The implications of this is, of course, that you have nothing to lose on using Windows Vista, rather just things to gain on it. All non-DRM content on it will work just like before, and the rest will have strict rules applied to it.
Until SP2, when non-DRM content gets mysteriously broken due to a purportedly unrelated security fix. And there's precedent. Look at the way XP SP2 broke raw sockets completely. (of course, the saner solution of restricting them to privileged accounts wouldn't have worked too well, seeing as the majority of XP boxes run as admin all the time, anyway. but I digress.)
On the other hand, your glasses are a lovely shade of pink. Rose, one might call it.
I can confirm that talk.google.com is talking Jabber.
Not anymore...
$ telnet talk.google.com 5222 Trying 64.233.167.125... Connected to talk.google.com. Escape character is '^]'.
? HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: http://www.google.com/talk/ Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 151
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>302 Moved</H1>The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.google.com/talk/">here</A>.</BODY ></HTML>Connection closed by foreign host.
Unless the government steps in and levels the playing field...
You mean the way the FCC is leveling the DSL playing field by bulldozing small ISPs? You can believe that those major corporations are delighted to foot the bill for that kind of leveling.
The writing is on the wall. We are all slaves to the system already, and it won't quit without real change being made in our anti-competitive pro-corporate-monopoly system. I don't see it happening without blood at this point.
Spam is a part of email, just as unsolicited phone calls and junk mail are part of their respective technologies. As long as we have email (as it exists today), we will have spam.
No, these are not equivalent. Both the phone network and the postal service have effective measures in place to at least reduce unwanted traffic. The national Do Not Call list and postal policies restrict junk mailers and callers, and they have legal teeth that can be (and have been) used to penalize offenders. Notably, both the phone and snail-mail systems also have another feature in common; a certain amount of network-entry authentication, resulting in the traceability of offenders.
Email is not equivalent, because I have no workable means to
Inform potential mailers of my acceptable use policy
Reliably identify offenders for further action
Spammers using my mail facilities against my explicit permission is trespass. The resulting expension of resources is theft of service.
The productivity lost to spam is more than made up by the productivity gained through the use of email over other technologies.
If you really take a whole freaking minute per spam mail to tweak your mail filters, you might want to improve your spam "workflow".
Perhaps you missed the point about mental context switching. Or perhaps you're just an apologist. Whatever.
The salient point is that any time lost to spam is too much. Spam is trespass and theft of services. It eats my time, my CPU, my bandwidth and my diskspace (because I have to be able to recover from false positives). Even with your optimistic time projections, the loss is non-zero. So you're arguing that theft is OK, provided it falls below some threshold. Provided that threshold is 0.0, I'd agree.
Those relatively (!) few mails that reached actual people still wouldn't have caused them to lose 1 minute of their lives. How long does it take you to dismiss a mail as spam? Not more than a few seconds, maybe not even that.
According to my procmail stats, my filters drop, on average, 43 spams a day. (which is a bit down from a year ago, thankfully) Those that do leak through take, on average, just over a minute to inspect the headers, possibly tune SpamAssassin and move the item to the spam-learning folder.
From what I've read, I have it pretty easy. Many people get a lot more than 50 a day. The time loss goes up when you count the mental context switching. Without the filters, I'd lose about an hour a day. I bill clients $125/hr for doing real work. That's a loss of $45,625 in billable time per year. With the filters active, I only process about 7 a day, so I only lose around $5,300 in billables.
Just trying to help in making a reasonable guess about the lost time due to him.
The sad part is that the US finds that limiting personal freedoms is a viable way to combat terrorism.
No, they find that limiting personal freedoms is a viable way to limit personal freedoms. That's the real agenda. Combatting terrorism is just this year's excuse.
It's funny that the music industry will actually pay out money sneakily to get airplay via the radio and tv, to boost sales, but for some reason airplay via p2p services can only damage their sales.
