The feed service is part of the Google News service, extending its functionality. So I suppose the Google News team would be the appropriate people to contactabout these things.
Eh, I think Digital Globe is the image providers here responsible for censorship, not Google. At least e.g. the White House carries identical censoring as the same place found via NASA's World Wind, so I really doubt it's Google that censored that one... Can't see why they'd suddenly need to start making exceptions. Go after the map and data provider, not the service host.
5) Japan was warned repeatedly by the USA that refusing to surrender would exact a terrible toll
However, in war time, I think these are threats that are routinely ignored as scare tactics. It can even be perceived as a sign of weakness in the opponent, trying to end the war with mere words instead of actions. Of course, this time it wasn't, but there's no doubt you can't trust everything you hear from the enemy in a war. USA did the right thing by warning them like this before they took action, but I don't think many would believe the words would be taken seriously.
According to TFA, freezing content when it's undisputed:
"There may soon be so-called stable contents. In this case, we'd freeze the pages whose quality is undisputed," he said.
What??
Just because it's undisputed doesn't mean it's anywhere near complete, and as a contributor, I don't want to be stopped from improving things just because maybe an admin not well introduced in the subject thought "that article is good enough".
What's the difference between P2P piracy and piracy? Isn't the former just a subset of the latter? Do we need special laws to make FTP piracy illegal too? Usenet piracy? IRC piracy?
Yahoo Search searches podcasts, has song length filters, searches audio services, has album views with artist bios etc if searching for artists,... Finally, no one said this was an "innovation" and never done before.
It gets even funnier in this further bastardized version at CNET -- another contradiction right in the first paragraph:
"Virus writers are targeting a new Microsoft tool that will be part of Windows and is set to ship as part of the next Exchange e-mail server release."
Again, the topic there is also misleading; this isn't about Vista, this is about Monad. Monad will be released for three operating systems, not one. And I hear now it's not even a vulnerability.
Maybe it's because they pound their chests and declare they're the most secure, cheapest, bestest, fastest, etc, etc, even when there's overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
They have never said this about Monad, as far as I can tell.
Note that this article isn't about Vista, but Monad.
"Only problem is, Monad is not included in the Windows Vista beta code."
It will probably not be included in the final Windows Vista code either. It'll be a separate, downloadable tool for all MS OS'es since Windows XP. I'm still looking for the connection to Windows Vista here...
It should be "Windows XP/2003/Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers". It won't just be for Vista. The tool is also still in early beta, and I'm not even sure what the script did; is it a script like "rm *", or does it exploit any actual vulnerabilities? There's too little info here to know if this is anything to call news or not...
Monad will also not be included with Windows Vista RTM.
It's things like these that can give back cinemas their edge over home theatres and/or movie piracy. Really, for me to not just purchase/download a DVD, I want a better movie experience than what's offered with a big screen, advertisement, people mumbling around me and making candy noise, and a disability to take short breaks for whatever reasons. IMO, they need something big to counter all these disadvantages, and innovative ideas for 3D could be one of them -- you'll immediately lose out quality on your pirated movies, even if they're DVD Rips. Well, until the average Joe will start being able to afford such displays for their home theatres and pirates start using/inventing new DRM-less movie formats to preserve the 3D information.
Yes, it's not too uncommon. On BT, I just check how many seeders the file has. People don't want to keep and spend their bandwidth on seeding fakes.
So far, I've never fallen to a faked torrent with lots of seeds either. Even if RIAA could in theory set up networks to seed fakes, they don't seem to be doing it.
I think there'd be less confusion if the article title was "New Reputation System for Gnutella To Fight P2P Junk".
On the google/firefox my natural eye position puts me looking at the search box which is where I want them. On these new ones from MS, I either find that my eyes naturally hit either the Microsoft name, some links that really don't interest me or the weather.
That shouldn't be a problem once you start using the service though, in the same way as you aren't frustated by not being able to remember how to shut down Windows after using it some, despite the illogical way to do it.
The magic word thrown around that no modern browser really supports completely, and there's always room for improvement in, and developers always look to improve.
It doesn't use the exact same rendering engine, as little as Firefox 1.1 do as 0.6, etc. Yes, the base is the same Trident engine, but like the Gecko engine, it can probably improve if worked on. *gasp*
This is a hilarious comment coming from a post about fixes to over two dozens important CSS and rendering issues. Nothing stops some of you from commenting, eh?
