Are you kidding! The minute you finish your first game, you'll realize how stupid you were with certain decisions, you'll have read a few forums with good strategies, and then you'll be chomping at the bit even more to start 'just one more game' so you can do it right on the Warlord level. I can't even imagine how bad it's going to be for me when I am able to move on to the more challenging, and more fun, Prince level (or whatever level 3 is called in Civ3).
BTW, did I mention what an addictively fun game Civ3 is? The AI politics are so much better than any of its predecessor's political AI. I just wish that that damn Infogrames hadn't made me go find game cracks just so I could circumvent their non-working (on my computer anyways) CD copy-protection scheme just to play the game! *still angry about that*
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It's not hugely revolutionary, and I think the price would need to drop to around $500 per IT to make it readily available to the masses, but lots of people poo-poo'ed the personal computer thing 20 years ago, and now I'm sure they wish they hadn't. Plus, this machine is so much more simpler for average Joe Sixpack to use than a full PC or MAC machine is.
My girlfriend is studying to be a lawyer right now, but knowing me, she's obviously got a lot of new understanding of why I think certain shitty laws that circumvent other laws should be abolished *cough* DMCA *cough*. IANAL, but hopefully someday in the next few years, I can be married to one, and we can go on a rampage kicking this crappy DMCA all over the map as it is simply trying to hold up progress so that the elite can squeeze just a little more money out of their antiquated way of doing things.
Those who can't deal with change, usually get steam-rolled by it sooner or later. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. There's lots more of truthful cliche sayings out there that DMCA lovers had better listen to.
I ran SETI@Home for awhile, but then I realized something. Why try to search and calculate something that doesn't have any known solution? I'm not saying SETI@Home is useless, in fact it's proven a great number of things, primarily the practicality of distributed computing. But I think RC5 is a much worthier cause. Why? Because there is a primary, desired outcome, and not just an ambigous searching for something that may or may not exist.
I know you will all like to argue that SETI does have a specific desired outcome, but to me, there's more important things to focus on here at home, like searching for a cure to cancer by crunching proteins, building better radiation containment containers, and other worthy causes that distributed computing can be so good for.
I know that. I was simply saying new home builder's could tack it on as a nifty feature, not that it would actually increase the resale value of the home, just the initial purchase price.;)
Why must I say this over and over on this site? Copying mp3's is NOT PIRACY! Have you ever listened to the radio? Have you ever borrowed a friend's CD? Ever had a friend make a cassette tape for you with all the cool songs you don't have?!
mp3's are just a much better format. There is absolutley NO WAY! that anyone can come up with ANY valid statistics proving exactly how much money they might have potentially lost to people sending mp3's across the internet. And please show me one single person who has downloaded high quality mp3's, burned them to LOTS of CD's, and then sold those CD's under their own name or psuedo-name, claiming they created the music instead of the original artist. You won't find ANYONE!!! That's copyright infringement, and P2P file sharing is not producing anything close to this situation.
The last two CD's I've bought (just as an example of why mp3 sharing on P2P programs is great), were bought by me because I liked the mp3's by those bands that I found on P2P systems! And YES, I previously downloaded the entire CD in high quality mp3 format (good enough to be indistinguishable from CD quality by many people - 192kbps), listened to every song, and then went and purchased the CD for full price at a national retail outlet. Damnit! When will you people realize that mp3 file sharing is making the recording industry MORE money than before, and yet they're trying to shut it down!?!
I believe in having the best representative in office looking out for our interests. That's a core belief of mine. Thank you for giving more power to the couch potato's of our nation that don't care about the issues, more power by not voting for people. Besides, people always make the difference in how laws are carried out, not the laws themselves. Rules were meant to be broken. It's those who follow the intent of the law, not the letter of the law, that our nation, and the world, need more of. By not voting for people you're only enforcing this notion that anyone in government should have some sort of ultimate power to enforce the laws however they see fit when there is a gray area. Scary.
Hey, I voted for him, but I didn't ask for the personal freedom lockdown him and some of the morons on capital hill have brought down on us. War, yeah, you pretty much knew that was going to happen with a Republican, but it's better than the alternative liberal Gore, allowing Osama to anally rape the entire USA for four years straight. At least now I just have to watch out for the government gang-bangin' me, but with Gore it would be part of my daily life. When you vote, you're not voting in your hero, your voting in the best man/woman for the job. There's compromises you make in the interest of the common good.