It's because P2P services are uncontrolled, so they don't focus the "promotion" on the commodity acts from which the Big 5 make the most money. (or, alternatively, P2P exposes the filler material surrounding the one presumably palattable track on a given release) So P2P does damage sales, but by exposing the crap material and allowing informed choice by the potential purchaser.
The obvious response would be for the Big 5 to produce more quality output, but given Sturgeon's Paradox (90% of everything is crap, but that 90% varies by individual), that would mean much more expense for the companies to find and expose real talent. For their bottom line, it's much more efficient to just convince the market that Brittney is what they like. But to do that, they have to maintain a stranglehold on the market and suppress alternatives.
Granted, I've never been to North America but I find it a little tricky to swallow that anyone could have music that makes our crappy radio sound "vibrant and brilliant".
Clear Channel stations don't stream on the net, so you'd have to make the trip to get firsthand proof. Maybe it's all set and setting, but the Aussie streams I've listened to are worlds better than the crapola on the air here.
Sure, there will still be music on radio stations, but it won't be a promotion anymore - it will be there to get people to listen to commercials
That's the situation now. Certainly with the "old music" stations (classic rock, anyone?), the music is hardly promotional. And with payola being officially illegal, radio stations' only income stream is from the sales of advertisements (modulo PBS and the like). It's the same for TV (modulo HBO and such). Broadcasting is an advertising medium, and it has always been thus, even back to the dawn of radio broadcasting. The first stations (prior to the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission) were put up by advertisers. In those days, you simply picked a frequency and went after it.
By the time the Radio Act of 1927 was enacted, radio networks were already centralizing program origination, but the Act said little about them. Advertisers were required to be identified, but nothing beyond that.
Given Microsoft's track record, they probably consider your office chair as part of Windows. But a driver problem is a driver problem, whether it's part of a monolithic kernel or loaded on demand from a separate medium. The OS problem would be the default inclusion of the buggy driver in a distro. Therefore, there are two problems to consider. Not that that would stop Microsoft from blaming the hardware...
On the other hand if you're a library and your only trying to keep them secure so that you don't have to reinstalls every week because some 12 yr old types cat/dev/random >/dev/hda & well then a locked box is probably all you need.
Reinstall every week? Better to reinstall for every user, like Laptop Lane does. After each rental user logs off, the machine is reimaged from a hidden location (probably an image on a local server, though it happens after the renter leaves the cubicle, so I couldn't watch it first-hand). What nefarious activity that isn't handled by the image's lockdown (and they're locked pretty tightly anyway) is confined to a single instance. Plus, it handles persistent cookie problems (cough*t-mobile mail*cough) and streamlines those update rollouts.
A quick trip over to macromedia shows the web access controls... which is handy for setting global restrictions. Not really sure where my flash panel would be other then when the module is loaded, but here is a link to a web based method of setting those restrictions.
Off-by-one error. That page shows how to control access to your mic and cam. Try this one:
On a slightly different topic, I really think that Microsoft is really on the wrong track with their combined Desktop/Server codebase bent.
It's more like "All from one, and one for All" with MS. Their entire "product line" seems to want to present the same face everywhere, which can be tricky when the face is a GUI and the platform is a headless embedded box. But Redmond continues to insist that their way works for everything. (modulo the recent headless options added to Embedded XP and CE)
Still, people are drinking the Kool-Aid(TM) daily. My now former employer (I was downsized last week) is looking at CE with a Flash(TM) player as a small-form-factor machine HMI. The prototype runs like molasses. But they all insist that Microsoft(TM) is the best way to go.
So to complete your argument, the overwhelming positive and pre-dominant use of BitTorrent (which I am by no means suggesting does not exist) would be...?
What a concept! Usually when you drop things, they break. But when you drop an Apple, well, it just works (TM).
Similar to what I used to call Apple Disease. The vibration from the Apple ][ power switch (the BRS) would eventually cause the socketed chips to walk out and gall the contact surfaces. The quick fix was to open the top and re-seat the chips with your thumb. I used to pull the chips, treat the pins with Tweek (now known as Stabilant), re-seat them and charge $25 for the job. Good spare change for 1985!
