is that Microsoft has released a Service Pack way behind schedule, and can't guarantee the fixes work. Why should poor Joe ServicePack install this SP2 if he isn't confident it will reduce his risks? If at all, SP2 could convince Joe to remain unpatched until crisis time.
It is a bit difficult to understand the role of money in taking decisions impacting national security. Surely, the US will have more control if the project is within it's own boundaries?
What if the VoIP service saves a lot of $$ for the buyer? Should the market allow a vendor to get away with unreasonable Ts and Cs just bcos the alternatives are frightfully more expensive?
If only the customers had stood up to onerous EULAs, the s/w industry might be in a different shape today.
Assuming we found life existed in a planet 4 light years away - how long would it take to send a chocolate over there? A few thousands of years I guess - does it matter really?
I pulled it from my mistaken memory, perhaps. Still doesn't make a huge difference to my point. Which is, we are not in danger from enemies who are light years away. And there's very little we could do in defence, even if we were. A pointless exercise, in my opinion.
How are we in danger from creatures light years away from us? What kind of weapons can help us defend ourselves? Even if we had a laser gun pointing to these aliens, it'd take years to reach the target!
Considering we're struggling to even send unmanned spacecraft to Saturn, how can we succeed in making sense from random radio signals? Secondly, considering light takes 25 years to reach the Earth from the nearest star, how will the knowledge help us?
What has the operating system got to do with UAV? It's a bit of a risk using a proprietary OS you know nothing about, to run these devices. RealTime Linux incidentally, is used by Pratt & Whitney - they should know a thing or two about aircraft control.
I'm not sure, but the payment model provides for some kind of auditing to find out interested parties for research information. May be important for security.
So if the rocket has a probe and discovers that the moon has tons of Uranium, which is crucial for energy security 25 years from now; should that info. be made public? Might not be a good idea after all, given other nations might benefit more with this cheap research.
Those days, with a 10MB Tandon hard disk on my $1,000 Personal computer, I could edit documents, use the humble telnet to log in to the Unix server priced at $2,000; I could update a bit of data on to that Ingres database using 'Forms'.
To update a form on a server from a client still seems to need about $1,500; so it's not all that big of a difference.
Given the amount of mis-transalation and mis-representation by SCO in this case, I think it's best the press goes with this version - SCO can sue only Caldera / SCO Linux users in Germany. That seems pretty fair in this case.
There ought to be an exception for 'obvious falsehoods'... else this free speech thing seems to be a misused and abused tool by big-boy corporates to screw the economy and all other small-time-geeky-nerdy-innovative-guy next door.
Can the open source developers affected by SCO's statements lay their hands on millions of $s from the Bank of Canada or Deutsche Bank to bolster their case? Free speech isn't free if it costs a fortune in court....
One other person says that Dr.Kalam is a Jesuit Alumni and now you say he's a Muslim - I say, what does it matter? Software has no religion, neither does democracy - so when the head of a democratic setup makes a decision on the type of software that would be most suited for his country, his religion should have zero-relevance.
Secondly, he was not the first choice of the BJP, in fact the then vice-president was a hard-core BJP man, but was rejected by Mr.Chandrababu Naidu, who propped up Dr.Kalam's candidature. Incidentally, Mr.Naidu is Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, where Microsoft has it's biggest Indian-operations center - they wrote the SFU and the command shell with.Net elements over there.
To sum up, the religious background or acadmeic record of most people in India has little relevance in a multi-culturous environment.
To say that Dr. Kalam's thinking is influenced by his college days is too simplistic. The Indian landscape is home to multiple religions, faiths and beliefs, much like the GNU/Linux world where several strnds and flavours exist.
His belonging to one particular strand at one particular point in time does not have any bearing to his thought-process at all. Most Indian political leaders have often advocated tolerance and respect to diversity, and believe that true freedom implies shunning mono-cultures.
In short, moving from a particular brand of proprietary code (Microsoft) to a particular model of Linux (say GNU) isn't good for any country let alone India. Dr.Kalam seems to have understood this fact more clearly than most other heads - be they political, religious or ideological.
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He was using Windows on his machine, so he can't be blamed for the inadvertent transmission of personal files!
(This is not a troll. I believe a spammer got acquitted citing this ground).
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A more fundamental question: will this SP2 make XP more secure. The simple answer is NO. So, why bother installing it?
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Joe ServicePack to boss: I've got this dazzling new CD and some sound-bytes from Microsoft. Shall I install this stuff anyway?
Boss: The CD looks very attractively packaged. Let's try...
