GeorgeH said:
"One of the things I could see them
doing is distribute the AOL client with their own AOL distribution of Linux on those
coasters^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H CDs that they give out to everyone in the US. Then you just boot from
the CD-ROM and voila! Instant AOL."
Considering that Linux doesn't support many winmodems, that might not go over very well...
"The information may not ever actually exist of Federal Servers." Sounds like a loophole to me to use Double-Click to collect and hold the information;) The Government may not be maintaining the database but you can bet they could access the collected data any time they desired...
First Microsoft uses questionable business practices to monopolize the market, and the government is a little slow in acting upon that, ensuring Microsoft products like Windows and Office are installed on most of the world's PCs.
Then we see articles like this: Feds Want Access to Your Machine where the Government wants to make it easer to search for passwords and override encryption using 'devices, if necessary'.
And third, we find that (if this is true) function calls to make access easier may already be installed on Windows computers. wings
So every time they start up a bike they can expect to live for only 225 feet, which corresponds to around 2 seconds worth of travel. Even though the average time to death is 2 seconds some pilots do live longer than this but based on the standard deviation only 1 pilot in a billion lives for over 8 seconds.
It sounds to me like a ploy to appease the shareholders and/or the DOJ (You don't need to break us up, we're already separate divisions now. We had this planned all along...). If they don't change their method of operation as a business, it's worthless. If the different 'divisions' still share and program to undocumented APIs, and cross bundle apps, I can't see there will have been much (any?) improvement.
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GeorgeH said: "One of the things I could see them doing is distribute the AOL client with their own AOL distribution of Linux on those coasters^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H CDs that they give out to everyone in the US. Then you just boot from the CD-ROM and voila! Instant AOL." Considering that Linux doesn't support many winmodems, that might not go over very well...
"The information may not ever actually exist of Federal Servers." Sounds like a loophole to me to use Double-Click to collect and hold the information;) The Government may not be maintaining the database but you can bet they could access the collected data any time they desired...
With 'Free Beer', you party now, but what about tomorrow? With 'Free Speech' anyone can make the next party better!
Let's see...
First Microsoft uses questionable business practices to monopolize the market, and the government is a little slow in acting upon that, ensuring Microsoft products like Windows and Office are installed on most of the world's PCs.
Then we see articles like this: Feds Want Access to Your Machine where the Government wants to make it easer to search for passwords and override encryption using 'devices, if necessary'.
And third, we find that (if this is true) function calls to make access easier may already be installed on Windows computers.
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Netcraft says: perl.pattern.net is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.19 on Linux
So every time they start up a bike they can expect to live for only 225 feet, which
corresponds to around 2 seconds worth of travel. Even though the average time to
death is 2 seconds some pilots do live longer than this but based on the standard
deviation only 1 pilot in a billion lives for over 8 seconds.
Ouch.
It sounds to me like a ploy to appease the shareholders and/or the DOJ (You don't need to break us up, we're already separate divisions now. We had this planned all along...). If they don't change their method of operation as a business, it's worthless. If the different 'divisions' still share and program to undocumented APIs, and cross bundle apps, I can't see there will have been much (any?) improvement.