I think they need that becaise they claim that LindowsOS runs MS programs, not because they are themselves "like unto MicroSoft." IANALE (I am not a laywer either), but I think that while MS could claim that as an admission, there are plenty of counter-arguments.
They wont know what's going on and most people despite all reason believe that computers act in a random and hurtful manner of their own volition.
True. But do we really want to encourage that attitude? The more someone fears his/her computer's caprice, the less likely that person is going to be to experiment with programs or OPERATING SYSTEMS (cough, cough) of slightly-less-than-average user-friendliness. I've always thought that part of having Open Source software is the ability to control your computer -- but first you must have the inclination.
In the toy re-issue, I really hope they go with the die-cast metal that the 1st and 2nd generation Transformers were all made from. Not entirely, sure, but a h311 of a lot better than the plastic, "breaks-in-10-minutes" schtuff they hawk now.
Die-cast or bust! (wow, a double pun. That should set me for the week...)
How is this a good bill? On the plus side, yeah, we have to give someone permisssion to sell our "critical" data. But who's to say that won't be buried in an EULA?
And as Yahoo! has recently proved, automatically opting people in to recieve spam (since that's what the 2nd part of this legislations basically proposes, after all... they sell your info, you get spam) and making them opt-out leads to people getting bent out of shape. Why should companies get the right to ASSUME that I want to recieve spam from whoever they feel like hawking my info to?
A privacy law with teeth would have opt-ins across the board, and a clause saying that each opt-in must be clearly labelled as such, with no "bundling" of opt-ins implicit in any other action.
XXXXXXXXXX: Where can I score some weed? SmarterChild: Sorry, I have no listings for the movie Some Like it Hot (1959) on Wednesday, April 17th near Weed, CA (96094).
Uh..... HUH.
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My basic Verizon services -- caller ID, local, call-waiting -- run me $35 a month. My fiancee routinely makes $40-$60 worth of calls over 10-10-636 (which, at $0.05/ minute, is damned cheap). So for the unlimited deal, I'd be paying much, much less... for unlimited calls. Whoo! Plus, I could throw out Verizon (oh, and god, how I LONG to do anything that would spit in Verizon's face). I think this is an excellent deal.
If only 3% of registered Slashdot members donate $25 anually, the PAC would have gross yearly income of around $2.5 M. I think that's more than enough to take someone out to lunch, don't you?:)
Webcasters already pay ASCAP and BMI fees. These new fees are IN ADDITION to the same ones that AM/FM (or, for that matter, the woner of your bar's jukebox) pay.
... but is there anywhere where I can hear some preview tracks? Partial, complete, crappy-bitrate, makes no never mind. I mean, I remember all that great (tinny;) music coming out of my friends NES. I'm interested. But I'm not going to buy it unheard. It's probably pretty cool... orchestral arrangements, jazz sets. It doesn't seem to be up at Amazon (who generally includes clips).
Why are we nuking "some nut"? You realize, of course, that killing someone with a nuclear missile doesn't kill him any more than, say, a bullet to the temple. It does, however, kill the hundreds of thousands of innocents around him.
Accoring to PC Mall magazine, I can get an HP Vectra, 850 mHz Celeron with 128 meg, 20G HD, 48X CD, ethernet card, and WIN98 SE for $449. No speakers, no modem, no warranty.
Hands up, who thinks that that rate will be achieved by shifting the percentages artists receive?
And who thinks it'll be by jacking up the price of the service to unconscionable levels?
Ah, I see. You've all decided that the people who have been cranking CDs from $10 to $20 slowly, as an industry, will just give the artists a better slice of the pie. How cute.
Then they should save and plan to distribute what they get from original sales during their XX-year term. Bringing back a never-ending cash-cow is just returning to an aristocratic state, except here the property is intellectual, not physical.
