One such fossil is the Homo erectus known as "Java Man." The famous relic was found in 1891 by the Dutch paleontologist Eugène Dubois on the Trinil terraces of the Solo River in Java.
Another is the RMS sapiens known as "Lisp Gnu". The famous relic was extracted in 1991 by Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds from a sleazy office along the Charles River in Cambridge.
From its discovery onward, Java Man has been controversial. Even up into the late 20th century, its precise placement in the human evolutionary tree was debated, largely because of the inability to obtain completely reliable dates for the archaeological and geological context of the Java fossils.
From its discovery onward, Lisp Gnu has been controversial. Even up into the late 20th century, its precise placement in the COBOL evolutionary tree was debated, largely because of his inability to cool his temper in the academic context of the Cambridge fossils.
In the case of TL and ESR, the clock resets to zero when the sample is heated and starts ticking once the sample cools.
Thus, the ESR clock resets to zero when the cathedral is heated, and starts ticking again once the bazaar cools. No more temper problems!
most of the problems *nix users have with IE is they expect it to work by default. Perfectly. And if they dont, they try hacking at it like they do in *nix, and cause problems (kill off the stability)...
...IE6 will win most rendering contests almost every time... (I think I recall only one crash in the 4 months I've been running it : Netscape 4.76 used to crash four to five times a day in debian...)
Hmmm... might it be that "most of the problems you have with Netscape/Mozilla" is you insist on comparing a Linux browser (of which there was no good one until recently), to a Windows browser running on the OS it was made for (or conversely:-)?
On the Mac (a more level ground for comparison) I've always found Netscape just as stable as IE. On Linux, just as unstable as any other browser.
Going back to my previous statement, all of these things can be fixed, except the pop-ups.... The only problem that i see with msn, that i dont like, is the 404 redirect. I'm looking into a way to change this.
Hmmm... I thought your "previous statement" was that we shouldn't try to fix it at all?
(Which anyway is a lost cause, from what I hear. IE = "All your prefs are belong to us!")
I'm using it. Still the same buttons...
Oh, one more thing:
Mousing over over-wide titles in message lists no longer reveals them in full.
These are all things that were perfectly OK in 4.x, so why those "improvements" that remove functionality? Thanks anyway, for the hint on turning off that silly quote style.
0.9.5 is nice and fast... though still not quite as fast and twice as memory hungry as good ole Classic only Netscape 4.x. The main things that would still prevent me from using it full time are cosmetic: the butt-ugly Windows-style buttons and pop-up lists, plus these few quirks in mail/news:
You can't select several messages by a mouse click-&-drag (I do this all the time);
Huge fixed non-scrollable real estate occupied by message headers (*completely stupid*);
"View all headers" still doesn't work ("view source" is a painfully slow substitute);
Silly quote style using solid bars. These break after two levels or so, and anyway, a message's body is *plain text* so display it as such, with >'s and all, dammit!
(And yes these are all in Bugzilla, but assigned for who-knows-when.) So my browsers of choice remain:
on Mac OS 9: Netscape 4.x
on Mac OS X: Omniweb
on LinuxPPC: Dillo
(As to Dillo, see the reasons here -- and thanks to the AC who recommended it in answer to that message. It rocks, and now that version 0.6.1 does tables, it has all you need to go browse for RPMs or tarballs, on those low end boxes for which Konqui, kfm or anything Gecko is not and never will be lean enough. Kudos to the Dillo team for making good on the promise that Linux can revive old hardware.)
anybody having troubles with 10.1 breaking things - this [stepwise.com] has a whole bunch of handy pointers
Found this part interesting:
Apple has removed [wget] in 10.1 as yet another GPL'd tool that can be replaced with a non-GPL alternative.
This seems to be the reason they also avoided bash. Is the plan to ultimately remove everything GNU? Grepping 10.0.x manpages reveals a few that seem potentially there:
First: pushing for even more drastic laws is certainly, in part, a tactic to draw pressure away from the DMCA. Let's not fall into this trap.
