...that most of the public, sitting in front of their computer in the privacy of their own homes, really feels that when they add something to a family history web site, that that information just exists in their computer alone.
"Now it's much more common to look up people's personal information on the Web," Ms. Crick said. "You have to think what you want people to know about you and not know about you."
Well, duh..
Maybe you could just type up personal information, and tape it up in the windows of your home.
The breathless tone of the NYT's article suggests that they are no more aware of the full implication of posting personal information to a web site, than the millions of brainless people who do it so unthinkingly...
Anybody who can't get Linux to install and run is pretentious enough to write this sort of drivel?
"...The Sphere Operating System is the result of many years of work in the
field of Operating System design. This document intends to be a finalization
of my ideas about the subject and the concepts I have discovered in its
creation. While I now consider operating system technology to be a a crude
hack that works in place of a more elegant approach to the problem this Sphere
Operating System strives to be the least crude of these crude hacks..."
"...The scale of the investment required to bring a whole new computing platform to market compounded by the many risks involved dictate that I set my dream asside for the time being untill technology changes. The extreme difficulties that large and experienced operations such as Intel and AMD have in bringing their newest products to market ilustrate the profound difficulties that a startup would face...."
"...No doubt this means that the more childish among us will make us all look bad. Sigh..."
Set up a situation in which a few people, freely speaking their own minds, are spun by the Micro$oft flacks into FUD for consumption by the various Micro$oft mouthpieces: ZDNet, et al...
"...It's disingenuous for media gasbags to wonder why the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart from Salt Lake City gets tides of media hype while the kidnapping of 7-year-old Alexis Patterson from Milwaukee gets so little. We know why...."
Well, at least we know you were listening to National Public Radio last week, when this story played there...
"...To protect the rights-managed data resident in memory, the digital rights management operating system refuses to load an untrusted program into memory while the trusted application is executing or removes the data from memory before loading the untrusted program..."
So only one program runs at a time, when you're accessing "trusted content"?
Under "Upstreams", for Freeze.com (listed as a backturner, listpooler, stonewaller):
Rackspace.com > swbell.net
"Rackspace auto-replies to abuse reports, then forwards the complaints to the mailer without taking action. Freeze is a long-time network marketing mailer. Tried to educate them, but they failed to get a clue, even after many emails exchanged, even with top management. So, they go straight to the Bit Bucket. Partner in spam: optinglobal.com (see their listing on this site).."
Rackspace.. Rackspace..
Where have I heard that name before?
OH! I know!
They advertise right here on/.
Gee. I thought they were really cool-geek kinda people.
Personally, I'm *much* more concerned about the 100,000,000 United Nations troops deployed in the woods of northern Minnesota, just waiting for orders from the Trilateral Commission to come sweeping down into Washington, DC and establish a One World Government(tm)...
When you're a seven year old, in school, you are not anywhere near strong enough emotionally, now wise enough intellectually, to say "It's a choice - I will not say that!"
It's not a f*cking christian nation, never was.
The people in power have for the most part been christians, but that doesn't translate into the same thing.
Unfortunately, the "Founding Fathers"(tm) were white Anglo Saxons, rich (for the most part), christians (for the most part..)
They were pretty much oblivious to:
women
blacks
anyone not white Anglo Saxon
the poor
anyone not a christian
As much as the contemporary white christian power elite (read: Gee Dub Ya and his pals..) can't admit it, this nation is *not* white, christian, and rich.
Deal with it.
I can't wait to hear Ashcroft squeal about this one!
I've got a collection of Byte magazines that goes back into the late '80s and the range of advertising in the older issues, compared to what you find today in PC Magazine (which I **don't** read..) is appalling.
Then, there was a real technological boom underway.
...that some academic could figure out a way to come right down in the middle, straddling the fence so hard that he impales himself right up his...
The more important point is one still pretty much undebatable by empirical evidence:
Closed-source, proprietary systems possess the means to hide their deficiencies for as long as possible.
If a cracker discovers a hole in closed-source software, and exploits that hole, the vendor (read: Micro$oft..) can easily ignore the issue until enough evidence accumulates in public forums that a problem *does* exist.
