a cool $5 mil to helping law enforcement agencies address computer-related crimes.
Crimes like piracy of Windows ?. Patent policing ?. More SCO like allegations on newer projects that imitate or duplicate Microsoft products ?.
Another $1 million will go to New York State to "expand computer-related skills training for youths and adults"
Train them to use Outlook, Word and Excel or do they mean.NET,C# and Monad ?. Sort of catch them young approach ?.
I've seen a lot of Microsoft charity - it's often just building a new market for themselves, locking in an expanding market or blatant tax evasionary steps . They sent 250 XP Cds to a school and mark the cost as donations. I went on TV to help FSF guys call foul on that in Kerala - apparently it seems to have made some impact there (they teach about using OpenOffice and FireFox now).
Essentially the money is in Microsoft's pockets and they are trying for Maximum ROI, rather than paying it out as dividends to their shareholders right now.
> If the current crop of publishers get too greedy the market will punish them for it. Heck, there's probably someone in India right now wondering how to put a bunch of their PhDs to work..
Mmm.. yup. Sooner or later most of the cheap indian labour is going to go academic as they age and mature. I wouldn't be surprised if the technological power cycle continues to move westwards (Europe -> US -> Asia is westwards).
> One is a legal activity under auspicies of UN and the other an attempt to overthrow a government of one country for the personal gain of the spymaster's and installation of "friendly" regime, i.e. "regime change". You can be all pissed about Saddam but unless he was engaged in a direct action against another nation, his removal was a matter for Iraqis to accomplish. What US did was an insult to all Iraqis, all Arabs and all Muslims, a result of "daddy knows best" arrogance combined with ulterior motives.
US is actually sending out a very bad message to the world - equivalent to telling all the little boys to get their mace cans refilled, because the bully's out to punish. Consider the following 4 countries
North Korea - has nukes, no oil
Iraq - No nukes, has oil
Iran - Nukes and oil
India - Nukes, no oil
Ok, US is negotiating with North Korea, re-opening talks with Iran, invaded Iraq and just invited Indian prime minister to meet Bush. See a pattern ?. If you don't have nukes, you have no bargaining weight with the US - you might be colonized or downright conquered. So what do you think the world's gonna do ?.
I'm an Indian, I know what's going to happen here - we're going to become US of A's battering ram aimed at China. Economic, military, political.. whatever means required. Then US will turn on us in the same way they turned on Saddam or whoever was their pet in the last decade. Actually this is even worse than 1930's Germany when you had evil personified to attack and destroy - subtle is the devil now.
Rasterman is the crazy scientist of desktop programming. He does all kinds of innovative shit, most of which push the boundaries of normal programming, but doesn't give you much other than a view of the possibilities.Stuff he does using the CPU is magic, I've seen enlightenment just rock on a P III 450 - and with just X11 , no OpenGL - no GPU at all.
But, he often doesn't make something you could install on a corporate desktop (I use fluxbox at work). The last E17 install I had has flashing titlebars but Alt+Tab doesn't work. So I hope more and more people learn from E17 and push the envelope for the ordinary user.
Whenever freenet pops up in any discussion, there are two points discussed.
* Child porn * Political propoganda
These are two of the untouchable evils that are used to condemn Freenet. The rest of the world really doesn't see the point of an organized data store distributed accross machines based on constancy of use.
After all, political dissidents are an essential measure of the health of a country. One with too little or too much of those indicate either fascism or anarchy. Democracy essentially says that the minorities shall not get what they want (ie the minority is defined as people who voted for something other than the majority) - it should technically have some disgruntled citizens. If you believe otherwise, please stop buying more shiny things.
Anyway, like I like to say "Technology is a sword, both sides use and misuse it". And the essential sarcastic comment about "Freenet can be used for terrorist communications".
Firefox has this cool extension called RefSpoof which lets you spoof HTTP referrers. All you do is give it a link like spoof://www.nytimes.com/;ref://google.com to get the desired effect.
But the real hack is to include a greasemonkey hack for nytimes.com called nytspoof .
This all goes to prove that never trust what the user's browser says:)
Sure google's doing a lot to *many* OSS projects out theres - but the news article was about BSD, should be marked the reliable 'red' devil (uh.. daemon).
> So on x86 when you think about upgrading that 2 year old CPU to something new, well the pin layout has changed and you need to buy a new motherboard, with new type of Ram, and now new components (SATA, PCI-X etc...)
