The Internet Explorer patch was released early because Microsoft was concerned of the critical risk to users.
I see by your ID (over 1 million, congrats/.!) that you're new here. So we'll let this comment go with just a laugh. Microsoft... caring about... users... hahaha....
The studies show that minor surgery is possible even during long-term inhabitation of space.
They were at zero-g for 20 seconds at a time. How does that prove the same techniques will work after the body has been in zero-g for long periods of time? TFA makes no mention of this.
Most people read mainstream news stories, not press releases directly. So as long as reporters do their job and use the term "breakthrough" appropriately it won't lose its meaning.
The US didn't have antitrust issues with Microsoft after Bush came into office. In the first few weeks of office Bush fired all of the experienced lawyers on the case and put young lawyers with no monopoly experience in their place. Soon after Microsoft's wrist was slapped. Also notice how nothing was persued of Gates' lying in federal court. The man probably should have gone to jail for perjury, yet no investigation was even made.
The culture has changed, and capitalism is now irreversibly wedged into everyone's brains.
So culture has changed, but it won't change again? Makes no sense to me.
With no financial incentive, nothing gets done.
It always annoys me to hear this argument. If that were so there would be no open source. In fact there might not be any computers at all if it weren't for the early mathematicians and researchers who had little financial incentive. It also presumes people never perform charity work. I assume there's nothing you do in your free time that's productive or creative. There must not be according to your argument.
Your entire time argument is misleading. The reason things develop so fast now is because of all the previous work to build on. When you're starting from nothing inventions will take a long time to come about. But when you're building on past inventions growth is exponential. Think of how many new (truely new, not building on top of anything) inventions have come about in your lifetime. I can't name one.
There's a reason Ben Franklin didn't patent anything. He felt it would serve society better to share his inventions freely. Yet you claim that without software patents there would be no progress. How many patents did mathematicians and early programmers file for? None. Yet there was progress. Great works of art were created for thousands of years before copyright law and great inventions were created for thousands of years before patent law. IP law exists to create an added incentive and let people make their living by inventing. That does not mean there would be no progress without it.
If by headset you mean headphones, don't do it. Do not ever drive with headphones covering both ears. Even at an average volume you're far less likely to hear horns honking and emergency vehicles. I've seen the disasters that happen when people don't hear sirens. Do everyone on the road a favor and plug that iPod into your head unit or leave it at home.
Do you believe that as money flows into civic journalism that it'll change the equation? Obviously there are some people who's primary goal is to become famous and/or make money through more open journalism. Will the large community of contributors flush out those with less altruistic intentions? I guess I'm really asking will civic journalism be self-correcting as it gets bigger? Or is there a way it may become just as corrupted as much of the current mainstream professional journalism?
I've seen more than a few domestic $200+/hr developers make basic security mistakes. The problem has nothing to do with the location of the developer or the amount they're paid. Of course if you find a truely great developer most likely you'll need to pay him/her well. But that certainly doesn't mean paying someone well guarantees you more secure code.
Actually, CS 101 is data types and algorithms. Earning my CS degree taught me little of input validation. Most programmers learn security in one of two ways: proactively reading up on it or having one of their applications hacked. Unfortunately I think many average programmers don't consider input validation as much of a priority until after a hole they provided is exploited. When I ask many web developers what they do to prevent SQL injection attacks, for example, only about half have even considered it. Scary.
When the government of India suggested a major push into open source to help the country support its own IT a few years ago Bill Gates immedately made a special trip to India to meet with officials. Microsoft is definitely afraid a small shift in such a large country will turn into a major loss.
This could merely be an effort to take attention away from the alternatives
Even bad publicity is good publicity. If they want to divert attention away from alternatives they need to produce something or shut up. Just speaking about Google being a competitor temps more people to check out what Google has to offer.
Microsoft knows this. So I doubt it's just a diversion.
I can't speak for this particular bill but there is at least one active bill which attempts to make GWB's actions legal retroactively. Of course it shouldn't work this way and the courts shouldn't allow it, but today just about anything goes.
It didn't take just 19 nut cases. It also took 30% of the US population to re-elect the person who's making many of these changes. Not that the other guy would have done all that much differently, but at least he'd have to fight with his enemies in the Congress to get anything done.
It's not resistance, just a lack of interest. Not enough people will care until after we run out of IP addresses and conflicts occur. Society tends to not be very proactive unless the drive comes from authority.
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The Internet Explorer patch was released early because Microsoft was concerned of the critical risk to users.
/.!) that you're new here. So we'll let this comment go with just a laugh. Microsoft... caring about... users... hahaha....
I see by your ID (over 1 million, congrats
Can we look forward to a mind-meld with Kim Cattrall? Please?
Agreed. I was mostly pointing out that the last sentence of the summary is overzealous. Which of course never happens on slashdot...
The studies show that minor surgery is possible even during long-term inhabitation of space.