Not saying IE 7 will be godlike when it's out, it'll probably still be subpar, but this is like complaining about Firefox not making progress at the Firefox 1.5 release.
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual.
As he read this brilliant description, in bright red letters against a background as white as the purest of snow, to make his eyes ache slightly from the strain, a creeping thought slowly approached him much like a stalker of Natalie Portman, and as the thought materialized in his head, it told him -- "wow, he thinks exactly like a Slashdotter".
That's a bit confusing. Well, it's not secret anymore, so I guess it's now a national security issue for USA, and the War Against Inaccurate Time can now start being advertised on FOX News.
It's beyond me why anyone would want this. Why are they sacrificing day rythm accuracy for this? There must be some major problems as it is now, as, well, hour accuracy can be a *cough* little important to maintain... It never crossed anyone's minds that we've so far made second adjustment for it to not grow too large? The article says:
The plan would simplify the world's timekeeping by making each day last exactly 24 hours. Right now, that's not always the case.
Simplify for whom? Grr, so annoying with articles like these that don't even answer the most obvious questions arising from it. This minor adjustment is by far outweighed by most regular clocks' inaccuracy, and for those running atomic clocks, gee, a work that takes place once a year. What's the problem? You haven't heard a bit from them telling that this has been an issue before.
Also, I think I'm soon going to start a petition to legalize killing people who use "kill" in article titles to make them look more cool and exciting. Good luck in killing any kind of seconds. I'm sure they'll fight against you furiously and recommend a shotgun.
Slashdot Mirror
The feed service is part of the Google News service, extending its functionality.
So I suppose the Google News team would be the appropriate people to contactabout these things.
Can they now start thinking about hiring a developer to start designing a bayesian filter for their Outlook programs? :-p
Eh, I think Digital Globe is the image providers here responsible for censorship, not Google. At least e.g. the White House carries identical censoring as the same place found via NASA's World Wind, so I really doubt it's Google that censored that one... Can't see why they'd suddenly need to start making exceptions. Go after the map and data provider, not the service host.
Yes, it was a proof to determine the shuttle can still fly
:-/
A very shaky at that.
Or maybe they were just overcautious, but that's not what the impression of the public will be thanks to the media attention anyway.
5) Japan was warned repeatedly by the USA that refusing to surrender would exact a terrible toll
However, in war time, I think these are threats that are routinely ignored as scare tactics. It can even be perceived as a sign of weakness in the opponent, trying to end the war with mere words instead of actions. Of course, this time it wasn't, but there's no doubt you can't trust everything you hear from the enemy in a war. USA did the right thing by warning them like this before they took action, but I don't think many would believe the words would be taken seriously.
Isn't the OpenGL implementation (opengl32.dll) in current Windows versions even worse, being a software renderer?
:-)
And that's why the video card companies are currently distributing their implementations with the drivers, e.g. nVidia's nvoglnt.dll?
In Vista it'll at least be accelerated then, although more slowly than if directly working with the hardware.
Please correct me if I'm totally confused by this.
What??
Just because it's undisputed doesn't mean it's anywhere near complete, and as a contributor, I don't want to be stopped from improving things just because maybe an admin not well introduced in the subject thought "that article is good enough".
What's the difference between P2P piracy and piracy?
Isn't the former just a subset of the latter?
Do we need special laws to make FTP piracy illegal too?
Usenet piracy?
IRC piracy?
Yahoo Search searches podcasts, has song length filters, searches audio services, has album views with artist bios etc if searching for artists, ... Finally, no one said this was an "innovation" and never done before.
It gets even funnier in this further bastardized version at CNET -- another contradiction right in the first paragraph:
"Virus writers are targeting a new Microsoft tool that will be part of Windows and is set to ship as part of the next Exchange e-mail server release."
Again, the topic there is also misleading; this isn't about Vista, this is about Monad. Monad will be released for three operating systems, not one. And I hear now it's not even a vulnerability.
Maybe it's because they pound their chests and declare they're the most secure, cheapest, bestest, fastest, etc, etc, even when there's overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
They have never said this about Monad, as far as I can tell.
Note that this article isn't about Vista, but Monad.
"Only problem is, Monad is not included in the Windows Vista beta code."
It will probably not be included in the final Windows Vista code either.
