I seem to remember public service announcements that said that, on average, a car is stolen every 60 seconds in the United States. It doesn't seem like that the statistical comparison between the two is that great when you look at it that way.
And this year, I'm expecting something significant to go along with my promotion. Don't know how much it will be, but I'm thinking 10%-ish is in the right ballpark.
It wouldn't bother me terribly to see that happen, and we might even see a dramatic drop in spam at least for a while. But my point was, it's pretty arrogant for US lawmakers to think that they can tell the rest of the world, "No, OUR internet!" when their servers and their wires are all in their jurisdiction. How do we expect to be able to enforce that we're going to maintain control of DNS when that is the case? There's nothing to stop other countries from doing whatever the hell they want, and most of them probably will sooner rather than later if we try to push them around.
If US lawmakers could seize control over meatspace through legislative fiat, they'd be in favor of that, too. The real question is, how are they going to enforce the rest of the world not forking the internet into a disparate, regionalized network of networks with borders?
34 is a round number in base-34 notation. That's why it's so important to observe this anniversary, in case any non-geeks who happened to be misdirected to this page for some strange reason were wondering.
Bill G says it's anti consumer not because it's anti-consumer, though it is, but because it's not completely controlled by Microsoft. Anti-consumer implementations of technologies that are Micrsoft owned and controlled are just fine for him.
'Meanwhile, criticism from outside the Wikipedia camp has been rebuffed with a ferocious blend of irrationality and vigor that's almost unprecedented in our experience: if you thought Apple, Amiga, Mozilla or OS/2 fans were er,... passionate, you haven't met a wiki-fiddler.'
These people still can't hold a candle to Jack Thompson.
I bought a ze4610 back in Feb '04, on the strength of it running Knoppix nice in the store (Circuit City)... and mine came with a real XP Home installation CD, not a restore disk. I also got, separately in the package, a disk with all of HP's utilities and drivers and assorted bundled software, AND a student edition of Office 2003 for some reason, even though I wasn't a student, which I never bothered to install because I don't care for the product activation.
I promptly ditched XP Home and installed XP Pro, and then wrote to HP support asking them if it was possible to resize the partitions on the disk to dual boot with Linux, and while they told me they don't support it, they did give me instructions for how to do it, with the caveat that I would be on my own if I ran such a configuration, which was fine, and doing this didn't affect my warranty in any way.
Given that they don't provide Linux, I don't expect them to support it, although I wish it were an option and that they would offer it along with support for whatever version of Linux they decide to provide. On the whole, it was a positive experience and I was happy with the purchase decision.
I think that/. should include a new background that has a random pattern of sub-1mm yellow dots in it, for the tinfoil hat people so they can feel safe about printing articles posted here.
Here's an instant cure for homelessness, joblessness, and poverty. Just set some bums up with EQ accounts and have them farm valuable objects all day long, sell them to other people, and they too can now become productive members of the real economy, will no longer need welfare, and will be generating taxable income.
If the gait biometric fails, and the system falls back to a password, then the system is still no stronger than a password based authentication scheme. So why add the extra complication and expense that developing this technology must surely add?
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I seem to remember public service announcements that said that, on average, a car is stolen every 60 seconds in the United States. It doesn't seem like that the statistical comparison between the two is that great when you look at it that way.
Is it? I say we reserve judgement until I've had time to collect, validate, and interpret some data on this...
Cinderella was released in, I think, the 1930's. Disney beats any piracy technique here that doesn't involve time travel.
Real men edit their .jpgs from the command line by feeding hex values and pixel coordinates. EVERYTHING else is rinky-dink.
It all starts looking like a bunch of 1s and 0s.
And this year, I'm expecting something significant to go along with my promotion. Don't know how much it will be, but I'm thinking 10%-ish is in the right ballpark.
It wouldn't bother me terribly to see that happen, and we might even see a dramatic drop in spam at least for a while. But my point was, it's pretty arrogant for US lawmakers to think that they can tell the rest of the world, "No, OUR internet!" when their servers and their wires are all in their jurisdiction. How do we expect to be able to enforce that we're going to maintain control of DNS when that is the case? There's nothing to stop other countries from doing whatever the hell they want, and most of them probably will sooner rather than later if we try to push them around.
If US lawmakers could seize control over meatspace through legislative fiat, they'd be in favor of that, too. The real question is, how are they going to enforce the rest of the world not forking the internet into a disparate, regionalized network of networks with borders?
Well, whatever. It's actually the beta test for the 35th birthday.
34 is a round number in base-34 notation. That's why it's so important to observe this anniversary, in case any non-geeks who happened to be misdirected to this page for some strange reason were wondering.
Bill G says it's anti consumer not because it's anti-consumer, though it is, but because it's not completely controlled by Microsoft. Anti-consumer implementations of technologies that are Micrsoft owned and controlled are just fine for him.
This should be modded Insightful. If space sex were mandatory, we'd be on Alpha Centauri by now.
Check out the link in my .sig, it's a web-based game based on an old MUD, done up in php.
Has Netcraft confirmed this?
With no Microsoft-centric frame of reference, Microsoft cannot look good.
Even then, you still Can't Polish a Turd.
These people still can't hold a candle to Jack Thompson.
I bought a ze4610 back in Feb '04, on the strength of it running Knoppix nice in the store (Circuit City)... and mine came with a real XP Home installation CD, not a restore disk. I also got, separately in the package, a disk with all of HP's utilities and drivers and assorted bundled software, AND a student edition of Office 2003 for some reason, even though I wasn't a student, which I never bothered to install because I don't care for the product activation.
I promptly ditched XP Home and installed XP Pro, and then wrote to HP support asking them if it was possible to resize the partitions on the disk to dual boot with Linux, and while they told me they don't support it, they did give me instructions for how to do it, with the caveat that I would be on my own if I ran such a configuration, which was fine, and doing this didn't affect my warranty in any way.
Given that they don't provide Linux, I don't expect them to support it, although I wish it were an option and that they would offer it along with support for whatever version of Linux they decide to provide. On the whole, it was a positive experience and I was happy with the purchase decision.
The editor corrected the headline, so all the posts saying "Hey, I remember OpenDoc as something different" are now complaining about nothing.
Stupid editors. Complaining about nothing is what I come here for!
I think that /. should include a new background that has a random pattern of sub-1mm yellow dots in it, for the tinfoil hat people so they can feel safe about printing articles posted here.
Just send in the little round yellow guy to eat some of the dots and confuse the feds. No more paranoia!
Until MSN, AOL, and Yahoo! decide to close unofficial clients out, then it becomes a huge pain in the ass arms race.
DARTH VADER: The circle is complete, when last we met I was the student, now I am the master.
OBI WAN KENOBI: Only a master of disinfectants, Darth. If you strike me down I shall become cleaner than you can possibly imagine.
Here's an instant cure for homelessness, joblessness, and poverty. Just set some bums up with EQ accounts and have them farm valuable objects all day long, sell them to other people, and they too can now become productive members of the real economy, will no longer need welfare, and will be generating taxable income.
If the gait biometric fails, and the system falls back to a password, then the system is still no stronger than a password based authentication scheme. So why add the extra complication and expense that developing this technology must surely add?
Isn't it amazing that these three organizations were able to agree on today as the day to celebrate International Standards Day?