he was only hired to take out the trash, but he's the only one in the office that's capable of clicking 'OK install updates'.
As a "Network Administrator" in a MS environment I am compelled to say that the most apt description for what I do is "Network Janitor."
If I were ignorant about what the Sun Java Desktop was, I might understandably conclude that it's an OS built on Java. And it seems reasonable to conclude that such an OS might suck horribly. And it seems even more reasonable that, since I didn't RTFA, I would choose to go anonymous with my opinion. Basically, the author should have modded her post down, but didn't know enough to do that, and neither did any of the editors.
As more and more manufacturing is done outside the USA, what's the future look like for a country that doesn't manufacture any goods, and the few that they do aren't cost-competitive with the rest of the world?
It is possible to have a completely service-based economy? Because it looks like we've pinned our tail to that particular donkey.
And must winning come at the expense of the losers, who let's say are children working in an unsafe factory breathing pollution, sewing together Levis for import by the so-called winners? Isn't the victory rather hollow when the winners goods that would never be produced under our own standards?
I seriously thought Marc Andreesen was in one of the planes that hit the WTC. I guess it was some other Netscape founder?
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Wouldn't it work pretty well to establish a pre-determined OTP generator? like, the winning lottery numbers last night, the answer to 1 across and 3 down from yesterdays' crossword puzzle, and the third word from each story on the front page. Oh and the cards in East's hands from the bridge game. All information to be obtained from the daily newspaper.
You'd have a new OTP every day, and if your generating algorithm were sufficiently weird it would be essentially unbreakable, would it not? Provided of course that the communicators go to some length to not make it obvious that's why they buy the paper each morning.
Or what about something like SecurID, just use some funky algorigthm to generate new OTPs every sixty seconds. Every once in a while, twiddle the formula.
It sounds like you have knowledge of the stock market far beyond what Investing For Dummies covers. Are there any books you'd recommend to a neophyte or is this just stuff you learned along the way?
Here in New Zealand we have major bank monopoly which results in 4 banks owning the market, with very excessive charges. But as a result ATM fraud is virtualy non-existant.
Sounds like the bank monopoly is ripping you off, though. Technically I suppose it's not fraud, but you're still getting scammed, right. It's just a scam that the law smiles upon:)
It wouldn't be such a problem if we had multiple parties and coalition governments. But with our "winner take all" style of elections, it makes a big difference.
If you can stack most of your opponents into one district, and keep a tiny majority of your supporters in all the others, you win more districts, and you control the government. This is the abuse.
People will seek out sources of information that *reinforce* their world-view.
Precisely. My account at freerepublic.com was banned after two posts, one in which I bemoaned the slow pace of "Iraqification," and another where I lamented the seemingly direct correlation between fundraising and election victory.
Now, I'm not surprised that the guy who runs free republic banned me, he's well known for it, but it does go to show that when he says "Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web" he really means "Free Republic is an online gathering place where we can say how great we are and how dumb liberals are, and nobody else gets to say anything." Put another way: "It's my way or the (information super) highway." Either that, or he doesn't like trolls:)
I'm kind of picking on free republic, but they deserve it. As does any group that claims to present a "forum" which is in truth really nothing more than cheerleading.
Slashdot is much, much better than that, though perhaps it's not evident from the average SCO thread, which are getting a little old. There is a diversity of opinion here. It just so happens that all of us, it seems, view the prospect of a SCO victory as a big threat to the future of computing.
I read recently that dissent is necessary for a healthy society, and I completely agree with this. If you've never taken the time to examine your beliefs, be they moral or religious or even the important stuff like which OS you should be using, how can you know you've made the best choice? Sadly, so many people's minds are already made up. These people have closed minds. If people don't speak out about their beliefs (aka dissent), how will anyone ever know anything other than the status quo?
I think this is a tiny bit of the reason people like rotten.com change their headers to be RSAC-rated as Disney. People need a slap across the face every now and again. Anything to stir them from their complacency and apathy. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, and if you hang out at Free Republic all day, your inner hobgoblin will be in great company.
As a million people have pointed out, Micros~1 only has patents on the implem~1 of long filena~1 on FAT.
My question is: Does anybody out there know of a digital camera or similar device that actually uses long filena~1? I have a Nikon Coolpix digital camera and it stores the pictures in classic 8.3 format. I can't really see too many reasons why a manufa~1 would include long filena~1 support in a device. Maybe Tivo would, so you don't end up with a box full of TheSim~1 or QueerE~1.