Secondly: the problem is that the general public won't care unless they see how this will hurt concretely; for this, the question needs to be strippend down to its essentials, which are nontechnical.
So let's do ourselves a favor. Forget all the beloved technical jargon we like to wrap these discussions in. Concentrate on something simple like email, which people know about, care for and roughly understand, and which already exhibits all aspects of the problem. Now publically ask Senators Hollings and Stevens and other backers of the proposal elementary questions like this:
1) Any viewable item on a computer exists as a file -- a sequence of 0's and 1's stored in memory.
2) e-mail is a popular device which allows jack@university.edu to send (as attachment) a copy of any file to jill@provider.net, completely independent of whether the copy is "legitimate" or not.
Now,
Are you opposed to email?
If not, then exactly how do you intend to prevent "illegitimate" uses of it, without invading everyone's privacy?
"I seem to recall hearing stories of courts overturning these schemes; does anybody have any specifics? Cases/judicial opinions, perhaps? I've checked FindLaw, Google, and others, but haven't found anything"
Adobe is a software development and publishing company. Among other things, Adobe makes educational versions of their software, which are
available to students and educators at a significant discount. Defendant One Stop buys and sells computer hardware and software on the open market.
Adobe alleges that One Stop improperly acquired an educational version of Adobe software, which it then adulterated and sold as full retail versions to
non-educational users. In its complaint, Adobe alleges that the agreement was a licensing agreement and not an actual sale, that One Stop infringed
Adobe's copyright, and that One Stop infringed Adobe's trademark.
DISCUSSION
The court found that the Off Campus Reseller Agreement, which governs the educational seller's relationship with Adobe, was a licensing agreement
and not an actual sale. Because the first sale doctrine, implemented by the defendant, is triggered only by an actual sale, and because a copyright owner
does not forfeit his right to distribution by entering into a licensing agreement, this factor weighs in favor of the plaintiff. The OCRA is a licensing
agreement. Thus, contrary to One Stop's assertions, the OCRA does not represent a first sale between the seller and Adobe. One Stop's failure to
trace its Adobe products to a sale renders the first sale doctrine inapplicable and subjects One Stop to potential liability under copyright law.
The court also found that One Stop committed copyright infringement as a matter of law under Section 501(a). By obtaining Adobe software from a
party to an Adobe licensing agreement, One Stop was bound by any restrictions imposed by that agreement. Thus, One Stop committed copyright
infringement.
Lastly, the court found that One Stop did not infringe Adobe's trademark. Although Adobe attempts to parallel its case to Shell Oil, the Court
found Shell Oil distinguishable. The court found that the mere distribution by One Stop of admittedly unadulterated software is insufficient to
establish trademark infringement.
CONCLUSION
In Adobe Systems, Inc. v. One Stop Micro, Inc. the Northern District of California held that the agreement under which software was distributed
was a licensing agreement, not subject to the Copyright Act provision that copyright did not extend to resale of copyrighted items following their
initial sale. The court also found that the license agreement applied to the distributor, even though it was not signatory. Last, the court held that the
distributor committed copyright infringement by violating the licensing agreement.
"According to this article Microsoft is responding to the Gartner Report which recommends that enterprises drop IIS by claiming unfair targeting due to their popularity."
According to The Register, their reaction also includes the following:
Microsoft has been stung into action by Gartner security analyst John Pescatore's conclusion that businesses should ditch IIS - the Beast's own web server - for safer alternatives.
Redmond is telling its sales channel that a rewrite of IIS is underway for version 6.0, and will introduce interim security measures along the lines of the lock-down utility, because, it says, "we also realize customers cannot wait that long." (...)
The comments are in a bulletin sent to its sales staff and resellers, and seen by The Register. (...)