The show should have ended after the 5th or 6th season. Use the movie as a stopping point, or as a prelude to the final season. In an abstract way, I like how Mulder & Scully are now the shadowing unknown figures to the newbies Doggett and Reyes.... but the show just lacks the same sort of viceral, "what the hell is going on here?" punch that it used to have. How many bug episodes have there been, now? 4? (Cockroaches, flies, bees, little-glowy-green-things from inside trees) After you unravel the whole Alien Conspiricy (tm), there's nowhere to go but down.
Pity Fox didn't give Lone Gunmen a better chance. The 1st episode was.... eh (and HOW "eh" after Spet 11th), but some of the later ones were just brilliant. Guess John C. Potato doesn't wanna watch middle-aged geeks. Who knew?
Re:You /. people really like the word "monopoly"
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If you think Verizon is providing good service, think again. I had to wait a month for them to put in a PHONE LINE. Not a DSL line, not ISDN, a simple phone line to an apartment in a well-populated part of New Jersey's 2nd biggest city.
And if you think it's low cost, sorry. With all options turned off, no long distance, the most basic of basic service, I was still paying $40 a month. Which is nuts.
Verizon sucks. No-one in NY/NJ will contend that. Their basic service makes people want to hit things, and their broadband TOS are unconcionable (as well as their 96 kBps upstream limit). And even if I were to go with Covad, I'd still have to deal with Verizon for the dual pair to my house... and they drag their feet to such an extent that they've been fined for it by the government... all to no effect.
So, to review: 100% monopoly on basic phone services + gov't deregulation in the 90's = high rates, shoddy service, illegal activity, and nowhere else to go.
Your post kinda reads like it comes from 1997... because that new "latest and greatest multimedia" you mention is DVD. And it was the CD format in 1980-whatever.
And just as you say, we have found ways around it. But I'm still not buying a DVD player. It's not that what I want to do is "illegal" under the DMCA, it's not that it's too much trouble to get around region encoding, I just don't want to put money into the hands of DRM schmucks. So until I get a free player and know of a reliable source of pirated DVDs, I'll stick with tape.
The American public will swallow the "This is the same thing... but BETTER!" pitch over and over and over again. And don't you -- or anyone else -- forget it.
Absolutely true. Obviously, the point I was making wasn't that this poll alone will move mountains, it's an egregious attempt to hype their own drek... and an example of what Microsoft loves to do. Marketing over substance. And maybe this "statistic" will get included in MS press releases that get shipped to respectable magazines, and industry overviews that get sent to managers, and... you see where I'm going?
And while I agree that the manager who makes the boneheaded decision to use X based on an online poll deserves something nasty, what about all the drones (like myself) under him who protest, accomplish nothing by said protest, work with crappy tools, and then get laid off when the company/division/project tanks?
... this is particularly annoying because it's exactly this sort of statistic that will be used by middle-management (and/or Microsoft flacks) to justify switching project backbones to.NET
"Well, look, this says 74% of programmers out there are eager to use.NET! Guess we should too!"
It's not like this is some hobbyist site. It's ZDNet. Some people actually listen to them.
And it's not like you're voting for Coolest Transformer of All Time. They're creating a grossly skewed statistic that could actually be used to figure out where millions of dollars gets invested.
You know what the killer apps for broadband are? They're what are prohibited by my TOS.
I want to LAN my home, I want to use a VPN, I want to run an FTP server and a ShoutCast server and have a firewall and do my Morpheus thing and maybe a little httpd. But you know what? I'm not allowed.
A killer app is something that you're going to use. But broadband providers don't WANT us to use all our bandwidth. That's how they make their dough: promise 1500 kbps for each & every subscriber -- I'm talking cable here, folks -- and then damn you if you use it, because, surprise, there's not enough for us all.
If people found out how easy it is to run those apps named above, then maybe we WOULD have a quantum shift.
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I think they need that becaise they claim that LindowsOS runs MS programs, not because they are themselves "like unto MicroSoft." IANALE (I am not a laywer either), but I think that while MS could claim that as an admission, there are plenty of counter-arguments.
the page you link to HAS the vulnerabilities fixed LISTED.
i tical/Q321232/default.asp)
And if you actually go to download it, you'll see that it DOES apply to versions 5 and 5.5. (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/cr
They wont know what's going on and most people despite all reason believe that computers act in a random and hurtful manner of their own volition.