(This post conver~1 to mixed case for enhanced readab~1.)
That would make all those late night Cthulhu missions with Lord Nekrull, my 16th level Assassin demi-god, a smashing good time!"
Did you say assassin?
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When I, a "socialist" "liberal" "secular humanist" am in agreement with Phyllis Schlafly, or even Pat Robertson for that matter (who was spot-on when he said that there's very little difference between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton), something has come unglued.
What exactly are "conservatives" conserving? It's surely not the budget, the environment, or our soldiers. Why do most "liberal" "intellectuals" I know own guns?
I would carry on, but now it's time to stampede some bitch at wal-mart so I can spent my welfare check on something shiny.
Surely the cards are stacked. But I'm foreseeing a future of IP "enemy combatants" whose governments have agreed to WIPO but whose citizens arguably have little say in the decision, and where the local authority doesn't give a rat's ass about a donkey cart full of warez.
If a crackdown does happen, it won't be hard to follow the money back to the USA. So let's welcome to the club the next generation of people with good reason for despising us.
As for the trade barriers... can't these humble nations take their case to the WTO? We lost on the steel embargoes. Wishful thinking I assume, though I'm not sure why exactly that wouldn't work.
I wonder if the inability to enforce a global IP paradigm will be the Great Undoing of Western Capitalism. Clearly it's on the radar screen. Or should I say sonar, since all the public has seen so far is the RIAA's periscope sneaking a peek at teenage girl's kazaa collection. Things like WIPO and DMCA and even Region Coding will become entrenched in the fat, dumb, and happy West. But there's little economic incentive for anybody other than, oh, Hollywood, to proffer their buy-in.
Perhaps Asia will wake up and realize that without the hardware they manufacture, all our software isn't worth a hill of beans. If you think about it, Asia has some incredible leverage. People still need a computer, even to run the warez version of Longhorn. They would not be so foolish as to manufacture crippled-by-DRM computers that simply won't sell in their own backyard. And we can't just stop making content, there will be riots in the streets if people don't get their Wapner, or Survivor, or American Idol.
Maybe in twenty years, software firms will be as rare as "pure-play" dot-coms.
Fewer annoying reboots....I wonder what they could mean by that!? You see, reboots used to be annoying, back in the 16-bit era. But then I installed Windows 98, and during Setup it told me that everything I do with my computer will be more fun. Including reboots!
I couldn't read the premium content over at The Economist. Re: the WMD, you ought to read Seymour Hersch's article in The New Yorker.
I'd love to read #1 if you feel like posting the text.
Finally, here are Wesley Clark's words in a different New Yorker article: "They made the decision to attack Iraq sometime soon after 9/11. So, rather than searching for a solutions to a problem, they had the solution, and their difficulty was to make it appear as though it were in response to a problem."
From what I read leading up to the war (my subscription ended with 2002), The Economist did a bang-up job of making Iraq look like the problem.
They don't really have much choice in obeying the law. Bullshit. When they go public and have twenty billion, they can ignore the law like the rest of the big corporations do. Or rather, they can use a time-tested strategy which calls for squads of lawyers to engage the regulatory menace from the most favorable venue.
I fear that if Google heads down this path, they will become sucky. Make that more sucky -- Google bombing has become de rigeur for every wanna-be huckster out there. Google is great for ferreting out information (nobody google bombs their links for "p3b-f bios") but not so good when I'm looking for an online drug store or a porn site. And that's fine with me. In fact it's better than fine, it's wonderful. I can find what I need on Google, unless it's something some idiot thinks they can make money on, which unfortunately is a lot of stuff.
Let's say Google has their IPO. Everybody here knows that suddenly facing the need to keep that stock price up will lead to stupid decisions in search of new "revenue streams." Which will lead to banner ads, pop-ups, spam, and all the crap we see all over the portal sites.
The damn Fortune article predicts as much: "AOL, eBay, and Amazon--are also drawing battle plans. All are aiming for what they see as Google's weak spot: lack of customer lock-in." You've got to be kidding me. Google is the de facto go-to guy for Internet searches, google bombing notwithstanding. They achieve "lock-in" by... lemme think... HAVING THE BEST SEARCH ENGINE. But I guess simply having a superior product isn't enough. So let's get users to subscribe, then sell their email addresses, and provide them with valuable messages from our partners. Yeah that'll work.