From macminute.com (in reverse chronological order):
Keynote ends. [13:33 ET]
Alias|Wavefron's Maya for Mac OS X shown by Andrew Pearce, Director of Maya Technology Group Alias|Wavefront... [13:29 ET]
LightWave renderer optimized for Alivec and MP Macs... [13:25 ET]
LightWave demoed under Mac OS X... [13:25 ET]
Lamkin reinforces commitment for Mac OS X - pokes fun at Schiller for saying the Office for X is the poster child for Mac OS X. He commented by asking Jobs in the audience when the last time was he showed performance comparisons between a Pentium and a Macintosh using Microsoft Word... [13:24 ET]
Bryan Lamkin from Adobe onstage with GoLive product manager to demo what is coming with GoLive for X. These are upcoming features and are not being officially announced today... [13:18 ET]
Crowd impressed with Excel for X... [13:14 ET]
Ken Bereskin demos Office for X... [13:13 ET]
Schiller talks about Microsoft and shows Office for Mac OS X (available in November). A demo can be seen at Apple Stores now... [13:11 ET]
Soghoian gets loud applause when showing a publishing scenario scripted in Mac OS X... [13:09 ET]
AppleScript Studio offers extensive customization and ease-of-use... [13:08 ET]
Soghoian shows AppleScript Studio... [13:06 ET]
Crowd reaction to AppleScript running on Mac OS X is very favorable... [13:05 ET]
Soghoian demos AppleScript with Illustrator for Mac OS X... [13:04 ET]
AppleScript Studio is a professional-level application for AppleScript users... [13:03 ET]
Sal Soghoian (AppleScript product manager) talks about AppleScript... [12:59 ET]
AppleScript Studio will be available by the end of this year... [12:58 ET]
Schiller discuss scriptability of Mac OS X using AppleScript... [12:57 ET]
Zimmerer shows high level of color control under Mac OS X... [12:56 ET]
John Zimmerer (ColorSync product manager for Apple) comes onstage to talk about ColorSync... [12:51 ET]
Schiller shows ColorSync 4... [12:50 ET]
Schiller shows movie trailer for Monsters, Inc. from Pixar... [12:47 ET]
Crowd reaction to iDVD 2 is impressive... [12:43 ET]
Mike Evangelist shows iDVD 2 (due in October) -- pretty much the same demo we saw at Macworld Expo New York last July... [12:38 ET]
Schiller back onstage talking about Mac OS X as the Digital Hub... [12:37 ET]
Mac OS 10.1 will recognize blank DVD-Rs and allow you to write to the DVD (drag and drop) right from the desktop... [12:35 ET]
Bereskin shows DVD capabilities under Mac OS X -- plays Batman Movie (original)... [12:33 ET]
Bereskin shows beauty/range of fonts under Mac OS X... [12:32 ET]
Bereskin shows flexibility of keyboard shortcuts... [12:31 ET]
System Dock may now be placed at the bottom of the screen, or to the left or right... [12:28 ET]
Mac OS 10.1 offers new "Scale Effect" for minimizing windows... [12:26 ET]
Bereskin's Mac crashes when trying to access Internet -- crowd laughs... [12:24 ET]
Ken Bereskin (Mac OS X product manager) introduced... [12:22 ET]
Graphics Enhancements: PDF 1.3 with 128-bit encryption, Faster OpenGL, Automatic USB printing, LaserWriter 8 and over 200 printer definitions... [12:20 ET]
Aqua Enhancements: Moveable Dock, System status items, File extensions, Log-in user lists, Simpler System Preferences, Long file names, Universal Access additions, Mail enhancements... [12:19 ET]
Main focus of Mac OS 10.1 is performance: Application Launching, Aqua Menus, Windows resizing, File Copying, Boot and Login, Java, OpenGL... [12:17 ET]
Schiller gives a history of Mac OS X -- Open Standards, Power of Unix married with the simplicity of the Mac, Ultimate Engine for the Digital Hub, Stunning Graphics, Deep Internet Integration, Seemless Mobility, Global Language Support, Gentle Migration, Enable Killer Apps... [12:15 ET]
Schiller to show Mac OS 10.1 in this keynote... [12:10 ET]
Jobs introduces Phil Schiller... [12:09 ET]
Jobs discusses Microsoft Office for X. Free download of Word for X Test Drive available at noon (PT) today... [12:08 ET]
Upgrade for Mac OS X owners is free (US$19.99 shipping for CD). Current owners of Mac OS X can upgrade for free at local Apple dealers... [12:07 ET]
Mac OS 10.1 will be in stores this Saturday [12:05 ET]
Four software updates shipped for Mac OS X. First major upgrade to Mac OS X (10.1) announced today... [12:05 ET]
Steve Jobs discusses Mac OS X in general... [12:04 ET]
Phil Schiller will present keynote. Jobs giving a brief introduction... [12:02 ET]
The Taliban have said the aircraft they shot down was a helicopter belonging to Afghanistan rebels.