As a recent example of this, see the Handler's Diary entries about the recent M$ SQL vulnerabilities.
This vulnerability was confirmed by a group of dedicated security people who had nothing to go on but what they could see happening in packet traces, after noticing an odd increase in traffic on tcp:1433.
If they had had source code available, the process might have been much quicker...
"In fact, the value of a single-family home continued its escalator ride up in most parts of the Seattle area last year, a Seattle Times computer analysis of year-end data from the King County Assessor's Office shows..."
Given that you're this far off on this one, I won't bother to blow holes in the rest of what you've said...
But while you're at it, make up your mind:
"...My advise if you absolutely have to have a new home: buy one outside the city on a few acres and, yes, build it yourself..."
And then:
"...The best thing to do is buy a home near the city, in a neighborhood that is beginning to revive itself..."
Make up your mind.
Personally, I don't think you have a clue about real estate...
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"Now it's much more common to look up people's personal information on the Web," Ms. Crick said. "You have to think what you want people to know about you and not know about you."
Well, duh..
Maybe you could just type up personal information, and tape it up in the windows of your home.
The breathless tone of the NYT's article suggests that they are no more aware of the full implication of posting personal information to a web site, than the millions of brainless people who do it so unthinkingly...
t_t_b
Put US$65.00 annually into KRUD: Kevin's Redhat Uber Distribution
Updated monthly, sent out on CD.
If you can put up with Red Hat's approach to a Linux disto, this may be for you.
Current version: KRUD 7.3 2002-07-01 which is base upon Red Hat 7.3, strangely enough.
"Highly Recommended(tm)"
t_t_b
Anybody who can't get Linux to install and run is pretentious enough to write this sort of drivel?
"...The Sphere Operating System is the result of many years of work in the field of Operating System design. This document intends to be a finalization of my ideas about the subject and the concepts I have discovered in its creation. While I now consider operating system technology to be a a crude hack that works in place of a more elegant approach to the problem this Sphere Operating System strives to be the least crude of these crude hacks..."
"...The scale of the investment required to bring a whole new computing platform to market compounded by the many risks involved dictate that I set my dream asside for the time being untill technology changes. The extreme difficulties that large and experienced operations such as Intel and AMD have in bringing their newest products to market ilustrate the profound difficulties that a startup would face...."
And you can't even get PICO to run?
You, sir, are an idiot.
t_t_b
I don't know where to start, except to say that you seem to expect, like all consumerist sheep, to use something new without having to think.
"...It took 3 grueling days to get the linux machine to the same state..."
Yeah, well, deal with it. You might actually have to read a little, and, again, think a little.
If that's too hard for you, by all means, stay with Window$ -- you're both meant for each other.
"...This software does not meet my needs..."
May I suggest television.
Although, for heaven's sake, don't stress yourself too much...
t_t_b
Only one of nineteen posts make the cut.
The usual /. content: AC diarrhea, a la carte...
t_t_b
I mean, get real.
There's nothing on, anyway.
Who cares?
t_t_b
Goody for you!
We're just so-so eco-logical!
feh..
t_t_b
Set up a situation in which a few people, freely speaking their own minds, are spun by the Micro$oft flacks into FUD for consumption by the various Micro$oft mouthpieces: ZDNet, et al...
Kinda takes trolling to a whole new level.
t_t_b
Posts are up!
What's that sound coming from the server rooms?
Why, it's Taco, humming "We're in the money!"
t_t_b
The usual /. creativity: olds for nerds, stuff that you've heard before, elsewhere.
t_t_b
Well, at least we know you were listening to National Public Radio last week, when this story played there...
t_t_b
So only one program runs at a time, when you're accessing "trusted content"?
Not surprising.
That's about all Window$ is capable of, anyway...
t_t_b
Marty's still on the snort list from time to time, as are some of the other primary developers.
To all the whiners who are putting him done for what he's done:
Either you work for the government, slurping from the public trough;
or, you've inherited your livelyhood;
or, you're still in school, and Daddy's paying your way.
Stop whining, get off your butt, and see if you can make one half as much a contribution to the human race as Marty has.
t_t_b
Well, the Micro$oft pimps are moderating today...
t_t_b
Nuts.
