Well, it seems that because of Linux's Open Source nature it would be easier to target exactly which method is being used by said virii. Therefore, any fix would be as easy to come by as any other.
"My 2c (your US$0.33c)" Yes, unfortunately I think you've hit upon one of the reasons without meaning to. I think the intent was that the entire world would benefit from the technology [see the African "Ring of Fire"]. Many technologies were created in the United States and/or countries with the resources. This in no way makes the US "better" than any other country. It is simply the country that supplied the technology. It is interesting to note that many of the developing countries in Africa are the quickest to adopt the newer technologies because there was no previous infrastructure to be a support or hindrance. Microsoft has the largest share of the desktop market at the moment, and is the likely source of the insensitivity perceived by you I would think. However, let's not forget that the internationally developed Linux is designed to run on the same hardware. The release of the Crusoe chip from Transmeta [oh dear, North Americans again] could push it further out into the world. Mr. Gates is going to encounter many new ideas in his push to the world outside of the US's borders. So what would you do to improve South Africa? Does it need to be improved? Am I to believe that South Africa possesses a more correct world view? Would I want to visit your country? Would I be welcome? What do you think about Hoberman Spheres [so we don't get moderated out of existence]?
I think the solution should be to open up the API and whatever file formats Office is using. This keeps Microsoft intact and levels the playing field.
It's one thing to say that Microsoft has 90% of the world's desktops, but quite another thing to do something about it. Oh, I'm quite positive that Linux, Mac OS, and BeOS users think this is a fine solution; they're not using Windows as their primary operating system.
Any solution will have to be well-thought out, and I don't trust the government to do this task [I sure as hell don't trust Larry Ellison to have anything close to a rational idea]. Opening the API and file formats is the answer that would seem to make all parties happy.
Apple makes Macintoshes, period. If you're implying that I can use another computer and run Mac OS, you're way off base. The two-year-old clones do not count. If Jobs hadn't have taken one too many tubs of acid, he'd be in federal court along side Gates as a co-defendant.
Mac Clones have been looked on as a Bad Thing[tm], and that it would cut into Apple's sales. I don't remember who posted it, but they compared Apple's relationship with the clone manufacturers with IBM's situation: Would you rather have 100% of a $100 million industry, or 5% of a $1 billion industry?
The Mac could take off and take off big if Apple would pull their heads out of their asses.
The protestors were blocking anyone dressed in a suit and tie, because they didn't know who the delegates were. It wasn't a delegate that started flailing, it was some poor businessman who had nothing to do with anything.
It seems that the Curch of Scientology could be invesitaged under RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act].
Whatever good intentions L. Ron Hubbard had have been twisted and perverted, although from a recent Investigative Reports on A&E, he started a lot of that himself.
They're incredibly secretive about their teachings, they harass anyone that voices opinions, and have a long history or dirty dealings. It does sound like a cult to me.
In practice, so this is all purely anecdotal, Communism and Fascism are nearly indistiguishable [e.g. Stalin and Hitler] If you want to argue about the ideals, the theories behind each, then yes they are different.
Strangley enough at the bottom of the page is a deisclaimer that translates to "This site is powered by software from slashdot", and they are kind enough to provide the link and the logo.
But what really is neato is that every article that mentions security has a Darth Vader icon. Hey! How about it Rob?
I think that might have been one of Erik von Dainikken's books. he was famous for the "Chariots of the Gods" books; ancient astronauts, ufo's, Atlantis, etc. He filled 12 or 13 volumes with 'interesting' things. No I did not read them. I stopped halfway through COTG because the damn thing was near unreadable.
The IAU has no plans to do so. They considered it, but decided against it. They gave it the title "King of the Kuiper Belt" so it's feelings wouldn't be hurt.
I seem to recall an article, oerhaps in Discovery News, about using a large magnetic field, and trapping ions in it. This setup functioned just like a solar sail, but doing away with the mass of the solar sail.
Dvorak gazed across the packed-dirt parking lot at the baleful faces near the rusting International Pickup truck. The air was not so much warm as stagnant in the Kentucky autumn day. The three soy farmers stepped toward the battle-ready figure before them. Cletis glanced at Garth and Ezekiel and then at Dvorak.
His jacket had been thrown off at the first exchange of words with the three stern men. Dvorak had rolled up his sleeves and was tightly gripping the Cross sterling-silver pen from the inside lapel pocket of his cast-away jacket.
Cletis spoke in a steady, slow, but menacing drawl, "What was that y'all said about my mother and my Apache Server?"
