what differenciate dreams from nightmares is that in nightmares you worry about things. Well, a solution is not to worry about all what using windows implies, and will be your dream OS (at least until your wake up).
In fact, what makes people happy on using windows is their complete unawareness of what happens below, while it seems to run, and accept crashes, spam, reinstalls and so on, its ok. Probably most windows users are connected to internet without firewalls, don't even are aware of virus, worm, trojans, etc there, think that spams, virus, hangs, and even loss of information is something that must happen to computers every time, and things like that, they accept this as a truth.
Other solutions for the general public look not so like a dream. You must worry about hardware compatibility, about having separate users for doing separate things, on having a password (!), on when a program will run or not, a lot of things. Ok, they dont have Freddy waiting for you as soon as you close your eyes, but still you don't have the illusion that will be at the start something without any possible worry.
I'm using TikiWiki for projects, it provides me wiki pages, individual blogs for separate projects (and with wiki syntax), basic java drawing program for adding diagrams and collaborate on them, forums, comments and some granularity on permissions (i.e to limit what people can do on one project or another). The tool have a lot of more ways to collaborate, but with those functions are enough for most normal uses.
Now, if they are speaking figuratelly as the original creator of the kernel, that is one of the most documented things in history, or at least, in internet. Of course, maybe some of its components were created before, but is like saying that the father of the car in fact is someone from centuries ago with the invention of the wheel.
... we will find the answer in one of the future Neal Stephenson books? Out of context could look as extracted from one of the Cryptonomicon prequels.
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In computing are the windows the ones with worms, not the apples.
Is not the first time it happens
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I think the Nimda worm exploited vulnerabilities created by CodeRed a few years ago.
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The technology, being developed with Microsoft, uses simple hand gestures and voice commands to allow a surgeon to select data displayed on a flat-panel monitor.
Microsoft always make people to do hand gestures at it, even when that gestures are usually like raising a finger.
.. by now, with bagle, netsky and mydoom removing each other and doing its own harm, should be evident for everyone that using virus to clean virus is at the very least potentially dangerous.
Worse than that, computer viruses don't evolve by themselves, but biological ones have that capability. A bad replication or mutation of that virus and we could have a new disease instead a new cure.
In the other hand, some vaccines already uses somewhat disabled diseases to cure them. And worked, and the worst not happened. If we have the opportunity to eliminate a for sure killer disease risking a not so likely future new disease, maybe the risk worths it.
So Al-Qaeda goals was sacrifice a relatively small amount of people to show us all the climate damage of airplanes? Putting separate facts together could make people associate things in wrong ways.
But seriously, if airplanes do such impact on worldwide climate, why not exist a technological race to make them more ecological instead of faster, more personal, to reach higher or things like that? Or some advancements are done in that direction?
Finally, does this remind anyone else of the Animatrix, on how the skies were darkened to stop the machines?
Heh, that remembers me one of the Murphy's law: don't attribute to malice (i.e. darkening the skies to kill sun-dependant machines) what can be explained by stupidity (i.e. letting the smog/contamination/etc steal our sun, kill us, etc)
IP laws could have some meaning when you think on just copying someone's else work without giving credit, and getting profit on that (even free software licenses have that in consideration). But also outlaws that someone else to have a similar idea (it even could be better, but similar enough to give troubles). Right now, the first that have and idea and follow a maybe complex task to register it, "owns" it, and nobody else is enabled to have a similar idea, or have a new idea based on that one.
Civilization has reach this point because we builded based on previous works, and advanced on them. Wonder in what kind of caves we are living today if today IP laws were from the begining. You just need to patent a brick (or something equally basic) and the entire civilization must live in caves again.
With software things can be worse, and what open source does is giving ways to build things up, to legally base in the works of others to reach new heighs, and without worrying about big corporations, needed money and things like that. Individuals not behind big corporations could make big differences for all, think i.e. in the relativity theory.
Still not touching it with a 10 foot pole, so speaking without trying, but... how compatible it could be with "cut and paste" code?
I could be have the spanish version of Office (urgh), found a nice macro in some web site, try to paste it in a document and found that it don't work because the keywords are all wrong.