You have to realize that paying for a new box out of the shop is not always in the means of a student out there. I started out my computer adventures with a P 3 450 Mhz on a VIA board with 32 MB Ram and an 8 Gb HDD. The very same machine currently has the same CPU , 320 Mb of RAM, an Asus , 48 GB hdd, USB2.0 adapter and an OpenGL video card (of course it is now is being used by my sister to write word documents).
For a well paid geek, upgrading might not make much sense. But for a student with a slow & steady stream of cash, such mild upgrades do work nicely.
The last windows scripting I did was to convert a PHB excel spread sheet into a bugzilla report. It was converting the typical shared spread sheet on a folder share variety of bug reporting into proper bugzilla-like one (there are better ways, but it works).
More over I like python - it has win32com which is damn easy to use, at least with Excel objects. Writing the script took me less than a day, while entering the bugs manually would have taken me over a week (imagine 2200 bugs of varying severity, and descriptions). The real challenge was to convert the OLE objects into attachements (screenshots, logs..). Truly they were idiots for maintaining all this in a SINGLE EXCEL File !!.
But the point being, python+win32com is as easy as any other windows scripting host. Looks like there's python support for Photoshop as well.
Python is an average general purpose language. It's not fast like C++, doesn't have something like CPAN , nor is it very complicated or interesting. But it is often easy to write, read and throw away (or upload to your hacks/).
I thought china was behind a sort of Great Firewall of China ?.
Anwyay, you'll find me a the local tavern where all the chinese play talking about Democracy and Fair market prices. If you visit you'll get a free sword of omens - identical to what I use. I'd like to see WoW ban me or block these chinese yuppies from hearing capitalist propoganda (like Google did).
Face it people, they have the population, they have the money (thanks to US shipping manufacturing jobs there last decade) and they have the market.
> My father died when I was one year old. He knew he was going to die. My mother knew he was going to die. I am not an accident.
It is one of nature's builtin safety systems. Something primeval in us which drives us to procreation when we feel the end is near (not the cheesy take me , before this ship sinks jokes). It is something built into us - because this trait was selected by nature as more successful than, I'll not have a child because I'm dying.
It is at great stress and extreme circumstances that we give in to our deepest natures - which is the drivings of our Selfish Genes. To produce one like you, who will carry his genes for the next generation - hope to carry him and your mother through.
> I'm surprised they haven't deployed water cannons over there - those would seem to be infinitely less lethal than machine-guns or even this microwave laser they're proposing.
Iraq is a desert.. except for the oases and the irrigated farms which used exist before Bush sr bombed the dams. It is also supposed to be where the Garden of Eden was (Euphrates, Tigris...).
>
However, given the heatwaves and lack of electricity for cooling, there's a danger people would riot just to cool down.
A cool and comfortable crowd is a lot less likely to be violent. It's the hot and stressed crowds that are rowdy. Have you ever been in a riot ?.
I've only been in student protests and a slight rain is more effective than a police force with tear-gas grenades in dispersing it.
All looks way too much like old Soviet Russia testing out their lethal poisons in afghanistan villages.
RSS is purely one-way communication. It's like that locked newsboard in the cafeteria and quite unlike the refrigerator with magnets.
RSS will work for announcements - which is what it's being used for. Mainly news, notifications and other random communication. Or more correctly content distribution via a pull model. You can rest assured that RSS along will not create a community like the blogosphere. It needed readers and commentors to make it work. See slashdot for example - I read it purely for the comments (like that old playboy T Shirt).
Stuff like RssTorrents or Yahoo maps using GeoRss. Face it people, RSS could be the usenet of the modern world - but there's a catch - you can't post !!.
Perl6 freaks put out a periodic table of operators. What's periodic about it ?.. the frequency in which it is NOT updated.
The current organization of the periodic table is almost burned into my brain. Six years after touching my last chemistry text book, I can still remember that Zinc is too close to the non-metals and that there's a huge fuss about what the names of those artificial elements that they started naming it Unun to avoid controversy.
My point being that it is a mnemonic chart more than anything else these days (unlike the days back then, when there were known gaps in the table). Mendeleev must have had guts of steel to leave them blank:)
Mm.. that sounds like terrorist talk to me. The terrorist trials are kinda like the witch trials they joke about. She's a witch !... and it's all downhill all the way.
Until Banks provide good security - the kind that common people understand (ie an out of order message for some stuff will have the guy doing it again), online fraud will keep happening. Especially with things like credit card numbers which are printed on the card, but is supposed to be a secret.
>
Women do not want irrelevant commercials, but are willing to watch and advertisement that they are interested in. Unfortunately for the tv industry, I don't think men want commercials at all...
