This email, sent to the html list at w3.org on Jan 12, 1996, describes an existing feature in Netscape identical to SBC's claim.
I remember reading an article about a hypertext browser which supports connected-frames does something like the following. You open an URL and select SplitScreen from a menu. Now both frames of the screen is showing the same URL. Then you do some UI maneuver to connect the ``output port'' of the first frame to the ``input port'' of the second frame. You then click on the first anchor of the first frame and the second frame changes accordingly. What FRAMES in Netscape does seems to be a short cut for these steps.
It's really not correct to compare Canada to the US since the societies are very different in key ways. Gun ownership in Canada is probably higher because there are more hunters per capita.
Also, the US has many more run-down urban areas where drug related gang violence is common, and I believe these areas contribute heavily to the statistics.
As far as what to do about the problem, there are too many guns in the US already to start outlawing them, that pandora's box has been open way too long now.
Anyone remember the superconducting supercollider? It was partially built near Waxahachie, Texas before being abandoned by the government when opponents successfully labeled it as a too-expensive pork barrel project. Never mind that billions had already been spent on it, or that the money "saved" by not completing it amounts to peanuts now.
Who knows what scientific frontiers could have been crossed by now had the project been completed? The point here is that pioneering research is incredibly expensive, but the money isn't going into a black hole - real innovations comes from cutting edge research, and real economic benefit. Remember, that $40 billion space station isn't all in orbit around the earth, much of it is in the worker's and engineer's pockets who built and support it. thing.
(another precondition is that it doesn't have a "Learn X in x minutes/hours/days" title)
Usually true, but not necessarily. Sams Publishing's "Learn Java 2 in 21 Days" is a wonderful book.
For those who didn't read the article...
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Brains on a Chip
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The article is about medical applications, NOT computing. This doesn't have anything to do with computing. The researchers have found a way to keep larger portions of the brain alive so they can monitor the effects of psychoactive drugs. This may lead to new avenues of research for Alzheimers, Parkinsons, ALS, and many mental disorders. The chip is actually a tiny EEG. The first product is targeted to be an anti-anxiety drug.
I think the most interesting aspect of this story is the living consciousness aspect. Can this piece of brain (or pieces intercommunicating) which is biologically active, become self-aware? Although these experiments have only been done on rats, if it were human brain tissue, would it be "alive" in an ethical, moral, or legal sense? These questions are probably several years away from being relevant, but is there any doubt we are heading down that road?
IANAL, but isn't Microsoft engaging in illegal monopolistic activity when they enter a market (PVR's ) outside of their traditional business (software) with a product that is sold at or below cost? The idea is that a cash-rich company like MS could corner almost any market they choose by absorbing losses, crushing the competition, then holding customers hostage once the competition is gone. The Xbox is another example of this behavior, except that Sony and Nintendo appear just as willing to accept losses on their game systems and recoup the profits in software (game) sales.
I had Lasik done 18 days ago. My experience has been very positive. I started out -2.50 in right eye, -3.50 in left, and astigmatism 0.50 both eyes. I've been corrected to 20/20 with no astigmatism and no complications. The only problems were very slight - I had some fuzzy night halos for the first night, and my eyes have been a little dry since, though that is improving. I recommend the following:
Find a doctor with the latest equipment and who had done lots of procedures. My doctor had done 17,000 procedures and had the latest Ladarvision laser. These doctors make TONS of money, there's no excuse for them not to have the latest equipment. Results are significantly better for newer lasers, check the FDA site. Do a lot of research on the different laser types, some are much better than others in acheiving 20/20.
Stay away from computers for a couple of days. Your eyes will not need the strain! I had some minor blurry vision during the first week when I spent too much time in front of the monitor.
A lot of the horror stories you read on the internet are from people who never should have had the procedure done, like people with type I diabetes. The doctors did not inform them of the risks. DO NOT use a doctor who doesn't spend a lot of time explaining the risks to you!
Don't try to find a cheap doctor, and get at least 2 opinions.
While Ballmer stopped short of advocating Microsoft's old "security through obscurity" policy, he pointed out that publicly posting bug fixes often prompted attacks. "The hacker waits till a fix is posted, then writes an attack and sends it out," he said. Such attacks are based on information in the fix.
Attacks are not based on information, they are based on vulnerabilities. Open source information is freely available, this hasn't started an avalanche of attacks on systems that use open source software. Only vulnerable software can be successfully attacked.
The answer is to make sure that fixes are easier to distribute an implement so the user base is up to date, he said.