Or worse, think I already know vbs and try to write a macro, then who of the alternate translations of "print" (or whatever uses vb to display text, to put a very basic example) i should use in my "translated" code? Should i ask the guide for every keyword before i try to write a "hello world" program?
I think i saw similar approachs in some try to localize linux into spanish, that included not only the man descriptions, but also translating the executable names, i.e. instead of find, buscar, instead of cut, cortar, and so on. Can be done, linux is free software, you can do anything... but i doubt that even the perpetrators of that would use such system.
"Native" linux solutions are already competing with Windows applications in the Windows environment. OpenOffice, Mozilla, Gimp, web applications, etc are making inroads even under Windows, then why they would have problem when they are truly native applications and just under an emulation level the windows ones?
as far I understand, what is available for download is the Live CD, not the full product, not even the ftp version of 9.1.
The article title seems to say that the full SuSE 9.1 is available for download, when is a bit far from it. As far I remember, SuSE always had a "live" demo to test it released around the same time as the full product and available for free download, but that don't mean that can be installed in hard disk or from it install the full 9.1 ftp version from their servers.
Is not exactly that in email as a whole you will not find pornography, saying something that could break copyright laws (is not so common sending i.e. movies by email, but i bet could be send how to download them), offensive language, etc (and that, leaving spam on a side). Mailing lists don't do things much better. And email is truly used by everyone, not like IRC.
Of course, is used also for useful things, and even they will agree that the email should not be regulated or banned because some people do a bad use of it.
In the other hand, a year ago we had this exploit of WebDav on IIS running out there before Microsoft comes out with a patch, in fact, the patch was hold for a week and a lot of servers were hacked in the middle before the patch was made public.
Don't releasing patches don't assure that the bad guys don't know already about that vulnerabilities and be exploiting them.
No, the eternal question should be:
"Would it be more trustable than Win98?"
Is really hard to be more unsafe than with the unpatched windows, and is easier to develop a simpler trojan that do all the damage that you can image than go thru all the trouble to make a "patch".
SpamCop says that they are a bad reputation company, then they should be suing themselves as the company that gived them that bad reputation on first place with its actions
SpamCop says that they are good guys, we should accept mail from them, that they are nice people. That certainly will damage their reputation of the lowest scum on earth, and WE should sue spamcop for saying that
In any of those cases, their lawsuit have no meaning, or they are suing the wrong company or should not be they the ones that do the lawsuit.
Last but not least, i must admire their balls on using the legal system that could probably be searching a way to fuck them badly, is a nice thing to cut off and expose in a museum.
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Why not go right to the real source and name it the Bill?
what differenciate dreams from nightmares is that in nightmares you worry about things. Well, a solution is not to worry about all what using windows implies, and will be your dream OS (at least until your wake up).
In fact, what makes people happy on using windows is their complete unawareness of what happens below, while it seems to run, and accept crashes, spam, reinstalls and so on, its ok. Probably most windows users are connected to internet without firewalls, don't even are aware of virus, worm, trojans, etc there, think that spams, virus, hangs, and even loss of information is something that must happen to computers every time, and things like that, they accept this as a truth.
Other solutions for the general public look not so like a dream. You must worry about hardware compatibility, about having separate users for doing separate things, on having a password (!), on when a program will run or not, a lot of things. Ok, they dont have Freddy waiting for you as soon as you close your eyes, but still you don't have the illusion that will be at the start something without any possible worry.
I'm using TikiWiki for projects, it provides me wiki pages, individual blogs for separate projects (and with wiki syntax), basic java drawing program for adding diagrams and collaborate on them, forums, comments and some granularity on permissions (i.e to limit what people can do on one project or another). The tool have a lot of more ways to collaborate, but with those functions are enough for most normal uses.
Now, if they are speaking figuratelly as the original creator of the kernel, that is one of the most documented things in history, or at least, in internet. Of course, maybe some of its components were created before, but is like saying that the father of the car in fact is someone from centuries ago with the invention of the wheel.
