It might just happen that in an extreme outcome of these kinds of measures, "obsolete" hardware will become a precious comodity. Underground hackers will get together and swap information on combining this into semi-super clusters to try and rival the power available in the "approved" hardware market, while maintaining the freedom of miscellaneous use.
Linux is already a huge step in this direction, reviving and making old stuff useful again.
The contents of my basement will become a lot more valuable, and eBay my best friend.;)
Shouldn't that <wheelrant> have a namespace declaration?
XSLT is very procedural in nature, but While and For loops are still possible to implement if you know your logic well enough: I once wrote a sqrt function in XSLT.
Dragging this whole affair out has been to Microsoft's advantage since the beginning, and they're squeezing every possible drop from it. In the meantime they continue to work unregulated and haven't changed any of their business practices: the playing field of the browser war (which initially started this) has altered dramatically since. It's likely that unless new evidence of continued abuse can be brought to the attention of the courts, andy remedy handed down will be both out of date and inadequate.
In the various technical information put out by Lucasfilm (for the games and such) there are acutally "feedback" speakers in the cockipits (and elsewhere) converting a lot of the energy thrown off by other ships into audible signals. It's a user-interface assist, providing a non-visual cue to spacial locations.
Battlestar Gallactica didn't have this kind of doctored explanation though, and even made reference to riding the jet-streams. Which brings up another point that apparently you have to have your engines/thrusters firing at all times to remain in motion.
Why not make these play nice and use the lights as repeater stations? Install a recepter on each one, wire'em up to the LAN and have even more ubiquitous access.
Though this would take more effort, and has little to no practical basis, you could (in addition to blocking the ports) run a program/script locally which intercepts their searches, creates a few positive results, all of which are either blank image files or ultra-short MP3's (depending on the search criteria) with a short message of your choosing.
There are several comments on here making rather uneducated references to the level of control obtained by this, and its application to humans as well. THE ELECTRODES DO NOT CONTROL MOVEMENT in and of themselves. This is still a simple "stimulus-response" mechanism that had to be trained, just a more effective way of delivering precice stimulii over distance.
Unless you're about as dumb as Pavlov's dog, it'd be possible to resist anything of the sort even if forced upon you.
Some MS products go through the entire installation process before requiring authentication and EULA acceptance now. They still contain phrases such as "By installing this software..."
Reminds me of the Simpson's episode with the disclaimer after an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon, "The preceeding cartoon may have contained violence inappropriate for some viewers."
"They've given you thousands of hours of entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe you? If anything, you owe them." - The Simpsons, Feb. 9, 1997
"Zero", "One", "Two", "Three" sounds like dictionary words to me. The instructions aren't to say the name of the personal or organization to call, but to say the number, which is then verified back to the user. It only has to recognize 10 words, maybe eleven if they allow "Oh" as well as "Zero".
This was apparently written by, a participant of elementary education only. The writing and progression were light, if not fluffy, and without competent theme or concrete style of presentation. This story effectively reduces what are clearly some intelligent and well meshed ideas into 2-second text-bit mud. Bravo, you've sucked something of worth out of the world.
Add to this the political angle: Microsoft is currently mired in an anti-trust battle with the federal goverment and a combined class action suits from several states. This is a company that has repeatedly proven it cannot be trusted to put the good of the consumer in front of its greed. It has also repeatedly proven itself to be insecure as evidenced by I_LOVE_YOU, CodeRed, etc. These are recent memories in the mind of the public.
Push privacy WITH the security as well: computers in the government are a GOOD THING, able to speed up many typically tedious processes (DMV, licensing, taxes, etc.) and absolutely have to keep their information secure to be trusted. Likewise the integration of these to the internet empowers the voter: Utah recently got its entire unemployment system automated over the internet, allowing the eligible to apply for, report on, and receive information about payments from unemployment insurance.
That's the whole point of the "internet revolution," is it not? The ability of anyone to do what they need to when it's convenient for them. Make it secure and private at the same time and you'll have a legitimate selling point that will make sense to the non TechHeads.
This loads the next time Windows boots up after infection, which given the nature of the OS is almost guaranteed to be within the hour (BSoD, or one of the numerous "Your mouse has moved, Windows needs to restart before the changes can take effect" dialogues).
