When will the world wake up and realize that the United Kingdom controls all time because they control the meridian. We need the UN to intervene her and remove this aggressive and unilateral control of time from the UK immediately. Once the UN is in control all nations can equally benefit from time and will be secure in knowing that a combined organization of beurocrats is in control. Of course, nations with limited time resources (like Singapore, with only one timezone), could be given more time and nations who have an abundance of time (like the US, with 4! timezones) could be forced to share equally with the rest of the world.
If you need complete security from all government agencies (or other parties) you need to combine a strong encryption system like ROT13 with a text-based cyphering system like l33t sp34k. Continued study into lossy 1-bit compression, which effectively reduces and entire file to a single bit, could also be used to thwart the unauthorized individuals from gaining access to your data. Of course, you'd have to accept a little data loss if you chose to compress your encrypted files.
I am currently working on the next-gen encryption system that will handle binary files better than ROT13 (yes, I know it's hard to believe). This new system will use the same encryption concepts on the entire WORD. I call this system ROTl33tn00b, or R0t3n for short. When I have my code (pure VB6) finished I will release it to the community under GNU/GPL.
Seems like Answers Corporation is making a grab for the Wikishare. Saw this posted on the the Uncyclopedia, the one true source for knowledge, earlier today.
The Uncyclopedia has announced a fund-raising (WORK FROM HOME! MAKE SIX FIGURES) partnership with Answers Corporation (http://www.gurunet.com/) and will replace all of the Uncyclopedia content with a growing (Buy PENIS enlargement products NOW!!!) number of unobtrusive advertisements. The Uncylopedia will recieve three easy installments of $19.95.
Furthermore most vendors embrace a standard and then extend it by adding additional functionality on top of that as their customers demand it. MS made a big mistake by taking that model to the web because the popularity of their browser created an interoperability nightmare... but the embrace and extend model is not MS specific nor is it a bad thing if you can preserver interoperability with apps that don't support your enhancements (something MS did a poor job of with HTML/CSS).
Alas, I am not new here. If I was new I would have said, "Slashdot is a honeypot for Microsoft hating crackpot". My id was created 34582 accounts before yours... so I must be slow or maybe just tired of all of the mindless rhetoric.
OpenDocument support by government makes perfect sense to me. Government doesn't need to create barriers for dealing with it by using expensive proprietary software products when there are affordable (free) alternatives. I get that. What I was railing and ranting against (I'll admit it was rant) was the immediate attack of Microsoft for simply saying they may at some point support OpenDocument, but not right now. They made a move from "we will never support OpenDocument" (which they may or may not have said), to "we MAY support it" and the response is not "Massachussets has made an impact" or "MS is responding ot market pressures" but ranting and raving about how MS will corrupt OpenDocument and "embrace and extend" it and how evil it is that MS has taken a position on OpenDocument. But hey... I said "crackpot" so it's flamebait.
The gist of the article is that Microsoft MAY support OpenDocument in the future if the demand is there. And the nutcases who get paged when there's an M$ story on/. come a runnin' to spout off about "embrace and extend" and Netscape and monopolies and Balmer will f'ing kill you. The only point that is made by all of this commotion is that there is a group of geeks who hate Microsoft so much that they cannot make logical rationale decisions or anlaysis about technical developments or corporate directions... or posts that simply amount to "we'll do whatever is in our customers (and our) best interests in the future". Tone down all of the rhetoric... it makes you look like a bunch of ignorant whelps.
Now we just have to figure out have MS intends to "embrace, extend, extinguish" or otherwise make it unattractive and derail any of their attempts to do so.
That, and also determine how the government has managed to hide the alien lifeforms for the last 60 years and of course where they keep their mind control rays. Tin-foil hats of the world unite!
First off coding is something anybody can learn and is improved by simple practice. Now there is no "anybody else" if people would just take the effort to learn a little.
So is playing a musical instrument, or learning how to do complex tax forms, or writing a sci-fi novel. The point is that for most people it's not worth learning to add the feature and actually coding scripts is moderately simple to learn, but writing complex code and modifying other people complex code, particularly when moderately complex maths are involved isn't something someone picks up over the weekend (and if it is help us all when the Indians and Chinese figure this out... oh wait).
What are you some kind of ignorant n00b!? RTFM idiot! RTFC for goodness sakes. How hard is it to learn C, learn all 28 of the relevant libraries, learn how the code was implemented, write the code, test the code, and convince the maintainer to add the code to the core code base? You must be some kind of lazy ignorant wretch.
Does anyone know of a hack to get thet battery life on the 200Gb Nano up from 6-minutes? I'm thinking maybe a car battery could be used for power. Any thoughts?
Yes and the email virus was sent to my company from your company's insecure email servers and my company is a large global company and we had to spend $5 million to fix the problem, so we're sending your company the bill and a letter from our lawyers about the legal proceedings that will follow if you can't or are unwilling to pay.