Translation: We'll download our bug fixes without you knowing it. Trust us.
Your point about the ACLU defending unpopular speech is well taken, they deserve much praise for their efforts. But the NAMBLA thing is very different.
The facts: A man was convicted of the rape, torture, and murder of a 10 year old boy. The boy's parents sued NAMBLA (and the ISP that hosted NAMBLA's website) in federal civil court, claiming that written and website material created by NAMBLA contributed to the state of mind of the murderer by advocating an illegal act. The ACLU filed papers supporting the dismissal of the case before it was heard.
The issue of the ACLU getting involved in this is troubling because they fail to make the distinction between free speech being limited by the government (bad) and the right of a citizen to hold another citizen accountable (in court) for harmful speech (good). The parents of the murdered boy have every right to have a court determine NAMBLA's culpability in the act, if any.
The right to free speech in the USA does not mean you can't be held responsible for what you say, it just means that no one (especially the government) can stop you from saying it (and if they do, without due process, they can also be held accountable).
Whoever moderated this to Troll should be banned from moderation. Obviously an ACLU supporter that doesn't want opposing viewpoints to be heard - so much for free speech, huh?
If 1900 calories of simple carbs leaves you hungry 3 hours after you eat it, and 1900 calories of fat and protein leaves you hungry 8 hours after you eat it, which is the better 1900 calories to eat if your goal is to lose weight? Consider that the 1900 calories of simple carbs will spike your insulin levels high, then will drop them like a rock, leaving you not just hungry but intensely hungry. Not all calories are created equal, you can't just add them up without considering the effect that metabolizing different types of calories has on the body, not if your goal is to design a health, maintainable diet.
Also, that fat and protein is going to provide you with far more nutrients that all those simple carbs, which have virtually nothing to offer.
Did the submitter even read the article?
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Is Linux Dead?
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I actually READ this article and I found it quite fair, factual, and maybe even slightly pro-Linux. Of particular note is the author's admission that much of Windows continued dominance in the desktop OS market comes from Windows being pre-loaded on almost all new PC's, rather than any real product superiority.
If I were an MS exec, I'd be hopping mad that this opinion piece hit my own media outlet...especially the part about StarOffice and OpenOffice being a viable alternative to Office! And get this quote from a pro-Linux consultant:
"We don't get viruses," he said. "Last year, viruses cost the business world billions, but every one of those was on Windows."
The quality of the copy isn't a valid point because the copy made isn't intended to be distributed in any way, so it will not have any effect on the public image of the company.
Copy technology has (in the past) always degraded the original in some way. Audio cassette and video tapes are examples of technologies where copies are always degraded from the original. Only in the modern digital era can "perfect" copies be made.
I'm all for free speech. We've had movies and pictures that depict the worst illegal acts for decades - murder and rape. Is child porn and more heinous or "illegal" than murder and rape? Isn't there an innocent victim in every case? Yet, graphic depictions of murder and rape are common.
But positive legal status (i.e. protected free speech) for these images is going to make them more common, more public. Rather than just being hidden on the hard drive of the neighborhood pervert, these types of images will seep into the edges of the mainstream. Don't believe it won't happen, it always does. Do we want this?
Not only that, but legalizing these images makes law enforcement of actual kiddie porn almost impossible. Why? Because there's no way to tell a digital version of an actual picture (real child porn) from a "virtual" picture. It's all just bits in a file.
And the thought of some sick fuck getting his jollies off of virtual child porn while we as a society say "Oh, go ahead, you can do that, we don't care, there's no penalty." makes me sick.
This is news? This product was released in July 2001! I bought one of these pieces of shit a few months ago for $200 and have had nothing but problems since on my Windows 2000 box. The software is total crap, and almost impossible to uninstall/re-install correctly. I had to do a complete OS re-install to get rid of this garbage, which had sent my pc into a permanant reboot loop, not to mention the software took over every other function on my PC (like playing CD's) without giving me the option of bypassing.
I can't believe/. decided to post this story - do I smell payola???
Anyone whose system is vulnerable enough to be hacked by idiots from the RIAA deserve to have their hard drives wiped and forced to listen to $18.99 Boyz-2-Men CD's for the rest of eternity.
The good news about this is that SCMS (the copy protection system for digital audio) is really easy to defeat - it only requires stripping a single bit periodically from a data stream.
The truly evil thing about SCMS is that its copy
protection not only applies to copywrited work, but to anything recorded with the SCMS controlled device.
