Yes, that is exactly why I am paying the tuition for my daughter's university experience, so she can learn to blindly accept policies without the bothersome need for critical thinking, with the ultimate goal of differentiating herself from the rest of the world by being just like everyone else. That is what I expect from an institution of higher learning.
There will be plenty of time for diversity later, right now you must conform.
PS: she is running Mandrake 9.1 (unsupported by her school) by choice (hers, not mine.) XP is on the baox, it just doesn't see much action.
He is piling it on so thick it could collapse under scrutiny.
"There's no question that in cloning activities, IP from many, many companies, including Microsoft, is being used in open-source software," Gates said.
I can't help but wonder how the original MS-DOS would fare in this current climate. Seems that Digital Resarch could claim theft of huge portions of thier IP as demonstrated by the CP/M identical BIOS function numbers, '$' terminated strings and three character filename extentions. Must have just been coincidence, not cloning.
Consider the basic requirements: Existing hardware must remain usable. Existing software must remain usable
Exactly what can one expect to meet those two
requirements except the ever so obvious
Existing OS? This really sounds like an unrealistic setup from the very first page.
My summary would be: I want to use magic pixie dust. Linux isn't it, so I'll complain.
Even if the complaints have merit, they are framed in such a way as to destroy any credibility or value they might have had.
It is interesting that they are going to take such a strong stance on open wireless. Consider for a moment, from the perspective of an investigator, which would be easier to trace?
Unencrypted access through a fixed access point
Encrypted access passed through an ad-hoc network whose components may never be in the same place again
Now, consider the nature of the 'enemy' we claim to be fighting. In a previous attack, they spent years recruiting and planning, creating model citizens and sending them to commercial flight schools. Can anyone really expect that the next 'big plan' will hing on something as unpredicatble as the availability of an open access point? It would be so much more theatrical to drive up to my driveway and unleash the killer virus through my Airport, than to do it privately over DSL in some statistically average appartment in a statistically average community. Theatrical maybe, but it wouldn't be near as practical.
In the mean time, the only decent way to secure wireless communcations is some sort of end to end encryption. However you do it, VPN, tunneling, whatever, if done correctly, increases the number of encrypted packets floating though the network. Nice heavily protected strong crypto packets that require CPU years to decode. And now, with all the freshly secured wireless traffic, a 6 year olds letter to grandma will be indistiguishable from real terrorist communications. I, for one, find this to be a good thing, but it sure gets in the way of the current investigational mentality which says the only things deserving encryption must be 'evil' secrets.
No, sir, I'm not hiding anything. Just doing my patriotic duty.
I never could understand the PDA fascination. I had a paper calendar, a paper phone book, and paper to take notes. Now I carry a Zaurus almost constantly. It really is more like a pocket size laptop. I can keep lots of stuff at my fingertips since I don't have to shove everything into 8M or into some special format. The open nature of the Zaurus and its real Linux base made it especially appealing to me. Two apps that I have found indispensible (beyond what came with it) are:
IQnotes - a hierarchical database that can store almost anything. A few minutes in emacs and almost anything can be turned into a compatible XML document
Keyring to store those ever proliferating passwords, pins, account numbers, etc.
Then there is my wife, an RN. She started out with a Palm to keep contacts and her schedule. After a few months, the calendar didn't get updated anymore, but she still carries it everyday thanks to ePocrates, a really comprehensive medication database.
If all you can think of to do with one is the typical PIM stuff, and you are not already disciplined with something like Day Timer, you might not get much real use out of a PDA. But if you can find the right apps for the right PDA, you might find a very useful tool.
So, the ones that belive in a 'Supreme Being' are supporting the 'under god' inclusion by arguing that the phrase doesn't mean that much, while the atheists insist that the phrase 'under god' has meaning so it should be removed.
I don't care what side you want to take, that is something to think about.
