I asked Okidata how to interpret the printer status info which can be read from the parallel port. Are they so stupid that they think I'm going to start making Aliendata page printers with page counting technology stolen from Okidata?
Why isn't there more talk about what this thing COULD HAVE done? What would have been the world's total cost of recovery from say, the DOS equivalent of an "rm -rf/"?
Sure, VBA makes it all too easy for this to happen. But there are more insidious ways to disguise code as data and breach security. Are you really sure that THIS message doesn't contain some magical combination of bits that has already caused your browser to mail me your password file?
We use chroot to prevent most of this on the server. The same precautions need to be brought down to the desktop. Did someone mention the Java sandbox approach?
NC's are the transistor radios of computing devices. The basic function is to access and present information, cheap is often a benefit.
The abilities to create, manipulate, store, or randomly access information are add-ons.
For Audio, you can upgrade to hifi, stereo, quadraphonic. Get a turntable and pick your own songs. A tape deck will let you store and arrange music. Mics, mixers, amps, speakers, bigger speakers...you name it.
Draw the parallels from Audio to Computing yourself. I think transistor radios and NCs are both here to stay. Of course the transistor radio of the future, like next week maybe, will be a Palm Pilot with wireless MBone connection.
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I guess that the author's point is that I should hang on to my 8-tracks rather than convert them to mp3.
The article should have stayed focused on the larger issue, which is the RIAA vs. any recording format it can't put a meter on.
I asked Okidata how to interpret the printer status info which can be read from the parallel port. Are they so stupid that they think I'm going to start making Aliendata page printers with page counting technology stolen from Okidata?
Nah, it's just that THEY SUCK!
Calibrate the zero-level by pointing dish at Redmond!
Even if the car had brakes off a winston cup car, certain drivers would forget to step on the pedal.
Why isn't there more talk about what this thing COULD HAVE done? What would have been the world's total cost of recovery from say, the DOS equivalent of an "rm -rf /"?
Sure, VBA makes it all too easy for this to happen. But there are more insidious ways to disguise code as data and breach security. Are you really sure that THIS message doesn't contain some magical combination of bits that has already caused your browser to mail me your password file?
We use chroot to prevent most of this on the server. The same precautions need to be brought down to the desktop. Did someone mention the Java sandbox approach?
make that Bill's money against mine
ROTFL
Unix is still valiantly holding on in it's fight to remain dead.
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I think it's a typo. Apple probably does however have a trademark on "Open Sores".
I don't understand why the "dec" part or all these codecs are so protected even in binary form. They give it away for other platforms don't they?
I'll wait for Star Wars on videotape as long as it isn't Apple Quicktime for VHS.
- strange planet, Earth.
I like that.
"Linux is just software".
To it, I'll add: "Windows is unjust software"
Oops, the justice department beat me to it.
ARGGGH!
NC's are the transistor radios of computing devices. The basic function is to access and present information, cheap is often a benefit.
The abilities to create, manipulate, store, or randomly access information are add-ons.
For Audio, you can upgrade to hifi, stereo, quadraphonic. Get a turntable and pick your own songs. A tape deck will let you store and arrange music. Mics, mixers, amps, speakers, bigger speakers...you name it.
Draw the parallels from Audio to Computing yourself. I think transistor radios and NCs are both here to stay. Of course the transistor radio of the future, like next week maybe, will be a Palm Pilot with wireless MBone connection.
One of the most popular musical groups of all time used to encourage "bootlegging". I miss Jerry!