This is false. The Net Yaroze was not "an early plus" of the PlayStation. It came about well after the PlayStation peaked. I am not aware of any games developed using it that actually made it out to non-Yaroze users.
kaphka sez: Anyway... Ahem... I was planning to not rant about that, but I ended up going on for quite a bit. What I really wanted to point out was a small factual correction... actually two. First, I don't know how you have your Outlook configured, but by default, "Restricted Zone" does disable all scripting.
Factual correction to the factual correction: russ is correct. Outlook's (and Explorer's) "Restricted Zone" uses the "High" level of security, which leaves "Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting" and "Active Scripting" enabled. In order to turn these off you need to use a "Custom" level of security in which you turn these things off.
kaphka sez: it has nothing to do with the ILOVEYOU virus, which would run just as well under Pine (assuming you're running Pine on a Windows machine.)
>"novel" is satisfied if even one element of the >patent (say, the use of a "registry key") is >distinct, as I understand it.
Did anyone else take a look at the patents referenced by the Microsoft one? (here, here, and here)
It seems to me that they are all patenting the same thing, just changing some of the implementation details. Replace "database" and "inventory" with "registry" in the previous Microsoft patent, for example, and you have pretty much the same thing.
If "novel" means "change the name we use to refer to something", then why can't I just patent the same thing with new words and continue on with my business? What's the point of a patent then?
[Also, no one from Quebec was arrested in this case; the 2600 people used some French to imply someone from Quebec (as there are more people speak French in Quebec then anywhere else, except France). The "security expert" didn't catch on, apparently. Mafiaboy is from Montreal.]
[Fastolfe] Dude, I'm sorry, but if someone rammed a plunger up my ass, hospitalizing me, you'd better be damn well sure I will not only sue the police department responsible, but I would be pressing charges against the individuals there.
[me] I'm sorry too, but unfortunately, in the U.S., the people who are most likely to be treated in this way by the police are also the people most likely to be unable to either sue or press charges, due to fear and lack of money and, in some cases, lack of education as to their rights.
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RayChuang sez:
"If Microsoft allows X-Box games to be written with Linux, X-Box games may graphically be the most impressive of them all."
First off, the concept of Microsoft allowing this is pretty funny. And how exactly would writing the games with Linux have any effect on the graphics?
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This is false. The Net Yaroze was not "an early plus" of the PlayStation. It came about well after the PlayStation peaked. I am not aware of any games developed using it that actually made it out to non-Yaroze users.
=wl
kaphka sez: Anyway... Ahem... I was planning to not rant about that, but I ended up going on for quite a bit. What I really wanted to point out was a small factual correction... actually two. First, I don't know how you have your Outlook configured, but by default, "Restricted Zone" does disable all scripting.
Factual correction to the factual correction: russ is correct. Outlook's (and Explorer's) "Restricted Zone" uses the "High" level of security, which leaves "Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting" and "Active Scripting" enabled. In order to turn these off you need to use a "Custom" level of security in which you turn these things off.
kaphka sez: it has nothing to do with the ILOVEYOU virus, which would run just as well under Pine (assuming you're running Pine on a Windows machine.)
Hm. How would it propagate itself?
=wl
>"novel" is satisfied if even one element of the >patent (say, the use of a "registry key") is >distinct, as I understand it.
Did anyone else take a look at the patents referenced by the Microsoft one? (here, here, and here)
It seems to me that they are all patenting the same thing, just changing some of the implementation details. Replace "database" and "inventory" with "registry" in the previous Microsoft patent, for example, and you have pretty much the same thing.
If "novel" means "change the name we use to refer to something", then why can't I just patent the same thing with new words and continue on with my business? What's the point of a patent then?
obviously, IANAL.
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[Also, no one from Quebec was arrested in this case; the 2600 people used some French to imply someone from Quebec
(as there are more people speak French in Quebec then anywhere else, except France). The "security expert" didn't catch on, apparently. Mafiaboy is from Montreal.]
Um...Montreal *is* in Quebec.
I always thought Sam the Eagle was based on Sam Donaldson (check out the eyebrows!)
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[Fastolfe] Dude, I'm sorry, but if someone rammed a plunger up my ass, hospitalizing me, you'd better be damn well sure I will not only sue the police department responsible, but I would be pressing charges against the individuals there.
[me] I'm sorry too, but unfortunately, in the U.S., the people who are most likely to be treated in this way by the police are also the people most likely to be unable to either sue or press charges, due to fear and lack of money and, in some cases, lack of education as to their rights.
=wl
I can reliably get Netscape 4.5 to crash my Win98 machine at work, simply by opening up ... slashdot.org (surprise!) and scrolling a bit.
I do have a Voodoo Banshee in it, though.
=wl