Or the idiotic laws that force the parents to babysit their offspring till they are 14 years old removing any sense of reason and responsibility? I remember that at the age of 7 I had to travel across one quarter of a 10 million city alone to school every day.
I don't think there is any law which forces parents to drive their kids to school. They do it for a variety of reasons: laziness, paranoia about paedophiles, the fact that more mothers have cars now, etc.
My computer often enough is running things which I prefer to keep running, such as AIM for when people contact me or downloads.
Downloads, OK fair enough, but AIM?! What is the point of leaving that on when you're not there? The whole point of IM is that it's interactive and real time. If your friends want to contact you and you're not around then that's what email is for!
As for work, the boss sometimes stays at work till 2am to get things done. So while your working hours may be 9 to 5, that is not the case for everyone. Cleaning staff also works after everyone else leaves.
OK, so I should see maybe one or two offices illuminated indicating folks working late or perhaps lights on one floor at a time suggesting that the janitors are there. There is no good reason to leave every single f***ing light in a massive multi-storey office building on all night!
It's amazing the extent to which we either forget about or just don't care about turning stuff off these days. Ever passed through the business district of your town/city late at night well after working hours? Noticed all those office buildings with all their lights blazing out? How about that computer in your office? Can you put your hand on your heart and say you always turn it off before you leave work at the end of the day? Not only would it help the environment and reduce waste of finite resources, but it would probably save businesses a fair bit off their power bills too.
Would they buy a GoogleBox, that allows them to access their web mail, google office (assuming its not a myth) and various web sites "without a computer", and all they have to do is hook it up to a DSL/Cable line and a power line?
Sure, just like they bought all those "internet appliances" and "web terminals" which were supposed to be the next big thing a few years ago and now go for peanuts on eBay.
A fancy GUI is all very well, but does this come with some decent command line tools to scriptify adding and removing users and the like? One of the things that's kept my department on NIS for so long is that absolute hideous unfriendliness of the OpenLDAP tools vs useradd, usermod and friends.
A live person is missing a face. A dead person doesn't need theirs any more. Where's the problem?
From the article:
"Where donors would come from is one issue that would have to be considered.
"The transplant would have to come from a beating heart donor. So, say your sister was in intensive care, you would have to agree to allow their face to be removed before the ventilator was switched off.
"And there is the possibility that the donor would then carry on breathing."
Could it be that the hardware improvements made over the last 12 years may have made library-level emulation unnecessary? Device-level (eg, vmware) and architecture-level (eg, virtual pc) are both simpler and more robust.
Sure you can run Windows on a virtual machine, but you need a legal copy of Windows first. WINE allows you to run Windows applications without having to pay Microsoft any $$$.
Also applications running in a VM are captive within the VM's window. I like the ability to move/resize/manage Windows applications anywhere on my desktop.
Perhaps they should subsidize, develop, and control their own version of it then.
You know those investments were decades ago and surely long since amortized by now. The "we put money into it in the beginning so we owns it" argument is becoming a little stale. I'm sure other countries have invested substantial sums in infrastructure which makes up sections of the internet by now.
I suppose they are worried (justly) about people convincing grandma to sign up so she doesn't get so many "buy this shit now" calls
This is exactly what they are worried about. They don't care about you, me, or Joe Geek who would never buy their crap anyway. They care about concerned friends and relatives signing up the vulnerable people who they bleed dry as their staple source of income. Telemarketing is just a polite term for scamming.
It's impressive because Google simply required the place name and the text "fish+chips". As far as I can see the MSN site needs you to already know the address of the fish & chip shop.
How to you Bayesian filter an image? The whole point of this new breed of spam is that the poetry or whatever makes the spam appear 'normal', and all the trigger words that would otherwise score highly in a Bayesian filter are inside the image.
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Or the idiotic laws that force the parents to babysit their offspring till they are 14 years old removing any sense of reason and responsibility? I remember that at the age of 7 I had to travel across one quarter of a 10 million city alone to school every day.
I don't think there is any law which forces parents to drive their kids to school. They do it for a variety of reasons: laziness, paranoia about paedophiles, the fact that more mothers have cars now, etc.
My computer often enough is running things which I prefer to keep running, such as AIM for when people contact me or downloads.
Downloads, OK fair enough, but AIM?! What is the point of leaving that on when you're not there? The whole point of IM is that it's interactive and real time. If your friends want to contact you and you're not around then that's what email is for!
As for work, the boss sometimes stays at work till 2am to get things done. So while your working hours may be 9 to 5, that is not the case for everyone. Cleaning staff also works after everyone else leaves.