That was an excerpt from my new novel "Dvorak Takes on the Crackers". What do you think?
Yeah, i remember that. It was funny watching the caption at the bottom of the screen read "Redmond, WA", when they were filming in Bellevue Square in Bellevue. The operator had on a pair of what looked like safety goggles with a small display toward the bottom of one lens. I don't know if the stoned look was part of the presentation or the guy couldn't walk and read a the same time.
We need something with an LCD screen about the size of a sheet of paper, that could display plain text, PDF's, and maybe html. For static content a passive LCD would work fine. A PCMCIA port would allow for swapping out documents, connecting to a network or computer.
Trying to make such a device do everything [IE a computer] would make it nearly impossible to produce, so it should only do what it's desinged for: displaying text.
I'm not worried about Y2K, I'm worried about what happens about ten years after, when we run out of things to worry about. When we don't have anything to fear, we seem to have this strange habit of falling on ourselves. We're not content to simply just learn, explore, or to just simply be.
The Bible is a pretty obfuscated piece of literature, and if Christians paid attention to first part of the New Testament, things would be lot more peaceful. The Revelation talks about One-World government, general apathy from humanity, and the Beast. A strange bit talks about how the Beast will lie, and that his image will lie as well. TV? This is a pretty media-driven time is it not?
I think that no one would question the application of the technology to help the paralyzed walk, and amputees to have functioning limbs. I don't agree with treating the body as an erector set. I don't agree with giving away anything more to the government. None of what I've heard about couldn't be included in a watch and a pair of glasses, which can easliy be replaced/upgraded/traded in.
I'm just worried about the next ten years. The Mayan calendar ends in 2012. Not making any suggestions. In about 2 hours I'll go to lunch, and use my Debit card. I use my right hand to enter the code, and the number is somewhere in my frontal lobes, in my forehead. Hmm.
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Well, it seems that because of Linux's Open Source nature it would be easier to target exactly which method is being used by said virii. Therefore, any fix would be as easy to come by as any other.
"My 2c (your US$0.33c)" Yes, unfortunately I think you've hit upon one of the reasons without meaning to. I think the intent was that the entire world would benefit from the technology [see the African "Ring of Fire"]. Many technologies were created in the United States and/or countries with the resources. This in no way makes the US "better" than any other country. It is simply the country that supplied the technology. It is interesting to note that many of the developing countries in Africa are the quickest to adopt the newer technologies because there was no previous infrastructure to be a support or hindrance. Microsoft has the largest share of the desktop market at the moment, and is the likely source of the insensitivity perceived by you I would think. However, let's not forget that the internationally developed Linux is designed to run on the same hardware. The release of the Crusoe chip from Transmeta [oh dear, North Americans again] could push it further out into the world. Mr. Gates is going to encounter many new ideas in his push to the world outside of the US's borders. So what would you do to improve South Africa? Does it need to be improved? Am I to believe that South Africa possesses a more correct world view? Would I want to visit your country? Would I be welcome? What do you think about Hoberman Spheres [so we don't get moderated out of existence]?
I think the solution should be to open up the API and whatever file formats Office is using. This keeps Microsoft intact and levels the playing field.
It's one thing to say that Microsoft has 90% of the world's desktops, but quite another thing to do something about it. Oh, I'm quite positive that Linux, Mac OS, and BeOS users think this is a fine solution; they're not using Windows as their primary operating system.
Any solution will have to be well-thought out, and I don't trust the government to do this task [I sure as hell don't trust Larry Ellison to have anything close to a rational idea]. Opening the API and file formats is the answer that would seem to make all parties happy.
Plus, I'd get to keep my job.:)
Holy crap! That flash opening looks like a hypoglycemia attack.
http://www.applefritter.com/. Check out the DLZ-3 he created. I'm going to start checking for old radio cases now.
The penguin ate my floppy! Honest!
Apple makes Macintoshes, period. If you're implying that I can use another computer and run Mac OS, you're way off base. The two-year-old clones do not count. If Jobs hadn't have taken one too many tubs of acid, he'd be in federal court along side Gates as a co-defendant.
Mac Clones have been looked on as a Bad Thing[tm], and that it would cut into Apple's sales. I don't remember who posted it, but they compared Apple's relationship with the clone manufacturers with IBM's situation: Would you rather have 100% of a $100 million industry, or 5% of a $1 billion industry?
The Mac could take off and take off big if Apple would pull their heads out of their asses.
It's the I-i-iMac!
The protestors were blocking anyone dressed in a suit and tie, because they didn't know who the delegates were. It wasn't a delegate that started flailing, it was some poor businessman who had nothing to do with anything.