If this were on a *nix box it might be years before anything actually happened.
From the Article: ``The unprecedented amount of music being copied is hurting the industry.'' - Hillary Rosen
It's not that they're losing out on existing revenue, but they're not getting a slice of all this new action going on. They have no presence in a very active market, which is exactly WHY it's so active. They're trying to stifle it in order to beef up their existing income with geek purchases.
At 500kb/s write times this will take 1/2 an hour to fill up completely. Probably a little slower since it uses a relatively simple memory management app, like most PDAs: get'em to within a 1/Nth of their available memory and they start to crawl.
The perported speeds are wonderful yes, but that's only the manner of transmission to the phone. What about the land line infrastructure used to connect all the cell stations, perform routing, etc.? That's an awful lot of bandwidth to try and through around live enough to have a conversation, any number of 2 way video streams concurrently.
So, they point out a whole bunch of obvious flaws and recommend using standard business practice. The tone sounds somewhat rantish, with very little new or profound insight.
Granted, they do have situational anecdotes to illustrate this, but anyone with any business sense and a peek into the failed dot-com era could have put this together. This book is only of value to those still interested in the billion-dollar start-ups of 2 years ago.
The best stuff is always rejected. Anywho: there's another 3DUI project in the works using the Quake engine, up on Source Forge. It's a Win32 shell replacement for now with the possibility of integration into a Linux distro later; if it survives.
More seriously, this is a pretty weak move on their part. It's quite rare anyone looking anything up will accidentally stumble across something rude (though exceptions do exist), only those interested in actually using it. If they insist on persuing this idiocy, they might as well make it easier on the rest of us by providing a "show all definitions" button, or a check box somewhere with the "Hide possibly offensive definitions / alternatives" preference we can change ourselves.
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It might just happen that in an extreme outcome of these kinds of measures, "obsolete" hardware will become a precious comodity. Underground hackers will get together and swap information on combining this into semi-super clusters to try and rival the power available in the "approved" hardware market, while maintaining the freedom of miscellaneous use.
;)
Linux is already a huge step in this direction, reviving and making old stuff useful again.
The contents of my basement will become a lot more valuable, and eBay my best friend.
Was english and grammar uninvented too?
Shouldn't that <wheelrant> have a namespace declaration?
XSLT is very procedural in nature, but While and For loops are still possible to implement if you know your logic well enough: I once wrote a sqrt function in XSLT.
Dragging this whole affair out has been to Microsoft's advantage since the beginning, and they're squeezing every possible drop from it. In the meantime they continue to work unregulated and haven't changed any of their business practices: the playing field of the browser war (which initially started this) has altered dramatically since. It's likely that unless new evidence of continued abuse can be brought to the attention of the courts, andy remedy handed down will be both out of date and inadequate.
In the various technical information put out by Lucasfilm (for the games and such) there are acutally "feedback" speakers in the cockipits (and elsewhere) converting a lot of the energy thrown off by other ships into audible signals. It's a user-interface assist, providing a non-visual cue to spacial locations.
Battlestar Gallactica didn't have this kind of doctored explanation though, and even made reference to riding the jet-streams. Which brings up another point that apparently you have to have your engines/thrusters firing at all times to remain in motion.
Why not make these play nice and use the lights as repeater stations? Install a recepter on each one, wire'em up to the LAN and have even more ubiquitous access.
Though this would take more effort, and has little to no practical basis, you could (in addition to blocking the ports) run a program/script locally which intercepts their searches, creates a few positive results, all of which are either blank image files or ultra-short MP3's (depending on the search criteria) with a short message of your choosing.
Just a Tuesday afternoon thought.
There are several comments on here making rather uneducated references to the level of control obtained by this, and its application to humans as well. THE ELECTRODES DO NOT CONTROL MOVEMENT in and of themselves. This is still a simple "stimulus-response" mechanism that had to be trained, just a more effective way of delivering precice stimulii over distance.
Unless you're about as dumb as Pavlov's dog, it'd be possible to resist anything of the sort even if forced upon you.
Some MS products go through the entire installation process before requiring authentication and EULA acceptance now. They still contain phrases such as "By installing this software..."