Well, I did crash one Linux install with a rm -rf while sitting in/usr/lib.
I was able to crash a Linux box by doing some severely stupid things inside of a driver I was working on. But it had to be severely stupid. Merely deref'ing a null pointer just got me a trap message on the console. (unlike Windows, where a null deref is an instant ticket to blue-land)
Anyone remember the original crashme driver that shipped with BlueSave?
/* There are SO many ways to crash an NT system. Here, we randomly select from only two. */
Maybe it's not that hard. Technically, a rider is an amendment. Just restricting amendments to affecting only the bill to which they are attached would go a long way toward sanity.
Didn't you see the congressman on Farenheit 911 state very plainly that for the most part they don't even get to read and analyze what bills they are voting in?
Nit: He didn't say "get to". He said "We don't read most of the bills..." It's not for lack of opportunity. It's from lack of concern.
Personally, I think there should be no riders. Every bill should address one thing and one thing only, and should carry a title that clearly summarizes its intent. Of course, that would be the end of pork, so there's no chance in hell that it will happen prior to the revolution. But I can dream...
I thought the point was to be able to "read" the card without having to dig it out. But if you have to dig it out to read a key, the technology doesn't buy you anything.
Depends on who's buying. An unencrypted RFID passport is a wide-open invitation to identity theft. If encrypted, it merely serves as a beacon ID'ing you as American (or, as they say in some countries, a "target").
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On the other hand, your glasses are a lovely shade of pink. Rose, one might call it.
Email is not equivalent, because I have no workable means to
- Inform potential mailers of my acceptable use policy
- Reliably identify offenders for further action
Spammers using my mail facilities against my explicit permission is trespass. The resulting expension of resources is theft of service.Yeah, another apologist.The salient point is that any time lost to spam is too much. Spam is trespass and theft of services. It eats my time, my CPU, my bandwidth and my diskspace (because I have to be able to recover from false positives). Even with your optimistic time projections, the loss is non-zero. So you're arguing that theft is OK, provided it falls below some threshold. Provided that threshold is 0.0, I'd agree.
From what I've read, I have it pretty easy. Many people get a lot more than 50 a day. The time loss goes up when you count the mental context switching. Without the filters, I'd lose about an hour a day. I bill clients $125/hr for doing real work. That's a loss of $45,625 in billable time per year. With the filters active, I only process about 7 a day, so I only lose around $5,300 in billables.
Yeah, me too.The obvious response would be for the Big 5 to produce more quality output, but given Sturgeon's Paradox (90% of everything is crap, but that 90% varies by individual), that would mean much more expense for the companies to find and expose real talent. For their bottom line, it's much more efficient to just convince the market that Brittney is what they like. But to do that, they have to maintain a stranglehold on the market and suppress alternatives.
By the time the Radio Act of 1927 was enacted, radio networks were already centralizing program origination, but the Act said little about them. Advertisers were required to be identified, but nothing beyond that.
The more things change...
Given Microsoft's track record, they probably consider your office chair as part of Windows. But a driver problem is a driver problem, whether it's part of a monolithic kernel or loaded on demand from a separate medium. The OS problem would be the default inclusion of the buggy driver in a distro. Therefore, there are two problems to consider. Not that that would stop Microsoft from blaming the hardware...
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en /flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html
Right-click a Flash item and select "Preferences".
Still, people are drinking the Kool-Aid(TM) daily. My now former employer (I was downsized last week) is looking at CE with a Flash(TM) player as a small-form-factor machine HMI. The prototype runs like molasses. But they all insist that Microsoft(TM) is the best way to go.
Anyone remember the original crashme driver that shipped with BlueSave?
Maybe it's not that hard. Technically, a rider is an amendment. Just restricting amendments to affecting only the bill to which they are attached would go a long way toward sanity.
Personally, I think there should be no riders. Every bill should address one thing and one thing only, and should carry a title that clearly summarizes its intent. Of course, that would be the end of pork, so there's no chance in hell that it will happen prior to the revolution. But I can dream...