Shouldn't these guys/gals be spending their time, uh, finishing up with the code rather than blogging? I mean it's not like Vista is ahead of schedule or anything.
I admin a PHPBB-based forum and the spam (from bots) was getting out of hand. They were going through the built-in CAPTCHA with no problem. The solution ended up being that I had to modify the registration form so that it wasn't just the default form. Throw a couple of oddball questions on the form, make them required, and bots can't deal with it since the bot script can't account for deviations from the norm.
We should keep in mind that what's phonetic today may be not phonetic 100 years later. Languages WILL evolve.
Yes! Languages, especially English, evolve. English evolves rather quickly these days, so changing the phonetics now may not be any help in a century or two. On the other hand, so many of the current spelling seem so far off from what is intuitive that I often feel like something must be done to reduce the disparity.
If the people running the coffee shop leave their network open so that any schmuck driving by can get a signal and connect, then "piggybacking" is a risk they should be willing to accept. Either learn to configure the equipment or face the possibility of "theft of services" (the charge that TFA says the guy received).
If you're an Apple/iPod fanatic, then you won't have bought any Creative devices anyway. So you're threatening to... continue not buying their devices?
For fuck's sake, use your imagination a little bit. Sure, I'm not going to buy Creative's shitty stuff either way. But if I tell all of my friends and relatives not to buy Creative, it might influence the purchasing habits of a couple dozen people. Mulitply that by a ton of iPod fanboys, and the potential for even more lost sales is there.
Not all people who read Slashdot are friendless sociophobes, you know. In my group of friends and family, I'm the computer nerd. These people usually ask my opinion before buying a computer. If I tell them to strictly avoid Creative, they just might listen. I'm sure I'm not the only geek in this situation.
Can you imagine what the backlash would be from Apple/iPod fanatics (like me) if Creative were to be successful in bringing an injunction in this case? Good God, it would be tantamount to iSuicide!!
It's great to see a new version of NeoOffice coming out, but what I really want to know is if the latest release is any faster than the previous versions. The older versions work great but are painfully sluggish.
From TFA: "Several years ago, my former employer (NIS) registered trademarks for the Ethereal name and logo. At the time this provided valuable legal protection for the project. Unfortunately, when I left we weren't able to come to an agreement on the trademarks and they stayed behind."
Other than middle age people who can't give up pot and folks who want to own machine guns, libertarians do not have a significant base of support.
Do you have any idea just HOW MANY people are in the two groups you just mentioned? Okay fine, I don't either exactly, but it's *got* to be in the millions! The NRA claims to have "nearly three million members", and I know there are at least a few million middle-aged dope smokers in this country (I think I know at least a couple hundred myself).
I mean, really. Is it such a shock that MS is trying to damage the reputation of a rival format? Actually, they're talking more about OpenOffice as an application rather than the ODF format, which is a very dishonest bit of FUD. I'm sure there will be more propaganda against ODF from the company we love to hate in the near future.
Perhaps next they'll claim that ODF is so slow that it's causing Vista to be late to market.
I can't even fathom why a school would want to take on this responsibility. I bet that if this keeps up, a few years down the road parents are going to be yelling at the schools for not catching Jonny's 'illegal' blog.
And not only that, but imagine if a kid makes a big deal on MySpace about being, oh I don't know, Jewish, and then they also complain about the school and talk about dope. If the school is admitting that it's using info on MySpace to discipline kids, won't they open themselves to possible discrimination lawsuits? I can just see somebody suing a school in just such a scenario claiming that religion (or ethnicity) was part of the reason the school hassled the kid.
If I were a parent in one of these school districts, I'd be making a lot of noise about voting against any school board member that supported such draconian nonsense.
I have to wonder if some group or other won't go back to the last open version of the kernel code and fork it into a new project or maybe some alternative to Darwin? Also, what does this mean for the Darwin project?
Would something like that even be worth it without some vendor support or tie-in? It seems a shame to let such a nice chunk of code go to waste.