Slashdot needs a Kiwi editor. +12 hrs ahead of GMT. If anything happens on January 1, 2000, they'd be the first to know.
It seems that the Curch of Scientology could be invesitaged under RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act].
Whatever good intentions L. Ron Hubbard had have been twisted and perverted, although from a recent Investigative Reports on A&E, he started a lot of that himself.
They're incredibly secretive about their teachings, they harass anyone that voices opinions, and have a long history or dirty dealings. It does sound like a cult to me.
>just about 0 people in the United States realize that their country is, in fact, NOT a democracy. (it's a republic. the difference matters.)
It's a republic with socialist leanings. It's not perfect, but it's ours.
In practice, so this is all purely anecdotal, Communism and Fascism are nearly indistiguishable [e.g. Stalin and Hitler] If you want to argue about the ideals, the theories behind each, then yes they are different.
Korolev ran the Soviet space program during the sixties, I believe.
Pray the software is dead-on accurate. As soon as it targets most everyone on the football team, it will be quietly and quickly dropped.
Backstroke-dot-org? Imagine the thousands of disappointed swimmers!
Strangley enough at the bottom of the page is a deisclaimer that translates to "This site is powered by software from slashdot", and they are kind enough to provide the link and the logo.
But what really is neato is that every article that mentions security has a Darth Vader icon. Hey! How about it Rob?
The giftshop in SeaTac "Der Giftenhouse". House of poisons, anyone?
I think that might have been one of Erik von Dainikken's books. he was famous for the "Chariots of the Gods" books; ancient astronauts, ufo's, Atlantis, etc. He filled 12 or 13 volumes with 'interesting' things. No I did not read them. I stopped halfway through COTG because the damn thing was near unreadable.
The IAU has no plans to do so. They considered it, but decided against it. They gave it the title "King of the Kuiper Belt" so it's feelings wouldn't be hurt.
I seem to recall an article, oerhaps in Discovery News, about using a large magnetic field, and trapping ions in it. This setup functioned just like a solar sail, but doing away with the mass of the solar sail.
Dvorak gazed across the packed-dirt parking lot at the baleful faces near the rusting International Pickup truck. The air was not so much warm as stagnant in the Kentucky autumn day. The three soy farmers stepped toward the battle-ready figure before them. Cletis glanced at Garth and Ezekiel and then at Dvorak.
His jacket had been thrown off at the first exchange of words with the three stern men. Dvorak had rolled up his sleeves and was tightly gripping the Cross sterling-silver pen from the inside lapel pocket of his cast-away jacket.
Cletis spoke in a steady, slow, but menacing drawl, "What was that y'all said about my mother and my Apache Server?"
That was an excerpt from my new novel "Dvorak Takes on the Crackers". What do you think?
Yeah, i remember that. It was funny watching the caption at the bottom of the screen read "Redmond, WA", when they were filming in Bellevue Square in Bellevue. The operator had on a pair of what looked like safety goggles with a small display toward the bottom of one lens. I don't know if the stoned look was part of the presentation or the guy couldn't walk and read a the same time.
We need something with an LCD screen about the size of a sheet of paper, that could display plain text, PDF's, and maybe html. For static content a passive LCD would work fine. A PCMCIA port would allow for swapping out documents, connecting to a network or computer.
Trying to make such a device do everything [IE a computer] would make it nearly impossible to produce, so it should only do what it's desinged for: displaying text.
I'm not worried about Y2K, I'm worried about what happens about ten years after, when we run out of things to worry about. When we don't have anything to fear, we seem to have this strange habit of falling on ourselves. We're not content to simply just learn, explore, or to just simply be.
The Bible is a pretty obfuscated piece of literature, and if Christians paid attention to first part of the New Testament, things would be lot more peaceful. The Revelation talks about One-World government, general apathy from humanity, and the Beast. A strange bit talks about how the Beast will lie, and that his image will lie as well. TV? This is a pretty media-driven time is it not?
I think that no one would question the application of the technology to help the paralyzed walk, and amputees to have functioning limbs. I don't agree with treating the body as an erector set. I don't agree with giving away anything more to the government. None of what I've heard about couldn't be included in a watch and a pair of glasses, which can easliy be replaced/upgraded/traded in.
I'm just worried about the next ten years. The Mayan calendar ends in 2012. Not making any suggestions. In about 2 hours I'll go to lunch, and use my Debit card. I use my right hand to enter the code, and the number is somewhere in my frontal lobes, in my forehead. Hmm.