I know of plenty of legal things that I don't want others being able to view..
This is the Texan police, can they seriously pretend that they won't be looking to keep copies of any good nudity or sex that they run across.(Are they supposed to close their eyes when they see a person in the nude?) I'd be less than a year before they have a special shelf for all their best nudity/sex moments.
Worse still, any voyer/pervert/pedophile merely needs to join the police force to get a view of you or your children or to electronically stalk you.
Here in Australia we've just discovered the Internet, so we're posting all our latest news articles from the 1930's to the Internet.
Next week's lead article "Australia goes to battle against EVIL Nazis!", then in a few years time we'll post the article "Dingo eats baby in outback Australia."
They usually line their pockets before the bankruptcy. (the bastards)
Actually, thinking about that twice, they line their pockets regardless of the company health. Where a publicly listed company allows the directors to not be held as financial guarantors, they should also have total packages that are expressed in percentages of company profit.
No profit? Running the company into the ground? Lost money this year? Oh well fork out the pay-percentage in reverse.(Which is not dissimilar to companies where payment is made in share-holdings.) If they are competant and it was unavoidable net loss for the financial year, then next year they'd make it all back. So a profitable, healthy & growing company will line the pockets of the obviously competant & talented business persons who run the company. If you are bad at running a company.. then you probably shouldn't be and should be appropriately financially punished.
I think you're missing the point here, this charitable and good-willing organisation is beginning to act a lot like a USA-bred company. A red plus sign appearing in a game or on a pair of jeans is not going to hurt more starving children in Africa? get the point? It's just hunting revenue.
Plus if you advertise that a donation is going to a specific cause, then it better -damn well- be going to that cause. Hijacking the publics empathy is no way to run a charity, regardless who they help. Just because you're helping others doesn't give you a warrant to do any illegal activity that you please.
A fashion company in australia named Fashion Assassin was brought to legal suit due to using a red plus symbol in their clothing design. (Their logo has the same "plus" sign in white.) Being fashion it wasn't long until they started using their logo in red.(their legal solution was to change the red to pink)
My point is the Red Cross are pretty ignorant if they think their brand is being diluted. The symbol is of basic derivatives relating to the medical profession, the red comes from human blood, and the plus is actually a cross, inline with the dark-ages were religious leaders gave out medical treatments. (The red cross know this, so they also have a logo which is the islamic crescent moon + star)
So this is what the red cross are doing with your 9/11 funds. (As we already know they funneled the cash into all of their projects not just 9/11 recovery)
Microsoft don't need to buy them, as they *0wn3d* them from the day they signed the Fahrenheit agreement. (The SGI+MS partnership which produced OpenGL).... and oops MS did their usual which was use it as the idea for DirectX. So they didn't have to have anything to do with SGI anymore.
They've been on the decline ever since McCracken left in the 90s. Since then they've ditched all their products that sold well. Then took their brand name, changed it and their logo. Then realised that killed business even more, so to save some $$ they sold Cray, okay... so they were still tumbling, a few announcements of new technology but nothing hot, so they drop IRIX+MIPS for x86, that doesn't work so they change their logo and name themselves "Silicon Graphics" again, but not before ditching Alias & Wavefront (then just Alias) to a separate company running the old PowerAnimator software into Maya, now the industry leader in 3D animation.
Meanwhile the products that were relevant to graphics customers are long gone, and with all their hardware talent moved to Ati & Nvidia, companies like Apple have caught up to take their professional consumers.(To the point where Apples now do all the things which those amazing Indigo^2 boxes did all those years ago.)
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I like the article title "Songbird, the open source iTunes killer", it's about as much of a killer of iTunes as GIMP will take down the Adobe empire. The project needs more credit than being a program to replace another on my system.
Like they're both great, but sheesh, over stating your product just makes people have false expectations of your work. So a person like me comes along, tries it out expects this amazing application and feels let down. Instead of me trying out an unhyped application and being impressed with it's development so far.(clone or not.)
Moral of the story, hype is as bad for your software as it is for movies.