What ! ?... I too care about relevant commercials - like how drinking Vud Blight beer will make Jay Leno look like Angelina Jolie. Or how I can overcompensate for the size of my..uhmm.. nose with a new SUV which I can drive through two blocks to my office.
But yeah, I don't want to watch another AD on bathing soap or toothfloss... They're just not relevant.
Not to be sexist or anything, life of a housewife is often one of reaction rather than plans and action. Just when my mother sits down to watch TV, my sister asks for help with her homework or I fall down off a tree or bicycle (this is about 9 years back.. btw). I can understand if she had more say in buying a DVR:)
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Crimes like piracy of Windows ?. Patent policing ?. More SCO like allegations on newer projects that imitate or duplicate Microsoft products ?.
Another $1 million will go to New York State to "expand computer-related skills training for youths and adults"Train them to use Outlook, Word and Excel or do they mean .NET,C# and Monad ?. Sort of catch them young approach ?.
I've seen a lot of Microsoft charity - it's often just building a new market for themselves, locking in an expanding market or blatant tax evasionary steps . They sent 250 XP Cds to a school and mark the cost as donations. I went on TV to help FSF guys call foul on that in Kerala - apparently it seems to have made some impact there (they teach about using OpenOffice and FireFox now).Essentially the money is in Microsoft's pockets and they are trying for Maximum ROI, rather than paying it out as dividends to their shareholders right now.
Mmm.. yup. Sooner or later most of the cheap indian labour is going to go academic as they age and mature. I wouldn't be surprised if the technological power cycle continues to move westwards (Europe -> US -> Asia is westwards).
Try running a virus on Wine ..
.. this is indeed an excellent demo - I wonder if I can run it using libaa :)
You'll realize that all the "standard" offsets most viruses use for exploiting buffer overflows are almost always not valid in Wine.
Also this has been featured on tucows.com
Yahoo news , my.yahoo.com , search and alerts .. have all been RSS for quite some time.
/. banned my.yahoo).
I can imagine the irony of reading google news on my.yahoo.com (too bad
US is actually sending out a very bad message to the world - equivalent to telling all the little boys to get their mace cans refilled, because the bully's out to punish. Consider the following 4 countries
Ok, US is negotiating with North Korea, re-opening talks with Iran, invaded Iraq and just invited Indian prime minister to meet Bush. See a pattern ?. If you don't have nukes, you have no bargaining weight with the US - you might be colonized or downright conquered. So what do you think the world's gonna do ?.
I'm an Indian, I know what's going to happen here - we're going to become US of A's battering ram aimed at China. Economic, military, politicalRasterman is the crazy scientist of desktop programming. He does all kinds of innovative shit, most of which push the boundaries of normal programming, but doesn't give you much other than a view of the possibilities.Stuff he does using the CPU is magic, I've seen enlightenment just rock on a P III 450 - and with just X11 , no OpenGL - no GPU at all.
But, he often doesn't make something you could install on a corporate desktop (I use fluxbox at work). The last E17 install I had has flashing titlebars but Alt+Tab doesn't work. So I hope more and more people learn from E17 and push the envelope for the ordinary user.
Whenever freenet pops up in any discussion, there are two points discussed.
* Child porn
* Political propoganda
These are two of the untouchable evils that are used to condemn Freenet. The rest of the world really doesn't see the point of an organized data store distributed accross machines based on constancy of use.
After all, political dissidents are an essential measure of the health of a country. One with too little or too much of those indicate either fascism or anarchy. Democracy essentially says that the minorities shall not get what they want (ie the minority is defined as people who voted for something other than the majority) - it should technically have some disgruntled citizens. If you believe otherwise, please stop buying more shiny things.
Anyway, like I like to say "Technology is a sword, both sides use and misuse it". And the essential sarcastic comment about "Freenet can be used for terrorist communications".
But the real hack is to include a greasemonkey hack for nytimes.com called nytspoof .
This all goes to prove that never trust what the user's browser saysConsidering that he works for Microsoft, that is quire scary :). Btw, he has defected to Communist China as well ... (j/k)
Liberty is established on the basis of deterrents and rewards, not active prevention. And Facist democracy is not an oxymoron.
I have inkscape 0.41 but it does not allow you to edit text that is shaped inside a box or a curve.
It's really a pain to close inkscape and type it out in raw XML to get the shaped text working.
I think it's not fair to mark this as Google.
:)
Sure google's doing a lot to *many* OSS projects out theres - but the news article was about BSD, should be marked the reliable 'red' devil (uh.. daemon).