At first officials said they had shot down a US pilotless spy drone in the north of the country
Now they say it was a helicopter belonging to the Northern Alliance. They do not know how many people were in it.
Note that pushing for even more drastic laws is certainly, in part, a tactic to draw pressure away from the DMCA. Let's not fall into this trap.
Secondly, the general public cannot be made to care about this unless we strip the question down to its (nontechnical) essentials.
Let's do ourselves a favor. Forget all our beloved jargon, concentrate on something like simply email -- which people know about, care for and roughly understand --, and publically ask Senator Hollings elementary questions like this:
1) Any viewable item on a computer exists as a file, that is, a sequence of 0's and 1's stored in memory.
2) e-mail is a popular device which allows jack@university.edu to send a copy of any file to jill@provider.net, completely independent of whether the copy is "legitimate" or not.
Are you opposed to email? If not, then exactly how do you intend to prevent "illegitimate" uses of it, without invading everyone's privacy?
Where would elasticity be, if there had been anti-circumvention laws in 1676? (Robert Hooke initially published his law, ut tensio sic vis, as an anagram: CEIIOSSOTTUU.)
See this and that earlier stories. The Libération article seems no longer online, but it outlined the Curie Institute's fight against that patent:
How will you express your opposition?
Quite simply by disputing the patent at the European Office. The Curie Institute will do it before October 10, cut off date. At the beginning, it seemed like a lost battle. But we lengthily studied the file, with lawyers. And, finally, we realized there are blatant faults in their armour. And we will object on three points. Firstly, the defect of innovation: before them, there were already tests of predisposition. Secondly, the defect of invention. Because, to win that race, they largely benefited from the results of public research, results which they did not even quote in the text of the patent. Thirdly, the insufficiency of description: the sequence which was used as a basis for the first patent is insufficient to carry out a test of predisposition.
Even more serious than the waste of money, is the complaint by researchers that Myriad, in effect, prevents them from improving the test so that it tracks a newly identified mutation. (The right to improve code, anyone?)
Ontario is not alone in fighting Myriad Genetics. So is the Curie Institute -- see this article from two weeks ago. In particular:
How will you express your opposition?
Quite simply by disputing the patent at the European Office. The Curie Institute will do it before October 10, cut off date. At the beginning, it seemed like a lost battle. But we lengthily studied the file, with lawyers. And, finally, we realized there are blatant faults in their armour. And we will object on three points. Firstly, the defect of innovation: before them, there were already tests of predisposition. Secondly, the defect of invention. Because, to win that race, they largely benefited from the results of public research, results which they did not even quote in the text of the patent. Thirdly, the insufficiency of description: the sequence which was used as a basis for the first patent is insufficient to carry out a test of predisposition.
Even more serious than the waste of money, is the complaint by researchers that Myriad, in effect, prevents them from improving the test so that it tracks a newly identified mutation. (The right to improve code, anyone?)
New Kind of War? Old Kind of Errors
on
A New Kind of War
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
This sort of offensive, confusing and strange-sounding to non-tech laypeople and those outside the military, will clearly rely heavily on security technology -- surveillance, wire-taps, electronic ID's from cards to voice and fingerprint scanning, biological warfare and defense, e-mail encryption and interception, satellite photographs, the digital tracing of money,
First, this is not a war, it's a crime.
Second, we will not be attacking ("offensive"), we will be defending ourselves against terrorism - in a way that European countries already have for years.
