Yeah, that's what I had in mind. =) Some other fellow posted "No you can't have a constitution"...but like a dork I replied to the thread instead of him. Woulda made more sense. Ah well. Never post when sleep deprived.
Everything on the fiber side is all fiber. So home-to-home connections will get full speed.
And that's a beautiful thing. Back when RoadRunner first came to our neighborhood and they didn't install the speed caps yet, it was fantastic. We'd run Quake servers and have LAN party speeds across the city.
The home-to-home applications of this kind of bandwidth are a thing of beauty.
I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
There is the Microsoft business strategy in a nutshell. Do not debate relative merits, just brainwash your audience. Don't let them decide - tell them what they want.
internet service providers (ISPs) will bear some of the responsibility for helping fight spam.
Some is not all, which means that any percentage they block meets the requirement. If they delete one, and pass 1000 - that fits the definition of some.
ISPs will also be compelled to impose 'reasonable' limits on subscribers' sending email.
Do any spammers use their own account for outbound spam?
Thanks for clearing that up. I always suspected that was the case. Every time I see a news story where some business person makes a public statement of intention, I always felt it was a non-story since it seemed to me that they could just simply change their mind 5 minutes later and nothing would come of it.
I hadn't thought of that, but you're absolutely right. This is another reason to celebrate.
Y'know something else? I used to work in a corporate programming environment some time ago. And when you start missing deadlines, you get a lot of clueless managers jumping up and down. You job starts to look like it's in peril. Eventually you'll do anything to make the mgrs happy and get them off your back. Like...release sloppy/busted code. I know it's going to happen with Vista. I just know it.
Which makes it all the more likely that some 15 year old Norwegian kid is going to bust the Vista DRM within a few weeks of its official release. Damn but that's going to be funny.
To prove that you can. A lot of Slashdot is about that. "Because you can" answers a lot of Slashdot questions. Why modify your case to look like a Borg cube? Why port Linux to your PDA?
Hacking is about curiosity, first and foremost. And there was a question out there...how much like a PC are the new x86 Macs? And running Windows on it answers the question with authority.
I agree with you and I understand what you're saying, but I'm not so sure about your analogy.
Take the analogy of crossing the street: Sure, some people speed and run red lights. Yes, it's their fault for breaking the law, but if you just strolled out into the street without looking both ways and got whacked, then it'd be your fault as well as his/hers.
To me, it's more like (and this is a little extreme, but please bear with me) if some guy came by your house every day and threw a half a dozen loaded guns registered to your name in your yard.
You know that they're there because they're there every day. So every day you have to pick them up. But if you miss one, if a thief takes one from your yard (because thieves know they're there too) or one gets picked out of the trash and used for a crime, it's your ass that gets nailed. Not the guy who keeps throwing them all over your yard. It's up to you to fix that mess, too. The best solution would be to have the guy stop dumping the guns there, not running around trying to clean up his mess.
Yeah, I do the right thing and shred absolutely everything I get in the mail. And I live in a nice neighborhood where people dont (yet anyways) steal stuff out of my mailbox. But it's seriously irresponsible behavior on the part of the banks to make it as necessary as it is.
Server engineer Brad Sarsfield in a blog posting. 'Hearing senior executives say things like: 'I want the people responsible for those features in my office early next week; I want to get to the bottom of this' was at least one measure of success from my point of view for the event.'
I'd be a little more worried if I was Brad. That feature your boss wants to know who's responsible for..what if it's 'Clippy'???
And I'll even go so far as to say the reason why there will be no next big thing - it's our broken-ass patent system.
Someone, somewhere out there has part of your brilliant idea buried in a vaguely worded submarine patent. Soon as you hit the big time - wham. Some greedy patent grubbing jerk will sue you for daring to make use of "his idea" that he's been sitting on not using for the last half a dozen years or so.
Only big business has enough lawyers these days to explore uncharted waters. Which means that business will be in charge of innovation. Which means that no product/idea/whatever will get the green light without a financial analysis conducted by a committee of people who will 99.9% of the time tend to be conservative, or maybe even just plain clueless as to the new idea's implications.
The days of the solo guy in the garage coming up with the thing that changes the world are over.
The banks do have an obligation to clean up their act, but they're not COMPLETELY to blame.
Respectfully, I disagree. It is the bank's fault.
They mail you something you didn't ask for, which might be stolen and used against you. And their system for determining what's stolen is broken. And their recommended method of disposal doesn't work.
They create a security risk, and demonstratably do not care about it one whit. Why? Because whenever something bad happens, it doesn't happen to them.
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Yeah, that's what I had in mind. =) Some other fellow posted "No you can't have a constitution"...but like a dork I replied to the thread instead of him. Woulda made more sense. Ah well. Never post when sleep deprived.
Not yours.
=)
Everything on the fiber side is all fiber. So home-to-home connections will get full speed.
And that's a beautiful thing. Back when RoadRunner first came to our neighborhood and they didn't install the speed caps yet, it was fantastic. We'd run Quake servers and have LAN party speeds across the city.
The home-to-home applications of this kind of bandwidth are a thing of beauty.
Just wanted to say that you're 100% right. Brilliant post.