Well you're right, when it comes to installing new ethernet connections around an existing house, but I can see this being a selling point for new home builders (especially the *pricey* new home builders) to offer their customers. Just think, they can sell their homes as "fully computer networking ready - just plug your computer in, and go!" Mainly because then the customer just would need to follow some simple instructions on how to configure their brand new WinXP computer, and no buying additional computer parts since the hubs are all in the wallplates.
Look, I'm no genius, but I do pay attention in classes at college these days. The first chapter of my Digital Circuits book gave the definitions of a microprocessor versus a microcontroller. Embedded devices, even "really big ones" like ATM's, don't need lots of fluff. They do one thing, and one thing only, and they HAVE to do it perfectly 99.99% of the time.
So how is WinXP, THE biggest bloatware out there in terms of an OS (who needs all the media crap they stuffed in it when I've got all the media programs I could ever want for free on the 'net?), going to even come close to competing in an 'embedded' market place? It is THE quintessential definition of a "microprocessor of OS's" versus something like PalmOS, which I would consider much more of a "microcontroller of OS's." Microsoft is making some stupid moves, and their shareholders had better realize that MS has a good (albeit, evil) business model for making money, but they're just not going to rake in the dough with this 'latest, greatest' XP system like they hope to. It's not new or revolutionary, just shitload's worth of bug fixes to what people wanted out of Win95 originally. And I, like most people who want to be on the cutting edge of technology, am not seeing a need, or even a want, to make the upgrade to WinXP for a long time.
Please explain to me how an annual increase in sales of CD's and other media shows a level of "rampant piracy." Despite the fact that Napster, Gnutella, KaZaA, and other P2P networks have millions of copyrighted works flying around on them, there is absolutely no way to definitively put an amount on how many people have illegally profited from these works by reselling them as their own production. I'm pretty sure that the 95% software 'piracy' rates in China and other Eastern Asian countries by big businesses over there, far outweighs a bunch of American teens sharing the latest Britney Spears top-40 hit that they wouldn't buy an entire CD for anyways. Sorry this argument may be a little thin, but your question is just simply irrelevant, given its obvious bias without supporting facts.
Ha! - providing an automated tool for calling functions in Windows common to gaming, is not making the Windows platform a viable gaming platform per se, it's just making it easier to program for it. Whether that makes Windows better than Linux for gaming, and the gamer in particular, is still quite debatable. I've had games like Counter Strike hard lock my computer in Windows before, requiring a complete reboot of the computer (highly annoying and not good on the HDD), whereas my friends running Counter Strike on Wine in Linux had it lock, switched terminals, killed the process and loaded it right back up without a hitch.
So which is better, a hard reboot of the machine in Windows, or a process restart on a still running, and stable OS in Linux? I'm pretty sure restarting a process is a lot nicer on the expensive hardware you've purchased to run that nifty new 3d game, than killing power to that hardware unexpectedly because one process killed the entire OS.
I have to completely agree with you. You stand up for your families freedoms first, then your friends, then your own, and if you have the ability to, people halfway around the world too. Seriously, there's plenty of Northern Alliance fighters in Afghanistan that decided they weren't going to be bullied around by the Taliban, no matter the cost. I'm not keen on sending a bunch of food and money that will end up going to the Taliban anyways on behalf of some poor, unthinking bums who are happy to let others dictate how they should live their lives and what they should believe in (killing innocents by crashing planes into towers).
Certainly that is not EVERYONE's situation over there, but when you let your government push you around long enough, sooner or later your freedoms have all been taken away, and you too are wishing some filthy rich soul halfway around the world wasn't so busy defending his own rights in his own country so that he could spare you a warm meal.
Wow, another amazing press release. Yeah. I'm thoroughly unimpressed. Using better materials and smaller parts is not revolutionary, but I guess their PR department hired a couple of MS spin-doctors recently to make it sound just out of this world.
Maybe when they use bio-technology, or lightwave devices as the CPU, they can claim a "Breakthrough in Transistor Design." Don't worry folks, AMD is still more bang for the buck.
Ha - I bought the game for the full US$49.95 before taxes and still had to download a crack for the main.exe file because my Win2k (with EVERY MS patch applied) still doesn't like my DVD-ROM drive and the copy protection on the Civ3 and Black&White CD's.
Maybe Infogrames should quit trying to protect their IP shit when legal users can't even use it without doing what some people consider "illegal." My Civ3 and Black&White games run perfectly fine with the 'cracked' executables running, thereby by-passing the copy-protections on those two CD's. And NO, their is ZERO documentation for either game stating that 3rd party copy-protection software is being used to fuck up my computer's ability to read the CD-ROM's. THAT made me pretty mad.
