More of the same. If this was (R) the Dems would be screaming "Conspiracy" and blaming Diebold (or whatever its name is now).
Seriously, it isn't a conspiracy, it is poor programming and it doesn't favor anyone.
The problem is trying to dumb down voting to that idiots can make stupid choices like "Voting straight party line". I mean Whiskey Tango Foxtrot... who thought that was a good idea?
Ogg point is... pointless stupidity. Yeah, it is an "open" format, so what? The point of MP3 and AAC is the same as Ogg, which is to encode sound. Complaining that it doesn't play Ogg is like complaining that a Ford Ranger can't haul 20 tons of bricks. You want to haul 20 tons of bricks buy the truck that does. Complaining that a Ranger can't is stupid. Most people don't care.
Lastly, I'll bet you can't tell the difference between Ogg encoding vs MP3 or AAC at any sufficient bit rate though your earbuds or while driving down the road. Go buy your Gold Plated Monster Cables and be all smug.
Its not Apple, Blackberry, Microsoft or Palm, that's how.
Geeks hate anything not OSS by default, and hate big corps (except Google, and even that is changing) so.. Android is default choice, and they are willing to do "extra work" just to prop it up.
Actually, Android is probably stable for just about everyone except geeks, because geeks usually push the technology more than non-geeks, causing the problems listed.
Apple is not Mac, the same way Microsoft is Windows.
What you said may be true, or may simply be a way of monetizing the marketplace in a way you don't like, but that is not my point. Apple is not a "computer company" the way Microsoft is a "Windows" company.
There is nothing at Microsoft that isn't either "Windows" or "Me too" device (XBOX, ZUNE).
And even if you think iPod, iPad, and iPhone are in the "me too" category, they revolutionized industries that weren't "computer" related. And frankly, the iPod, iPhone and iPad make anything before them look... "PC". Those devices transcend computing.
I don't have iPad or Mac or iPhone. I have an iPod full of music, and haven't bought a single thing from ITMS. I prefer buying tunes on CD and ripping them, because they can go on ANY device I want. I'm not locked into anything Apple.
Linux is a kernel, not a complete OS. The bits on top of the Kernel are Android OS. Lots of devices run the kernel, but have limited OS capabilities because it is easy to do and highly modularized. Android is more like Gnome or KDE (not exact though)
Obama is just as bad as Bush. For different reasons than Bush, but just as bad. Just because you think Nationalized Health Care is swell, and you have a piece of paper from Chancellor Hitler saying he won't invade any more countries.
Nuclear warhead don't scare me nearly as much as Black Panthers intimidating voters.
As for the two wars, I happen to agree that we shouldn't be in either place for as long as we've been. We should have made both into parking lots and left the smoldering mess as a warning to anyone not to mess with us. Additionally, we shouldn't have been at "war" unless congress declared war against a declared enemy, per the constitution, and then bring full force upon said country/leaders until they cry uncle and surrender unconditionally.
Trying to appease petty dictators and terrorists never works.
But the two wars don't compare to Obama's Health Care debacle (which it will be), and Obamanomics which are a continuation of the worst aspects of Bush's economics.
When Ray says "Beyond the PC" what he's really saying is "beyond Windows OS".
This has been Microsoft's greatest nemesis, is their own myopia. They view everything with the tinged glasses of Windows. You can see this with Windows Mobile 7, even if it isn't "Windows" is trying to leverage "Windows 7" branding.
Specifically addressing what you're saying, the problem with Courier was that it was Kindle wannabe. They kept the book format when quite frankly it shouldn't have. Try turning the page with one hand. The KindleApp for iPad is even better than Kindle. And it is more useful than any standalone ebook reader.
Which brings me to tablets: If Microsoft makes a tablet that isn't some bastardized copy of Windows, I'll take a look. Until then, no thank you. Buying an overpriced one use computing device to me seem silly, and trying to shoehorn Windows into a tablet type device is just as pointless.
Apple gets all of this. Apple is no longer just a "computer company" and is branching out and fixing all the other related edges of technology that has been hamstrung by companies like Microsoft and their limited thinking. Apple is not just Macs any more, and that is a big reason they are the new Microsoft, and #2 in Market Cap, possibly getting to #1 next year sometime.
The reason they do this, is to get around academic fraud/cheating.
Which is why textbooks shouldn't have any "work" problems, they should be created and handed out by the Professor/Teacher, as handouts. Perhaps even have several sets that are handed out and updated each semester by the publisher. Texts remain the same, but there is a complimentary handout/workbook that contains all the problems.
This is one of the biggest reasons I use CC and recommend it to EVERYONE I can.