True. But do we really want to encourage that attitude? The more someone fears his/her computer's caprice, the less likely that person is going to be to experiment with programs or OPERATING SYSTEMS (cough, cough) of slightly-less-than-average user-friendliness. I've always thought that part of having Open Source software is the ability to control your computer -- but first you must have the inclination.
In the toy re-issue, I really hope they go with the die-cast metal that the 1st and 2nd generation Transformers were all made from. Not entirely, sure, but a h311 of a lot better than the plastic, "breaks-in-10-minutes" schtuff they hawk now.
Die-cast or bust! (wow, a double pun. That should set me for the week...)
How is this a good bill? On the plus side, yeah, we have to give someone permisssion to sell our "critical" data. But who's to say that won't be buried in an EULA?
And as Yahoo! has recently proved, automatically opting people in to recieve spam (since that's what the 2nd part of this legislations basically proposes, after all... they sell your info, you get spam) and making them opt-out leads to people getting bent out of shape. Why should companies get the right to ASSUME that I want to recieve spam from whoever they feel like hawking my info to?
A privacy law with teeth would have opt-ins across the board, and a clause saying that each opt-in must be clearly labelled as such, with no "bundling" of opt-ins implicit in any other action.
XXXXXXXXXX: Where can I score some weed?
SmarterChild: Sorry, I have no listings for the movie Some Like it Hot (1959) on Wednesday, April 17th near Weed, CA (96094).
Uh..... HUH.
My basic Verizon services -- caller ID, local, call-waiting -- run me $35 a month. My fiancee routinely makes $40-$60 worth of calls over 10-10-636 (which, at $0.05/ minute, is damned cheap). So for the unlimited deal, I'd be paying much, much less... for unlimited calls. Whoo! Plus, I could throw out Verizon (oh, and god, how I LONG to do anything that would spit in Verizon's face). I think this is an excellent deal.
Or an in-browser app that automatically Google-linked everything in a page? Like M$'s proposed auto-linking, but populist. True hypertext.
I have the 2nd page, no pics, at http://www.mindspring.com/~bencochran/wfh/workfrom home2.html
er, 33%. *cough, cough* Wow, would ya LOOK at the size of that if?
If only 3% of registered Slashdot members donate $25 anually, the PAC would have gross yearly income of around $2.5 M. I think that's more than enough to take someone out to lunch, don't you? :)
Yes, I KNOW how big that "if" is. Thank you.
Webcasters already pay ASCAP and BMI fees. These new fees are IN ADDITION to the same ones that AM/FM (or, for that matter, the woner of your bar's jukebox) pay.
... but is there anywhere where I can hear some preview tracks? Partial, complete, crappy-bitrate, makes no never mind. I mean, I remember all that great (tinny ;) music coming out of my friends NES. I'm interested. But I'm not going to buy it unheard. It's probably pretty cool... orchestral arrangements, jazz sets. It doesn't seem to be up at Amazon (who generally includes clips).
Why are we nuking "some nut"? You realize, of course, that killing someone with a nuclear missile doesn't kill him any more than, say, a bullet to the temple. It does, however, kill the hundreds of thousands of innocents around him.
Accoring to PC Mall magazine, I can get an HP Vectra, 850 mHz Celeron with 128 meg, 20G HD, 48X CD, ethernet card, and WIN98 SE for $449. No speakers, no modem, no warranty.
Can't find it on the site, though.
When was marketing NOT all about pretty pictures?
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Style over substance, that's the American way
Hands up, who thinks that that rate will be achieved by shifting the percentages artists receive?
And who thinks it'll be by jacking up the price of the service to unconscionable levels?
Ah, I see. You've all decided that the people who have been cranking CDs from $10 to $20 slowly, as an industry, will just give the artists a better slice of the pie. How cute.
