Try going somewhere with a shockwave embed as an admin, let the install mechanism do it's download happy dance, then have someone with user privileges do the same. I think you'll find that the problem is solved.
Induse some "junior staffer" to have a brain fart, placing a confidential file where it can be vampired off and forwarded as a "leak" to a rag in dire need of boosting its readership.
Has anyone thought to ask who this junior staffer was, and why they had this document at home in an insecure setting?
This is a direct corollary to politicians being in bed with media and both parties fisting away like rabid hamsters.
No need for TOR, encryption, or any other technological fix, *if* we approach this problem politically. It can be cured by term limits [in *any* democratically elected government], enforcement of existing laws, restrictions on lobbying, and public support of governmental transparency.
Of course the chances for this rank right up there with the second coming of a certain Nazarene, so I'm getting out my tin foil hat and battening down the hatches.
When I want to pull away from MMORPG time sinks, this is where I go. Total in your face FPS action. Multiplayer as too, tho' the bots can be taxing enough.
However, when I consider how many people come to me asking for panic fixes on machines that "I use for my livelihood", and how few of *them* even have a portable HD, let alone a back up box, I guess I shouldn't be.
Does this survey intend to point out who drank the Kool-Aid® that PCs are just another appliance?
Why shorts and anthologies, when others are suggesting novels?
Because they are short.
To the hyperconnected, short attention span theater that comprises the bulk of American youth, longer works as "assignments" or "course material" may turn them off to the genre before they ever connect.
Hell, it's hard enough to get them to read bullet points on a PowerPoint, imagine making them wade through Tolkiens elf poems.
Harlan Ellison: Great stuff, all shorts, all with layers of meaning. Larry Niven: Hard SF, Known Space series, Gil the ARM, etc., fun. Ted Chiang: Interesting work, edgy, all over the map.
Try anthologies: Dangerous Visions, Again Dangerous Visions (sure, they're dated in many respects but seminal stuff from the times), Nebula Awards Showcase, The Hugo Winners, whatever, as the goal here is exposure. By choosing a story or two out of a book, it leaves the student free to explore the other, unassigned works, at their leisure.
voltsandamps.com was acquired by Compana LLC, a so called cybersquatter.
Compana has had numerous UDRP complaints filed against it and has this to say on a page within its domain: "... Compana litigates each instance of abusive UDRP filing. Compana has never lost a case in court."
Contrast that statement with this one: "The Complainant provided evidence that the Respondent [Compana] was involved in ten UDRP proceedings in 2006, all resulting in the transfer of the respective domain name to the complainant concerned." HTML version of WIPO Domain Name Dispute Case No. D2007-495, dated July 18, 2007.
Companies like this are the reason we're running out of domain names.
The reason you haven't seen anything so innovative in 70 years is that the last 70 years have had constant steady progress.
Not to rain on that parade, but in the mid-1930s we had V-8 engines for cars, which could accommodate no more than 6 passengers comfortably and got well under 30 MPG. Airplanes one the other hand had rotary engines a la the Armstrong-Siddeley or Pratt & Whitney, carrying up to 14 passengers and with flight range capabilities of up to 745 miles.
Today we have 4 cylinder engines in cars that can barely accommodate four adults comfortably, let alone six, with a few models sporting MPG ratings in the 40+ range, but with fleet averages still far below that. Contrast that with aircraft, which have enjoyed brutes like this one for decades, and whose carrying capacities have increased geometrically since the 1930's and whose range can extend to the thousands of miles.
Anti-lock brakes, power steering, GPS in-dash navigation, and all the other bells and whistles are all well and good. But aside from computer controls and fuel injection (another technology from the last century), we are still being driven by the same engine Henry Ford used, in little metal (though now increasingly plastic) compartments not radically different from those used in 1930.
If the same attention to innovation and invention had been nurtured in the automotive industry as it was in the aircraft industry who knows what we'd be "driving" now.
Why, in seventy years, haven't we seen anything half as innovative in either design or efficiency come to market?
To my mind this in itself is reason enough for Detroit to have wound up a wholly owned subsidiary of the US government, which also guarantees that we will never see anything remotely progressive taking to the road in these United States.
Whenever you login as an admin to post, or do something else, that is your default landing spot.
If you choose not to do anything, because some precious widget might break, or you have a hair appointment in 20 minutes, and continue doing so through numerous point releases, you get what you paid for eh?