To the brains behind Google: Get rich off your IPO, pull the golden ripcord, sail the world for a year, then get back to technology. Money ruins everything, and it will surely ruin Google.
This is OT, it's just a warning to "consider the source."
The Economist has, in the past decade, gone from being reasoned and sensible to a shrill mouthpiece for The Right. Any story bigger than one column inch becomes a vehicle for what can best be described as capitalist propaganda.
Even after their hawkish view on Iraq --that Saddam posseses WMDs and is an imminent threat -- stands discredited, they still toe the neocon line.
The only thing left of value in The Economist is the wonderful charts and graphs in the back. And the occasional one-column-inch piece that doesn't have time to get into political rhetoric.
The Economist is still a valid news source, but if they keep heading down the path they're on, they are destined for irrelevancy. I cancelled my subscription a few months ago and I'm not looking back. Somebody please let me know if they pull their heads out of their asses.
But it's not too horrible. is this much different from not letting kids into R-rated movies?
And if it does prove to be a big problem for sales, the video game industry will come up with a "pg-13" rating, and slowly shuffle all of their R-rated content into the new rating. Just as jack valenti has done over the past two decades.
how about a law that sends parents to jail when their kids shoot up the whole school? Clearly the parents had more to do with it than Rockstar Games.
-- will get their address and LDAP server via DHCP and look for configuration files, and automatically configure the entire server, without any interaction beyond plugging it into the network and turning it on.
Reminds me of a user who left the Windows 2000 Professional CD-ROM in his CD-ROM drive, booted from it, and reinstalled Windows. Though, he did have to "answer a few questions" (i.e. Press R to reinstall Windows).
I'd say it's one more nail in Microsoft's coffin. Apple once again comes through with a sleek and efficient design. The process to accidentally reinstall the OS is completely automated!
As the AC up there pointed out, on XP Pro (not sure about embedded) you CANNOT STOP the RPC service. And it is needed for about 20 other services to run, most of which aren't useful in an ATM but I could see the Print Spooler being required to print your receipts.
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he was only hired to take out the trash, but he's the only one in the office that's capable of clicking 'OK install updates'.
As a "Network Administrator" in a MS environment I am compelled to say that the most apt description for what I do is "Network Janitor."
If I were ignorant about what the Sun Java Desktop was, I might understandably conclude that it's an OS built on Java. And it seems reasonable to conclude that such an OS might suck horribly. And it seems even more reasonable that, since I didn't RTFA, I would choose to go anonymous with my opinion. Basically, the author should have modded her post down, but didn't know enough to do that, and neither did any of the editors.
and a reputation for producing shoddy goods.
As more and more manufacturing is done outside the USA, what's the future look like for a country that doesn't manufacture any goods, and the few that they do aren't cost-competitive with the rest of the world?
It is possible to have a completely service-based economy? Because it looks like we've pinned our tail to that particular donkey.
And must winning come at the expense of the losers, who let's say are children working in an unsafe factory breathing pollution, sewing together Levis for import by the so-called winners? Isn't the victory rather hollow when the winners goods that would never be produced under our own standards?
I seriously thought Marc Andreesen was in one of the planes that hit the WTC. I guess it was some other Netscape founder?
Wouldn't it work pretty well to establish a pre-determined OTP generator? like, the winning lottery numbers last night, the answer to 1 across and 3 down from yesterdays' crossword puzzle, and the third word from each story on the front page. Oh and the cards in East's hands from the bridge game. All information to be obtained from the daily newspaper.
You'd have a new OTP every day, and if your generating algorithm were sufficiently weird it would be essentially unbreakable, would it not? Provided of course that the communicators go to some length to not make it obvious that's why they buy the paper each morning.
Or what about something like SecurID, just use some funky algorigthm to generate new OTPs every sixty seconds. Every once in a while, twiddle the formula.
It sounds like you have knowledge of the stock market far beyond what Investing For Dummies covers. Are there any books you'd recommend to a neophyte or is this just stuff you learned along the way?
Here in New Zealand we have major bank monopoly which results in 4 banks owning the market, with very excessive charges. But as a result ATM fraud is virtualy non-existant.
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Sounds like the bank monopoly is ripping you off, though. Technically I suppose it's not fraud, but you're still getting scammed, right. It's just a scam that the law smiles upon
It wouldn't be such a problem if we had multiple parties and coalition governments. But with our "winner take all" style of elections, it makes a big difference.