Third, before asking for new toys, how about those in charge of this defense started by using the info they already had? See
U.S. officials said the destruction of the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon bear the imprint of Yusef, the 41-year-old
Pakistani who was convicted for the 1993 attack on the World
Trade Center. Yusef was arrested and found with plans for a coordinated
series of hijackings and suicide crashes of several U.S. commercial
airliners.
The plan was never carried out, the officials said, because
of the limitations of the poorly-trained squad.
The truth that is emerging in these hours in New York, and that nobody as yet wants to say aloud, is bitter as a poison: the Fbi could have known if it had only believed what it already knew.(...)
The plan to train pilots, too slow in Africa, continued
more rapidly in America. In the "memo" of the long
depositions of Jeff to Attorney Mary Jo White, one can read:
"The training of the men infiltrated in the United States
through Canada involved training to the individual conflict in
the paramilitary fields in Afghanistan, intelligence and techniques
of flight in the United States. For instance Iab Ali, a.k.a.
Nawawi, the right arm of Osama. He lived in Orlando, Florida.
He was trained until the diploma in the school of flight of Norman,
Oklahoma".
(According to La Repubblica, this "memo" dates from
October 20, 2000. They don't say how they got it -- I couldn't
find the complete text online, but another part is in "Jeff"'s
guilty plea in "USA
v. Ali Mohamed", dated the same day.)
I mean, the "heightened security" that we've had
at the airports since the WTC bombing where at the airports asked those three stupid questions. Honestly who in their right mind would say yes?
A Swiss company, Geonova (www.geonova.ch), seems to demonstrate best that the idea of a geography-based Web is feasible with today's PCs.
I would guess that the feasibility owes much more to Switzerland's tradition in cartography than to "today's PCs". Geonova credits the Swiss Federal Office of Topography, which maintains a map of the whole country at 1:25,000 scale -- Alps and all. I don't think there is anything quite like it in the entire world.
(I once saw a beautiful map of Mount McKinley; looking in the corner, it was actually done by the same Office.)
I'm sending this because it doesn't seem well advertised in
domestic news sources. Found through yesterday's La
Repubblica (the Italian daily) and some web search:
U.S. officials said the destruction of the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon bear the imprint of Yusef, the 41-year-old
Pakistani who was convicted for the 1993 attack on the World
Trade Center. Yusef was arrested and found with plans for a coordinated
series of hijackings and suicide crashes of several U.S. commercial
airliners.
The plan was never carried out, the officials said, because
of the limitations of the poorly-trained squad.
The truth that is emerging in these hours in New York, and that nobody as yet wants to say aloud, is bitter as a poison: the Fbi could have known if it had only believed to those that it already knew.(...)
The plan to train pilots, too slow in Africa, continued
more rapidly in America. In the "memo" of the long
depositions of Jeff to Attorney Mary Jo White, one can read:
"The training of the men infiltrated in the United States
through Canada involved training to the individual conflict in
the paramilitary fields in Afghanistan, intelligence and techniques
of flight in the United States. For instance Iab Ali, a.k.a.
Nawawi, the right arm of Osama. He lived in Orlando, Florida.
He was trained until the diploma in the school of flight of Norman,
Oklahoma".
According to La Repubblica, this "memo" dates from
October 20, 2000. They don't say how they got it -- I couldn't
find the complete text online, but another part is in "Jeff"'s
guilty plea in "USA
v. Ali Mohamed", dated the same day.
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On the Mac (a more level ground for comparison) I've always found Netscape just as stable as IE. On Linux, just as unstable as any other browser.
Hmmm... I thought your "previous statement" was that we shouldn't try to fix it at all?(Which anyway is a lost cause, from what I hear. IE = "All your prefs are belong to us!")
Aspirin inspires aspirants.
Oh, one more thing:
- Mousing over over-wide titles in message lists no longer reveals them in full.
These are all things that were perfectly OK in 4.x, so why those "improvements" that remove functionality? Thanks anyway, for the hint on turning off that silly quote style.- You can't select several messages by a mouse click-&-drag (I do this all the time);
- Huge fixed non-scrollable real estate occupied by message headers (*completely stupid*);
- "View all headers" still doesn't work ("view source" is a painfully slow substitute);
- Silly quote style using solid bars. These break after two levels or so, and anyway, a message's body is *plain text* so display it as such, with >'s and all, dammit!