OK, so I should see maybe one or two offices illuminated indicating folks working late or perhaps lights on one floor at a time suggesting that the janitors are there. There is no good reason to leave every single f***ing light in a massive multi-storey office building on all night!
It's amazing the extent to which we either forget about or just don't care about turning stuff off these days. Ever passed through the business district of your town/city late at night well after working hours? Noticed all those office buildings with all their lights blazing out? How about that computer in your office? Can you put your hand on your heart and say you always turn it off before you leave work at the end of the day? Not only would it help the environment and reduce waste of finite resources, but it would probably save businesses a fair bit off their power bills too.
Would they buy a GoogleBox, that allows them to access their web mail, google office (assuming its not a myth) and various web sites "without a computer", and all they have to do is hook it up to a DSL/Cable line and a power line?
Sure, just like they bought all those "internet appliances" and "web terminals" which were supposed to be the next big thing a few years ago and now go for peanuts on eBay.
Didn't renowned geek babe Ceren Ercen work for LinuxCare at one time?
A fancy GUI is all very well, but does this come with some decent command line tools to scriptify adding and removing users and the like? One of the things that's kept my department on NIS for so long is that absolute hideous unfriendliness of the OpenLDAP tools vs useradd, usermod and friends.
A live person is missing a face. A dead person doesn't need theirs any more. Where's the problem?
From the article:
"Where donors would come from is one issue that would have to be considered. "The transplant would have to come from a beating heart donor. So, say your sister was in intensive care, you would have to agree to allow their face to be removed before the ventilator was switched off. "And there is the possibility that the donor would then carry on breathing."
Is the 'administrator' account privilege - which a majority of Windows user accounts are - not an equivalent to root?
Strictly speaking the Windows equivalent of 'root' is the hidden 'LocalSystem' account.
Yeah, sure. If you want to run a notepad, minesweeper or solitaire.
Good point. I really meant to say "In theory WINE allows you to run Windows applications without having to pay Microsoft any $$$"
Could it be that the hardware improvements made over the last 12 years may have made library-level emulation unnecessary? Device-level (eg, vmware) and architecture-level (eg, virtual pc) are both simpler and more robust.
Sure you can run Windows on a virtual machine, but you need a legal copy of Windows first. WINE allows you to run Windows applications without having to pay Microsoft any $$$.
Also applications running in a VM are captive within the VM's window. I like the ability to move/resize/manage Windows applications anywhere on my desktop.
Perhaps they should subsidize, develop, and control their own version of it then.
You know those investments were decades ago and surely long since amortized by now. The "we put money into it in the beginning so we owns it" argument is becoming a little stale. I'm sure other countries have invested substantial sums in infrastructure which makes up sections of the internet by now.
I suppose they are worried (justly) about people convincing grandma to sign up so she doesn't get so many "buy this shit now" calls
This is exactly what they are worried about. They don't care about you, me, or Joe Geek who would never buy their crap anyway. They care about concerned friends and relatives signing up the vulnerable people who they bleed dry as their staple source of income. Telemarketing is just a polite term for scamming.
I prefer this one myself. It even has chicks!
Seriously, wtf is a technical article doing on a site full of whiny emo-kids?
Maybe it's an exchange program of some kind and the teenage girls from LiveJournal are going to start turning up on tech forums?
Windows Messenger is sometimes worth keeping because you can run it and MSN Messenger simultaneously - handy if you have two MSN accounts.
Telemarketing is just another job
You're telling me that scamming vulnerable and trusting elderly folks into buying stuff they don't need or making dodgy investments is 'just another job'?
Maybe now they can build better hands for their female android.
Do these confrences ever end in failure?
This one might well do given the current climate.
On the other hand you can definitely run BSD and appear cool.
You haven't seen Maureen O'Gara have you...
Oh I don't know... she's not all that bad.
Why is this impressive again?
It's impressive because Google simply required the place name and the text "fish+chips". As far as I can see the MSN site needs you to already know the address of the fish & chip shop.
It even found my local chippy. Go Google!
Now if they found a copy of the Gospel of St. Judas then I'd be amused.
They already did.
Wouldn't it piss off SCO no end if someone produced a scorun app?
They already did, and as I remember SCO were mighty pissed off.
I think a good bayesian should work
How to you Bayesian filter an image? The whole point of this new breed of spam is that the poetry or whatever makes the spam appear 'normal', and all the trigger words that would otherwise score highly in a Bayesian filter are inside the image.