And you'd just have to do it all over again in 15-20 years, since that's exactly how the current net started.
Nah, it wouldn't be nearly as hard the second time around. It's like the project I worked on for a year... the day of the demo, I tripped and broke my computer, and by coincidence, all of my backups burned up in a fire because the network weenie was freebasing again. Anyway, I rewrote the whole thing in 7 minutes using nothing but Perl scripts and a bobby pin and it was ever better than before.
Mod it down, I have so much karma that it makes my nipples constantly hard... it's becoming embarassing.
Don't you knee-jerk-anti-conspiracy-theory-buffs ever get tired of poopooing every friggin thing that comes along? Guess what? THERE ARE CONSPIRACIES OUT THERE!!!! How do I know? BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE MINE. Hey, when my plot to overthrow the world gets close to implementation, I'll run it by you first so you can announce to the world what a load of crap it is. We'll see who has the last laugh then, buddy.
As a former frequent flyer, I will observe that it's very very unlikely that (aboard any flight with more than a few passengers)all electronic devices are, in fact, turned off. I frequently heard cell phones ringing just as the pilot rotated off the ground. Woops! I've also seen kids hide their GBA's as the attendant walked by. That sort of thing is probably frequently by accident, but either way, I would guess that hundreds of flights take off every day with portable devices aboard which are fully functioning if not in actual use. My conclusion from reading the article would be that in-flight interference is caused by the captain's announcement (that use of those devices is permitted) rather than the use itself. Or maybe there's a critical mass of devices. Or maybe it IS all anecdotal. Incidentally, I was on a small commuter flight once, sitting near the open cockpit door, when I heard an alarm go off. I asked the attendant what it was and she said that it was an alarm that indicated that someone on board was using a cellphone. Maybe she was pulling my leg, but in any case, the pilot reached up and turned off the alarm, but no attempt was made to find the offending passenger. haha. For whatever it's worth.
I used to work for a company that make kiosks. We had a potential client flying in for a demo one day, and I had set up some sample pages/ads/images for them. Before they arrived, some of the accounting type women from upstairs happened by my area and noticed on the demo system what Kurt Vonnegut referred to as "wide open beaver". Cackling gleefully they ran off to tell everybody who would listen how offended they were, and that I could kiss my ass goodbye. Unfortunately for them, the potential client was a chain of "gentlemen's clubs" in Las Vegas, and my demo was considered not only appropriate, but very well done. Ha. Eplilogue: I was the ultimately the last employee to be laid off, which I guess these days is about as close to success as you can usually expect.
In one of the most recently settled tobacco company CA suits, the lawyers fees alone were in the billions. Class action lawyers are working in the honeypot of litigative law.
One of the lawyers who became a billionaire as a result of the tobacco lawsuit lives not too far from me. (In a different neighborhood, I add, unnecessarily.) I used to see him out for his morning stroll on a regular basis while I was on my way to work. For some reason my steering-wheel hand twitched uncontrollably as I passed him. ALMOST uncontrollably, I should say... he's still alive, anyway.
I bet "Cybernetic Principles" sounded really groovy in 1971, although I'm curious how you can build a computer network, or a computer-anything for that matter, without them.
Ya gotta love a town where you can buy draft beer by the gallon practically anywhere. BY the way FSU is one of the few universities with a full-time bail bondsman on staff.
Isn't anybody the least bit sceptical of this? Maybe the literary world didn't know about this first novel, but RAH and his wife (wives?) and whoever the original editor was and many other people certainly did. And whatever social mores kept it from being published originally were long gone well before his death... there was plenty of time for this thing to be published, had he wanted it to be, HAD IT EXISTED.
Maybe the galactic overlord popped in from another galaxy and planted it but I doubt it. This just feels like HOAX to me.
An app can't talk to the BIOS unless the OS lets it
I'm not trying to be argumentative but are you sure about that? I have NO experience with assembly level programming on anything since DOS (so this is meant to be a question, NOT an argument) but blocking BIOS calls would require that virtualized interrupt requests (and I'm only assuming that they're virtualized) would block calls to unknown functions and I don't see how that's practical or reasonable. As I read and interpreted the article Pheonix isn't locking up hardware or anything like that, they're just making a secure BIOS-level repository for keys. ALthough a DRM-enabled OS could certainly take that ball and run with it, I don't see how it could PREVENT applications from doing so without the its help.
I didn't accuse microsoft of foisting shockwave (or Real or any other piece of shit) on us. I just said I'd like to see them all go away, at least as plugins.
The patent relates to the embedding of objects in hypermedia documents, and Microsoft has indicated they will have to make changes to Internet Explorer as a result of the ruling. There may also be far-reaching effects to both other web browser vendors and page authors
All I can say is "it's about friggin time." Plugins are great when they work, but nothing on the internet sucks worse than when they don't. They've also been used as a tool by microsoft to break competing browsers (and OS's) as often as possible, and I'd love to see that simply go away. The only downside that I can think of is that some dynamic and/or media content will have to open in a separate window now. Boo hoo.