Considering the research suppressed at the behest of the TelCo's proving cell use while driving is tantamount to driving drunk, it's great to see a state taking the lead in this.
I can always tell the cellphone using drivers on our freeways, and I wish my state would do the same thing that Utah has done.
"...I really get sick of everyone whining when (insert your favorite software company) says they won't officially support a 2 year old product with the latest and greatest OS from a different company...
CS3 has been working fine on SL, its just from a liability standpoint they don't officially support it. I was told CS and CS2 aren't supported for Leopard, but I have many users using both with no problems..."
I think you may have missed the sarcasm in my orginal statement.
If you aren't a shareholder it doesn't involve you...
Nothing could be further from the truth. Decisions are made, both for and against particular corporate policies, strategies and business practices, that affect tens of thousands every day. Love Canal, eWaste shipped overseas to China and India, and inferiorconstruction on nuclear reactors in the US come to mind, there are multitudinous others.
... the shareholders don't seem to think it's good for them: the stock is down on the rumor.
All of which means that smart money is afraid of another TW/AOL debacle. Which if it goes forward would still affect all of the subscribers, who are (I would wager) non-shareholders/investors.
"If you do not like the contract, do not do business with AT&T. You've got a choice."
That depends. I know plenty of folks who are effectively locked into AT&T for "high speed" internet because:
They live in an area not serviced by cable.
The topography of the area they live in precludes LOS wireless access.
They live in an area which has a dead zone effectively negating using "air cards" from another provider.
The copper serving their area makes satellite an exercise in pain.
Some combination of, or all of, the above.
So "choice" suddenly becomes a whole hell of a lot less easy...unless by choice you mean selling the family stead and moving into the city/burbs just to feed the coffers of the telcos to get HSI.
Slashdot Mirror
"So why did slashdot put such a summary ?"
Because it's /.
Try going somewhere with a shockwave embed as an admin, let the install mechanism do it's download happy dance, then have someone with user privileges do the same. I think you'll find that the problem is solved.
Need a motive to craft censoring legislation?
Induse some "junior staffer" to have a brain fart, placing a confidential file where it can be vampired off and forwarded as a "leak" to a rag in dire need of boosting its readership.
Has anyone thought to ask who this junior staffer was, and why they had this document at home in an insecure setting?
No, of course not.
This is a direct corollary to politicians being in bed with media and both parties fisting away like rabid hamsters.
No need for TOR, encryption, or any other technological fix, *if* we approach this problem politically. It can be cured by term limits [in *any* democratically elected government], enforcement of existing laws, restrictions on lobbying, and public support of governmental transparency.
Of course the chances for this rank right up there with the second coming of a certain Nazarene, so I'm getting out my tin foil hat and battening down the hatches.
You'll love Nexuiz.
When I want to pull away from MMORPG time sinks, this is where I go. Total in your face FPS action. Multiplayer as too, tho' the bots can be taxing enough.
/nod
However, when I consider how many people come to me asking for panic fixes on machines that "I use for my livelihood", and how few of *them* even have a portable HD, let alone a back up box, I guess I shouldn't be.
Does this survey intend to point out who drank the Kool-Aid® that PCs are just another appliance?
Hit the submit button too soon.
Why shorts and anthologies, when others are suggesting novels?
Because they are short.
To the hyperconnected, short attention span theater that comprises the bulk of American youth, longer works as "assignments" or "course material" may turn them off to the genre before they ever connect.
Hell, it's hard enough to get them to read bullet points on a PowerPoint, imagine making them wade through Tolkiens elf poems.
Harlan Ellison: Great stuff, all shorts, all with layers of meaning.
Larry Niven: Hard SF, Known Space series, Gil the ARM, etc., fun.
Ted Chiang: Interesting work, edgy, all over the map.
Try anthologies: Dangerous Visions, Again Dangerous Visions (sure, they're dated in many respects but seminal stuff from the times), Nebula Awards Showcase, The Hugo Winners, whatever, as the goal here is exposure. By choosing a story or two out of a book, it leaves the student free to explore the other, unassigned works, at their leisure.
The full story is this:
voltsandamps.com was acquired by Compana LLC, a so called cybersquatter.
Compana has had numerous UDRP complaints filed against it and has this to say on a page within its domain:
"... Compana litigates each instance of abusive UDRP filing. Compana has never lost a case in court."