If you can stack most of your opponents into one district, and keep a tiny majority of your supporters in all the others, you win more districts, and you control the government. This is the abuse.
People will seek out sources of information that *reinforce* their world-view.
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Precisely. My account at freerepublic.com was banned after two posts, one in which I bemoaned the slow pace of "Iraqification," and another where I lamented the seemingly direct correlation between fundraising and election victory.
Now, I'm not surprised that the guy who runs free republic banned me, he's well known for it, but it does go to show that when he says "Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web" he really means "Free Republic is an online gathering place where we can say how great we are and how dumb liberals are, and nobody else gets to say anything." Put another way: "It's my way or the (information super) highway." Either that, or he doesn't like trolls
I'm kind of picking on free republic, but they deserve it. As does any group that claims to present a "forum" which is in truth really nothing more than cheerleading.
Slashdot is much, much better than that, though perhaps it's not evident from the average SCO thread, which are getting a little old. There is a diversity of opinion here. It just so happens that all of us, it seems, view the prospect of a SCO victory as a big threat to the future of computing.
I read recently that dissent is necessary for a healthy society, and I completely agree with this. If you've never taken the time to examine your beliefs, be they moral or religious or even the important stuff like which OS you should be using, how can you know you've made the best choice? Sadly, so many people's minds are already made up. These people have closed minds. If people don't speak out about their beliefs (aka dissent), how will anyone ever know anything other than the status quo?
I think this is a tiny bit of the reason people like rotten.com change their headers to be RSAC-rated as Disney. People need a slap across the face every now and again. Anything to stir them from their complacency and apathy. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, and if you hang out at Free Republic all day, your inner hobgoblin will be in great company.
As a million people have pointed out, Micros~1 only has patents on the implem~1 of long filena~1 on FAT.
My question is: Does anybody out there know of a digital camera or similar device that actually uses long filena~1? I have a Nikon Coolpix digital camera and it stores the pictures in classic 8.3 format. I can't really see too many reasons why a manufa~1 would include long filena~1 support in a device. Maybe Tivo would, so you don't end up with a box full of TheSim~1 or QueerE~1.
(This post conver~1 to mixed case for enhanced readab~1.)
How do you know your music was downloaded "thousands of times?" Did you share it yourself?
That would make all those late night Cthulhu missions with Lord Nekrull, my 16th level Assassin demi-god, a smashing good time!"
Did you say assassin?
THOU HAST LOST AN EIGHTH!
When I, a "socialist" "liberal" "secular humanist" am in agreement with Phyllis Schlafly, or even Pat Robertson for that matter (who was spot-on when he said that there's very little difference between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton), something has come unglued.
What exactly are "conservatives" conserving? It's surely not the budget, the environment, or our soldiers. Why do most "liberal" "intellectuals" I know own guns?
I would carry on, but now it's time to stampede some bitch at wal-mart so I can spent my welfare check on something shiny.
Surely the cards are stacked. But I'm foreseeing a future of IP "enemy combatants" whose governments have agreed to WIPO but whose citizens arguably have little say in the decision, and where the local authority doesn't give a rat's ass about a donkey cart full of warez.
If a crackdown does happen, it won't be hard to follow the money back to the USA. So let's welcome to the club the next generation of people with good reason for despising us.
As for the trade barriers... can't these humble nations take their case to the WTO? We lost on the steel embargoes. Wishful thinking I assume, though I'm not sure why exactly that wouldn't work.
I wonder if the inability to enforce a global IP paradigm will be the Great Undoing of Western Capitalism. Clearly it's on the radar screen. Or should I say sonar, since all the public has seen so far is the RIAA's periscope sneaking a peek at teenage girl's kazaa collection. Things like WIPO and DMCA and even Region Coding will become entrenched in the fat, dumb, and happy West. But there's little economic incentive for anybody other than, oh, Hollywood, to proffer their buy-in.
Perhaps Asia will wake up and realize that without the hardware they manufacture, all our software isn't worth a hill of beans. If you think about it, Asia has some incredible leverage. People still need a computer, even to run the warez version of Longhorn. They would not be so foolish as to manufacture crippled-by-DRM computers that simply won't sell in their own backyard. And we can't just stop making content, there will be riots in the streets if people don't get their Wapner, or Survivor, or American Idol.
Maybe in twenty years, software firms will be as rare as "pure-play" dot-coms.