My take on this copyright/translation dispute is that Infogrames, despite whatever legal obligations they have backed themselves into to keep people from purchasing more of their product faster is their own damn fault. I say let them translate it and screw Infogrames over. They've already screwed lots of us over anyways by not delivering on what our legal money paid for.
Haha! This totally sucks. If you go to the very first entry on Google returned on the search for "Index of/admin" you'll be able to find a document entitled "biddings.doc" that is some sort of agenda on meeting to discuss various ways of securing the network for that website. Funny considering they're entire/admin folder is available for full usage by the internet community.;)
Remove copy restrictions, DVD-burner restrictions, region specific encoding, and then all of the 'stupid, evil hackers' can be free to edit and re-burn their own movies, editing exactly the content they find offensive, not what the movie studio or some focus group finds offensive.
But alas, the simplest solution that is staring you in the face is quite often the hardest to realize, especially when there is money and legal issues involved.
Look, big business, as much as it wants to be a part of improving the internet, and making a few bucks off it at the same time, does not have the basis to do so. The basis of how the internet started was government backing of research, then education instutional use, then l337 hacker use, and eventually general consumer/big business use.
For business to 'reinvent' the internet, is folly. Those who use the internet on a regular basis are technologically informed and at least somewhat adept at using and learning new things. This also means that they're willing to do a little extra work and go the extra mile in the beginning to make their overall life easier. So the 'business' internet goes to a pay for play system, we'll find ways to mirror the pay sites, share them amongst P2P systems, etc. So the entire internet gets locked out to people who don't want to 'subscribe' to it, we'll create our own internet. So they shut that down too, we'll build wireless, constantly changing, localized 'internets'. The foundation of the internet was built all wrong for a fundamentally business use, so big business will fail if they try to warp it to a strictly business use internet. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," has somehow been forgotten by business these days.
I wouldn't pay for info on the 'net. There's enough, some say too much, free info out there already, why would I want to pay for more?
I've never worked there, but know of one person who got laid off permanently, and another who still works there and apparently doesn't think it's bad work.
However, my opinion on the work situation for any sufficiently educated person is this:
The bigger the company is, the bigger the headache working there becomes. Now don't get me wrong, it's not that big companies don't give out first rate benefits a lot of the time, but because they have to focus on the shareholder's interests (becuase there are so many shareholders to please), the easier it is for them to jerk employees around.
My roommate works for a small Java programming shop (~20 some employees total), and they've had their share of missed and delayed paychecks, but he still enjoys working there. Why? Because the company president takes him out to lunch sometimes to discuss how the company is doing, because the work he does is his own, he takes credit for it, and everyone recognizes a strong work ethic when he exhibits it. That sort of thing happens less and less the larger the team, department, organization, and/or company gets. Keep that in mind, because Worldcom is a VERY big company, and I think there will be plenty of stories from people stating how they were eventually 'upgraded' straight to the street to improve cost-cutting measures.
So which would you rather have: a relatively secure salary and benefits and a boring to miserable work experience in a big company, or an exciting and rewarding, although sometimes financially shaky, work existence in a small company?
It's been widely proven that securing the areas and people that WORK on the mechanical aspects of airplanes is a very difficult task. You should keep in mind, that someone could have tampered with the engine prior to take off, since they knew they wouldn't be able to get on the plane to hijack it. I'm hoping this was nothing more than an accident, but let's not discount possibilities until all is said and done.
So why the hell aren't we blowing the shit out of the Taliban on their religious holiday? Islamic militant nations (at the time) did it to Isreal back in '67 on Yom Kippur. Any military commander with a lick of sense knows that the best time to attack is when the enemies will power to fight is the weakest.
Please explain to me how Microsoft's current policy of forced obselesence will still allow you to leave IE 5.0 on all those Win98SE computers? Eventually, maybe another year or two, MS will stop supporting your software, and when you run into a problem with the OS because some hardware component died due to old age and messed up the software too, you'll be right out of luck. What's the big deal you say? Well, don't expect MS to help you, they'll just tell you that you MUST upgrade to WinXPse with the new and wonderful security patches and the new and improved IE6.11 because they no longer support Win98SE! This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the coalition MS built up to keep you in the dark on all the actual security holes that aren't being patched in IE6.11. You have no way of knowing if you're making a big mistake upgrading, or making a great move for your organization. Doesn't sound like a good way to run a business to me, but then again, you work with the EPA, so you guys don't much care for running a smooth operation in the first place. Enjoy that flame you illogical bastard.
