The idea the browser could not be separated was a fraud. Microsoft had just gotten done spending years developing and pushing its COM interface technology, and IBrowser was its flagship plug-and-play example. Anybody should have been able to slap a different browser in there.
Whether the company should be "forbidden" from including a browser is a sepsrate issue. Security problems with IE (drive-by web page view hijackings, for example) probably did more to drive people to non-IE browsers than any judicial fiats.
This impulse, that all money and resources were required to support one state-run system, and so outlawing competition was warranted, was commonly accepted throughout the West for much of the 20th century.
It still exists at the core of the promoters of single-payer medicine and public schools, where some dislike vouchers following students.
So don't lift your noses too quickly into the air.
BY THE WAY, they've been recording calls for a long time. Maybe not everyone's, but a lot of them. Right after 9/11, they admitted that in the aftermath they went into these recordings to find out vital information.
This scary revelation was largely ignored at the time because of the go get 'em attitude in the nation as a whole, but I made a mental note of it.
The mayors said the 'digital cities' summits — one in New York in September and another in San Francisco early next year — will seek to find ways to use technology to solve problems the cities face.
main() {
printf("To solve the major problems the cities face:\n");
printf("================\n");
printf("Yokels, stop electing idiots.\n"); }
I recall Paula Zahn getting bent out of shape when people suggested she got her new job because she was attractive. Sorry, all the whining in the world, and all the talent in the world, isn't gonna change the fact you wouldn't have gotten it if you looked like Andre the Giant dressed up as Sasquatch in The Six Million Dollar Man.
Shall we play a game? It's called "Feign Indignation And Pretend Reality Isn't As It Is."
I predict in a few years, people will think back to the bad old days, you know, when you had to get up to flip the light switch on and off.
Much the same way we used to have to take a pillow off the sofa and lie in front of the TV in order to change the channel and surf during commercials. Seriously.
One of my favorite Mac games was an air hockey one with various robot opponents.
This robot, assuming it even can lose, is just a few months of speedup away from being fast enough to block any possible human strike. For offense, they would probably have to speed limit it from hitting 200mph shots and ace every time.
Facebook was just MySpace for kids, where you had to be approved by said person in order to see their wall, or scroll, or whatever the kids call it nowadays.
*Voluntary* charity was not considered a character flaw, but the mentality that all heaven and earth must be put on hold and all endeavors must be taken from until every single person has food most certainly is.
It's treating everyday life as if it was some emergency situation, squatting on the development of industry that actually lifts people out of shitholes.
"The question is not, 'Should I or shouldn't I give a beggar a dime?' The question is whether the beggar should have a first claim on your life and your efforts."
And, finally, help to poor people is a drop in the bucket nowadays compared to the cumulative obesity that is government (including almost $2 trillion a year in regulatory burden on top of all the taxation.)
Nobody listens. Nobody cares. They live in their little world of 80-IQ Life Guidance Memes that tell them how to think, binding them as a mass behind their power-hungry leaders.
What does Microsoft get out of this trade? The article mentions Microsoft running on a lot of government stuff, but that doesn't say much because it runs on most of most peoples's stuff already.
Immunity or taking it easy on various anti-trust? (And before you get outraged, recall the cynic's, i.e founding father's, observation that government seeks massive regulation and legislation precisely to have things to lord over people with.)
I am convinced Alex Baldwin got thrown off the plane deliberately to bring attention to Words With Friends, which would make his actions much more illegal than just being an ass.
Why did no investigators or journalists "follow the money?"
Political opposition, and legal businessmen, have plenty to hide from misuse by prying operatives of other factions.
All this constitutional privacy stuff has nothing to do with you discussing how Taylor Swift gives you a bonuh. It jas to do with politicians spying on opposition plans, so they can then go interfere or counter them (or call for an IRS investigation).
Just wait. This is a story in progress. Snowden claimed he could listen in on powerful peoples' conversations without warrant or raising a red flag, and tested that. Wait and see.
The treason wouldn't be him, but politicians who set up a system where potentially inserted operatives could do this without setting off checks and balances automated triggers.
Ya know what? They could put a diesel enginr in the vehicle to generate electricity to drive the electric motor. Then they wouldn't even need to run dangerous electrical cables .
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The idea the browser could not be separated was a fraud. Microsoft had just gotten done spending years developing and pushing its COM interface technology, and IBrowser was its flagship plug-and-play example. Anybody should have been able to slap a different browser in there.
Whether the company should be "forbidden" from including a browser is a sepsrate issue. Security problems with IE (drive-by web page view hijackings, for example) probably did more to drive people to non-IE browsers than any judicial fiats.
This impulse, that all money and resources were required to support one state-run system, and so outlawing competition was warranted, was commonly accepted throughout the West for much of the 20th century.
It still exists at the core of the promoters of single-payer medicine and public schools, where some dislike vouchers following students.
So don't lift your noses too quickly into the air.
BY THE WAY, they've been recording calls for a long time. Maybe not everyone's, but a lot of them. Right after 9/11, they admitted that in the aftermath they went into these recordings to find out vital information.