I'm not sure what you mean by "in spite of" First Amendment issues, though. Doesn't the phrase "free exercise" imply that religious organizations can't be regulated, and therefore not taxed? Any organization that is regulated by government has a burden placed on it - a burden of accountability, at the very least. (I am a religion because I do X, not Y)
IMO, it is an onerous burden for religions to "prove" to the IRS that they deserve special status. Actually, I think it is an onerous burden for anyone to have to prove anything to the IRS, but that's off topic...
You are mistakenly equating "religious" with "non-profit". Not all religious organizations are non-profit - most of them are commercial enterprises that collect money and spend it and keep the excess (profit). The reason religious organizations are not taxed is because of 1st ammendment issues (Freedom of Religion), not because they are non-commercial enterprises. There are probably very few churches that could qualify for.org - but of course, we'll never know because most churches don't report their finances.
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This email, sent to the html list at w3.org on Jan 12, 1996, describes an existing feature in Netscape identical to SBC's claim.
I remember reading an article about a hypertext browser which supports
connected-frames does something like the following. You open an URL and
select SplitScreen from a menu. Now both frames of the screen is showing
the same URL. Then you do some UI maneuver to connect the ``output port''
of the first frame to the ``input port'' of the second frame. You then
click on the first anchor of the first frame and the second frame changes
accordingly. What FRAMES in Netscape does seems to be a short cut for
these steps.
ANY 4 digit alpha-numeric password is trivial to crack.
It's really not correct to compare Canada to the US since the societies are very different in key ways. Gun ownership in Canada is probably higher because there are more hunters per capita.
Also, the US has many more run-down urban areas where drug related gang violence is common, and I believe these areas contribute heavily to the statistics.
As far as what to do about the problem, there are too many guns in the US already to start outlawing them, that pandora's box has been open way too long now.
So...what happens none of the toothpicks dropped intersects a line? You would have division by zero. Not beyond the realm of possibility...
Anyone remember the superconducting supercollider? It was partially built near Waxahachie, Texas before being abandoned by the government when opponents successfully labeled it as a too-expensive pork barrel project. Never mind that billions had already been spent on it, or that the money "saved" by not completing it amounts to peanuts now.
Who knows what scientific frontiers could have been crossed by now had the project been completed? The point here is that pioneering research is incredibly expensive, but the money isn't going into a black hole - real innovations comes from cutting edge research, and real economic benefit. Remember, that $40 billion space station isn't all in orbit around the earth, much of it is in the worker's and engineer's pockets who built and support it. thing.
(another precondition is that it doesn't have a "Learn X in x minutes/hours/days" title)
Usually true, but not necessarily. Sams Publishing's "Learn Java 2 in 21 Days" is a wonderful book.
The article is about medical applications, NOT computing. This doesn't have anything to do with computing. The researchers have found a way to keep larger portions of the brain alive so they can monitor the effects of psychoactive drugs. This may lead to new avenues of research for Alzheimers, Parkinsons, ALS, and many mental disorders. The chip is actually a tiny EEG. The first product is targeted to be an anti-anxiety drug.
I think the most interesting aspect of this story is the living consciousness aspect. Can this piece of brain (or pieces intercommunicating) which is biologically active, become self-aware? Although these experiments have only been done on rats, if it were human brain tissue, would it be "alive" in an ethical, moral, or legal sense? These questions are probably several years away from being relevant, but is there any doubt we are heading down that road?
IANAL, but isn't Microsoft engaging in illegal monopolistic activity when they enter a market (PVR's ) outside of their traditional business (software) with a product that is sold at or below cost? The idea is that a cash-rich company like MS could corner almost any market they choose by absorbing losses, crushing the competition, then holding customers hostage once the competition is gone. The Xbox is another example of this behavior, except that Sony and Nintendo appear just as willing to accept losses on their game systems and recoup the profits in software (game) sales.
I've already replied to this thread, so I can't mod this idiot to troll. Will someone please do the honors? I can't believe he got to 3!
Here's a gem:
While Ballmer stopped short of advocating Microsoft's old "security through obscurity" policy, he pointed out that publicly posting bug fixes often prompted attacks. "The hacker waits till a fix is posted, then writes an attack and sends it out," he said. Such attacks are based on information in the fix.
Attacks are not based on information, they are based on vulnerabilities. Open source information is freely available, this hasn't started an avalanche of attacks on systems that use open source software. Only vulnerable software can be successfully attacked.
The answer is to make sure that fixes are easier to distribute an implement so the user base is up to date, he said.