(And yes these are all in Bugzilla, but assigned for who-knows-when.) So my browsers of choice remain:- on Mac OS 9: Netscape 4.x
- on Mac OS X: Omniweb
- on LinuxPPC: Dillo
(As to Dillo, see the reasons here -- and thanks to the AC who recommended it in answer to that message. It rocks, and now that version 0.6.1 does tables, it has all you need to go browse for RPMs or tarballs, on those low end boxes for which Konqui, kfm or anything Gecko is not and never will be lean enough. Kudos to the Dillo team for making good on the promise that Linux can revive old hardware.)Ernie.
Secondly: the problem is that the general public won't care unless they see how this will hurt concretely; for this, the question needs to be strippend down to its essentials, which are nontechnical.
So let's do ourselves a favor. Forget all the beloved technical jargon we like to wrap these discussions in. Concentrate on something simple like email, which people know about, care for and roughly understand, and which already exhibits all aspects of the problem. Now publically ask Senators Hollings and Stevens and other backers of the proposal elementary questions like this:
According to The Register, their reaction also includes the following:
Keynote ends. [13:33 ET]
Alias|Wavefron's Maya for Mac OS X shown by Andrew Pearce, Director of Maya Technology Group Alias|Wavefront... [13:29 ET]
LightWave renderer optimized for Alivec and MP Macs... [13:25 ET]
LightWave demoed under Mac OS X... [13:25 ET]
Lamkin reinforces commitment for Mac OS X - pokes fun at Schiller for saying the Office for X is the poster child for Mac OS X. He commented by asking Jobs in the audience when the last time was he showed performance comparisons between a Pentium and a Macintosh using Microsoft Word... [13:24 ET]
Bryan Lamkin from Adobe onstage with GoLive product manager to demo what is coming with GoLive for X. These are upcoming features and are not being officially announced today... [13:18 ET]
Crowd impressed with Excel for X... [13:14 ET]
Ken Bereskin demos Office for X... [13:13 ET]
Schiller talks about Microsoft and shows Office for Mac OS X (available in November). A demo can be seen at Apple Stores now... [13:11 ET]
Soghoian gets loud applause when showing a publishing scenario scripted in Mac OS X... [13:09 ET]
AppleScript Studio offers extensive customization and ease-of-use... [13:08 ET]
Soghoian shows AppleScript Studio... [13:06 ET]
Crowd reaction to AppleScript running on Mac OS X is very favorable... [13:05 ET]
Soghoian demos AppleScript with Illustrator for Mac OS X... [13:04 ET]
AppleScript Studio is a professional-level application for AppleScript users... [13:03 ET]
Sal Soghoian (AppleScript product manager) talks about AppleScript... [12:59 ET]
AppleScript Studio will be available by the end of this year... [12:58 ET]
Schiller discuss scriptability of Mac OS X using AppleScript... [12:57 ET]
Zimmerer shows high level of color control under Mac OS X... [12:56 ET]
John Zimmerer (ColorSync product manager for Apple) comes onstage to talk about ColorSync... [12:51 ET]
Schiller shows ColorSync 4... [12:50 ET]
Schiller shows movie trailer for Monsters, Inc. from Pixar... [12:47 ET]
Crowd reaction to iDVD 2 is impressive... [12:43 ET]
Mike Evangelist shows iDVD 2 (due in October) -- pretty much the same demo we saw at Macworld Expo New York last July... [12:38 ET]
Schiller back onstage talking about Mac OS X as the Digital Hub... [12:37 ET]
Mac OS 10.1 will recognize blank DVD-Rs and allow you to write to the DVD (drag and drop) right from the desktop... [12:35 ET]
Bereskin shows DVD capabilities under Mac OS X -- plays Batman Movie (original)... [12:33 ET]
Bereskin shows beauty/range of fonts under Mac OS X... [12:32 ET]
Bereskin shows flexibility of keyboard shortcuts... [12:31 ET]
System Dock may now be placed at the bottom of the screen, or to the left or right... [12:28 ET]