I guess half the comments would be about this
-1: Redundant
You have to realize that paying for a new box out of the shop is not always in the means of a student out there. I started out my computer adventures with a P 3 450 Mhz on a VIA board with 32 MB Ram and an 8 Gb HDD. The very same machine currently has the same CPU , 320 Mb of RAM, an Asus , 48 GB hdd, USB2.0 adapter and an OpenGL video card (of course it is now is being used by my sister to write word documents).
For a well paid geek, upgrading might not make much sense. But for a student with a slow & steady stream of cash, such mild upgrades do work nicely.Get cygwin.. and write shell scripts...
Of course, it could be pain when you have spaces in your file names.
More over I like python - it has win32com which is damn easy to use, at least with Excel objects. Writing the script took me less than a day, while entering the bugs manually would have taken me over a week (imagine 2200 bugs of varying severity, and descriptions). The real challenge was to convert the OLE objects into attachements (screenshots, logs..). Truly they were idiots for maintaining all this in a SINGLE EXCEL File !!.
But the point being, python+win32com is as easy as any other windows scripting host. Looks like there's python support for Photoshop as well.Python is an average general purpose language. It's not fast like C++, doesn't have something like CPAN , nor is it very complicated or interesting. But it is often easy to write, read and throw away (or upload to your hacks/).
I thought china was behind a sort of Great Firewall of China ?.
Anwyay, you'll find me a the local tavern where all the chinese play talking about Democracy and Fair market prices. If you visit you'll get a free sword of omens - identical to what I use. I'd like to see WoW ban me or block these chinese yuppies from hearing capitalist propoganda (like Google did).
Face it people, they have the population, they have the money (thanks to US shipping manufacturing jobs there last decade) and they have the market.
It is one of nature's builtin safety systems. Something primeval in us which drives us to procreation when we feel the end is near (not the cheesy take me , before this ship sinks jokes). It is something built into us - because this trait was selected by nature as more successful than, I'll not have a child because I'm dying.
It is at great stress and extreme circumstances that we give in to our deepest natures - which is the drivings of our Selfish Genes. To produce one like you, who will carry his genes for the next generation - hope to carry him and your mother through.Iraq is a desert .. except for the oases and the irrigated farms which used exist before Bush sr bombed the dams. It is also supposed to be where the Garden of Eden was (Euphrates, Tigris...).
> However, given the heatwaves and lack of electricity for cooling, there's a danger people would riot just to cool down.A cool and comfortable crowd is a lot less likely to be violent. It's the hot and stressed crowds that are rowdy. Have you ever been in a riot ?. I've only been in student protests and a slight rain is more effective than a police force with tear-gas grenades in dispersing it.
All looks way too much like old Soviet Russia testing out their lethal poisons in afghanistan villages.RSS is purely one-way communication. It's like that locked newsboard in the cafeteria and quite unlike the refrigerator with magnets.
RSS will work for announcements - which is what it's being used for. Mainly news, notifications and other random communication. Or more correctly content distribution via a pull model. You can rest assured that RSS along will not create a community like the blogosphere. It needed readers and commentors to make it work. See slashdot for example - I read it purely for the comments (like that old playboy T Shirt).
Stuff like RssTorrents or Yahoo maps using GeoRss. Face it people, RSS could be the usenet of the modern world - but there's a catch - you can't post !!.
The current organization of the periodic table is almost burned into my brain. Six years after touching my last chemistry text book, I can still remember that Zinc is too close to the non-metals and that there's a huge fuss about what the names of those artificial elements that they started naming it Unun to avoid controversy.
My point being that it is a mnemonic chart more than anything else these days (unlike the days back then, when there were known gaps in the table). Mendeleev must have had guts of steel to leave them blankUntil Banks provide good security - the kind that common people understand (ie an out of order message for some stuff will have the guy doing it again), online fraud will keep happening. Especially with things like credit card numbers which are printed on the card, but is supposed to be a secret.
WTF ?
Power over Ethernet ?
Broadband over power ?
Has the world really gone topsy turvy ?
The sad part is that you can hardly run it on an old box. To run it properly you need at least a good video card (which I never spent much on).
What ! ?... I too care about relevant commercials - like how drinking Vud Blight beer will make Jay Leno look like Angelina Jolie. Or how I can overcompensate for the size of my ..uhmm.. nose with a new SUV which I can drive through two blocks to my office.
But yeah, I don't want to watch another AD on bathing soap or toothfloss... They're just not relevant.Not to be sexist or anything, life of a housewife is often one of reaction rather than plans and action. Just when my mother sits down to watch TV, my sister asks for help with her homework or I fall down off a tree or bicycle (this is about 9 years back.. btw). I can understand if she had more say in buying a DVR :)