Fewer annoying reboots....I wonder what they could mean by that!? You see, reboots used to be annoying, back in the 16-bit era. But then I installed Windows 98, and during Setup it told me that everything I do with my computer will be more fun. Including reboots!
I couldn't read the premium content over at The Economist. Re: the WMD, you ought to read Seymour Hersch's article in The New Yorker.
I'd love to read #1 if you feel like posting the text.
Finally, here are Wesley Clark's words in a different New Yorker article: "They made the decision to attack Iraq sometime soon after 9/11. So, rather than searching for a solutions to a problem, they had the solution, and their difficulty was to make it appear as though it were in response to a problem."
From what I read leading up to the war (my subscription ended with 2002), The Economist did a bang-up job of making Iraq look like the problem.
They don't really have much choice in obeying the law. Bullshit. When they go public and have twenty billion, they can ignore the law like the rest of the big corporations do. Or rather, they can use a time-tested strategy which calls for squads of lawyers to engage the regulatory menace from the most favorable venue.
I fear that if Google heads down this path, they will become sucky. Make that more sucky -- Google bombing has become de rigeur for every wanna-be huckster out there. Google is great for ferreting out information (nobody google bombs their links for "p3b-f bios") but not so good when I'm looking for an online drug store or a porn site. And that's fine with me. In fact it's better than fine, it's wonderful. I can find what I need on Google, unless it's something some idiot thinks they can make money on, which unfortunately is a lot of stuff.
Let's say Google has their IPO. Everybody here knows that suddenly facing the need to keep that stock price up will lead to stupid decisions in search of new "revenue streams." Which will lead to banner ads, pop-ups, spam, and all the crap we see all over the portal sites.
The damn Fortune article predicts as much: "AOL, eBay, and Amazon--are also drawing battle plans. All are aiming for what they see as Google's weak spot: lack of customer lock-in." You've got to be kidding me. Google is the de facto go-to guy for Internet searches, google bombing notwithstanding. They achieve "lock-in" by... lemme think... HAVING THE BEST SEARCH ENGINE. But I guess simply having a superior product isn't enough. So let's get users to subscribe, then sell their email addresses, and provide them with valuable messages from our partners. Yeah that'll work.
To the brains behind Google: Get rich off your IPO, pull the golden ripcord, sail the world for a year, then get back to technology. Money ruins everything, and it will surely ruin Google.
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This is OT, it's just a warning to "consider the source."
The Economist has, in the past decade, gone from being reasoned and sensible to a shrill mouthpiece for The Right. Any story bigger than one column inch becomes a vehicle for what can best be described as capitalist propaganda.
Even after their hawkish view on Iraq --that Saddam posseses WMDs and is an imminent threat -- stands discredited, they still toe the neocon line.
The only thing left of value in The Economist is the wonderful charts and graphs in the back. And the occasional one-column-inch piece that doesn't have time to get into political rhetoric.
The Economist is still a valid news source, but if they keep heading down the path they're on, they are destined for irrelevancy. I cancelled my subscription a few months ago and I'm not looking back. Somebody please let me know if they pull their heads out of their asses.
But it's not too horrible. is this much different from not letting kids into R-rated movies?
And if it does prove to be a big problem for sales, the video game industry will come up with a "pg-13" rating, and slowly shuffle all of their R-rated content into the new rating. Just as jack valenti has done over the past two decades.
how about a law that sends parents to jail when their kids shoot up the whole school? Clearly the parents had more to do with it than Rockstar Games.
Exactly, just like Ashcroft.
-- will get their address and LDAP server via DHCP and look for configuration files, and automatically configure the entire server, without any interaction beyond plugging it into the network and turning it on.
Reminds me of a user who left the Windows 2000 Professional CD-ROM in his CD-ROM drive, booted from it, and reinstalled Windows. Though, he did have to "answer a few questions" (i.e. Press R to reinstall Windows).
I'd say it's one more nail in Microsoft's coffin. Apple once again comes through with a sleek and efficient design. The process to accidentally reinstall the OS is completely automated!
I thought Debian was the plural. In singular form it's Debius.
Not really, just thought it needed to be said.
As the AC up there pointed out, on XP Pro (not sure about embedded) you CANNOT STOP the RPC service. And it is needed for about 20 other services to run, most of which aren't useful in an ATM but I could see the Print Spooler being required to print your receipts.
Cool, thanks. (Obviously) I didn't know that. I thought it was just a translation artifact, like when Pirenne keeps talking about the Musulmans.