Then they should save and plan to distribute what they get from original sales during their XX-year term. Bringing back a never-ending cash-cow is just returning to an aristocratic state, except here the property is intellectual, not physical.
Yeah, except what happens when Verizon starts doing the same thing? Oops, guess I'm pretty screwed now.
The show should have ended after the 5th or 6th season. Use the movie as a stopping point, or as a prelude to the final season. In an abstract way, I like how Mulder & Scully are now the shadowing unknown figures to the newbies Doggett and Reyes.... but the show just lacks the same sort of viceral, "what the hell is going on here?" punch that it used to have. How many bug episodes have there been, now? 4? (Cockroaches, flies, bees, little-glowy-green-things from inside trees) After you unravel the whole Alien Conspiricy (tm), there's nowhere to go but down.
Pity Fox didn't give Lone Gunmen a better chance. The 1st episode was.... eh (and HOW "eh" after Spet 11th), but some of the later ones were just brilliant. Guess John C. Potato doesn't wanna watch middle-aged geeks. Who knew?
If you think Verizon is providing good service, think again. I had to wait a month for them to put in a PHONE LINE. Not a DSL line, not ISDN, a simple phone line to an apartment in a well-populated part of New Jersey's 2nd biggest city.
And if you think it's low cost, sorry. With all options turned off, no long distance, the most basic of basic service, I was still paying $40 a month. Which is nuts.
Verizon sucks. No-one in NY/NJ will contend that. Their basic service makes people want to hit things, and their broadband TOS are unconcionable (as well as their 96 kBps upstream limit). And even if I were to go with Covad, I'd still have to deal with Verizon for the dual pair to my house... and they drag their feet to such an extent that they've been fined for it by the government... all to no effect.
So, to review: 100% monopoly on basic phone services + gov't deregulation in the 90's = high rates, shoddy service, illegal activity, and nowhere else to go.
Your post kinda reads like it comes from 1997... because that new "latest and greatest multimedia" you mention is DVD. And it was the CD format in 1980-whatever.
And just as you say, we have found ways around it. But I'm still not buying a DVD player. It's not that what I want to do is "illegal" under the DMCA, it's not that it's too much trouble to get around region encoding, I just don't want to put money into the hands of DRM schmucks. So until I get a free player and know of a reliable source of pirated DVDs, I'll stick with tape.
The American public will swallow the "This is the same thing... but BETTER!" pitch over and over and over again. And don't you -- or anyone else -- forget it.
Absolutely true. Obviously, the point I was making wasn't that this poll alone will move mountains, it's an egregious attempt to hype their own drek... and an example of what Microsoft loves to do. Marketing over substance. And maybe this "statistic" will get included in MS press releases that get shipped to respectable magazines, and industry overviews that get sent to managers, and... you see where I'm going?
And while I agree that the manager who makes the boneheaded decision to use X based on an online poll deserves something nasty, what about all the drones (like myself) under him who protest, accomplish nothing by said protest, work with crappy tools, and then get laid off when the company/division/project tanks?
... this is particularly annoying because it's exactly this sort of statistic that will be used by middle-management (and/or Microsoft flacks) to justify switching project backbones to .NET
.NET! Guess we should too!"
"Well, look, this says 74% of programmers out there are eager to use
It's not like this is some hobbyist site. It's ZDNet. Some people actually listen to them.
And it's not like you're voting for Coolest Transformer of All Time. They're creating a grossly skewed statistic that could actually be used to figure out where millions of dollars gets invested.
You know what the killer apps for broadband are? They're what are prohibited by my TOS.
I want to LAN my home, I want to use a VPN, I want to run an FTP server and a ShoutCast server and have a firewall and do my Morpheus thing and maybe a little httpd. But you know what? I'm not allowed.
A killer app is something that you're going to use. But broadband providers don't WANT us to use all our bandwidth. That's how they make their dough: promise 1500 kbps for each & every subscriber -- I'm talking cable here, folks -- and then damn you if you use it, because, surprise, there's not enough for us all.
If people found out how easy it is to run those apps named above, then maybe we WOULD have a quantum shift.