Contrast that statement with this one:
"The Complainant provided evidence that the Respondent [Compana] was involved in ten UDRP proceedings in 2006, all resulting in the transfer of the respective domain name to the complainant concerned." HTML version of WIPO Domain Name Dispute Case No. D2007-495, dated July 18, 2007.
Companies like this are the reason we're running out of domain names.
One word: Aptera
OMG! Thanks for that link. This is one worth watching.
As for the rest of your points... I couldn't agree more, especially with "Fuck the monolithic corporations -- let them fail."
Bailouts prevent Darwinian principles from thinning the herd.
The reason you haven't seen anything so innovative in 70 years is that the last 70 years have had constant steady progress.
Not to rain on that parade, but in the mid-1930s we had V-8 engines for cars, which could accommodate no more than 6 passengers comfortably and got well under 30 MPG. Airplanes one the other hand had rotary engines a la the Armstrong-Siddeley or Pratt & Whitney, carrying up to 14 passengers and with flight range capabilities of up to 745 miles.
Today we have 4 cylinder engines in cars that can barely accommodate four adults comfortably, let alone six, with a few models sporting MPG ratings in the 40+ range, but with fleet averages still far below that. Contrast that with aircraft, which have enjoyed brutes like this one for decades, and whose carrying capacities have increased geometrically since the 1930's and whose range can extend to the thousands of miles.
Anti-lock brakes, power steering, GPS in-dash navigation, and all the other bells and whistles are all well and good. But aside from computer controls and fuel injection (another technology from the last century), we are still being driven by the same engine Henry Ford used, in little metal (though now increasingly plastic) compartments not radically different from those used in 1930.
If the same attention to innovation and invention had been nurtured in the automotive industry as it was in the aircraft industry who knows what we'd be "driving" now.
Why, in seventy years, haven't we seen anything half as innovative in either design or efficiency come to market?
To my mind this in itself is reason enough for Detroit to have wound up a wholly owned subsidiary of the US government, which also guarantees that we will never see anything remotely progressive taking to the road in these United States.
Yugo anyone?
"Server 2003 and XP are nearly the same, how could they patch one and not the other?"
Because that doesn't ensure the revenue stream flowing?
Whenever you login as an admin to post, or do something else, that is your default landing spot.
If you choose not to do anything, because some precious widget might break, or you have a hair appointment in 20 minutes, and continue doing so through numerous point releases, you get what you paid for eh?
Or as Duncan Chalk said:
"Pain is instructive"
Will be sporting a new pair of ears very soon.
Mod parent up.
Go watch it.
Considering the research suppressed at the behest of the TelCo's proving cell use while driving is tantamount to driving drunk, it's great to see a state taking the lead in this.
I can always tell the cellphone using drivers on our freeways, and I wish my state would do the same thing that Utah has done.
Is a 600+ DPI version of the file needed to print the trashing-Windows®-logo. It'd make an interesting conversation piece in my office. ^_^
"...I really get sick of everyone whining when (insert your favorite software company) says they won't officially support a 2 year old product with the latest and greatest OS from a different company...
CS3 has been working fine on SL, its just from a liability standpoint they don't officially support it. I was told CS and CS2 aren't supported for Leopard, but I have many users using both with no problems..."
File under > Horses mouth > From.
I think you may have missed the sarcasm in my orginal statement.
If you aren't a shareholder it doesn't involve you...
Nothing could be further from the truth. Decisions are made, both for and against particular corporate policies, strategies and business practices, that affect tens of thousands every day. Love Canal, eWaste shipped overseas to China and India, and inferior construction on nuclear reactors in the US come to mind, there are multitudinous others.
All of which means that smart money is afraid of another TW/AOL debacle. Which if it goes forward would still affect all of the subscribers, who are (I would wager) non-shareholders/investors.
Which amply reinforces my points above.
The short version, the users will get hosed.
If it's good for the shareholders, it's good for you!
Time Warner did it with AOL, and look how well that .... errrr ... heh. NVM.
"If you do not like the contract, do not do business with AT&T. You've got a choice."
That depends. I know plenty of folks who are effectively locked into AT&T for "high speed" internet because:
So "choice" suddenly becomes a whole hell of a lot less easy...unless by choice you mean selling the family stead and moving into the city/burbs just to feed the coffers of the telcos to get HSI.
Without breaking our two year contract and sacrificing your deposit.