... we will find the answer in one of the future Neal Stephenson books? Out of context could look as extracted from one of the Cryptonomicon prequels.
In computing are the windows the ones with worms, not the apples.
I think the Nimda worm exploited vulnerabilities created by CodeRed a few years ago.
Microsoft always make people to do hand gestures at it, even when that gestures are usually like raising a finger.
Worse than that, computer viruses don't evolve by themselves, but biological ones have that capability. A bad replication or mutation of that virus and we could have a new disease instead a new cure.
In the other hand, some vaccines already uses somewhat disabled diseases to cure them. And worked, and the worst not happened. If we have the opportunity to eliminate a for sure killer disease risking a not so likely future new disease, maybe the risk worths it.
But seriously, if airplanes do such impact on worldwide climate, why not exist a technological race to make them more ecological instead of faster, more personal, to reach higher or things like that? Or some advancements are done in that direction?
Heh, that remembers me one of the Murphy's law: don't attribute to malice (i.e. darkening the skies to kill sun-dependant machines) what can be explained by stupidity (i.e. letting the smog/contamination/etc steal our sun, kill us, etc)
Maybe Petreley is too used to certain ways to do things and maybe easier ways, but different, give him problems.
Civilization has reach this point because we builded based on previous works, and advanced on them. Wonder in what kind of caves we are living today if today IP laws were from the begining. You just need to patent a brick (or something equally basic) and the entire civilization must live in caves again.
With software things can be worse, and what open source does is giving ways to build things up, to legally base in the works of others to reach new heighs, and without worrying about big corporations, needed money and things like that. Individuals not behind big corporations could make big differences for all, think i.e. in the relativity theory.
Tocqueville also said that the printing press was the TNT Bomb of IP 500 years ago.
I could be have the spanish version of Office (urgh), found a nice macro in some web site, try to paste it in a document and found that it don't work because the keywords are all wrong.
Or worse, think I already know vbs and try to write a macro, then who of the alternate translations of "print" (or whatever uses vb to display text, to put a very basic example) i should use in my "translated" code? Should i ask the guide for every keyword before i try to write a "hello world" program?
I think i saw similar approachs in some try to localize linux into spanish, that included not only the man descriptions, but also translating the executable names, i.e. instead of find, buscar, instead of cut, cortar, and so on. Can be done, linux is free software, you can do anything... but i doubt that even the perpetrators of that would use such system.
"Native" linux solutions are already competing with Windows applications in the Windows environment. OpenOffice, Mozilla, Gimp, web applications, etc are making inroads even under Windows, then why they would have problem when they are truly native applications and just under an emulation level the windows ones?
Laying off is just a way to lose work force. Maybe the remaining ones just had some kind of moral and just quit by themselves.
The article title seems to say that the full SuSE 9.1 is available for download, when is a bit far from it. As far I remember, SuSE always had a "live" demo to test it released around the same time as the full product and available for free download, but that don't mean that can be installed in hard disk or from it install the full 9.1 ftp version from their servers.
In your institution have an Coherence 101 course? :)
Of course, is used also for useful things, and even they will agree that the email should not be regulated or banned because some people do a bad use of it.
Of course, that document started saying something like "go to your local grocery store and buy 3 kg of U-235" :)
"My crazy brother"- Prentice Hall
Don't releasing patches don't assure that the bad guys don't know already about that vulnerabilities and be exploiting them.
"Would it be more trustable than Win98?"
Is really hard to be more unsafe than with the unpatched windows, and is easier to develop a simpler trojan that do all the damage that you can image than go thru all the trouble to make a "patch".
- SpamCop says that they are a bad reputation company, then they should be suing themselves as the company that gived them that bad reputation on first place with its actions
- SpamCop says that they are good guys, we should accept mail from them, that they are nice people. That certainly will damage their reputation of the lowest scum on earth, and WE should sue spamcop for saying that
In any of those cases, their lawsuit have no meaning, or they are suing the wrong company or should not be they the ones that do the lawsuit.Last but not least, i must admire their balls on using the legal system that could probably be searching a way to fuck them badly, is a nice thing to cut off and expose in a museum.