And to add to this claim: Yes, there are programs like 98lite that can 'get rid of' IE, but it's obviously not something the Microsoft team decided to include in their own software.
Besides, I've set Mozilla to be my default mail and html program, and that works great, as long as I don't have any instances of IE open on the desktop at the same time. As soon as you open one IE window, Windows decides that it should open ALL webpages in IE instead of mozilla, like I've told it to do on ALL occurrences of running across HTML files and links people post to IM clients, programs, etc. So I completely agree, it's a Windows problem, not just an IE problem. What's funny is that despite warning people how active scripting can cause problems without having all the appropriate security patches installed, they're displaying this info with an.asp page! Now that's what I call a short attention span.
From the bibliography link above (one of the very earliest entries at bottom of the page): By Steve Gold, Newsbytes Special to the E-Commerce Times January 14, 2000
Unconfirmed reports circulating on the Usenet suggest that the U.S. government is working with the European Union (EU), Japan, Canada and other countries, including South Africa, on a draft cybercrime treaty that would try to ban hacking and Internet eavesdropping utilities.
Interesting how only the powers that be should now be allowed to eavesdrop and crack into computer systems, even though they're so intent on making it illegal for everyone else.
It's too bad that we have to trust a bunch of mostly technologically uninformed politicians to draft law these days. I'm sure their intentions are all good in trying to prevent terrorism, but sadly they've been duped, like much of American society, into believing that government can provide us with safety and security in all aspects of life. Unfortunately, in this effort to provide a safe and secure country, our liberties are getting trampled on in the process.
We should be entitled to math, though. It's what runs our freakin' world every single second, so I don't see why we shouldn't be allowed to see the equations that brilliant people have come up with. Besides, any good math or physics teacher shows you HOW and WHEN to use the equations, not how to remember every last equation on the planet.
I had heard that Linkin Park got exposure by being on Napster or MP3.com - but I don't know it that was just some urban myth or actual truth. Anyone know more?
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BTW, did I mention what an addictively fun game Civ3 is? The AI politics are so much better than any of its predecessor's political AI. I just wish that that damn Infogrames hadn't made me go find game cracks just so I could circumvent their non-working (on my computer anyways) CD copy-protection scheme just to play the game! *still angry about that*
It's not hugely revolutionary, and I think the price would need to drop to around $500 per IT to make it readily available to the masses, but lots of people poo-poo'ed the personal computer thing 20 years ago, and now I'm sure they wish they hadn't. Plus, this machine is so much more simpler for average Joe Sixpack to use than a full PC or MAC machine is.
Those who can't deal with change, usually get steam-rolled by it sooner or later. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. There's lots more of truthful cliche sayings out there that DMCA lovers had better listen to.
I know you will all like to argue that SETI does have a specific desired outcome, but to me, there's more important things to focus on here at home, like searching for a cure to cancer by crunching proteins, building better radiation containment containers, and other worthy causes that distributed computing can be so good for.
My $.02(US).
I know that. I was simply saying new home builder's could tack it on as a nifty feature, not that it would actually increase the resale value of the home, just the initial purchase price. ;)
mp3's are just a much better format. There is absolutley NO WAY! that anyone can come up with ANY valid statistics proving exactly how much money they might have potentially lost to people sending mp3's across the internet. And please show me one single person who has downloaded high quality mp3's, burned them to LOTS of CD's, and then sold those CD's under their own name or psuedo-name, claiming they created the music instead of the original artist. You won't find ANYONE!!! That's copyright infringement, and P2P file sharing is not producing anything close to this situation.
The last two CD's I've bought (just as an example of why mp3 sharing on P2P programs is great), were bought by me because I liked the mp3's by those bands that I found on P2P systems! And YES, I previously downloaded the entire CD in high quality mp3 format (good enough to be indistinguishable from CD quality by many people - 192kbps), listened to every song, and then went and purchased the CD for full price at a national retail outlet. Damnit! When will you people realize that mp3 file sharing is making the recording industry MORE money than before, and yet they're trying to shut it down!?!
I believe in having the best representative in office looking out for our interests. That's a core belief of mine. Thank you for giving more power to the couch potato's of our nation that don't care about the issues, more power by not voting for people. Besides, people always make the difference in how laws are carried out, not the laws themselves. Rules were meant to be broken. It's those who follow the intent of the law, not the letter of the law, that our nation, and the world, need more of. By not voting for people you're only enforcing this notion that anyone in government should have some sort of ultimate power to enforce the laws however they see fit when there is a gray area. Scary.