They were at zero-g for 20 seconds at a time. How does that prove the same techniques will work after the body has been in zero-g for long periods of time? TFA makes no mention of this.
Most people read mainstream news stories, not press releases directly. So as long as reporters do their job and use the term "breakthrough" appropriately it won't lose its meaning.
The US didn't have antitrust issues with Microsoft after Bush came into office. In the first few weeks of office Bush fired all of the experienced lawyers on the case and put young lawyers with no monopoly experience in their place. Soon after Microsoft's wrist was slapped. Also notice how nothing was persued of Gates' lying in federal court. The man probably should have gone to jail for perjury, yet no investigation was even made.
The culture has changed, and capitalism is now irreversibly wedged into everyone's brains.
So culture has changed, but it won't change again? Makes no sense to me.
With no financial incentive, nothing gets done.
It always annoys me to hear this argument. If that were so there would be no open source. In fact there might not be any computers at all if it weren't for the early mathematicians and researchers who had little financial incentive. It also presumes people never perform charity work. I assume there's nothing you do in your free time that's productive or creative. There must not be according to your argument.
Your entire time argument is misleading. The reason things develop so fast now is because of all the previous work to build on. When you're starting from nothing inventions will take a long time to come about. But when you're building on past inventions growth is exponential. Think of how many new (truely new, not building on top of anything) inventions have come about in your lifetime. I can't name one.
There's a reason Ben Franklin didn't patent anything. He felt it would serve society better to share his inventions freely. Yet you claim that without software patents there would be no progress. How many patents did mathematicians and early programmers file for? None. Yet there was progress. Great works of art were created for thousands of years before copyright law and great inventions were created for thousands of years before patent law. IP law exists to create an added incentive and let people make their living by inventing. That does not mean there would be no progress without it.
If by headset you mean headphones, don't do it. Do not ever drive with headphones covering both ears. Even at an average volume you're far less likely to hear horns honking and emergency vehicles. I've seen the disasters that happen when people don't hear sirens. Do everyone on the road a favor and plug that iPod into your head unit or leave it at home.
We don't refuel our gasoline cars at home. Maybe we won't "refuel" our electric cars at home either.
Do you believe that as money flows into civic journalism that it'll change the equation? Obviously there are some people who's primary goal is to become famous and/or make money through more open journalism. Will the large community of contributors flush out those with less altruistic intentions? I guess I'm really asking will civic journalism be self-correcting as it gets bigger? Or is there a way it may become just as corrupted as much of the current mainstream professional journalism?
I've seen more than a few domestic $200+/hr developers make basic security mistakes. The problem has nothing to do with the location of the developer or the amount they're paid. Of course if you find a truely great developer most likely you'll need to pay him/her well. But that certainly doesn't mean paying someone well guarantees you more secure code.
Actually, CS 101 is data types and algorithms. Earning my CS degree taught me little of input validation. Most programmers learn security in one of two ways: proactively reading up on it or having one of their applications hacked. Unfortunately I think many average programmers don't consider input validation as much of a priority until after a hole they provided is exploited. When I ask many web developers what they do to prevent SQL injection attacks, for example, only about half have even considered it. Scary.
When the government of India suggested a major push into open source to help the country support its own IT a few years ago Bill Gates immedately made a special trip to India to meet with officials. Microsoft is definitely afraid a small shift in such a large country will turn into a major loss.
Beyond Google's horrific privacy policies...
Such as? I did some searches and didn't find anything interesting.
This could merely be an effort to take attention away from the alternatives
Even bad publicity is good publicity. If they want to divert attention away from alternatives they need to produce something or shut up. Just speaking about Google being a competitor temps more people to check out what Google has to offer.
Microsoft knows this. So I doubt it's just a diversion.
I don't think Microsoft has ever decided a market it too crowded to enter.
I can't speak for this particular bill but there is at least one active bill which attempts to make GWB's actions legal retroactively. Of course it shouldn't work this way and the courts shouldn't allow it, but today just about anything goes.
It didn't take just 19 nut cases. It also took 30% of the US population to re-elect the person who's making many of these changes. Not that the other guy would have done all that much differently, but at least he'd have to fight with his enemies in the Congress to get anything done.
What I ordered the NSA to do what technically illegal. Now that the public has found out about it please pass a bill to make it legal.
Thanks,
- GWB
p.s. Please redefine "torture" so our interrogators can keep up the good work.
p.p.s. And, uh, please don't hold an official vote on Bolton since some of you may prevent him from representing us at the UN.
It's not resistance, just a lack of interest. Not enough people will care until after we run out of IP addresses and conflicts occur. Society tends to not be very proactive unless the drive comes from authority.
Plus most of our tubes are manufactured in China anyway...
He asks for a recent Mel Brooks movie and you name his first. Now that's funny.
Yogurt! I hate Yogurt! Even with strawberries.
I don't know which is funnier: your comment or the fact it was moderated informative.