Uh, ESPN has been owned by ABC (and then Disney) since the 1980's. Starwave was founded as a joint venture between Disney and Microsoft's own Paul Allen. Later, Disney bought Allen out near the top of the 'net boom, and rode the boom into the bust. Disney finally saw what they were losing and sold the 'net operations to MS.
IIRC, Starwave was one of the few post-MS ventures by Paul Allen that were actually successful. What happened to Cardinal? And Teledesic...
You're assuming that MSN is the only site capable
of blocking specific browsers. Guess what
happens when other sites start blocking IE? If this practice became widespread, it would
effectively make different types of information
(i.e., different sites) accessible only via
different browsers. There would not necessarily
be a single browser capable of viewing any site
on the web.
How many/. users boast about their personal pages using any of hundreds of methods to deny access to IE?
Eventually, ``Web Browser'' will be synonymous with ``Microsoft Internet Explorer''
For a good portion of the 'net population, that's already true. And for a good portion of what's left, the Internet is AOL.
On a slightly related note, is anyone else amused by the ads for NFL.Com, which say: "visit us on the web at nfl.com or AOL keyword nfl.com"? What the fsck was the point of buying a keyword on aol?
Re:The human mind is a good filter [possibly OT]
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Your last point brings to mind an old riddle I heard once:
Q: If someone who knows three languages is called trilingual, and someone who knows two languages is called bilingual, what do you call someone who knows only one language?
A: American
Re:Kernel 2.4.13 is out..yay....
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Not to recommend RH specifically, just that their QA process seems to be the most robust. SuSE or Debian would probably also be good.
I seem to remember that one of Debian's strong points was the fact that its kernel packages were the stock Linus source, though.
All you do is set the domains to a machine on your network that has its SMTP port firewalled. No bandwidth gets lost from the spam and you don't have to worry about the domain being valid.
Ofcourse undiscovered bugs will remain dangerous, for as long as we use dangerous languages (C, C++, etc.)
What other languages would you suggest for kernel development?
And Java is not immune to these issues. Consider for a moment what languages Java's VM is implemented in. How many bugs are lurking in the Java VM (or the Lisp interpreters, or Perl interpreters, or PHP/Pythn/Tcl/Tk)?
Blaming the language is a cop-out. It's akin to blaming the failure of legislation on the English language.
Like everything else -- money talks, and bullshit walks. Especially if you are like me and your congressperson wins every election 90-10 and can afford to piss a few people off.
The interesting thing to note is that campaign finance reform has essentially made this situation more of a reality. Challengers need more money than incumbents, as a matter of course (the incumbent has had the sum of their terms to get their messages out, a luxury that most challengers lack). So most people have never heard of the challenger and will vote for the incumbent. Sad but true.
With every campaign-finance law passed since Watergate, incumbents have been more likely to get reelected. I doubt that it's a coincidence. Would Congresscritters vote for a law that hurts their reelection bids?
The end result is that once a Congressperson has been in office for a couple of terms, it's practically impossible to unseat them. Thus, they ignore the pleas of the people.
The only way to solve this is to increase the odds of challengers winning election. If it's coming down to a close race, the incumbent will be very inclined to get any vote he/she can.
The other option is including commercial applications only on the boxed editions. For instance, Mandrake gives the boxed users )among other things):
Opera
RealPlayer
Adobe Acrobat
StarOffice
A few closed-source drivers
I think, in the same vein, it might be a good idea for RedHat or Mandrake to distribute a Loki game or two in their boxed versions. For $69, you get all the previously listed apps, plus all the GPL/BSD/etc. apps you could think of, and a copy of SimCity! That's not much more than SimCity sells for by itself.
I hadn't thought of that, but it would be possible to set up an alt.cnn.mirror usenet group and a bot on the news server which would send out HTTP GET requests to CNN and just post the results to the group (possibly in both true HTML and plain text).
Oh my god, I might have found a use for HTML posting on Usenet...
Yeah, but afaik, akamai doesn't cache the actual html pages, just flash, images, videos, and so forth. Kinda difficult for those to be useful when no one can get CNN's index.html file, eh?
Perhaps, in the wake of what was, effectively, a DDOS attack on September 11, sites like CNN, FoxNews, and MSNBC (not to mention the NYTimes, Boston Globe etc.) will see that P2P protocols can come in handy in this environment.
The biggest thing required for this to work would be a P2P client that could render HTML. MD5 hashes could provide versioning. The only significant drawback to this approach is the banner ads (the same ad will be shown to everybody), but if Gnutella were the underlying protocol, an estimate of the number of impressions received could be derived from the number of searches that hit a monitoring server. Server-generated content wouldn't work in these instances, though.
And of course, it would be possible to use rpm on *BSD. The source for the tools is available (unless they do use some linux-specific kernel calls, in which case, see above).
The NSA has two tasks charged to it: 1) obtaining elint in non-US nations and 2) preventing other nations from gaining elint in the US.
Part of the second task is securing US government systems. Many US gov't installations can only use Solaris, HPUX, and a few related Unices because they are the only ones that meet the NSA's standards for security. I imagine that the NSA realizes that if Linux were to be an option, they could actually save some money (which, instead of being spent elsewhere in the gov't could be spent at NSA...).
