Gee, not sure if I'll ever say this out loud, but
I've _never_ paid for an M$ OS, 'cept on a new PC.
The only u$ software I have paid money for is
Flight Simulator, which (uncharacteristically) has
been a very good product (damn! that helicopter
sim is _way_ too realistic).
I _have_ purchased 3 revisions of Red Hat Linux at
retail outlets.
I _have_ (being an MCP cert, gotta make a living)
received time limited versions of various u$ OS's
which seem to somehow continue to operate beyond
their advertised capacity (he, he).
I'm afraid that the real promulgators of M$ OS's
are the Corporate Goons who don't know any better.
These silly IT/IS bastards are going to ignore
all the threats to: (a) competition, (b) security,
(c) _true_ innovation, all because they feel M$
is the leader. Somewhat like in the old days when
"you can't get fired for buying IBM."
I'm not going go so far as to accuse these guys of "scientific trolling"; I reckon they really thought they'd made an element (don't use the word new, if it can be made in the lab, it can be/has been made in a star/gas cloud/supernova/etc).
OTOH, they now risk being classed with the likes of the "cold fusion" fellers of old (who were either morons and/or just trolling the sci community).
I'm not saying that scientists should be paranoid to publish (they must, else perish), but they should _really_ be certain of their data and methods before making such a bold claim.
Publish or perish/Publish rubbish at your peril!
I don't think it would be very tough.
I'm pretty confident that having the data
available to be read/parsed/processed by
software would beat the hell out of poring
through reams of hardcopy.
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Gee, not sure if I'll ever say this out loud, but
I've _never_ paid for an M$ OS, 'cept on a new PC.
The only u$ software I have paid money for is
Flight Simulator, which (uncharacteristically) has
been a very good product (damn! that helicopter
sim is _way_ too realistic).
I _have_ purchased 3 revisions of Red Hat Linux at
retail outlets.
I _have_ (being an MCP cert, gotta make a living)
received time limited versions of various u$ OS's
which seem to somehow continue to operate beyond
their advertised capacity (he, he).
I'm afraid that the real promulgators of M$ OS's
are the Corporate Goons who don't know any better.
These silly IT/IS bastards are going to ignore
all the threats to: (a) competition, (b) security,
(c) _true_ innovation, all because they feel M$
is the leader. Somewhat like in the old days when
"you can't get fired for buying IBM."
Damn.
A CD copy protection scheme that can damage your /.ers
audio eeuipment is BULLSHIT! Aren't any
even slightly conversant in electronics?
The only possible way that damage could happen is
thru distortion, and then only if the distortion
is severe and/or you crank the volume way up.
You can blow a really nice set of speakers with
a real shitty (high THD), low power amp.
Conversly, you can run some really shitty speakers
at fairly high power using a good amp and a clean
signal.
All your ignorant are belong to us.
Who the hell's making 80K/yr?
/.ers.
I'll bet not very many
IT/IS managers maybe.
Sorry if I don't get it, but is this really a
security issue?
Looks more like an "undocumented feature" of the
engine. Granted, perhaps only spammers and pr0nners might want to use it.
I try to keep up with the security alerts; I'd
say somewhere around 5 to 10% of them elicit a
response of "Uh, so what?" from me.
Maybe I'm just to ingorant to get it.
I understand from Charles Babbage's bio that he
was gonna open an arcade, but he couldn't make
a working coin mech...
I'm not going go so far as to accuse these guys of "scientific trolling"; I reckon they really thought they'd made an element (don't use the word new, if it can be made in the lab, it can be/has been made in a star/gas cloud/supernova/etc). OTOH, they now risk being classed with the likes of the "cold fusion" fellers of old (who were either morons and/or just trolling the sci community). I'm not saying that scientists should be paranoid to publish (they must, else perish), but they should _really_ be certain of their data and methods before making such a bold claim. Publish or perish/Publish rubbish at your peril!
I don't think it would be very tough. I'm pretty confident that having the data available to be read/parsed/processed by software would beat the hell out of poring through reams of hardcopy.