This is the liberal initiative in action. They think we all have a moral responsibility to protect stupid people from themselves. Thus dumbing down the gene pool and lowering overall intelligence in any given population. Look at daytime running lights, when enforced on motorcycles it was a great help. When cars started running that way everyone ignored them. If you can't see a 4000Lb vehicle coming at you in broad daylight, you will get what you deserve. Lights are a waste.
On the other hand if lights were wired to the windshield wipers, that is a good idea, rain interferes with visibility and an enhancement then would be good. Many state laws require that lights be on if wipers are running.
Natural selection eliminates the stupid and over time increases the intelligence level of any given population.
This will probably sell enough for them to continue in business, just like the Segway has. There are enough people that will buy anything to be trendy, these are the ones with more money than brains.
If you really want to know why this is a terrible idea, read some of the posts from certified divers, and anyone who dives without being certified is going to be a bad statistic someday.
If your Amazon or several others, your board is looking at each other saying, IBM owns our help desk? Of course IBM would never use that leverage to make anyone change their practices or attitude, now would they.
Expect ALL encryption to be easily broken. Any encryption program written in the US or England was probably written by a former employee of NSA or GCHQ, and if you think they didn't leave a backdoor for their former employers, think again.
A base on the moon would be a lab to try out all things nesessary for a functional base anywhere else. Just to test shielding and life support in a different environment from the ISS and improve reliability. This would be reasonably close for safety and replenishment/repair. This is a good idea. No one has any experience colonizing another planet yet and taking baby syeps is a better idea. The launch site idea can be delt with later, but the cost of moving everything to the moon seems prohibative.
Because anyone with elementary VB skills can do it since it's so easy. Junior High level programming skills are all thats needed, and any language or scripting language more advanced than VB is just better, not really harder. M$ leaves too many holes and always will untill they start over with a clean sheet and do a complete rewrite with no copy and paste from previous versions.
If you look closely enough you can still find a few lines from Win 3.0 in XP.
To be accurate, as of today on my Winxp box Fprot has protection from: Viruses and Trojans 48091 DOS/Windows 404 Unix/Linux and 48211 other destructive programs. This count changes every few days on the Win side and not in a month for Unix/Linux.
Damn Skippy! Google is honest enough to say what they are doing and everyone bitches. Ah I hear the thundering heard of dumbass with their kneejerk reactions.
If you manage your cookies and pay attention to elementary security this is really a non-issue.
I use Netscape and Mozilla. I started each off with an empty cookie file and visited the sites I wanted to not log into later, like/. . I saved a copy of this file as cookies2. n=Now when I'm done I delete the cookie file and save cookies2 as cookies and avoid all the spyware crap everyone thinks they deserve. Also if you block all third party cookies, you much less crap to delete anyway.
You obviously don't have to be very smart to head a large company. Any moron can run one down the tubes. Can this endless flow of stupidity just end? It's really sickening that these fools think there is anyway they can win. Even Gates will quit financing this to cut his losses sooner or later.
The alternative is a class action civil suit. Say for the time spent repairing virus and worm damage at the going rate of $50+/man hour spent. That one might be a couple Billion. Of course it would spend ten years in court, but if the publicity was handled right M$ would lose no matter what the verdict.
Try learning something from a book from Course Technologies. Used in the IS, IT, and Programing curriculums at a community college in NC. These are the worst textbooks ever printed. Most instructors now look for any alternative from any other publisher. The explanations, don't, the examples have nothing to do with the end of chapter exercises.
They are a great supply of emergency toilet paper though.
You got that one right. How a company with their track record can be listened to on security just flat amazes me.
The one success that M$ has had in security is considered a bug by most people: The activation of XP! It's the only thing they ever tried that worked like they wanted it to.
If Gateway's quality will drop to e-machines level. I have worked or at least attempted to on several e-machines. They have to be the worst things on the market. The cheapest(not least expensive but cheap) components, with real strange configurations. Hell they don't even weigh enough to make a good canoe anchor, so what use are they?
Then again, Gateway might raise the level which would be good.
This could be the big one folks. It'll probably take another month for any kind of ruling, but if they win it settles everything in one shot. IP, the GPL (the real big one) and should carry over to Red Hat and Novell.
Read Groklaws short post, it might put a smile on your face.
Mandrake has always had a very nice distro, so I wish them well. Hopefully we will see the competition at least get back to two for the main desktop. RH could have made it three but they caved. Some people don't like Suse for some reason. I have used and like all three, each new version just gets better no matter who's name is on the box or the website.
In the great thundering herd of dumbass there are 2% that will buy anything. These fools have more money than brains, and are the same ones that open attachments from people they don't know.
You left out the exponential increase in space junk that will soon render near space unusable for anything but armored satellites. Ending the controversy about manned missions due to inability to get anything beyond the man made asteroid belt.
The inventor of the pop up should be tied to a tree and fed exlax for a week. Anyone who uses them for advertising should be tied to a tree a fed exlax for a month.
Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it.
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This is the liberal initiative in action. They think we all have a moral responsibility to protect stupid people from themselves. Thus dumbing down the gene pool and lowering overall intelligence in any given population. Look at daytime running lights, when enforced on motorcycles it was a great help. When cars started running that way everyone ignored them. If you can't see a 4000Lb vehicle coming at you in broad daylight, you will get what you deserve. Lights are a waste.