There will always be a market for "cheaper" software that is not guaranteed to such a level,
Of course if you apply personal liability to developers or even development companies for security issues you have effectively eliminated that market by increasing the liability for entering it and thereby increasing the costs. You are absolutely right that most people don't want or need ultra-secure software, but as soon as these politicans and lawyers start meddling we'll see utlra-secure software with minimal features, few revisions, and extremely high costs.
"We need individual accountability from developers for end-to-end solutions so we can go to them and say: 'Is this completely secure?'," Schmidt said.
You can ask them that today! Have them sign a damned contract w/ the answer or if they work for you and they lie, fire them on the spot. Why does the government need to get involved? The answer is... they don't! This guy is just another meddeling politician trying to find a platform to build his career of taking money from special interest groups and the talk circuit.
IBM has received 29,021 patents--more than any other company or individual in the world.
Yeah, I've recieved 28,973 myself. Seriously, isn't it redundant that no individual could recieve more than 29,021 patents in a 12 year period? That's averaging 6.6 patents per day.
Here's an idea for combining this model with other models for recommending music. Take the recommend the song based on structure model, combine it with the recommend the songs based on what other people who listen to music like you list to model (e.g. last.fm), and add the Amazon purchasing model to it. Combine that data with specific user feedback... things like what time of day does the person listen to this song, group, genre... what day of the week, what's the weather like (b/c it impacts mood), maybe even how many keystrokes they're type (working?), and add personal rating options, information about whether they listen to the song all of the way through, etc.
So, the application for that data is that you should be able to hit the play button on your media player and it should based on the time of day, weather, etc. be able to create a playlist for you based on your past behaviors. Then allow for simple controls, either to increase/decrease tempo, define the mood/style you're interested in at that time, or other simple subjective hints. Of course you should also be able pick specific songs/playlists, artists, etc. if you want to help seed the list or listen to something specific. Combine that with a streaming audio service, that would occassionaly inject a stream of a song into your playlist that you don't own but that matches your tastes and current mood, and offer you the chance to purchase it and you might have another way to sell/market music online.
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When will the world wake up and realize that the United Kingdom controls all time because they control the meridian. We need the UN to intervene her and remove this aggressive and unilateral control of time from the UK immediately. Once the UN is in control all nations can equally benefit from time and will be secure in knowing that a combined organization of beurocrats is in control. Of course, nations with limited time resources (like Singapore, with only one timezone), could be given more time and nations who have an abundance of time (like the US, with 4! timezones) could be forced to share equally with the rest of the world.
If you need complete security from all government agencies (or other parties) you need to combine a strong encryption system like ROT13 with a text-based cyphering system like l33t sp34k. Continued study into lossy 1-bit compression, which effectively reduces and entire file to a single bit, could also be used to thwart the unauthorized individuals from gaining access to your data. Of course, you'd have to accept a little data loss if you chose to compress your encrypted files.
I am currently working on the next-gen encryption system that will handle binary files better than ROT13 (yes, I know it's hard to believe). This new system will use the same encryption concepts on the entire WORD. I call this system ROTl33tn00b, or R0t3n for short. When I have my code (pure VB6) finished I will release it to the community under GNU/GPL.
By buying Yahoo! and razing it to the ground.
designed with emphasis on dependability instead of performance
And Intel and AMD simultaneously wet themselves.
Seems like Answers Corporation is making a grab for the Wikishare. Saw this posted on the the Uncyclopedia, the one true source for knowledge, earlier today.
The Uncyclopedia has announced a fund-raising (WORK FROM HOME! MAKE SIX FIGURES) partnership with Answers Corporation (http://www.gurunet.com/) and will replace all of the Uncyclopedia content with a growing (Buy PENIS enlargement products NOW!!!) number of unobtrusive advertisements. The Uncylopedia will recieve three easy installments of $19.95.
It's a sad day for the Wikispace.
Is it soylent green energy? Is it made from people?
For some reason you have to press 'Execute' on an attached terminal every 108 minutes or... something catasrophic will happen.
by the Uncyclopedia as the one true source for all knowledge.
Just one.
ASCII, Unicode, TCP/IP, XML.
Furthermore most vendors embrace a standard and then extend it by adding additional functionality on top of that as their customers demand it. MS made a big mistake by taking that model to the web because the popularity of their browser created an interoperability nightmare... but the embrace and extend model is not MS specific nor is it a bad thing if you can preserver interoperability with apps that don't support your enhancements (something MS did a poor job of with HTML/CSS).
Alas, I am not new here. If I was new I would have said, "Slashdot is a honeypot for Microsoft hating crackpot". My id was created 34582 accounts before yours... so I must be slow or maybe just tired of all of the mindless rhetoric.