Reminds me of the Simpson's episode with the disclaimer after an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon, "The preceeding cartoon may have contained violence inappropriate for some viewers."
This is more of a conglomeration of current technology into a pricy solution, not so much a stellar advance.
"They've given you thousands of hours of entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe you? If anything, you owe them." - The Simpsons, Feb. 9, 1997
Unless you're a paying subscriber, deal with it.
"Zero", "One", "Two", "Three" sounds like dictionary words to me. The instructions aren't to say the name of the personal or organization to call, but to say the number, which is then verified back to the user. It only has to recognize 10 words, maybe eleven if they allow "Oh" as well as "Zero".
This was apparently written by, a participant of elementary education only. The writing and progression were light, if not fluffy, and without competent theme or concrete style of presentation. This story effectively reduces what are clearly some intelligent and well meshed ideas into 2-second text-bit mud. Bravo, you've sucked something of worth out of the world.
Their demo is live no longer.
Long life the slashdot effect.
The "pure white" is actually a photographic standard for white balance measured in Kelvin (about 9300K IIRC).
Add to this the political angle: Microsoft is currently mired in an anti-trust battle with the federal goverment and a combined class action suits from several states. This is a company that has repeatedly proven it cannot be trusted to put the good of the consumer in front of its greed. It has also repeatedly proven itself to be insecure as evidenced by I_LOVE_YOU, CodeRed, etc. These are recent memories in the mind of the public.
Push privacy WITH the security as well: computers in the government are a GOOD THING, able to speed up many typically tedious processes (DMV, licensing, taxes, etc.) and absolutely have to keep their information secure to be trusted. Likewise the integration of these to the internet empowers the voter: Utah recently got its entire unemployment system automated over the internet, allowing the eligible to apply for, report on, and receive information about payments from unemployment insurance.
That's the whole point of the "internet revolution," is it not? The ability of anyone to do what they need to when it's convenient for them. Make it secure and private at the same time and you'll have a legitimate selling point that will make sense to the non TechHeads.
This loads the next time Windows boots up after infection, which given the nature of the OS is almost guaranteed to be within the hour (BSoD, or one of the numerous "Your mouse has moved, Windows needs to restart before the changes can take effect" dialogues).
If this were on a *nix box it might be years before anything actually happened.
From the Article: ``The unprecedented amount of music being copied is hurting the industry.'' - Hillary Rosen
It's not that they're losing out on existing revenue, but they're not getting a slice of all this new action going on. They have no presence in a very active market, which is exactly WHY it's so active. They're trying to stifle it in order to beef up their existing income with geek purchases.
At 500kb/s write times this will take 1/2 an hour to fill up completely. Probably a little slower since it uses a relatively simple memory management app, like most PDAs: get'em to within a 1/Nth of their available memory and they start to crawl.
The perported speeds are wonderful yes, but that's only the manner of transmission to the phone. What about the land line infrastructure used to connect all the cell stations, perform routing, etc.? That's an awful lot of bandwidth to try and through around live enough to have a conversation, any number of 2 way video streams concurrently.
So, they point out a whole bunch of obvious flaws and recommend using standard business practice. The tone sounds somewhat rantish, with very little new or profound insight.
Granted, they do have situational anecdotes to illustrate this, but anyone with any business sense and a peek into the failed dot-com era could have put this together. This book is only of value to those still interested in the billion-dollar start-ups of 2 years ago.
The best stuff is always rejected. Anywho: there's another 3DUI project in the works using the Quake engine, up on Source Forge. It's a Win32 shell replacement for now with the possibility of integration into a Linux distro later; if it survives.
Wasn't this the entire basis for the creation of BeOS? Use the hardware advances well within the OS and apps?
Is it a little ironic to anyone else that OSDN.com is running ASP?
I never thought I'd post one of these, but...
ALL YOUR WORDS ARE BELONG TO US.
More seriously, this is a pretty weak move on their part. It's quite rare anyone looking anything up will accidentally stumble across something rude (though exceptions do exist), only those interested in actually using it. If they insist on persuing this idiocy, they might as well make it easier on the rest of us by providing a "show all definitions" button, or a check box somewhere with the "Hide possibly offensive definitions / alternatives" preference we can change ourselves.
Removing it outright is terribly ignorant.