Hey, I voted for him, but I didn't ask for the personal freedom lockdown him and some of the morons on capital hill have brought down on us. War, yeah, you pretty much knew that was going to happen with a Republican, but it's better than the alternative liberal Gore, allowing Osama to anally rape the entire USA for four years straight. At least now I just have to watch out for the government gang-bangin' me, but with Gore it would be part of my daily life. When you vote, you're not voting in your hero, your voting in the best man/woman for the job. There's compromises you make in the interest of the common good.
Well you're right, when it comes to installing new ethernet connections around an existing house, but I can see this being a selling point for new home builders (especially the *pricey* new home builders) to offer their customers. Just think, they can sell their homes as "fully computer networking ready - just plug your computer in, and go!" Mainly because then the customer just would need to follow some simple instructions on how to configure their brand new WinXP computer, and no buying additional computer parts since the hubs are all in the wallplates.
So how is WinXP, THE biggest bloatware out there in terms of an OS (who needs all the media crap they stuffed in it when I've got all the media programs I could ever want for free on the 'net?), going to even come close to competing in an 'embedded' market place? It is THE quintessential definition of a "microprocessor of OS's" versus something like PalmOS, which I would consider much more of a "microcontroller of OS's." Microsoft is making some stupid moves, and their shareholders had better realize that MS has a good (albeit, evil) business model for making money, but they're just not going to rake in the dough with this 'latest, greatest' XP system like they hope to. It's not new or revolutionary, just shitload's worth of bug fixes to what people wanted out of Win95 originally. And I, like most people who want to be on the cutting edge of technology, am not seeing a need, or even a want, to make the upgrade to WinXP for a long time.
Please explain to me how an annual increase in sales of CD's and other media shows a level of "rampant piracy." Despite the fact that Napster, Gnutella, KaZaA, and other P2P networks have millions of copyrighted works flying around on them, there is absolutely no way to definitively put an amount on how many people have illegally profited from these works by reselling them as their own production. I'm pretty sure that the 95% software 'piracy' rates in China and other Eastern Asian countries by big businesses over there, far outweighs a bunch of American teens sharing the latest Britney Spears top-40 hit that they wouldn't buy an entire CD for anyways. Sorry this argument may be a little thin, but your question is just simply irrelevant, given its obvious bias without supporting facts.
So which is better, a hard reboot of the machine in Windows, or a process restart on a still running, and stable OS in Linux? I'm pretty sure restarting a process is a lot nicer on the expensive hardware you've purchased to run that nifty new 3d game, than killing power to that hardware unexpectedly because one process killed the entire OS.
Certainly that is not EVERYONE's situation over there, but when you let your government push you around long enough, sooner or later your freedoms have all been taken away, and you too are wishing some filthy rich soul halfway around the world wasn't so busy defending his own rights in his own country so that he could spare you a warm meal.
Maybe when they use bio-technology, or lightwave devices as the CPU, they can claim a "Breakthrough in Transistor Design." Don't worry folks, AMD is still more bang for the buck.
Maybe Infogrames should quit trying to protect their IP shit when legal users can't even use it without doing what some people consider "illegal." My Civ3 and Black&White games run perfectly fine with the 'cracked' executables running, thereby by-passing the copy-protections on those two CD's. And NO, their is ZERO documentation for either game stating that 3rd party copy-protection software is being used to fuck up my computer's ability to read the CD-ROM's. THAT made me pretty mad.
My take on this copyright/translation dispute is that Infogrames, despite whatever legal obligations they have backed themselves into to keep people from purchasing more of their product faster is their own damn fault. I say let them translate it and screw Infogrames over. They've already screwed lots of us over anyways by not delivering on what our legal money paid for.
Haha! This totally sucks. If you go to the very first entry on Google returned on the search for "Index of /admin" you'll be able to find a document entitled "biddings.doc" that is some sort of agenda on meeting to discuss various ways of securing the network for that website. Funny considering they're entire /admin folder is available for full usage by the internet community. ;)
But alas, the simplest solution that is staring you in the face is quite often the hardest to realize, especially when there is money and legal issues involved.
