy a commercial distro, much less any software that runs on it. This isn't flamebait, this is the sad, cold truth. Note I didn't say all, but wayyyyy too many.
And this guy, because he hurt his back, is merely doing the online version....
I'd posit that eBay is the online version, not buying sh...shtuff from spam. Buying from spam is more like dumpster-diving!
Unfortunately, since it said he's a grandfather, that means he's already reproduced and passed on his stupidity genes. :-(
...and would also impair the delivery of local, targeted ads.
'nuff said.
Wow this is a major scandal! I expect to watch it on the news tonight.
:-( :-)
Oh wait.. it's the same comapanies...
Well at least I'll hear about on the radio...
Oh wait those are the same companies too...
Well at least they will discuss it in the next session of congress...
Oh right I keep forgeting.....
And here I just burned up the last of my mod points.
Just wait til we have the Time-Warner party, the Viacom party or the (god forbid) Clear Channel party, each with Michael Powell as their candidate.
Elcomsoft had sold 7 (IIRC) copies of its software for cracking PDF protection in the US.
Ah, that's the biggie.
Question with the sort of thing this case deals with is where the crime is actually committed. I think that as long as he hosted stuff on a server in Australia and he was in Australia, it does not matter which US copyrights he violated, he did not commit a crime in the US, so he shouldn't be extradited. How can he possibly break US law without being in the US or doing anything in the US?
But how is this functionally different than the Skylarov case? Substitute DMCA for copyright and coming to the US instead of being extradited and the core issue is the same: a foreigner in a foreign land allegedly violating US laws that weren't laws in the home country and then being punished in the US.
If nothing else, this is a stronger case because copyright is more internationally recognized than the DMCA (good thing, that).
"The Ballad of Shelob."
I'll pass, thank you.