Apps that kill users are nothing new
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The Satori Effect
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What Flint finds is not the traces of a bomber but pieces of code, one that he comes to believe are part of an app designed specifically to use the system's hardware to kill the user. It's a wild premise, and not even Flint's co-workers believe such an app could be written.
Tell me you haven't ever thought to look at the coronary-heart-disease rates of your average fat bearded sysadmin? Where I work, it may have been the pizza and nachos that pulled the trigger, but it was Unix which cocked the gun.
Planets are disposable. Soon, everyone will have his own private asteroid to live on (like Le Petit Prince), and maybe then we'll finally stop dicking each other over.
Representative moderation would require dedicated representatives. It has the disadvantage of requiring people to be constantly reading slashdot (and constantly moderating) in order to work.
Microsoft extends the current dark cloud in order to buy time to buy up outstanding shares. When the cloud finally lifts (as Microsoft surely believes it will) the guys on top will be that much the richer for it.
Look at the recent strife in California with the LAPD. When you cut corners on matters of due process, real people get hurt, and real people suffer. When you don't cut corners, at best a little current suffering continues, and this industry and nation has been putting up with Microsoft for a long time now. We can afford to allow ourselves to obtain the necessary legitimacy before smacking them down and smacking them hard.
Here's a list of which cases the supreme court has taken so far this term. Pretty much by definition, they're all cases of a constitutional dimension, which the DOJ v. Microsoft case is not. And, moreover, the supreme court still reserves the power to judge the case when it reaches them from the appellate circuit.
If it were to going to have become one, it would've done so during the trial, not during the appellate phase. In this phase, there are no exciting witnesses, no presenting of evidence, none of the stuff that makes for an exciting spectacle. All there is is a bench of judges sitting in judgment on some esoteric legal controversies, and that's hardly the sort of thing that makes for exciting press.
What people don't realize is that suits like these always drag on this long. In that respect, it's more like civil law than criminal law.
Or Nader... doesn't matter who ends up in the oval office.... Oh wait, yes it does. The political ambitions of the elected administration will determine which suits the Justice Department proceeds with and which are abandoned. Make no mistake about it.
Under the 5th and 14th amendments to the US constitution, no one (including fictional persons such as corporations) shall be denied liberty without due process of law. Process due includes the right to appeal to the supreme court as well as whichever lower courts Congress establishes. It's true that Microsoft has gotten part of their due process, but it's fallacious to say they've received it all.
If so, then that's a really sorry reason for leaving. It just fulfills the prophecy that the karma cap would take the fun out of your karmawhoring. Slashdot was and still is a lively environment for contributing one's opinions, and it's sad to see you have to come to this.
Even the venerable SNES had its share of porn. A google search on "adult manga snes roms" gives at least two relevent Japanese roms. It's pathetic there's a market for these things, but our species is a pathetic one.
The last thing we women need on the internet is a company like Microsoft defining what it is to be a tech-savvy woman. The Digital Divas are a group founded in democratic notions of participation, and their motley but well-rooted group will go much further than a single handed-down-from-on-high vision from Microsoft will or would ever do. And, it's good to see the trademark laws rendering a judgment in favor of the little-guy for a change.
$5 is too much, because the service sucks, and the money goes to the wrong people (another corporation, still not the artists). It's hard to find anything but crap on Napster, and when you do find it, it's improperly encoded and has a low bit rate. But, on the other hand, it's free, so all you're wasting is your own time looking for it. If they start charging for the service, then there's a lot of quality assurance they'll have to provide to justify it. And if I were a subscriber, and they didn't, then I'd be the first in line to file a tort suit against them.
Censorship has nothing to do with common-carrier status. Newspapers are censored all the time (via obscenity law), and they're hardly a common carrier. Town ordinances regulate what sort of advertising you can hang in your shop window, but that doesn't make your window a common carrier. Libraries already are seeing the imposition of censorware, and they're not common carriers.
The alternative is letting Corel die, which would be bad for everyone, especially Corel. Besides, this is just Microsoft starting to find there's not nearly as much money to be had in vending within the software market as there is in investing in the software market. They stopped innovating long ago (if they ever started), but they'll reap the rewards just as well. It happened to Apple, and it's happening to Corel, but look how far Apple has gotten (ignoring its nosedive last week).
An investment by Microsoft does add some legitimacy to a company most were considering to be on its death throes. This is a good move.
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What Flint finds is not the traces of a bomber but pieces of code, one that he comes to believe are part of an app designed specifically to use the system's hardware to kill the user. It's a wild premise, and not even Flint's co-workers believe such an app could be written.