I also want to get politics out of textbooks and going to a wiki style system of creating "texts" that can be used broadly. The Political Correctness that has infected our educational system is horrible, and it has made it impossibly difficult to write a text books that all the various "interest groups" can agree on is nearly impossible.
So are you. Collage is a kind of art. And whatever school you're attending, you should get your money back, and go back to fourth grade, your spelling and grammar is atrocious.
You really believe either of the two parties in power in the US gives a shit about you and your individual rights? Obama is just as bad as Bush was, and Clinton and Bush before them.
The reason why people haven't burned DC down is because 90+% vote for those two parties, thinking that they are different. They are just two sides of the same coin. If you vote, and vote for "change" and yet vote for one of the two parties, and you deserve to get what you get, more of the same.
Libertarians are outraged, but we're also marginalized to meaninglessness. Nobody cares, and that is why DC still stands.
There are a couple of simple fixes to stuffing and canceling problem. Simply add a "fee" (tax) for every order and cancellation, which is waved if the order is accepted. Stuffing and canceling would simply slowdown, because it would become immediately less profitable.
The other option would be to have time limits on orders, meaning they couldn't be canceled for a set period, say one or five minutes (whatever the magic number is). This would keep the liquidity, and make sure that people making offers are legitimate ones.
If you did a combination, where an order that has exceeded its order time (1 or 5 min), automatically waves the fee (along with accepted offers). You don't want to punish legitimate offers, only the speculative ones fishing for perfect information.
Your scenario would require more than just plugging into a network, it would require a switch in promiscuous mode or a hub. A normal switch the traffic is not sent to all ports on the network; only broadcast traffic goes to all ports.
And if you're running switches or a hacker has access enough to your switches to turn on Promiscuous mode, you have other problems, and securing web traffic is not one of the big ones.
The fact that you got modded "Interesting" on/. makes me sad.
No. This is a case of lack of security on WIFI access points.
THERE is no reason why Google should be held accountable for DATA that is essentially floating in the middle of the street. NONE. The problem isn't GOOGLE doing anything wrong.
This is like the lady who dances naked in front of an open window and gets mad when people see her naked and start taking pictures. You want privacy, then close the shades and encrypt your data transmissions.
Two Wars? I thought leftwinger didn't protest Afghanistan, only Iraq. I actually think that we should never have done Afghanistan, only carpet bombed the Taliban into their caves and then sealed them in with a bunkerbuster.
As for Iraq, we should have just bombed all of Sadaam's houses and palaces. There is no need for ground forces once air superiority is achieved.
Bailing out Wall Street was stupid, buying GM was even more stupid. It was done for the sole purpose of keeping the Union vote. Continuing the policies of Bush and putting tax cheats in charge of the economy was brilliant.
Alienation of the whole world? Obama instead is alienating much of the citizens he's supposed to represent. And who cares what a bunch of petty dictators say? Obama's running around the world on the apology tour hasn't paid any dividends, and may have actually done more harm than good.
And the housing market collapse is as much the fault of the left as it is Bush's. The rules for issuing loans all came from Barney Frank's mismanagement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Bush's Deficits are nothing compared to Obama and the Dems.
And lastly, if you call the Stupid "Health Care Reform" bill passed by congress and Obama as progress, you're nuts. It is nothing more than another Socialist Wealth Transfer Ponzi Scheme that cannot work. Meanwhile Social Security and Medicare are going bankrupt. Lets see Obama tackle the existing problems before piling on with new ones.
Bush was an idiot, Obama is making him look smart. Exactly what I said.
Is that marketing speak, or part of the actual patent?
If it was part of the patent, I would think that it would violate the whole of it. Linux is not Unix Derived. Because it is not Linux Derived, it has no bearing on Linux or SCO other than it was someone saying something that was factually incorrect.
Mutually Assured Destruction works if you're looking only at THIS life. Certain people have proven that they are capable of killing themselves, on purpose, to kill others, on the promise of the here after being really fun place with lots of women. In which case, they don't consider it suicide. And that is the scary option most people would rather not think about, because Nuclear Weapons would not be viewed as defensive weapons, but rather first strike offensive weapons.
While N Korea may not use Nukes as first strike weapons, Iran is more than capable of nuking Israel without batting an eye.
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http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/machine-91656-screen-voter.html
More of the same. If this was (R) the Dems would be screaming "Conspiracy" and blaming Diebold (or whatever its name is now).
Seriously, it isn't a conspiracy, it is poor programming and it doesn't favor anyone.
The problem is trying to dumb down voting to that idiots can make stupid choices like "Voting straight party line". I mean Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ... who thought that was a good idea?