Mac OS 10.1 offers new "Scale Effect" for minimizing windows... [12:26 ET]
Bereskin's Mac crashes when trying to access Internet -- crowd laughs... [12:24 ET]
Bereskin demos application launching speed enhancements... [12:22 ET]
Ken Bereskin (Mac OS X product manager) introduced... [12:22 ET]
Graphics Enhancements: PDF 1.3 with 128-bit encryption, Faster OpenGL, Automatic USB printing, LaserWriter 8 and over 200 printer definitions... [12:20 ET]
Aqua Enhancements: Moveable Dock, System status items, File extensions, Log-in user lists, Simpler System Preferences, Long file names, Universal Access additions, Mail enhancements... [12:19 ET]
Main focus of Mac OS 10.1 is performance: Application Launching, Aqua Menus, Windows resizing, File Copying, Boot and Login, Java, OpenGL... [12:17 ET]
Schiller gives a history of Mac OS X -- Open Standards, Power of Unix married with the simplicity of the Mac, Ultimate Engine for the Digital Hub, Stunning Graphics, Deep Internet Integration, Seemless Mobility, Global Language Support, Gentle Migration, Enable Killer Apps ... [12:15 ET]
Schiller to show Mac OS 10.1 in this keynote... [12:10 ET]
Jobs introduces Phil Schiller... [12:09 ET]
Jobs discusses Microsoft Office for X. Free download of Word for X Test Drive available at noon (PT) today... [12:08 ET]
Upgrade for Mac OS X owners is free (US$19.99 shipping for CD). Current owners of Mac OS X can upgrade for free at local Apple dealers... [12:07 ET]
Mac OS 10.1 will be in stores this Saturday [12:05 ET]
Four software updates shipped for Mac OS X. First major upgrade to Mac OS X (10.1) announced today... [12:05 ET]
Steve Jobs discusses Mac OS X in general... [12:04 ET]
Phil Schiller will present keynote. Jobs giving a brief introduction... [12:02 ET]
Steve Jobs comes on stage [12:00 ET]
Well you had been warned.
You have just received a low tech virus via http.
Since we're not so technologically advanced in Linux this is a MANUAL virus.
Please delete all files on your hard disk yourself and forward this in e-mail to everyone you know.
That'd be grand.
Thanx
Paddy O'Hacker
Secondly, the general public cannot be made to care about this unless we strip the question down to its (nontechnical) essentials.
Let's do ourselves a favor. Forget all our beloved jargon, concentrate on something like simply email -- which people know about, care for and roughly understand --, and publically ask Senator Hollings elementary questions like this:
Where would elasticity be, if there had been anti-circumvention laws in 1676? (Robert Hooke initially published his law, ut tensio sic vis, as an anagram: CEIIOSSOTTUU.)
Even more serious than the waste of money, is the complaint by researchers that Myriad, in effect, prevents them from improving the test so that it tracks a newly identified mutation. (The right to improve code, anyone?)
Even more serious than the waste of money, is the complaint by researchers that Myriad, in effect, prevents them from improving the test so that it tracks a newly identified mutation. (The right to improve code, anyone?)
Second, we will not be attacking ("offensive"), we will be defending ourselves against terrorism - in a way that European countries already have for years.
Third, before asking for new toys, how about those in charge of this defense started by using the info they already had? See
(According to La Repubblica, this "memo" dates from October 20, 2000. They don't say how they got it -- I couldn't find the complete text online, but another part is in "Jeff"'s guilty plea in "USA v. Ali Mohamed", dated the same day.)
(I once saw a beautiful map of Mount McKinley; looking in the corner, it was actually done by the same Office.)
According to La Repubblica, this "memo" dates from October 20, 2000. They don't say how they got it -- I couldn't find the complete text online, but another part is in "Jeff"'s guilty plea in "USA v. Ali Mohamed", dated the same day.