Motorola had a similar press release when Apple gave the majority of their business to IBM. I'm still waiting for this technology that was supposed to blow us away.("Many times more efficient in both speed and power consumption.")
In any case x86 have the performance flag right now, and it's in products that are on the market and selling well. This article is talking about a technology that isn't even in mass production, yet alone the yields required to supply Apple's line of products. By 2007 Intel also plan to have more advanced chips (notably on 45nm not 65nm like IBM.) If Apple were to stay on PPC, we'd be celebrating the 1.8GHz Powerbook by now.... up a whole 33MHz from this time last year.
The author makes a point to say that the system files are always kept safe, while the user's home directory is at risk. To an end user they would care more about their home directory as it contains all their important files. So he argues the system will push on, but the files will be wiped. While I agree any data loss is a bad loss, whether the function of the files is to run the system, do your finances or simply nostalgia.
Where the author makes their mistake is in the belief that a system who's system files are solidly protected are still vulnerable to most virii. The reality is most virii today don't do any damage at their initial run time, they rather set the stage for a later attack or to turn the PC into a zombie/slave/etc.
By having the system files protected a virii can not for example: disable the virus scanner, prevent programs like regedt32.exe from loading, prevent task manager from running, hook into your mail api and send out mail to your address book etc.
It also means that the only damage that can be done has to be done in the original context of the exploit. Say for example that a buffer overflow allows the running of arbitrary code at user level, at this point the virus must do it's work, as it can't touch the system to lay a nest. The author seems to look past this necessities required for a virus to set itself up to do damage. Which in almost every case requires it to alter the system.(Which he admits is protected anyway.)
This paradigm is why many unix based systems are inherently secure, the approaches that work so well on windows don't work when dealing with unix, it's a very different system. Likewise due to unix's solid system protection even once infected deliberately, programs are easily abstracted and removed.
What trust in security can you place in an operating system that used to place it's desktop images next to it's core system files?
I'd hardly say it was political, or with political motivations. Google have guidelines and bmw.de did not follow them. For Google to alter the page rank to anything other than zero would be less ethical than resetting it to zero. (afterall no one is to know how much of their rank was attributed to the keyword mashing) Note this isn't an actual blacklist, but rather having the page-rank which was acquired by inappropriate means, reset to zero allows it to in time regain a significant position, but only for relevant websearches
Resetting the page-rank to zero is fair and non-permanent. Simply put bmw.de will regain a legitimate page-rank in the future, but for now this is the short term consequence of using keyword treatment to your website. (Note the bmw.de website would display paragraphs of motoring related keywords when javascript was turned off, this tactic overtime artificially boosts your page rank. It is easy to reproduce, however it is not an invisible action and is against most search sites terms.)
Not so much a case for Apple, the iPod follows the guidelines for maximum volume output. For example, when it was discovered that the iPod didn't qualify for the European specification (it was off a few db) Apple released a patch for the iPod to lower it's maximum volume output.
Cases like these aren't generally successful as there is a lot of precedent, this same case has been tried against Sony for their walkman product.
The conclusion at the end of the day is that it's a difficult case to prove that the iPod caused your hearing loss, and not any of the other environmental factors in your every day life.. afterall there are many iPod owners without hearing loss.
Wikipedia is open for potential abuses like these, but then again Wiki has always been a good reflection of society, and this is precisely what political agents do with the rest of society/PR outlets.
I think at this stage, all that I have noticed is Google gearing to -help- iTunes...
If you search for a song in Google, iTunes direct links are listed first above others.
If you buy a video in the Google Video store, the default format is iPod video.
Since Apple are all about selling Apple hardware, and things like iTMS/iTunes/iLife/Pro Apps are all just reasons to buy the Apple hardware. Google are only helping Apple, by making their video service available in iPod video.
Likewise Apple already include direct links to Google searching in not only their webbrowser, but just recently included Google search as a default-installed widget for access at any time.
All that I see so far is Google and Apple in bed together, both driving business to exactly how each other make money. Google entices sales of video iPods, Apple sends you to Google.com for all your searches so you can read Google Adverts.