It'll be a separate, downloadable tool for all MS OS'es since Windows XP.
I'm still looking for the connection to Windows Vista here...
It should be "Windows XP/2003/Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers". It won't just be for Vista. The tool is also still in early beta, and I'm not even sure what the script did; is it a script like "rm *", or does it exploit any actual vulnerabilities? There's too little info here to know if this is anything to call news or not...
Monad will also not be included with Windows Vista RTM.
It's things like these that can give back cinemas their edge over home theatres and/or movie piracy. Really, for me to not just purchase/download a DVD, I want a better movie experience than what's offered with a big screen, advertisement, people mumbling around me and making candy noise, and a disability to take short breaks for whatever reasons. IMO, they need something big to counter all these disadvantages, and innovative ideas for 3D could be one of them -- you'll immediately lose out quality on your pirated movies, even if they're DVD Rips. Well, until the average Joe will start being able to afford such displays for their home theatres and pirates start using/inventing new DRM-less movie formats to preserve the 3D information.
Yes, it's not too uncommon. On BT, I just check how many seeders the file has. People don't want to keep and spend their bandwidth on seeding fakes.
So far, I've never fallen to a faked torrent with lots of seeds either. Even if RIAA could in theory set up networks to seed fakes, they don't seem to be doing it.
I think there'd be less confusion if the article title was "New Reputation System for Gnutella To Fight P2P Junk".
On the google/firefox my natural eye position puts me looking at the search box which is where I want them. On these new ones from MS, I either find that my eyes naturally hit either the Microsoft name, some links that really don't interest me or the weather.
That shouldn't be a problem once you start using the service though, in the same way as you aren't frustated by not being able to remember how to shut down Windows after using it some, despite the illogical way to do it.
What are you talking about?
His point is that the page is 10 times as large as Google's?
How can it possibly become as fast?
This has nothing to do with server load, he's not even comparing actual loading times, but dividing size by speed.
That thing isn't there for me.
/. readers fixed it. :-)
Over here it says:
"©2005 Microsoft - privacy - why preview?"
Maybe some of their
"Standards compliance"
The magic word thrown around that no modern browser really supports completely, and there's always room for improvement in, and developers always look to improve.
At least IE 6 supports the box model pretty well, with a proper DOCTYPE.
It doesn't use the exact same rendering engine, as little as Firefox 1.1 do as 0.6, etc.
Yes, the base is the same Trident engine, but like the Gecko engine, it can probably improve if worked on. *gasp*
This is a hilarious comment coming from a post about fixes to over two dozens important CSS and rendering issues. Nothing stops some of you from commenting, eh?
Not saying IE 7 will be godlike when it's out, it'll probably still be subpar, but this is like complaining about Firefox not making progress at the Firefox 1.5 release.
Communication is a military neccessity--removing your enemy's ability to talk amongst themselves makes your job easier, and theirs alot harder.
A web site is a luxury a military organization definitely can be without, and many even don't even want to have, and far from a neccessity.
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual.
As he read this brilliant description, in bright red letters against a background as white as the purest of snow, to make his eyes ache slightly from the strain, a creeping thought slowly approached him much like a stalker of Natalie Portman, and as the thought materialized in his head, it told him -- "wow, he thinks exactly like a Slashdotter".
That's a bit confusing. Well, it's not secret anymore, so I guess it's now a national security issue for USA, and the War Against Inaccurate Time can now start being advertised on FOX News.
It's beyond me why anyone would want this. Why are they sacrificing day rythm accuracy for this? There must be some major problems as it is now, as, well, hour accuracy can be a *cough* little important to maintain... It never crossed anyone's minds that we've so far made second adjustment for it to not grow too large? The article says:
The plan would simplify the world's timekeeping by making each day last exactly 24 hours. Right now, that's not always the case.
Simplify for whom? Grr, so annoying with articles like these that don't even answer the most obvious questions arising from it. This minor adjustment is by far outweighed by most regular clocks' inaccuracy, and for those running atomic clocks, gee, a work that takes place once a year. What's the problem? You haven't heard a bit from them telling that this has been an issue before.
Also, I think I'm soon going to start a petition to legalize killing people who use "kill" in article titles to make them look more cool and exciting. Good luck in killing any kind of seconds. I'm sure they'll fight against you furiously and recommend a shotgun.