I installed AOL 5.0 on my home machine after I set up my regular ISP account. There were no troubles when I used my existing AOL account. It just asks if it can become the default browser and email application, just like every other browser or email app.
The only difference between AOL 4.0 and AOL 5.0 is that 5.0 adds a dial-up networking connection. However, did doesn't overwrite anything.
In fact I had less troubles with AOL 5.0 than 4.0. Sure AOL has terrible connection speeds, bad traffic, stupid users, but then give credit where credit is due. If a user is so dumb that they don't read a message on their screen, then they deserve what they get. AOL targets the lowest common denominator, and they get a huge outcry about their software. I imagine these are the same people whose interactions with tech support are posted on every computer humor site. Imagine what would happen if these people were forced to install Linux... It wouldn't be pretty.
Is the Internet like the road, or like books?
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This is the way I see it... Information, no matter what is can do very little harm. However, a semi travelling 60 MPH can do quite a bit of harm. The internet is information. There was child porn before the internet as well as breaking and entering, vandalism and other various crimes that we have seen replicated on the Internet. However, there was no car related fatalies until the auto was invented. What I see the Internet as, is an enormous library that anyone can publish to or read from. People might publish false material, but a little extra research would show the claims to be false. Library's have the same problem (If it is a problem) now. If I wanted to read about the beginning of the world, I could read the Bible and other Christian views on the subject, but if I only read scientific points of view I would get a completely different picture. In a library there is a card to check out books, but everyone can come in and read. It should be the same with the Internet.
I'm sorry, but this post where you claim that Slashdot is a non-childish technical community seems childish to me. You call John a "spoiled media brat". Isn't calling someone names rather childish? Of course by calling you on your post I am being childish, but at least I am willing to admit it.
As far as the interview went, I think the majority of the questions were judgemental and attacking. If those were the best, I would have hated to see the bad ones. While I sympathize with the person whose life has been destroyed after the FBI raided him. However, that seemed like a personal matter, not something to be aired in public. Most of the questions seemed to be in this format: "After (Insert incident here) you did this. Why did you behave so badly?" I was saddened to see those kind of questions come from Slashdot.
On the other hand, JP handled the questions terribly. If he had included a simple refusal instead of an attack on the Slashdor community, it would have been taken much better.
All and all, this was a disapointing interview. However, we should either try again with real questions, or just let it go. Complaining never gets anywhere.
2. Or, you can prove this author a liar and use a newer version of Ghost that resets the SIDs for you, and use Multicasting and install a whole network of NT machines in under an hour.
Actually, it takes less time than that. I've ghosted 18 machines with NT, Office 2000, and a load of other stuff in 5 minutes. Note that I could do as many machines as wanted, however we don't have enough power in the Ghosting area. Of course this is over a 100Mb LAN, but when we have to Ghost a machine on a 10Mb connection it takes 9 minutes. It just seems so slow...
While reading about GAs and their uses, I thought of this... What if someone uses a GA to create some malicious program and defines the fitness set so the most fit programs are the ones that do the most damage, spread the fastest, evade detection the best, etc...
What happens then? In the natural world there are many more obstacles; oceans, vast biological diversity, etc... But in the computing world almost every computer is connected to another in some form. And the basic subsystems are similar enough that a GA based virus could sweep through almost every system on the planet before we had a chance to stop it.
On the other hand, we could always evolve Linux to take over every system on the planet. Of course our buddy Bill could do the same with his little OS...
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I installed AOL 5.0 on my home machine after I set up my regular ISP account. There were no troubles when I used my existing AOL account. It just asks if it can become the default browser and email application, just like every other browser or email app.
The only difference between AOL 4.0 and AOL 5.0 is that 5.0 adds a dial-up networking connection. However, did doesn't overwrite anything.
In fact I had less troubles with AOL 5.0 than 4.0. Sure AOL has terrible connection speeds, bad traffic, stupid users, but then give credit where credit is due. If a user is so dumb that they don't read a message on their screen, then they deserve what they get. AOL targets the lowest common denominator, and they get a huge outcry about their software. I imagine these are the same people whose interactions with tech support are posted on every computer humor site. Imagine what would happen if these people were forced to install Linux... It wouldn't be pretty.
This is the way I see it... Information, no matter what is can do very little harm. However, a semi travelling 60 MPH can do quite a bit of harm. The internet is information. There was child porn before the internet as well as breaking and entering, vandalism and other various crimes that we have seen replicated on the Internet. However, there was no car related fatalies until the auto was invented. What I see the Internet as, is an enormous library that anyone can publish to or read from. People might publish false material, but a little extra research would show the claims to be false. Library's have the same problem (If it is a problem) now. If I wanted to read about the beginning of the world, I could read the Bible and other Christian views on the subject, but if I only read scientific points of view I would get a completely different picture. In a library there is a card to check out books, but everyone can come in and read. It should be the same with the Internet.
I'm sorry, but this post where you claim that Slashdot is a non-childish technical community seems childish to me. You call John a "spoiled media brat". Isn't calling someone names rather childish? Of course by calling you on your post I am being childish, but at least I am willing to admit it.
As far as the interview went, I think the majority of the questions were judgemental and attacking. If those were the best, I would have hated to see the bad ones. While I sympathize with the person whose life has been destroyed after the FBI raided him. However, that seemed like a personal matter, not something to be aired in public. Most of the questions seemed to be in this format: "After (Insert incident here) you did this. Why did you behave so badly?" I was saddened to see those kind of questions come from Slashdot.
On the other hand, JP handled the questions terribly. If he had included a simple refusal instead of an attack on the Slashdor community, it would have been taken much better.
All and all, this was a disapointing interview. However, we should either try again with real questions, or just let it go. Complaining never gets anywhere.
It is a fact that 85% of "adults" live their lives emotionally as children. So, statistically we do live in a country of children.
2. Or, you can prove this author a liar and use a newer version of Ghost that resets the SIDs for you, and use Multicasting and install a whole network of NT machines in under an hour.
Actually, it takes less time than that. I've ghosted 18 machines with NT, Office 2000, and a load of other stuff in 5 minutes. Note that I could do as many machines as wanted, however we don't have enough power in the Ghosting area. Of course this is over a 100Mb LAN, but when we have to Ghost a machine on a 10Mb connection it takes 9 minutes. It just seems so slow...
Does any one know where you could find that quote by the Dalai Lama?I would like to get it exactly as he wrote it for a class.
While reading about GAs and their uses, I thought of this... What if someone uses a GA to create some malicious program and defines the fitness set so the most fit programs are the ones that do the most damage, spread the fastest, evade detection the best, etc...
What happens then? In the natural world there are many more obstacles; oceans, vast biological diversity, etc... But in the computing world almost every computer is connected to another in some form. And the basic subsystems are similar enough that a GA based virus could sweep through almost every system on the planet before we had a chance to stop it.
On the other hand, we could always evolve Linux to take over every system on the planet. Of course our buddy Bill could do the same with his little OS...
Well, let's see... If the server goes down I can't very well check the status page to see the message telling me that the server is down, now can I?