Ogg point is ... pointless stupidity. Yeah, it is an "open" format, so what? The point of MP3 and AAC is the same as Ogg, which is to encode sound. Complaining that it doesn't play Ogg is like complaining that a Ford Ranger can't haul 20 tons of bricks. You want to haul 20 tons of bricks buy the truck that does. Complaining that a Ranger can't is stupid. Most people don't care.
Lastly, I'll bet you can't tell the difference between Ogg encoding vs MP3 or AAC at any sufficient bit rate though your earbuds or while driving down the road. Go buy your Gold Plated Monster Cables and be all smug.
Its not Apple, Blackberry, Microsoft or Palm, that's how.
Geeks hate anything not OSS by default, and hate big corps (except Google, and even that is changing) so .. Android is default choice, and they are willing to do "extra work" just to prop it up.
Actually, Android is probably stable for just about everyone except geeks, because geeks usually push the technology more than non-geeks, causing the problems listed.
Pie Version will be just a maintenance release ... 3.14
Must be part of the republican conspiracy to steal elections.
Oh wait! Harry Reid is a (D)... so that is okay. Never mind. /sarcasm
(D) and (R) are both corrupt and beyond rehabilitation.
As for the problem: Why have a "default choice"? Sounds like just poor programming.
Exactly.
Apple is not Mac, the same way Microsoft is Windows.
What you said may be true, or may simply be a way of monetizing the marketplace in a way you don't like, but that is not my point. Apple is not a "computer company" the way Microsoft is a "Windows" company.
There is nothing at Microsoft that isn't either "Windows" or "Me too" device (XBOX, ZUNE).
And even if you think iPod, iPad, and iPhone are in the "me too" category, they revolutionized industries that weren't "computer" related. And frankly, the iPod, iPhone and iPad make anything before them look ... "PC". Those devices transcend computing.
I don't have iPad or Mac or iPhone. I have an iPod full of music, and haven't bought a single thing from ITMS. I prefer buying tunes on CD and ripping them, because they can go on ANY device I want. I'm not locked into anything Apple.
Linux is a kernel, not a complete OS. The bits on top of the Kernel are Android OS. Lots of devices run the kernel, but have limited OS capabilities because it is easy to do and highly modularized. Android is more like Gnome or KDE (not exact though)
Windows is much much more monolithic.
Obama is just as bad as Bush. For different reasons than Bush, but just as bad. Just because you think Nationalized Health Care is swell, and you have a piece of paper from Chancellor Hitler saying he won't invade any more countries.
Nuclear warhead don't scare me nearly as much as Black Panthers intimidating voters.
As for the two wars, I happen to agree that we shouldn't be in either place for as long as we've been. We should have made both into parking lots and left the smoldering mess as a warning to anyone not to mess with us. Additionally, we shouldn't have been at "war" unless congress declared war against a declared enemy, per the constitution, and then bring full force upon said country/leaders until they cry uncle and surrender unconditionally.
Trying to appease petty dictators and terrorists never works.
But the two wars don't compare to Obama's Health Care debacle (which it will be), and Obamanomics which are a continuation of the worst aspects of Bush's economics.
So, yeah, just as bad.
When Ray says "Beyond the PC" what he's really saying is "beyond Windows OS".
This has been Microsoft's greatest nemesis, is their own myopia. They view everything with the tinged glasses of Windows. You can see this with Windows Mobile 7, even if it isn't "Windows" is trying to leverage "Windows 7" branding.
Specifically addressing what you're saying, the problem with Courier was that it was Kindle wannabe. They kept the book format when quite frankly it shouldn't have. Try turning the page with one hand. The KindleApp for iPad is even better than Kindle. And it is more useful than any standalone ebook reader.
Which brings me to tablets: If Microsoft makes a tablet that isn't some bastardized copy of Windows, I'll take a look. Until then, no thank you. Buying an overpriced one use computing device to me seem silly, and trying to shoehorn Windows into a tablet type device is just as pointless.
Apple gets all of this. Apple is no longer just a "computer company" and is branching out and fixing all the other related edges of technology that has been hamstrung by companies like Microsoft and their limited thinking. Apple is not just Macs any more, and that is a big reason they are the new Microsoft, and #2 in Market Cap, possibly getting to #1 next year sometime.
The reason they do this, is to get around academic fraud/cheating.
Which is why textbooks shouldn't have any "work" problems, they should be created and handed out by the Professor/Teacher, as handouts. Perhaps even have several sets that are handed out and updated each semester by the publisher. Texts remain the same, but there is a complimentary handout/workbook that contains all the problems.
That would be too easy.