One of the reasons the FBI and the CIA are in such hot water about all of that is that it's so blatantly obvious.
For anyone with half a brain, anyway..
A fully fuel-loaded airliner, hijacked?
Presto!
Instant bomb, complete with self-contained delivery mechanism.
t_t_b
Under "Upstreams", for Freeze.com (listed as a backturner, listpooler, stonewaller):
Rackspace.com > swbell.net
"Rackspace auto-replies to abuse reports, then forwards the complaints to the mailer without taking action. Freeze is a long-time network marketing mailer. Tried to educate them, but they failed to get a clue, even after many emails exchanged, even with top management. So, they go straight to the Bit Bucket. Partner in spam: optinglobal.com (see their listing on this site).."
Rackspace.. Rackspace..
Where have I heard that name before?
OH! I know!
They advertise right here on /.
Gee. I thought they were really cool-geek kinda people.
Now it turns out they're whoring for spammers.
Kinda makes ya wonder, don't it...
t_t_b
Don't blame me, I voted for Nader.
Thanks for Bush...
A lot.
No. I mean it.
Really.
Thanks a whole f*ck of a lot...
t_t_b
t_t_b
Not everybody is a f*cking christian.
When you're a seven year old, in school, you are not anywhere near strong enough emotionally, now wise enough intellectually, to say "It's a choice - I will not say that!"
It's not a f*cking christian nation, never was.
The people in power have for the most part been christians, but that doesn't translate into the same thing.
t_t_b
They were pretty much oblivious to:
As much as the contemporary white christian power elite (read: Gee Dub Ya and his pals..) can't admit it, this nation is *not* white, christian, and rich.
Deal with it.
I can't wait to hear Ashcroft squeal about this one!
t_t_b
I've been saying for years that the troll-as-news-story concept here at /. is simply a gimmick to keep the volume of posts up.
To quote me:
News from the server rooms! Posts are up another 15%! Raise the advertising rates!
As for the MSNBC article itself, who cares?
t_t_b
I've got a collection of Byte magazines that goes back into the late '80s and the range of advertising in the older issues, compared to what you find today in PC Magazine (which I **don't** read..) is appalling.
Then, there was a real technological boom underway.
Today it's just ads for consumerist fluff.
t_t_b
Who cares?
I'm never going to use MSN.
I'm never going to use Rawhorn or Longhide or whatever it is.
BillG can have the fragment of the Internet that works with MSN and with "Super Windows".
The rest of us will continue on with the real Internet, just as in many ways we do already...
t_t_b
The more important point is one still pretty much undebatable by empirical evidence:
Closed-source, proprietary systems possess the means to hide their deficiencies for as long as possible.
If a cracker discovers a hole in closed-source software, and exploits that hole, the vendor (read: Micro$oft..) can easily ignore the issue until enough evidence accumulates in public forums that a problem *does* exist.
As a recent example of this, see the Handler's Diary entries about the recent M$ SQL vulnerabilities.
This vulnerability was confirmed by a group of dedicated security people who had nothing to go on but what they could see happening in packet traces, after noticing an odd increase in traffic on tcp:1433.
If they had had source code available, the process might have been much quicker...
t_t_b
"Why, you may ask - They don't appreciate in value. It's simple as that. Usually it take a generation for a home to gain in value..."
Simply put, you're nuts. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about. Where have you been, Afghanistan? Or Indiana?
Do you have any familiarity with the real estate market in California over the last 15 years, or in Seattle, for that matter?
In an article dated Tuesday, February 19, 2002 from the Seattle Times, and I quote:
"In fact, the value of a single-family home continued its escalator ride up in most parts of the Seattle area last year, a Seattle Times computer analysis of year-end data from the King County Assessor's Office shows..."
Given that you're this far off on this one, I won't bother to blow holes in the rest of what you've said...
But while you're at it, make up your mind:
"...My advise if you absolutely have to have a new home: buy one outside the city on a few acres and, yes, build it yourself..."
And then:
"...The best thing to do is buy a home near the city, in a neighborhood that is beginning to revive itself..."
Make up your mind.
Personally, I don't think you have a clue about real estate...
t_t_b