I wonder how they determine what the idle frequencies are? I still pull in a fair number of channels on the set with rabbit ears, some of which might be classed as fringe stations from my location. (49 Fox from Buffalo is cute. Cable doesn't have that one, probably due to Canadian content rules.)
I'd be peeved if someone decided that a station that I watch was too far away to matter, and set up a scrambled broadcast on the same frequency.
Oh I never said it would solve the problem. I just want Linux to be stress-tested by an equivalent number of idiots. I think Linux will do better than Windows, but it should generate a lot of amusing horror stories.
[..] said a cyber-security official at the Department of Homeland Security who asked not be identified because the agency is still considering whether to issue a more public alert about Phatbot.
Umm, what? Why is it that every five-cent functionary asks not to be
identified these days, when nobody gave a damn who they were in the first
place? If they issue a more public alert, will they identify him?
Some current Windows viruses send an executable in a passworded zip file (to bypass scanners). The idiot has to click on the attachment, type in a password, and click on the executable to be infected. And they probably have to be logged in as the admin to do it. This works in a depressingly large number of cases.
I really wish all those idiots would switch to Linux, right now!
The PBS version was perfect, I don't see how adding names and effects to it would help at all. (More likely the reverse although I haven't seen the newer version yet.) Even lines that were added fit so well that I was surprised when I re-read it that they weren't there.
SCO already offered a $250,000 bounty for the MyDoom.A authors. Now, I wouldn't give SCO the time of day, but I'd turn the authors in. (1) They're probably not really members of the Linux/Open Source community, so unmasking them would be good, (2) That would be $250,000 out of Darl's warchest.
Collecting it could be tough. You might want to camp out before the lineup of creditors gets too long.
I have a RS-232 to speech card that's even older. (You just can't get a good robotic voice like that these days.) It was fun on my Coherent/Linux BBS--I even had a "talk to the sysop" command.
I'm sure every environment has reasonable quality text to speech available these days. That's why I found their "text to speak" feature so odd.
Adobe's Read-Aloud function (text to speech) is a major, major selling point for some less-technically knowledgeable folk.
Really? Excellent! I was including that feature in something because it was free to add and some people might want it. (Even with the pop up animated talking character.) There's a fair number of free packages that will read what's in an arbitrary window or file. I guess I should check out Adobe's product to see what it does.
All eBooks are in HTML or PDF format
Let your computer read your book to you. What makes PDF eBooks unique is the text to speak capability and a built- in dictionary. Over 60,000 to choose from.
Text to speak [sic] is trivial to do in a Windows environment. Microsoft gives that away with SAPI. Heck, just as easy to have a little animated character on the screen reading it to you. (Calm down, Clippy doesn't talk. Yet.)
The glitz of their webpage, the lack of proof-reading (ye gads!), the pushing of a minor feature as if it was sliced-bread, the data mining of Project Gutenberg's hard work suggests that this is a Get Rich Quick cheesy operation.
Since they were stupid enough to step on Project Gutenberg's good name, hopefully the Flush of Justice will remove this turd quickly.
Tish! Next you'll say that Microsoft never owned the names Chicago or Cario either. (I haven't bothered remembering their names after that. I think Whitney Houston is next?:^)
Internal working names are great fun, but if they go around telling everyone they'll either run into someone else's trademark, they'll want to try to protect a name that they don't own, or even worse, they'll be stuck with the working name when they finally figure out what to call it.
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Um no, it's the BIND grasshopper that's on the cricket book. (I have an older copy, but they'd never change that!)
Why just open source companies? If Microsoft screws up, they're not exactly going to be backing you up if you delivered a product using their software. (In the EULA, their liability is usually limited to what you paid for their software or $10.)
This sounds like a company that's gone parasitic on FUD.
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I'd be peeved if someone decided that a station that I watch was too far away to matter, and set up a scrambled broadcast on the same frequency.
Oh I never said it would solve the problem. I just want Linux to be stress-tested by an equivalent number of idiots. I think Linux will do better than Windows, but it should generate a lot of amusing horror stories.
It is a little like "suicide by cop".
I really wish all those idiots would switch to Linux, right now!
There's also a collection of Earthsea shorts, but I think Skippy wrote parts of that too.
Antwerp!
Send out a virus that eats your name out of their address books, then emails itself to all their friends. Now no one ever emails me...
Collecting it could be tough. You might want to camp out before the lineup of creditors gets too long.
I'm sure every environment has reasonable quality text to speech available these days. That's why I found their "text to speak" feature so odd.
Really? Excellent! I was including that feature in something because it was free to add and some people might want it. (Even with the pop up animated talking character.) There's a fair number of free packages that will read what's in an arbitrary window or file. I guess I should check out Adobe's product to see what it does.
Coming Soon: ProjectGutenberg Forever!
Cue Jaws theme...
They also brag of their "text to speak capability". Sigh. All their page needed was the Flash intro to be total shiny fluff.
The glitz of their webpage, the lack of proof-reading (ye gads!), the pushing of a minor feature as if it was sliced-bread, the data mining of Project Gutenberg's hard work suggests that this is a Get Rich Quick cheesy operation.
Since they were stupid enough to step on Project Gutenberg's good name, hopefully the Flush of Justice will remove this turd quickly.
If you pronounce it correctly (foe), how about a FlamingFaux?
Internal working names are great fun, but if they go around telling everyone they'll either run into someone else's trademark, they'll want to try to protect a name that they don't own, or even worse, they'll be stuck with the working name when they finally figure out what to call it.
Um no, it's the BIND grasshopper that's on the cricket book. (I have an older copy, but they'd never change that!)
This sounds like a company that's gone parasitic on FUD.
Or you might be a tourist attraction.
That would suck as much as starting to get that Innsmouth Look and finding out that Captain Marsh was an ancestor.
If only we could stuff spammers with that 6' SPAM display. (Either end would do.)
An ex-coworker worked at GoldDisk. I heard stories about the goings-on there, but I doubt that they'd spam--because it hadn't been invented yet.
Definitely wouldn't be extradited from Canada then. We don't ship people to a waiting death sentence .. much. (Sometimes we'll extradite to Texas.)
Let him be the grandson of a line of Richards. Three-eyed Dick Head the spammer. "Now is the email of our discontent..."