On another note, how will this affect the Microsoft desktop, since they insist that I.E. is an integral part of that which cannot be removed? Are Active-X (and other com-type) components going to be considered "browser plug-ins" when they're run on what Microsoft insists is an integral browser/desktop?
I haven't used IE (except accidentally) in over a year but what drove me away from it was that it refused to open in full-screen mode, even when that was the mode it was in last time it was used. Maybe this has been fixed now but apparently it was a known bug (?) and the only way to fix it (that I found) was to edit the registry. (And then it would "break" again within a day or two for some reason.) Maybe there was some other better fix but I didn't bother to look for it, it was easier just to change browsers. (First Opera and now Mozilla and/or Firebird.)
The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others
They're not going to let this go away. This is just ANOTHER back-door version of TIA. We're going to see it introduced, again and again, under various disguises until they get it implemented. You can expect to see tracking systems suggested for the homeless, pedophiles, drug dealers, spouse abusers, bail-jumpers, tax evaders, etc etc and so on and so on, (each one being some particular organizations "most wanted") until it's actually implemented. And like stone soup, once it's in place, it will be "upgraded" to include everything that anybody ever wanted.
I'm not commenting on whether your advice is good or bad, but I will say that while you may be able to pull a switcheroo on the distribution, you're not going to be able to make a substitute for Oracle unless most of the senior IT people are killed in a plane crash, or figure out some other way to pry it out of their cold dead fingers. Oracle == JOB SECURITY, my man.
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Professor Turing would like to have a word with you...
The SCO(R) Group (SCO) today announced the signing of its first Intellectual Property Compliance License for SCO UNIX Rights.
How could Microsoft NOT be forced into buying these for its "new" Linux Lab (mentioned here several times in the past week.)?
"We've had more than 300 companies in the first four business days of this program contact SCO to inquire about SCO's Intellectual Property License for Linux," said Chris Sontag
Yeah, and 299 of them were trolls from pissed off slashdotters.
Gotta have 'em, I was just observing that I don't think it's possible to co-exist peacefully with them. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if we were fighting as equals within the company, however, a good salesman basically SELLS HIMSELF, which means he is much more adept at selling his ideas within the company than the tech staff were. We got clobbered regularly.
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or you could have just read the article, which attempts to be much more objective and definative than anything currently google-able.
And you'd just have to do it all over again in 15-20 years, since that's exactly how the current net started.
Nah, it wouldn't be nearly as hard the second time around. It's like the project I worked on for a year... the day of the demo, I tripped and broke my computer, and by coincidence, all of my backups burned up in a fire because the network weenie was freebasing again. Anyway, I rewrote the whole thing in 7 minutes using nothing but Perl scripts and a bobby pin and it was ever better than before.
Mod it down, I have so much karma that it makes my nipples constantly hard... it's becoming embarassing.
Don't you knee-jerk-anti-conspiracy-theory-buffs ever get tired of poopooing every friggin thing that comes along? Guess what? THERE ARE CONSPIRACIES OUT THERE!!!! How do I know? BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE MINE. Hey, when my plot to overthrow the world gets close to implementation, I'll run it by you first so you can announce to the world what a load of crap it is. We'll see who has the last laugh then, buddy.
As a former frequent flyer, I will observe that it's very very unlikely that (aboard any flight with more than a few passengers)all electronic devices are, in fact, turned off. I frequently heard cell phones ringing just as the pilot rotated off the ground. Woops! I've also seen kids hide their GBA's as the attendant walked by. That sort of thing is probably frequently by accident, but either way, I would guess that hundreds of flights take off every day with portable devices aboard which are fully functioning if not in actual use. My conclusion from reading the article would be that in-flight interference is caused by the captain's announcement (that use of those devices is permitted) rather than the use itself. Or maybe there's a critical mass of devices. Or maybe it IS all anecdotal. Incidentally, I was on a small commuter flight once, sitting near the open cockpit door, when I heard an alarm go off. I asked the attendant what it was and she said that it was an alarm that indicated that someone on board was using a cellphone. Maybe she was pulling my leg, but in any case, the pilot reached up and turned off the alarm, but no attempt was made to find the offending passenger. haha. For whatever it's worth.
I used to work for a company that make kiosks. We had a potential client flying in for a demo one day, and I had set up some sample pages/ads/images for them. Before they arrived, some of the accounting type women from upstairs happened by my area and noticed on the demo system what Kurt Vonnegut referred to as "wide open beaver". Cackling gleefully they ran off to tell everybody who would listen how offended they were, and that I could kiss my ass goodbye. Unfortunately for them, the potential client was a chain of "gentlemen's clubs" in Las Vegas, and my demo was considered not only appropriate, but very well done. Ha. Eplilogue: I was the ultimately the last employee to be laid off, which I guess these days is about as close to success as you can usually expect.
In one of the most recently settled tobacco company CA suits, the lawyers fees alone were in the billions. Class action lawyers are working in the honeypot of litigative law.
One of the lawyers who became a billionaire as a result of the tobacco lawsuit lives not too far from me. (In a different neighborhood, I add, unnecessarily.) I used to see him out for his morning stroll on a regular basis while I was on my way to work. For some reason my steering-wheel hand twitched uncontrollably as I passed him. ALMOST uncontrollably, I should say... he's still alive, anyway.