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is that Microsoft has released a Service Pack way behind schedule, and can't guarantee the fixes work. Why should poor Joe ServicePack install this SP2 if he isn't confident it will reduce his risks? If at all, SP2 could convince Joe to remain unpatched until crisis time.
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It is a bit difficult to understand the role of money in taking decisions impacting national security. Surely, the US will have more control if the project is within it's own boundaries?
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I think that's the prime reason why so many Men enter computer science!
"Sometimes people do need to be protected from massive corporations."
There are other massive corporations waiting to prvide such services!
Actually, people need to be protected from other people - more harm is caused by a few rich idiotic customers than lousy products.
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What if the VoIP service saves a lot of $$ for the buyer? Should the market allow a vendor to get away with unreasonable Ts and Cs just bcos the alternatives are frightfully more expensive?
If only the customers had stood up to onerous EULAs, the s/w industry might be in a different shape today.
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the CEO of Vonage is one Mr. Darl McBride?
Assuming we found life existed in a planet 4 light years away - how long would it take to send a chocolate over there? A few thousands of years I guess - does it matter really?
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I pulled it from my mistaken memory, perhaps. Still doesn't make a huge difference to my point. Which is, we are not in danger from enemies who are light years away. And there's very little we could do in defence, even if we were. A pointless exercise, in my opinion.
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How are we in danger from creatures light years away from us? What kind of weapons can help us defend ourselves? Even if we had a laser gun pointing to these aliens, it'd take years to reach the target!
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Considering we're struggling to even send unmanned spacecraft to Saturn, how can we succeed in making sense from random radio signals? Secondly, considering light takes 25 years to reach the Earth from the nearest star, how will the knowledge help us?
What has the operating system got to do with UAV? It's a bit of a risk using a proprietary OS you know nothing about, to run these devices. RealTime Linux incidentally, is used by Pratt & Whitney - they should know a thing or two about aircraft control.
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But that knowledge may not be in the long-term interest of the same public. That judgment should be vested with the govt.
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I'm not sure, but the payment model provides for some kind of auditing to find out interested parties for research information. May be important for security.
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How does one prevent other nations from benefitting from this information? Passport sign-in security? Don't make me laugh.
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So if the rocket has a probe and discovers that the moon has tons of Uranium, which is crucial for energy security 25 years from now; should that info. be made public? Might not be a good idea after all, given other nations might benefit more with this cheap research.
So if the government makes a rocket using public money, they should give free access to all citizens? Crazy idea.
Those days, with a 10MB Tandon hard disk on my $1,000 Personal computer, I could edit documents, use the humble telnet to log in to the Unix server priced at $2,000; I could update a bit of data on to that Ingres database using 'Forms'. To update a form on a server from a client still seems to need about $1,500; so it's not all that big of a difference.
Looks like Microsoft is using it's influence with the space agency to promote it's service in Mercury!
Given the amount of mis-transalation and mis-representation by SCO in this case, I think it's best the press goes with this version - SCO can sue only Caldera / SCO Linux users in Germany. That seems pretty fair in this case.
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There ought to be an exception for 'obvious falsehoods'... else this free speech thing seems to be a misused and abused tool by big-boy corporates to screw the economy and all other small-time-geeky-nerdy-innovative-guy next door.
Can the open source developers affected by SCO's statements lay their hands on millions of $s from the Bank of Canada or Deutsche Bank to bolster their case? Free speech isn't free if it costs a fortune in court....
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One other person says that Dr.Kalam is a Jesuit Alumni and now you say he's a Muslim - I say, what does it matter? Software has no religion, neither does democracy - so when the head of a democratic setup makes a decision on the type of software that would be most suited for his country, his religion should have zero-relevance.
.Net elements over there.
Secondly, he was not the first choice of the BJP, in fact the then vice-president was a hard-core BJP man, but was rejected by Mr.Chandrababu Naidu, who propped up Dr.Kalam's candidature. Incidentally, Mr.Naidu is Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, where Microsoft has it's biggest Indian-operations center - they wrote the SFU and the command shell with
To sum up, the religious background or acadmeic record of most people in India has little relevance in a multi-culturous environment.
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To say that Dr. Kalam's thinking is influenced by his college days is too simplistic. The Indian landscape is home to multiple religions, faiths and beliefs, much like the GNU/Linux world where several strnds and flavours exist.
His belonging to one particular strand at one particular point in time does not have any bearing to his thought-process at all. Most Indian political leaders have often advocated tolerance and respect to diversity, and believe that true freedom implies shunning mono-cultures.
In short, moving from a particular brand of proprietary code (Microsoft) to a particular model of Linux (say GNU) isn't good for any country let alone India. Dr.Kalam seems to have understood this fact more clearly than most other heads - be they political, religious or ideological.
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