OpenDocument support by government makes perfect sense to me. Government doesn't need to create barriers for dealing with it by using expensive proprietary software products when there are affordable (free) alternatives. I get that. What I was railing and ranting against (I'll admit it was rant) was the immediate attack of Microsoft for simply saying they may at some point support OpenDocument, but not right now. They made a move from "we will never support OpenDocument" (which they may or may not have said), to "we MAY support it" and the response is not "Massachussets has made an impact" or "MS is responding ot market pressures" but ranting and raving about how MS will corrupt OpenDocument and "embrace and extend" it and how evil it is that MS has taken a position on OpenDocument. But hey... I said "crackpot" so it's flamebait.
You're welcome.
The gist of the article is that Microsoft MAY support OpenDocument in the future if the demand is there. And the nutcases who get paged when there's an M$ story on /. come a runnin' to spout off about "embrace and extend" and Netscape and monopolies and Balmer will f'ing kill you. The only point that is made by all of this commotion is that there is a group of geeks who hate Microsoft so much that they cannot make logical rationale decisions or anlaysis about technical developments or corporate directions... or posts that simply amount to "we'll do whatever is in our customers (and our) best interests in the future". Tone down all of the rhetoric... it makes you look like a bunch of ignorant whelps.
Now we just have to figure out have MS intends to "embrace, extend, extinguish" or otherwise make it unattractive and derail any of their attempts to do so.
That, and also determine how the government has managed to hide the alien lifeforms for the last 60 years and of course where they keep their mind control rays. Tin-foil hats of the world unite!
They will find way to still make money off it however
How dare they! Those evil corporations.
First off coding is something anybody can learn and is improved by simple practice. Now there is no "anybody else" if people would just take the effort to learn a little.
So is playing a musical instrument, or learning how to do complex tax forms, or writing a sci-fi novel. The point is that for most people it's not worth learning to add the feature and actually coding scripts is moderately simple to learn, but writing complex code and modifying other people complex code, particularly when moderately complex maths are involved isn't something someone picks up over the weekend (and if it is help us all when the Indians and Chinese figure this out... oh wait).
But, what if you aren't a coder?
What are you some kind of ignorant n00b!? RTFM idiot! RTFC for goodness sakes. How hard is it to learn C, learn all 28 of the relevant libraries, learn how the code was implemented, write the code, test the code, and convince the maintainer to add the code to the core code base? You must be some kind of lazy ignorant wretch.
Does anyone know of a hack to get thet battery life on the 200Gb Nano up from 6-minutes? I'm thinking maybe a car battery could be used for power. Any thoughts?
"There's nothing like adding an extra 196 gigs to my iPod Nano so I can listen to all my favorite British Invasion bands." -- Oscar Wilde.
It's good to see that more and more people are realizing that the Uncyclopedia is the true source for knowledge.
Yes and the email virus was sent to my company from your company's insecure email servers and my company is a large global company and we had to spend $5 million to fix the problem, so we're sending your company the bill and a letter from our lawyers about the legal proceedings that will follow if you can't or are unwilling to pay.
There will always be a market for "cheaper" software that is not guaranteed to such a level,
Of course if you apply personal liability to developers or even development companies for security issues you have effectively eliminated that market by increasing the liability for entering it and thereby increasing the costs. You are absolutely right that most people don't want or need ultra-secure software, but as soon as these politicans and lawyers start meddling we'll see utlra-secure software with minimal features, few revisions, and extremely high costs.
How many times have you seen Lethal Weapon 3?
"We need individual accountability from developers for end-to-end solutions so we can go to them and say: 'Is this completely secure?'," Schmidt said.
You can ask them that today! Have them sign a damned contract w/ the answer or if they work for you and they lie, fire them on the spot. Why does the government need to get involved? The answer is... they don't! This guy is just another meddeling politician trying to find a platform to build his career of taking money from special interest groups and the talk circuit.
IBM has received 29,021 patents--more than any other company or individual in the world.
Yeah, I've recieved 28,973 myself. Seriously, isn't it redundant that no individual could recieve more than 29,021 patents in a 12 year period? That's averaging 6.6 patents per day.
Here's an idea for combining this model with other models for recommending music. Take the recommend the song based on structure model, combine it with the recommend the songs based on what other people who listen to music like you list to model (e.g. last.fm), and add the Amazon purchasing model to it. Combine that data with specific user feedback... things like what time of day does the person listen to this song, group, genre... what day of the week, what's the weather like (b/c it impacts mood), maybe even how many keystrokes they're type (working?), and add personal rating options, information about whether they listen to the song all of the way through, etc.
So, the application for that data is that you should be able to hit the play button on your media player and it should based on the time of day, weather, etc. be able to create a playlist for you based on your past behaviors. Then allow for simple controls, either to increase/decrease tempo, define the mood/style you're interested in at that time, or other simple subjective hints. Of course you should also be able pick specific songs/playlists, artists, etc. if you want to help seed the list or listen to something specific. Combine that with a streaming audio service, that would occassionaly inject a stream of a song into your playlist that you don't own but that matches your tastes and current mood, and offer you the chance to purchase it and you might have another way to sell/market music online.