This scary revelation was largely ignored at the time because of the go get 'em attitude in the nation as a whole, but I made a mental note of it.
> Nobody ever accumulated great wealth any other way.
Some are good at patter and getting large masses behind them, and then forcing everyone, not just those masses, to give them money.
Doing so without seizing power, by offering things free people freely choose to buy, is completely different.
main()
{
printf("To solve the major problems the cities face:\n");
printf("================\n");
printf("Yokels, stop electing idiots.\n");
}
Can we just pick some bacteria and launch them up there? It's going to happen eventually, anyway. Might as well get it over with.
"But...but we must keep it pure! Must research!"
Ya ya, I agree. However, may I redirect you to "It's going to happen eventually, anyway."
News is fed to you by attractive people.
I recall Paula Zahn getting bent out of shape when people suggested she got her new job because she was attractive. Sorry, all the whining in the world, and all the talent in the world, isn't gonna change the fact you wouldn't have gotten it if you looked like Andre the Giant dressed up as Sasquatch in The Six Million Dollar Man.
Shall we play a game? It's called "Feign Indignation And Pretend Reality Isn't As It Is."
Ok, ok, we get it. OP is telegraphing the end of telegraphy.
Congratulations, sir, on learning to use a computer!
I predict in a few years, people will think back to the bad old days, you know, when you had to get up to flip the light switch on and off.
Much the same way we used to have to take a pillow off the sofa and lie in front of the TV in order to change the channel and surf during commercials. Seriously.
One of my favorite Mac games was an air hockey one with various robot opponents.
This robot, assuming it even can lose, is just a few months of speedup away from being fast enough to block any possible human strike. For offense, they would probably have to speed limit it from hitting 200mph shots and ace every time.
Shuddup and go back to programming Java, the carefully and specially-designed Internet programming language.
Facebook was just MySpace for kids, where you had to be approved by said person in order to see their wall, or scroll, or whatever the kids call it nowadays.
*Voluntary* charity was not considered a character flaw, but the mentality that all heaven and earth must be put on hold and all endeavors must be taken from until every single person has food most certainly is.
It's treating everyday life as if it was some emergency situation, squatting on the development of industry that actually lifts people out of shitholes.
"The question is not, 'Should I or shouldn't I give a beggar a dime?' The question is whether the beggar should have a first claim on your life and your efforts."
And, finally, help to poor people is a drop in the bucket nowadays compared to the cumulative obesity that is government (including almost $2 trillion a year in regulatory burden on top of all the taxation.)
Nobody listens. Nobody cares. They live in their little world of 80-IQ Life Guidance Memes that tell them how to think, binding them as a mass behind their power-hungry leaders.
Wait, what was this thread about again?
> The House Science Committee is currently run by guys who think that evolution, climate science and bike lanes are all commie plots.
They should be replaced by libertarians. We only think the bike lanes are commie plots.
China's making movements, so I'm sure they don't wanna get caught flat-footed...like they did 60 years ago with the Russians.
Yes, it is a waste of money. But not of domestic politics.
And have the light hardwired to the camera power so it's physically impossible for software to turn it off.
This last bit will stop government from backdoor watching, even via court order.
"Seal the holes!" screamed the FDA. "Just not this one, and that one, and that one, which the FBI, CIA, and NSA use."
Hey, you're right. It was fun to say an "an anonymizing".
Wait. WHOAAAAAAA!
A drive-by would be more interested in leaving a bot, and seriously would not be interested in touching file timestamps to hide their access to them.
Well, unless it was aitomatic and built into the tool the script spookie was using. Hey, I coined a phrase!
What does Microsoft get out of this trade? The article mentions Microsoft running on a lot of government stuff, but that doesn't say much because it runs on most of most peoples's stuff already.
Immunity or taking it easy on various anti-trust? (And before you get outraged, recall the cynic's, i.e founding father's, observation that government seeks massive regulation and legislation precisely to have things to lord over people with.)
I am convinced Alex Baldwin got thrown off the plane deliberately to bring attention to Words With Friends, which would make his actions much more illegal than just being an ass.
Why did no investigators or journalists "follow the money?"
Duke Nukem was famous for many different weapon types, common to FPS games.
Then I read "DNF lets you only carry two weapon types at once." Why? Console design.
And I knew it had changed into something else. Other changes others have discusses, all related.
Political opposition, and legal businessmen, have plenty to hide from misuse by prying operatives of other factions.
All this constitutional privacy stuff has nothing to do with you discussing how Taylor Swift gives you a bonuh. It jas to do with politicians spying on opposition plans, so they can then go interfere or counter them (or call for an IRS investigation).
Just wait. This is a story in progress. Snowden claimed he could listen in on powerful peoples' conversations without warrant or raising a red flag, and tested that. Wait and see.
The treason wouldn't be him, but politicians who set up a system where potentially inserted operatives could do this without setting off checks and balances automated triggers.
Ya know what? They could put a diesel enginr in the vehicle to generate electricity to drive the electric motor. Then they wouldn't even need to run dangerous electrical cables .