Is this the same linux that isn't worth a Quicktime player? I thought that was just for those bottom-feeding free-as-in-beer types who never spend any money. Please pardon my seething sarcasm. Maybe more coffee will help. Sigh.
This is not really the first win/linux virus. There was a cross platform virus over a year ago. Wired had an article on it, as did f-secure.com. This may be more malicious, but the first was GPL'd.
Payment for Microsoft licences isn't considered a subsidy, it is just the cost. Returning your improvements to a GPL code base isn't subsidy, either. It is just the cost.
This is the part of equation most companies don't seem to understand. It is inspiring to think that, just maybe, someone in the US govement 'gets' it.
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I've used an old P75 with Linux for driving similar printers. Keep it simple with just a minimal install and a small hard drive should be big enough.
Yes, that is exactly why I am paying the tuition for my daughter's university experience, so she can learn to blindly accept policies without the bothersome need for critical thinking, with the ultimate goal of differentiating herself from the rest of the world by being just like everyone else. That is what I expect from an institution of higher learning.
There will be plenty of time for diversity later, right now you must conform.
PS: she is running Mandrake 9.1 (unsupported by her school) by choice (hers, not mine.) XP is on the baox, it just doesn't see much action.
"There's no question that in cloning activities, IP from many, many companies, including Microsoft, is being used in open-source software," Gates said.
I can't help but wonder how the original MS-DOS would fare in this current climate. Seems that Digital Resarch could claim theft of huge portions of thier IP as demonstrated by the CP/M identical BIOS function numbers, '$' terminated strings and three character filename extentions. Must have just been coincidence, not cloning.
Existing hardware must remain usable.
Existing software must remain usable
Exactly what can one expect to meet those two requirements except the ever so obvious Existing OS? This really sounds like an unrealistic setup from the very first page.
My summary would be: I want to use magic pixie dust. Linux isn't it, so I'll complain.
Even if the complaints have merit, they are framed in such a way as to destroy any credibility or value they might have had.
Now, consider the nature of the 'enemy' we claim to be fighting. In a previous attack, they spent years recruiting and planning, creating model citizens and sending them to commercial flight schools. Can anyone really expect that the next 'big plan' will hing on something as unpredicatble as the availability of an open access point? It would be so much more theatrical to drive up to my driveway and unleash the killer virus through my Airport, than to do it privately over DSL in some statistically average appartment in a statistically average community. Theatrical maybe, but it wouldn't be near as practical.
In the mean time, the only decent way to secure wireless communcations is some sort of end to end encryption. However you do it, VPN, tunneling, whatever, if done correctly, increases the number of encrypted packets floating though the network. Nice heavily protected strong crypto packets that require CPU years to decode. And now, with all the freshly secured wireless traffic, a 6 year olds letter to grandma will be indistiguishable from real terrorist communications. I, for one, find this to be a good thing, but it sure gets in the way of the current investigational mentality which says the only things deserving encryption must be 'evil' secrets.
No, sir, I'm not hiding anything. Just doing my patriotic duty.
Then there is my wife, an RN. She started out with a Palm to keep contacts and her schedule. After a few months, the calendar didn't get updated anymore, but she still carries it everyday thanks to ePocrates, a really comprehensive medication database.
If all you can think of to do with one is the typical PIM stuff, and you are not already disciplined with something like Day Timer, you might not get much real use out of a PDA. But if you can find the right apps for the right PDA, you might find a very useful tool.
I don't care what side you want to take, that is something to think about.
Is this the same linux that isn't worth a Quicktime player? I thought that was just for those bottom-feeding free-as-in-beer types who never spend any money. Please pardon my seething sarcasm. Maybe more coffee will help. Sigh.
This is not really the first win/linux virus. There was a cross platform virus over a year ago. Wired had an article on it, as did f-secure.com. This may be more malicious, but the first was GPL'd.
This is the part of equation most companies don't seem to understand. It is inspiring to think that, just maybe, someone in the US govement 'gets' it.