In short, the WP editors should be working for the National Inquiror [sic --LR]
I remember reading in US News & World Report a few years ago that the National Enquirer actually has stricter standards regarding verification of sources and other fact checking than the NY Times/Washington Post.
[Goes to USN&WR's site...]
Here's a link where you can purchase [newsbank.com] the article in question for $2.
As an aside, do you think US News might sue Google over things like this? I've always thought that their caching scheme might be of questionable legality (what with the DMCA and all).
Slashdot Mirror
Bzzt! Wrong! According to this page, id didn't release Quake until 1996. I doubt that they were beta-ing it on Alphas, too.
How many /. users boast about their personal pages using any of hundreds of methods to deny access to IE?
For a good portion of the 'net population, that's already true. And for a good portion of what's left, the Internet is AOL.
On a slightly related note, is anyone else amused by the ads for NFL.Com, which say: "visit us on the web at nfl.com or AOL keyword nfl.com"? What the fsck was the point of buying a keyword on aol?
Your last point brings to mind an old riddle I heard once:
Q: If someone who knows three languages is called trilingual, and someone who knows two languages is called bilingual, what do you call someone who knows only one language?
A: American
I seem to remember that one of Debian's strong points was the fact that its kernel packages were the stock Linus source, though.
Well, Compaq has been an investor in AMD for years. They licensed the Alpha bus to AMD for the Athlon. Perhaps other things were licensed.
All you do is set the domains to a machine on your network that has its SMTP port firewalled. No bandwidth gets lost from the spam and you don't have to worry about the domain being valid.
...until Apple releases their new line of pastel contact lenses:
The iEye! [ducks]What other languages would you suggest for kernel development?
And Java is not immune to these issues. Consider for a moment what languages Java's VM is implemented in. How many bugs are lurking in the Java VM (or the Lisp interpreters, or Perl interpreters, or PHP/Pythn/Tcl/Tk)?
Blaming the language is a cop-out. It's akin to blaming the failure of legislation on the English language.
The interesting thing to note is that campaign finance reform has essentially made this situation more of a reality. Challengers need more money than incumbents, as a matter of course (the incumbent has had the sum of their terms to get their messages out, a luxury that most challengers lack). So most people have never heard of the challenger and will vote for the incumbent. Sad but true.
With every campaign-finance law passed since Watergate, incumbents have been more likely to get reelected. I doubt that it's a coincidence. Would Congresscritters vote for a law that hurts their reelection bids?
The end result is that once a Congressperson has been in office for a couple of terms, it's practically impossible to unseat them. Thus, they ignore the pleas of the people.
The only way to solve this is to increase the odds of challengers winning election. If it's coming down to a close race, the incumbent will be very inclined to get any vote he/she can.
Something that Scott Ian wears?
- Opera
- RealPlayer
- Adobe Acrobat
- StarOffice
- A few closed-source drivers
I think, in the same vein, it might be a good idea for RedHat or Mandrake to distribute a Loki game or two in their boxed versions. For $69, you get all the previously listed apps, plus all the GPL/BSD/etc. apps you could think of, and a copy of SimCity! That's not much more than SimCity sells for by itself.I hadn't thought of that, but it would be possible to set up an alt.cnn.mirror usenet group and a bot on the news server which would send out HTTP GET requests to CNN and just post the results to the group (possibly in both true HTML and plain text).
Oh my god, I might have found a use for HTML posting on Usenet...
Somehow, I don't think your average petty criminal is a CNN junkie...
Of course, how often does google update their caches?
Yeah, but afaik, akamai doesn't cache the actual html pages, just flash, images, videos, and so forth. Kinda difficult for those to be useful when no one can get CNN's index.html file, eh?
Of course, I could be wrong...
Perhaps, in the wake of what was, effectively, a DDOS attack on September 11, sites like CNN, FoxNews, and MSNBC (not to mention the NYTimes, Boston Globe etc.) will see that P2P protocols can come in handy in this environment.
The biggest thing required for this to work would be a P2P client that could render HTML. MD5 hashes could provide versioning. The only significant drawback to this approach is the banner ads (the same ad will be shown to everybody), but if Gnutella were the underlying protocol, an estimate of the number of impressions received could be derived from the number of searches that hit a monitoring server. Server-generated content wouldn't work in these instances, though.
And of course, it would be possible to use rpm on *BSD. The source for the tools is available (unless they do use some linux-specific kernel calls, in which case, see above).
That said, they tried wherever possible to match Mandrake 8.0 with RH7 (as far as lib versions etc. are concerned).
The NSA has two tasks charged to it: 1) obtaining elint in non-US nations and 2) preventing other nations from gaining elint in the US.
Part of the second task is securing US government systems. Many US gov't installations can only use Solaris, HPUX, and a few related Unices because they are the only ones that meet the NSA's standards for security. I imagine that the NSA realizes that if Linux were to be an option, they could actually save some money (which, instead of being spent elsewhere in the gov't could be spent at NSA...).
As long as the models are GPL'd for all to use...
- We must do something
- This is something
- We must do this
[QED]...that an article on security is publihed by microsoft?