Translation: We'll download our bug fixes without you knowing it. Trust us.
The facts: A man was convicted of the rape, torture, and murder of a 10 year old boy. The boy's parents sued NAMBLA (and the ISP that hosted NAMBLA's website) in federal civil court, claiming that written and website material created by NAMBLA contributed to the state of mind of the murderer by advocating an illegal act. The ACLU filed papers supporting the dismissal of the case before it was heard.
The issue of the ACLU getting involved in this is troubling because they fail to make the distinction between free speech being limited by the government (bad) and the right of a citizen to hold another citizen accountable (in court) for harmful speech (good). The parents of the murdered boy have every right to have a court determine NAMBLA's culpability in the act, if any.
The right to free speech in the USA does not mean you can't be held responsible for what you say, it just means that no one (especially the government) can stop you from saying it (and if they do, without due process, they can also be held accountable).
Whoever moderated this to Troll should be banned from moderation. Obviously an ACLU supporter that doesn't want opposing viewpoints to be heard - so much for free speech, huh?
To greatly simplify things:
If 1900 calories of simple carbs leaves you hungry 3 hours after you eat it, and 1900 calories of fat and protein leaves you hungry 8 hours after you eat it, which is the better 1900 calories to eat if your goal is to lose weight? Consider that the 1900 calories of simple carbs will spike your insulin levels high, then will drop them like a rock, leaving you not just hungry but intensely hungry. Not all calories are created equal, you can't just add them up without considering the effect that metabolizing different types of calories has on the body, not if your goal is to design a health, maintainable diet.
Also, that fat and protein is going to provide you with far more nutrients that all those simple carbs, which have virtually nothing to offer.
If I were an MS exec, I'd be hopping mad that this opinion piece hit my own media outlet...especially the part about StarOffice and OpenOffice being a viable alternative to Office! And get this quote from a pro-Linux consultant:
"We don't get viruses," he said. "Last year, viruses cost the business world billions, but every one of those was on Windows."
The quality of the copy isn't a valid point because the copy made isn't intended to be distributed in any way, so it will not have any effect on the public image of the company.
Copy technology has (in the past) always degraded the original in some way. Audio cassette and video tapes are examples of technologies where copies are always degraded from the original. Only in the modern digital era can "perfect" copies be made.
I'm all for free speech. We've had movies and pictures that depict the worst illegal acts for decades - murder and rape. Is child porn and more heinous or "illegal" than murder and rape? Isn't there an innocent victim in every case? Yet, graphic depictions of murder and rape are common.
But positive legal status (i.e. protected free speech) for these images is going to make them more common, more public. Rather than just being hidden on the hard drive of the neighborhood pervert, these types of images will seep into the edges of the mainstream. Don't believe it won't happen, it always does. Do we want this?
Not only that, but legalizing these images makes law enforcement of actual kiddie porn almost impossible. Why? Because there's no way to tell a digital version of an actual picture (real child porn) from a "virtual" picture. It's all just bits in a file.
And the thought of some sick fuck getting his jollies off of virtual child porn while we as a society say "Oh, go ahead, you can do that, we don't care, there's no penalty." makes me sick.
I can't believe /. decided to post this story - do I smell payola???
Anyone whose system is vulnerable enough to be hacked by idiots from the RIAA deserve to have their hard drives wiped and forced to listen to $18.99 Boyz-2-Men CD's for the rest of eternity.
And you missed this later in the post.
The AOL designers aren't dumb IMHO, sure it's not the service that I want as my ISP, but when it comes to marketing, they know what their doing...
Try "they're".
Or they could have kept their promise not to hand out the census data. Yeah. Right.
Actually, what they promised was not to give the information to any unauthorized parties. Authorization, it seems, is pretty easy to get.
What idiot gave you control of computer security?
The good news about this is that SCMS (the copy protection system for digital audio) is really easy to defeat - it only requires stripping a single bit periodically from a data stream. The truly evil thing about SCMS is that its copy protection not only applies to copywrited work, but to anything recorded with the SCMS controlled device.
I'm not sure what you mean by "in spite of" First Amendment issues, though. Doesn't the phrase "free exercise" imply that religious organizations can't be regulated, and therefore not taxed? Any organization that is regulated by government has a burden placed on it - a burden of accountability, at the very least. (I am a religion because I do X, not Y)
IMO, it is an onerous burden for religions to "prove" to the IRS that they deserve special status. Actually, I think it is an onerous burden for anyone to have to prove anything to the IRS, but that's off topic...