On the other hand if lights were wired to the windshield wipers, that is a good idea, rain interferes with visibility and an enhancement then would be good. Many state laws require that lights be on if wipers are running.
Natural selection eliminates the stupid and over time increases the intelligence level of any given population.
This will probably sell enough for them to continue in business, just like the Segway has. There are enough people that will buy anything to be trendy, these are the ones with more money than brains.
If you really want to know why this is a terrible idea, read some of the posts from certified divers, and anyone who dives without being certified is going to be a bad statistic someday.
When SCO loses to IBM. There may not be any IP for anyone depending on Novells suit.
If your Amazon or several others, your board is looking at each other saying, IBM owns our help desk? Of course IBM would never use that leverage to make anyone change their practices or attitude, now would they.
Expect ALL encryption to be easily broken. Any encryption program written in the US or England was probably written by a former employee of NSA or GCHQ, and if you think they didn't leave a backdoor for their former employers, think again.
A base on the moon would be a lab to try out all things nesessary for a functional base anywhere else. Just to test shielding and life support in a different environment from the ISS and improve reliability. This would be reasonably close for safety and replenishment/repair. This is a good idea. No one has any experience colonizing another planet yet and taking baby syeps is a better idea. The launch site idea can be delt with later, but the cost of moving everything to the moon seems prohibative.
Because anyone with elementary VB skills can do it since it's so easy. Junior High level programming skills are all thats needed, and any language or scripting language more advanced than VB is just better, not really harder. M$ leaves too many holes and always will untill they start over with a clean sheet and do a complete rewrite with no copy and paste from previous versions.
If you look closely enough you can still find a few lines from Win 3.0 in XP.
To be accurate, as of today on my Winxp box Fprot has protection from:
Viruses and Trojans
48091 DOS/Windows
404 Unix/Linux
and 48211 other destructive programs.
This count changes every few days on the Win side and not in a month for Unix/Linux.
Which one is more vulnerable? You decide.
If you had titled it right, it's the seXbox because everytime someone gives Gates money we all get screwed.
Quit whining about articles not getting posted. Michael is up and nothing that doesn't promoted liberals or slams Bush will get posted.
Damn Skippy! Google is honest enough to say what they are doing and everyone bitches. Ah I hear the thundering heard of dumbass with their kneejerk reactions.
If you manage your cookies and pay attention to elementary security this is really a non-issue.
I use Netscape and Mozilla. I started each off with an empty cookie file and visited the sites I wanted to not log into later, like /. . I saved a copy of this file as cookies2. n=Now when I'm done I delete the cookie file and save cookies2 as cookies and avoid all the spyware crap everyone thinks they deserve.
Also if you block all third party cookies, you much less crap to delete anyway.
You obviously don't have to be very smart to head a large company. Any moron can run one down the tubes. Can this endless flow of stupidity just end? It's really sickening that these fools think there is anyway they can win. Even Gates will quit financing this to cut his losses sooner or later.
I could solve it with a small nuke, but I'm nice.
The alternative is a class action civil suit. Say for the time spent repairing virus and worm damage at the going rate of $50+/man hour spent. That one might be a couple Billion. Of course it would spend ten years in court, but if the publicity was handled right M$ would lose no matter what the verdict.
Try learning something from a book from Course Technologies. Used in the IS, IT, and Programing curriculums at a community college in NC. These are the worst textbooks ever printed. Most instructors now look for any alternative from any other publisher. The explanations, don't, the examples have nothing to do with the end of chapter exercises.
They are a great supply of emergency toilet paper though.
You got that one right. How a company with their track record can be listened to on security just flat amazes me.
The one success that M$ has had in security is considered a bug by most people: The activation of XP! It's the only thing they ever tried that worked like they wanted it to.
If it is explicitly written into law that no employee of M$ or an affiliated company can be acredited until windows is secure.
If Gateway's quality will drop to e-machines level. I have worked or at least attempted to on several e-machines. They have to be the worst things on the market. The cheapest(not least expensive but cheap) components, with real strange configurations. Hell they don't even weigh enough to make a good canoe anchor, so what use are they?
Then again, Gateway might raise the level which would be good.
The sub-moronic April fools submissions today are terrible. Be more creative please, at make the first three sentances sound believable.
The way IBM worded thing this will validate the GPL, and it questions SCO's ownership of Unix. If it flies this could settle everything in one ruling.
This could be the big one folks. It'll probably take another month for any kind of ruling, but if they win it settles everything in one shot. IP, the GPL (the real big one) and should carry over to Red Hat and Novell.
Read Groklaws short post, it might put a smile on your face.
Mandrake has always had a very nice distro, so I wish them well. Hopefully we will see the competition at least get back to two for the main desktop. RH could have made it three but they caved. Some people don't like Suse for some reason. I have used and like all three, each new version just gets better no matter who's name is on the box or the website.
In the great thundering herd of dumbass there are 2% that will buy anything. These fools have more money than brains, and are the same ones that open attachments from people they don't know.
In Russia they say: Toughshitsky
You left out the exponential increase in space junk that will soon render near space unusable for anything but armored satellites. Ending the controversy about manned missions due to inability to get anything beyond the man made asteroid belt.
The inventor of the pop up should be tied to a tree and fed exlax for a week. Anyone who uses them for advertising should be tied to a tree a fed exlax for a month.
Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it.