For business to 'reinvent' the internet, is folly. Those who use the internet on a regular basis are technologically informed and at least somewhat adept at using and learning new things. This also means that they're willing to do a little extra work and go the extra mile in the beginning to make their overall life easier. So the 'business' internet goes to a pay for play system, we'll find ways to mirror the pay sites, share them amongst P2P systems, etc. So the entire internet gets locked out to people who don't want to 'subscribe' to it, we'll create our own internet. So they shut that down too, we'll build wireless, constantly changing, localized 'internets'. The foundation of the internet was built all wrong for a fundamentally business use, so big business will fail if they try to warp it to a strictly business use internet. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," has somehow been forgotten by business these days.
I wouldn't pay for info on the 'net. There's enough, some say too much, free info out there already, why would I want to pay for more?
However, my opinion on the work situation for any sufficiently educated person is this:
The bigger the company is, the bigger the headache working there becomes. Now don't get me wrong, it's not that big companies don't give out first rate benefits a lot of the time, but because they have to focus on the shareholder's interests (becuase there are so many shareholders to please), the easier it is for them to jerk employees around.
My roommate works for a small Java programming shop (~20 some employees total), and they've had their share of missed and delayed paychecks, but he still enjoys working there. Why? Because the company president takes him out to lunch sometimes to discuss how the company is doing, because the work he does is his own, he takes credit for it, and everyone recognizes a strong work ethic when he exhibits it. That sort of thing happens less and less the larger the team, department, organization, and/or company gets. Keep that in mind, because Worldcom is a VERY big company, and I think there will be plenty of stories from people stating how they were eventually 'upgraded' straight to the street to improve cost-cutting measures.
So which would you rather have: a relatively secure salary and benefits and a boring to miserable work experience in a big company, or an exciting and rewarding, although sometimes financially shaky, work existence in a small company?
So why the hell aren't we blowing the shit out of the Taliban on their religious holiday? Islamic militant nations (at the time) did it to Isreal back in '67 on Yom Kippur. Any military commander with a lick of sense knows that the best time to attack is when the enemies will power to fight is the weakest.
Please explain to me how Microsoft's current policy of forced obselesence will still allow you to leave IE 5.0 on all those Win98SE computers? Eventually, maybe another year or two, MS will stop supporting your software, and when you run into a problem with the OS because some hardware component died due to old age and messed up the software too, you'll be right out of luck. What's the big deal you say? Well, don't expect MS to help you, they'll just tell you that you MUST upgrade to WinXPse with the new and wonderful security patches and the new and improved IE6.11 because they no longer support Win98SE! This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the coalition MS built up to keep you in the dark on all the actual security holes that aren't being patched in IE6.11. You have no way of knowing if you're making a big mistake upgrading, or making a great move for your organization. Doesn't sound like a good way to run a business to me, but then again, you work with the EPA, so you guys don't much care for running a smooth operation in the first place. Enjoy that flame you illogical bastard.
Besides, I've set Mozilla to be my default mail and html program, and that works great, as long as I don't have any instances of IE open on the desktop at the same time. As soon as you open one IE window, Windows decides that it should open ALL webpages in IE instead of mozilla, like I've told it to do on ALL occurrences of running across HTML files and links people post to IM clients, programs, etc. So I completely agree, it's a Windows problem, not just an IE problem. What's funny is that despite warning people how active scripting can cause problems without having all the appropriate security patches installed, they're displaying this info with an .asp page! Now that's what I call a short attention span.
By Steve Gold, Newsbytes Special to the E-Commerce Times January 14, 2000
Unconfirmed reports circulating on the Usenet suggest that the U.S. government is working with the European Union (EU), Japan, Canada and other countries, including South Africa, on a draft cybercrime treaty that would try to ban hacking and Internet eavesdropping utilities.
Interesting how only the powers that be should now be allowed to eavesdrop and crack into computer systems, even though they're so intent on making it illegal for everyone else.
It's too bad that we have to trust a bunch of mostly technologically uninformed politicians to draft law these days. I'm sure their intentions are all good in trying to prevent terrorism, but sadly they've been duped, like much of American society, into believing that government can provide us with safety and security in all aspects of life. Unfortunately, in this effort to provide a safe and secure country, our liberties are getting trampled on in the process.
We should be entitled to math, though. It's what runs our freakin' world every single second, so I don't see why we shouldn't be allowed to see the equations that brilliant people have come up with. Besides, any good math or physics teacher shows you HOW and WHEN to use the equations, not how to remember every last equation on the planet.
I had heard that Linkin Park got exposure by being on Napster or MP3.com - but I don't know it that was just some urban myth or actual truth. Anyone know more?