Factually Apple can not be showing a "prototype" and have a world wide availability in less than a month later. Yes they were samples from the factory(not prototypes which look far worse), but the truth about battery life is simply this: It's a new type of battery (as used in the iPod) so they actually don't have any proper idea about the life of it. Remember apple have had a lot of issues with consumers demanding refunds/exchange because batteries didn't live as long as expected. At this stage they know one thing: it should be about the same. Whether or not it's less or more will take a lot of consumer review.
I think the real reason why there has been little effort in people trying to get windows to run on their mac.. is simply because if you have a computer capable of running Mac OS X, then you're not going to be interested in running that broken greenhouse called Windows.
although i don't have the inner-military story for how GPS came to be, there are a few things i can add to this comment.
The first is that the military don't just do things in-house, they outsource not only the construction, but the idea+concepts. As with many companies, the military probably approached a number of technical companies, providing a brief and/or provide opportunity to submit. Many companies, from the USA and other countries would submit a solution to the US military brief. The brief could be quite vague starting with "The need to be able to quickly and with reasonable accuracy, identify locations on the globe. It needs to be two way (can be on the earth and receive your numeric co-ordinates, or be given numeric co-ordinates and that relate to a unique position on the earths crust."
Then some clever folk at all these companies would come up with the actual idea that we can use existing mapping concepts such as degree co-ordinates and with some interestingly placed satellites, graph the earth's surface.
So where am I going with this? My point is that your zeal towards your country might be a little excessive, USA has contributed significantly to many technological developments, but in no regard does the USA have a monopoly on innovation or clever scientists. Factually North America is at it's most intellgent for it's ability to purchase good scientists from other countries. Which only tells me that the USA are good at poaching proven scientists.
Also your comment ignores totally that the USA was mostly a settled country, meaning that it's inhabitants are already a multicultural mix of many other countries. Living on American soil didn't bless them with extra intelligence or innovation.
To think!! Albert Einstein was a German. Boeing employs more than 153,000 people in more than 67 countries(they must think intelligence crosses boarders too). Pilkinton are English(as you look out your window without glass distortion). New Yorker Jonas Salk, son to Russian-Jewish immigrants invented the Polio Vaccine. Sony are Japanese. George de Mestral made Velcro. So yes... point made.
See this would be true, if they didn't just incorp. it into 2 new phones.. they just dumped it out of that lame-arse phone it was in, now it's in the RAZR and SLVR.
I know news sites love to sensationalise, but there is a massive difference between a company saying "Hey mate, we think you infringe our patents and would like to talk to you about that."(alleging) Versus being found guilty of patent infringement(i.e proven guilty in a courtroom).
The reality is Toyota is big enough to buy out this company anyway, which is probably what they're looking for.
Also the regenerative braking system is something toyota can defend quite well, after all scope does play an important role in patent disputes.
In other mobile phone related news, Apple have a new patent for a screen that doubles as a camera. (In Soviet Russia, Screen looks at you!)
Amongst the uses they include mobile phones.
Also can someone stop beating this rumour to death. They'll release it when they figure out a cool name for the product iCell just sounds lame, especially with the supersecret spreadsheet applications "Cells" (amongst a host of other rumours.) With the latest Apple nomenclature, it'd probable be MacPhone.
with ipods coming in pretty small dimensions these days.. there will only be more of this... anyone remember the ipod ski jackets apple sold a few years back.. those were cool.
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This is the Texan police, can they seriously pretend that they won't be looking to keep copies of any good nudity or sex that they run across.(Are they supposed to close their eyes when they see a person in the nude?) I'd be less than a year before they have a special shelf for all their best nudity/sex moments.
Worse still, any voyer/pervert/pedophile merely needs to join the police force to get a view of you or your children or to electronically stalk you.
Next week's lead article "Australia goes to battle against EVIL Nazis!", then in a few years time we'll post the article "Dingo eats baby in outback Australia."
How about being 100x off the mark.
Actually, thinking about that twice, they line their pockets regardless of the company health.
Where a publicly listed company allows the directors to not be held as financial guarantors, they should also have total packages that are expressed in percentages of company profit.