It's right there in your quote:
I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
There is the Microsoft business strategy in a nutshell. Do not debate relative merits, just brainwash your audience. Don't let them decide - tell them what they want.
I was just joking. Seemed like an egotistical thing this guy might be likely to say.
If only Slashdot had smiley icons. Ah well.
His Slashdot ID is in the 100,000's, and yours is in the 700,000's.
You must be new here.
It's another token effort.
internet service providers (ISPs) will bear some of the responsibility for helping fight spam.
Some is not all, which means that any percentage they block meets the requirement. If they delete one, and pass 1000 - that fits the definition of some.
ISPs will also be compelled to impose 'reasonable' limits on subscribers' sending email.
Do any spammers use their own account for outbound spam?
Thanks for clearing that up. I always suspected that was the case. Every time I see a news story where some business person makes a public statement of intention, I always felt it was a non-story since it seemed to me that they could just simply change their mind 5 minutes later and nothing would come of it.
So, let's say Ballmer says he'll never pursue legal action against Linux. And decides 2 years from now to do so anyways.
What happens next?
And keep on using it. IE gets attacked most often because it's the most popular browser.
It keeps my Firefox experience nice. And it keeps the guys at Geek Squad employed.
...to complain about a DDOS attack. Behold, the power of Slashdot!
'Cause then he could go for the chair!
I hadn't thought of that, but you're absolutely right. This is another reason to celebrate.
Y'know something else? I used to work in a corporate programming environment some time ago. And when you start missing deadlines, you get a lot of clueless managers jumping up and down. You job starts to look like it's in peril. Eventually you'll do anything to make the mgrs happy and get them off your back. Like...release sloppy/busted code. I know it's going to happen with Vista. I just know it.
Which makes it all the more likely that some 15 year old Norwegian kid is going to bust the Vista DRM within a few weeks of its official release. Damn but that's going to be funny.
It's a shame if you don't get modded up. Damn funny stuff.
"Your ancient kin are troubling us once again..."
To prove that you can. A lot of Slashdot is about that. "Because you can" answers a lot of Slashdot questions. Why modify your case to look like a Borg cube? Why port Linux to your PDA?
Hacking is about curiosity, first and foremost. And there was a question out there...how much like a PC are the new x86 Macs? And running Windows on it answers the question with authority.
Most people have to pay for a QA department. MS gets one for free this way!
The date they will stop patching your copy of XP just got pushed back two months.
Judging from the diverse list of keynote speakers, it's easy to see that the phone business is readying itself for cataclysmic change.
Cataclysmic? Not so sure the telcos and big media companies would enjoy that word very much. A cataclysm killed the dinosaurs, you know.
I agree with you and I understand what you're saying, but I'm not so sure about your analogy.
Take the analogy of crossing the street: Sure, some people speed and run red lights. Yes, it's their fault for breaking the law, but if you just strolled out into the street without looking both ways and got whacked, then it'd be your fault as well as his/hers.
To me, it's more like (and this is a little extreme, but please bear with me) if some guy came by your house every day and threw a half a dozen loaded guns registered to your name in your yard.
You know that they're there because they're there every day. So every day you have to pick them up. But if you miss one, if a thief takes one from your yard (because thieves know they're there too) or one gets picked out of the trash and used for a crime, it's your ass that gets nailed. Not the guy who keeps throwing them all over your yard. It's up to you to fix that mess, too. The best solution would be to have the guy stop dumping the guns there, not running around trying to clean up his mess.
Yeah, I do the right thing and shred absolutely everything I get in the mail. And I live in a nice neighborhood where people dont (yet anyways) steal stuff out of my mailbox. But it's seriously irresponsible behavior on the part of the banks to make it as necessary as it is.
Server engineer Brad Sarsfield in a blog posting. 'Hearing senior executives say things like: 'I want the people responsible for those features in my office early next week; I want to get to the bottom of this' was at least one measure of success from my point of view for the event.'
I'd be a little more worried if I was Brad. That feature your boss wants to know who's responsible for..what if it's 'Clippy'???
And I'll even go so far as to say the reason why there will be no next big thing - it's our broken-ass patent system.
Someone, somewhere out there has part of your brilliant idea buried in a vaguely worded submarine patent. Soon as you hit the big time - wham. Some greedy patent grubbing jerk will sue you for daring to make use of "his idea" that he's been sitting on not using for the last half a dozen years or so.
Only big business has enough lawyers these days to explore uncharted waters. Which means that business will be in charge of innovation. Which means that no product/idea/whatever will get the green light without a financial analysis conducted by a committee of people who will 99.9% of the time tend to be conservative, or maybe even just plain clueless as to the new idea's implications.
The days of the solo guy in the garage coming up with the thing that changes the world are over.
The banks do have an obligation to clean up their act, but they're not COMPLETELY to blame.
Respectfully, I disagree. It is the bank's fault.
They mail you something you didn't ask for, which might be stolen and used against you. And their system for determining what's stolen is broken. And their recommended method of disposal doesn't work.
They create a security risk, and demonstratably do not care about it one whit. Why? Because whenever something bad happens, it doesn't happen to them.
Why should I spend my money to solve a problem that some credit card company creates? Especially when I'm not even their freaking customer?