BINGO
This is one of the biggest reasons I use CC and recommend it to EVERYONE I can.
I also want to get politics out of textbooks and going to a wiki style system of creating "texts" that can be used broadly. The Political Correctness that has infected our educational system is horrible, and it has made it impossibly difficult to write a text books that all the various "interest groups" can agree on is nearly impossible.
Which means our whole system is doomed, right??
So are you. Collage is a kind of art. And whatever school you're attending, you should get your money back, and go back to fourth grade, your spelling and grammar is atrocious.
You really believe either of the two parties in power in the US gives a shit about you and your individual rights? Obama is just as bad as Bush was, and Clinton and Bush before them.
The reason why people haven't burned DC down is because 90+% vote for those two parties, thinking that they are different. They are just two sides of the same coin. If you vote, and vote for "change" and yet vote for one of the two parties, and you deserve to get what you get, more of the same.
Libertarians are outraged, but we're also marginalized to meaninglessness. Nobody cares, and that is why DC still stands.
http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html
There are a couple of simple fixes to stuffing and canceling problem. Simply add a "fee" (tax) for every order and cancellation, which is waved if the order is accepted. Stuffing and canceling would simply slowdown, because it would become immediately less profitable.
The other option would be to have time limits on orders, meaning they couldn't be canceled for a set period, say one or five minutes (whatever the magic number is). This would keep the liquidity, and make sure that people making offers are legitimate ones.
If you did a combination, where an order that has exceeded its order time (1 or 5 min), automatically waves the fee (along with accepted offers). You don't want to punish legitimate offers, only the speculative ones fishing for perfect information.
Your scenario would require more than just plugging into a network, it would require a switch in promiscuous mode or a hub. A normal switch the traffic is not sent to all ports on the network; only broadcast traffic goes to all ports.
And if you're running switches or a hacker has access enough to your switches to turn on Promiscuous mode, you have other problems, and securing web traffic is not one of the big ones.
The fact that you got modded "Interesting" on /. makes me sad.
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No. This is a case of lack of security on WIFI access points.
THERE is no reason why Google should be held accountable for DATA that is essentially floating in the middle of the street. NONE. The problem isn't GOOGLE doing anything wrong.
This is like the lady who dances naked in front of an open window and gets mad when people see her naked and start taking pictures. You want privacy, then close the shades and encrypt your data transmissions.
Two Wars? I thought leftwinger didn't protest Afghanistan, only Iraq. I actually think that we should never have done Afghanistan, only carpet bombed the Taliban into their caves and then sealed them in with a bunkerbuster.
As for Iraq, we should have just bombed all of Sadaam's houses and palaces. There is no need for ground forces once air superiority is achieved.
Bailing out Wall Street was stupid, buying GM was even more stupid. It was done for the sole purpose of keeping the Union vote. Continuing the policies of Bush and putting tax cheats in charge of the economy was brilliant.
Alienation of the whole world? Obama instead is alienating much of the citizens he's supposed to represent. And who cares what a bunch of petty dictators say? Obama's running around the world on the apology tour hasn't paid any dividends, and may have actually done more harm than good.
And the housing market collapse is as much the fault of the left as it is Bush's. The rules for issuing loans all came from Barney Frank's mismanagement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Bush's Deficits are nothing compared to Obama and the Dems.
And lastly, if you call the Stupid "Health Care Reform" bill passed by congress and Obama as progress, you're nuts. It is nothing more than another Socialist Wealth Transfer Ponzi Scheme that cannot work. Meanwhile Social Security and Medicare are going bankrupt. Lets see Obama tackle the existing problems before piling on with new ones.
Bush was an idiot, Obama is making him look smart. Exactly what I said.
Is that marketing speak, or part of the actual patent?
If it was part of the patent, I would think that it would violate the whole of it. Linux is not Unix Derived. Because it is not Linux Derived, it has no bearing on Linux or SCO other than it was someone saying something that was factually incorrect.
Sorry, while Bush is an idiot, he is starting to look brilliant compared to Obama. Quite an impressive feat if you ask me.
You mean, he didn't bomb an aspirin factory to get a blowjob off the front page?
Neebo, is that you??
Mutually Assured Destruction works if you're looking only at THIS life. Certain people have proven that they are capable of killing themselves, on purpose, to kill others, on the promise of the here after being really fun place with lots of women. In which case, they don't consider it suicide. And that is the scary option most people would rather not think about, because Nuclear Weapons would not be viewed as defensive weapons, but rather first strike offensive weapons.
While N Korea may not use Nukes as first strike weapons, Iran is more than capable of nuking Israel without batting an eye.