No profit? Running the company into the ground? Lost money this year? Oh well fork out the pay-percentage in reverse.(Which is not dissimilar to companies where payment is made in share-holdings.) If they are competant and it was unavoidable net loss for the financial year, then next year they'd make it all back. So a profitable, healthy & growing company will line the pockets of the obviously competant & talented business persons who run the company. If you are bad at running a company.. then you probably shouldn't be and should be appropriately financially punished.
Plus if you advertise that a donation is going to a specific cause, then it better -damn well- be going to that cause. Hijacking the publics empathy is no way to run a charity, regardless who they help. Just because you're helping others doesn't give you a warrant to do any illegal activity that you please.
My point is the Red Cross are pretty ignorant if they think their brand is being diluted. The symbol is of basic derivatives relating to the medical profession, the red comes from human blood, and the plus is actually a cross, inline with the dark-ages were religious leaders gave out medical treatments. (The red cross know this, so they also have a logo which is the islamic crescent moon + star)
So this is what the red cross are doing with your 9/11 funds. (As we already know they funneled the cash into all of their projects not just 9/11 recovery)
Microsoft don't need to buy them, as they *0wn3d* them from the day they signed the Fahrenheit agreement. (The SGI+MS partnership which produced OpenGL).... and oops MS did their usual which was use it as the idea for DirectX. So they didn't have to have anything to do with SGI anymore.
Meanwhile the products that were relevant to graphics customers are long gone, and with all their hardware talent moved to Ati & Nvidia, companies like Apple have caught up to take their professional consumers.(To the point where Apples now do all the things which those amazing Indigo^2 boxes did all those years ago.)
Like they're both great, but sheesh, over stating your product just makes people have false expectations of your work. So a person like me comes along, tries it out expects this amazing application and feels let down. Instead of me trying out an unhyped application and being impressed with it's development so far.(clone or not.)
Moral of the story, hype is as bad for your software as it is for movies.
In any case x86 have the performance flag right now, and it's in products that are on the market and selling well. This article is talking about a technology that isn't even in mass production, yet alone the yields required to supply Apple's line of products. By 2007 Intel also plan to have more advanced chips (notably on 45nm not 65nm like IBM.) If Apple were to stay on PPC, we'd be celebrating the 1.8GHz Powerbook by now.... up a whole 33MHz from this time last year.
While I agree any data loss is a bad loss, whether the function of the files is to run the system, do your finances or simply nostalgia.
Where the author makes their mistake is in the belief that a system who's system files are solidly protected are still vulnerable to most virii.
The reality is most virii today don't do any damage at their initial run time, they rather set the stage for a later attack or to turn the PC into a zombie/slave/etc.
By having the system files protected a virii can not for example: disable the virus scanner, prevent programs like regedt32.exe from loading, prevent task manager from running, hook into your mail api and send out mail to your address book etc.
It also means that the only damage that can be done has to be done in the original context of the exploit.
Say for example that a buffer overflow allows the running of arbitrary code at user level, at this point the virus must do it's work, as it can't touch the system to lay a nest. The author seems to look past this necessities required for a virus to set itself up to do damage. Which in almost every case requires it to alter the system.(Which he admits is protected anyway.)
This paradigm is why many unix based systems are inherently secure, the approaches that work so well on windows don't work when dealing with unix, it's a very different system. Likewise due to unix's solid system protection even once infected deliberately, programs are easily abstracted and removed.
What trust in security can you place in an operating system that used to place it's desktop images next to it's core system files?
Resetting the page-rank to zero is fair and non-permanent. Simply put bmw.de will regain a legitimate page-rank in the future, but for now this is the short term consequence of using keyword treatment to your website. (Note the bmw.de website would display paragraphs of motoring related keywords when javascript was turned off, this tactic overtime artificially boosts your page rank. It is easy to reproduce, however it is not an invisible action and is against most search sites terms.)
Cases like these aren't generally successful as there is a lot of precedent, this same case has been tried against Sony for their walkman product.
The conclusion at the end of the day is that it's a difficult case to prove that the iPod caused your hearing loss, and not any of the other environmental factors in your every day life.. afterall there are many iPod owners without hearing loss.