If I could give you some of my karma-whored points, I certainly would.
I bet "Cybernetic Principles" sounded really groovy in 1971, although I'm curious how you can build a computer network, or a computer-anything for that matter, without them.
Ya gotta love a town where you can buy draft beer by the gallon practically anywhere. BY the way FSU is one of the few universities with a full-time bail bondsman on staff.
Gay Goaters!!
for anyone who thinks James Randi is cool or has an active subscription to the Skeptical Inquirer
I'm practically positive that James Randi has a subscription to the Skeptical Inquirer.
He used that in several novels, most notably "Fifth Column".
Isn't anybody the least bit sceptical of this? Maybe the literary world didn't know about this first novel, but RAH and his wife (wives?) and whoever the original editor was and many other people certainly did. And whatever social mores kept it from being published originally were long gone well before his death... there was plenty of time for this thing to be published, had he wanted it to be, HAD IT EXISTED.
Maybe the galactic overlord popped in from another galaxy and planted it but I doubt it. This just feels like HOAX to me.
what happens when ALL the Bios makers are selling DRM products?
All two of them? I think if phoenix goes ahead with this plan (which seemed to be a given) AMI won't really have much choice. Will they?
An app can't talk to the BIOS unless the OS lets it
I'm not trying to be argumentative but are you sure about that? I have NO experience with assembly level programming on anything since DOS (so this is meant to be a question, NOT an argument) but blocking BIOS calls would require that virtualized interrupt requests (and I'm only assuming that they're virtualized) would block calls to unknown functions and I don't see how that's practical or reasonable. As I read and interpreted the article Pheonix isn't locking up hardware or anything like that, they're just making a secure BIOS-level repository for keys. ALthough a DRM-enabled OS could certainly take that ball and run with it, I don't see how it could PREVENT applications from doing so without the its help.
I didn't accuse microsoft of foisting shockwave (or Real or any other piece of shit) on us. I just said I'd like to see them all go away, at least as plugins.
The patent relates to the embedding of objects in hypermedia documents, and Microsoft has indicated they will have to make changes to Internet Explorer as a result of the ruling. There may also be far-reaching effects to both other web browser vendors and page authors
All I can say is "it's about friggin time." Plugins are great when they work, but nothing on the internet sucks worse than when they don't. They've also been used as a tool by microsoft to break competing browsers (and OS's) as often as possible, and I'd love to see that simply go away. The only downside that I can think of is that some dynamic and/or media content will have to open in a separate window now. Boo hoo.
On another note, how will this affect the Microsoft desktop, since they insist that I.E. is an integral part of that which cannot be removed? Are Active-X (and other com-type) components going to be considered "browser plug-ins" when they're run on what Microsoft insists is an integral browser/desktop?
Right on. Oh, by the way, take a look at this wicked screen saver.
attachment: wicked_scr.scr
I haven't used IE (except accidentally) in over a year but what drove me away from it was that it refused to open in full-screen mode, even when that was the mode it was in last time it was used. Maybe this has been fixed now but apparently it was a known bug (?) and the only way to fix it (that I found) was to edit the registry. (And then it would "break" again within a day or two for some reason.) Maybe there was some other better fix but I didn't bother to look for it, it was easier just to change browsers. (First Opera and now Mozilla and/or Firebird.)
How did you disable IE? (Seriously; this isn't a troll.)
The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others
They're not going to let this go away. This is just ANOTHER back-door version of TIA. We're going to see it introduced, again and again, under various disguises until they get it implemented. You can expect to see tracking systems suggested for the homeless, pedophiles, drug dealers, spouse abusers, bail-jumpers, tax evaders, etc etc and so on and so on, (each one being some particular organizations "most wanted") until it's actually implemented. And like stone soup, once it's in place, it will be "upgraded" to include everything that anybody ever wanted.
I'm not commenting on whether your advice is good or bad, but I will say that while you may be able to pull a switcheroo on the distribution, you're not going to be able to make a substitute for Oracle unless most of the senior IT people are killed in a plane crash, or figure out some other way to pry it out of their cold dead fingers. Oracle == JOB SECURITY, my man.
Professor Turing would like to have a word with you...
So would Godel.
The SCO(R) Group (SCO) today announced the signing of its first Intellectual Property Compliance License for SCO UNIX Rights.
How could Microsoft NOT be forced into buying these for its "new" Linux Lab (mentioned here several times in the past week.)?
"We've had more than 300 companies in the first four business days of this program contact SCO to inquire about SCO's Intellectual Property License for Linux," said Chris Sontag
Yeah, and 299 of them were trolls from pissed off slashdotters.
Gotta have 'em, I was just observing that I don't think it's possible to co-exist peacefully with them. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if we were fighting as equals within the company, however, a good salesman basically SELLS HIMSELF, which means he is much more adept at selling his ideas within the company than the tech staff were. We got clobbered regularly.
breakup w/girl of 2 years
So it wasn't ALL bad, huh?