Tell me you haven't ever thought to look at the coronary-heart-disease rates of your average fat bearded sysadmin? Where I work, it may have been the pizza and nachos that pulled the trigger, but it was Unix which cocked the gun.
Planets are disposable. Soon, everyone will have his own private asteroid to live on (like Le Petit Prince), and maybe then we'll finally stop dicking each other over.
You men have ruled for long enough. Witness the dawn of the other half of the species, at least for three weeks out of the month. ;-)
The more people get exposed to their code, the more (they hope) they'll want to use it in the future. This is great free publicity.
Yeasts are funguses. Specifically, they're monocellular funguses.
And that's, what, concentrated vinegar? It breaks down into other organic compounds, so what's the problem?
Representative moderation would require dedicated representatives. It has the disadvantage of requiring people to be constantly reading slashdot (and constantly moderating) in order to work.
It'd tie in better with plans to market MIR to rich socialites as a vacation destination.
Show me your karma first. How am I to know whether you're a true alpha male?
Microsoft extends the current dark cloud in order to buy time to buy up outstanding shares. When the cloud finally lifts (as Microsoft surely believes it will) the guys on top will be that much the richer for it.
Look at the recent strife in California with the LAPD. When you cut corners on matters of due process, real people get hurt, and real people suffer. When you don't cut corners, at best a little current suffering continues, and this industry and nation has been putting up with Microsoft for a long time now. We can afford to allow ourselves to obtain the necessary legitimacy before smacking them down and smacking them hard.
Here's a list of which cases the supreme court has taken so far this term. Pretty much by definition, they're all cases of a constitutional dimension, which the DOJ v. Microsoft case is not. And, moreover, the supreme court still reserves the power to judge the case when it reaches them from the appellate circuit.
If it were to going to have become one, it would've done so during the trial, not during the appellate phase. In this phase, there are no exciting witnesses, no presenting of evidence, none of the stuff that makes for an exciting spectacle. All there is is a bench of judges sitting in judgment on some esoteric legal controversies, and that's hardly the sort of thing that makes for exciting press.
What people don't realize is that suits like these always drag on this long. In that respect, it's more like civil law than criminal law.
Or Nader... doesn't matter who ends up in the oval office.... Oh wait, yes it does. The political ambitions of the elected administration will determine which suits the Justice Department proceeds with and which are abandoned. Make no mistake about it.
Under the 5th and 14th amendments to the US constitution, no one (including fictional persons such as corporations) shall be denied liberty without due process of law. Process due includes the right to appeal to the supreme court as well as whichever lower courts Congress establishes. It's true that Microsoft has gotten part of their due process, but it's fallacious to say they've received it all.
Didn't you say that this comment would be your "last post"? And yet you've posted again. So which one is correct?
If so, then that's a really sorry reason for leaving. It just fulfills the prophecy that the karma cap would take the fun out of your karmawhoring. Slashdot was and still is a lively environment for contributing one's opinions, and it's sad to see you have to come to this.
Even the venerable SNES had its share of porn. A google search on "adult manga snes roms" gives at least two relevent Japanese roms. It's pathetic there's a market for these things, but our species is a pathetic one.
The last thing we women need on the internet is a company like Microsoft defining what it is to be a tech-savvy woman. The Digital Divas are a group founded in democratic notions of participation, and their motley but well-rooted group will go much further than a single handed-down-from-on-high vision from Microsoft will or would ever do. And, it's good to see the trademark laws rendering a judgment in favor of the little-guy for a change.
$5 is too much, because the service sucks, and the money goes to the wrong people (another corporation, still not the artists). It's hard to find anything but crap on Napster, and when you do find it, it's improperly encoded and has a low bit rate. But, on the other hand, it's free, so all you're wasting is your own time looking for it. If they start charging for the service, then there's a lot of quality assurance they'll have to provide to justify it. And if I were a subscriber, and they didn't, then I'd be the first in line to file a tort suit against them.
Censorship has nothing to do with common-carrier status. Newspapers are censored all the time (via obscenity law), and they're hardly a common carrier. Town ordinances regulate what sort of advertising you can hang in your shop window, but that doesn't make your window a common carrier. Libraries already are seeing the imposition of censorware, and they're not common carriers.
Let the masses in!
Oh wait, never mind. I don't want that.
The alternative is letting Corel die, which would be bad for everyone, especially Corel. Besides, this is just Microsoft starting to find there's not nearly as much money to be had in vending within the software market as there is in investing in the software market. They stopped innovating long ago (if they ever started), but they'll reap the rewards just as well. It happened to Apple, and it's happening to Corel, but look how far Apple has gotten (ignoring its nosedive last week).
An investment by Microsoft does add some legitimacy to a company most were considering to be on its death throes. This is a good move.