Wikipedia is open for potential abuses like these, but then again Wiki has always been a good reflection of society, and this is precisely what political agents do with the rest of society/PR outlets.
I second the Monkey Island series... even aspyr make updates for the mac versions still.
If you search for a song in Google, iTunes direct links are listed first above others.
If you buy a video in the Google Video store, the default format is iPod video.
Since Apple are all about selling Apple hardware, and things like iTMS/iTunes/iLife/Pro Apps are all just reasons to buy the Apple hardware. Google are only helping Apple, by making their video service available in iPod video.
Likewise Apple already include direct links to Google searching in not only their webbrowser, but just recently included Google search as a default-installed widget for access at any time.
All that I see so far is Google and Apple in bed together, both driving business to exactly how each other make money. Google entices sales of video iPods, Apple sends you to Google.com for all your searches so you can read Google Adverts.
Factually Apple can not be showing a "prototype" and have a world wide availability in less than a month later. Yes they were samples from the factory(not prototypes which look far worse), but the truth about battery life is simply this: It's a new type of battery (as used in the iPod) so they actually don't have any proper idea about the life of it. Remember apple have had a lot of issues with consumers demanding refunds/exchange because batteries didn't live as long as expected. At this stage they know one thing: it should be about the same. Whether or not it's less or more will take a lot of consumer review.
Is this like the 3rd time now? If only the editors looked at their own site for 50 milliseconds.
I think the real reason why there has been little effort in people trying to get windows to run on their mac.. is simply because if you have a computer capable of running Mac OS X, then you're not going to be interested in running that broken greenhouse called Windows.
The first is that the military don't just do things in-house, they outsource not only the construction, but the idea+concepts. As with many companies, the military probably approached a number of technical companies, providing a brief and/or provide opportunity to submit. Many companies, from the USA and other countries would submit a solution to the US military brief. The brief could be quite vague starting with "The need to be able to quickly and with reasonable accuracy, identify locations on the globe. It needs to be two way (can be on the earth and receive your numeric co-ordinates, or be given numeric co-ordinates and that relate to a unique position on the earths crust."
Then some clever folk at all these companies would come up with the actual idea that we can use existing mapping concepts such as degree co-ordinates and with some interestingly placed satellites, graph the earth's surface.
So where am I going with this? My point is that your zeal towards your country might be a little excessive, USA has contributed significantly to many technological developments, but in no regard does the USA have a monopoly on innovation or clever scientists. Factually North America is at it's most intellgent for it's ability to purchase good scientists from other countries. Which only tells me that the USA are good at poaching proven scientists.
Also your comment ignores totally that the USA was mostly a settled country, meaning that it's inhabitants are already a multicultural mix of many other countries. Living on American soil didn't bless them with extra intelligence or innovation.
To think!! Albert Einstein was a German. Boeing employs more than 153,000 people in more than 67 countries(they must think intelligence crosses boarders too). Pilkinton are English(as you look out your window without glass distortion). New Yorker Jonas Salk, son to Russian-Jewish immigrants invented the Polio Vaccine. Sony are Japanese. George de Mestral made Velcro. So yes... point made.
See this would be true, if they didn't just incorp. it into 2 new phones.. they just dumped it out of that lame-arse phone it was in, now it's in the RAZR and SLVR.
there seems to be some confusion, windows is the platform with excessive confirmations. you can even turn off the confirmation to empty the trash.
The reality is Toyota is big enough to buy out this company anyway, which is probably what they're looking for.
Also the regenerative braking system is something toyota can defend quite well, after all scope does play an important role in patent disputes.
Amongst the uses they include mobile phones.
Also can someone stop beating this rumour to death. They'll release it when they figure out a cool name for the product iCell just sounds lame, especially with the supersecret spreadsheet applications "Cells" (amongst a host of other rumours.) With the latest Apple nomenclature, it'd probable be MacPhone.
with ipods coming in pretty small dimensions these days.. there will only be more of this... anyone remember the ipod ski jackets apple sold a few years back.. those were cool.