The SEC just announced that it plans to exempt micro-cap companies from Section 404 compliance. The proposal hasn't been approved yet, but it looks like it will go through. If it does go through, it would exampt about 70% of public companies from having to deal with 404. Article here.
"We're bridging the gap between virtual reality and reality right now," said Jan Welter, founder of Project Entropia.
What's the point in creating a virtual world and the trying to make it into reality? I thought the whole point of a virtual world was escapism. Online game Second Life already has developed a notary for verifying contracts, and that means that it won't be too long before virtual lawyers rear their ugly heads. Why bother escaping to world that has all the bad parts of reality?
What's next, getting virtual parking tickets or stepping in virtual dog poo? People are sucking the fun out of virtual environments (and I don't mean that in the virtual whore kind of way).
The US court system is already busting at the seams. Why waste time "creating" a silly code in a *judgement* document? That's the kind of thing you should do at home, not while sitting on the bench. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great there's a judge cool enough to grok cryptography, but goofing around with official court rulings is not cool. In fact, that's the kind of thing that might prompt a losing party to file an appeal, further engorging the court system with frivolity.
The disks reportedly contain personal details about US soldiers, military defences and lists of enemy targets.
Who's brilliant idea was it to put that kind of information on small, portable storage devices? How stupid to you have to be to think that's a good idea?
I'm gathering from the article that these USB drives, which had critical secret information on them, weren't even encrypted. I mean, encryption is free, for fuck's sake! Then again, that's probably why the government didn't use it. Why use something free when you can pay a contractor to do it for millions?
I understand that MS releases patches on a scheduled, monthly basis because lots of corporate IT departments demanded it (to make their jobs easier). I understand that; there's at least some logic to it.
What I don't get is why everone else in the world has to have their system unprotected for an extra couple of weeks. Why can't MS release the patches when they are "stable" and let the IT departments schedule their own updates as frequently or infrequently as they see fit? And further, is scheduling really *that* much more important than security for large companies?
This is hardly surprising. Wal-Mart has had quite a stranglehold on the supply sie of the market for a number of years. Technically, they're not a monopoly, but for all practical purposes, they wield the power of a monopoly from one end of the supply chain to another. You have to admire their innovation (they've revolutionized the modern retail supply chain), but it's also quite scary how much control they have.
Although it's been linked to numerous times here and elsewhere, I'd like to point those interested in learning more about how Wal-Mart deals with supppliers to the now-famous Fast Company article on the subject.
This is purely my own anecdotal experience on the matter, but I've already talked to nearly a dozen X86/Windows PC owners that told me that because of the ability to boot XP, they are now heavily leaning towards buying a Mac Mini or other Apple gear as their next computer.
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Shouldn't these guys/gals be spending their time, uh, finishing up with the code rather than blogging? I mean it's not like Vista is ahead of schedule or anything.
I'll have you know that embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word!
I admin a PHPBB-based forum and the spam (from bots) was getting out of hand. They were going through the built-in CAPTCHA with no problem. The solution ended up being that I had to modify the registration form so that it wasn't just the default form. Throw a couple of oddball questions on the form, make them required, and bots can't deal with it since the bot script can't account for deviations from the norm.
Uh, you mean like Internet Explorer?
Yes! Languages, especially English, evolve. English evolves rather quickly these days, so changing the phonetics now may not be any help in a century or two. On the other hand, so many of the current spelling seem so far off from what is intuitive that I often feel like something must be done to reduce the disparity.
If the people running the coffee shop leave their network open so that any schmuck driving by can get a signal and connect, then "piggybacking" is a risk they should be willing to accept. Either learn to configure the equipment or face the possibility of "theft of services" (the charge that TFA says the guy received).
For fuck's sake, use your imagination a little bit. Sure, I'm not going to buy Creative's shitty stuff either way. But if I tell all of my friends and relatives not to buy Creative, it might influence the purchasing habits of a couple dozen people. Mulitply that by a ton of iPod fanboys, and the potential for even more lost sales is there.
Not all people who read Slashdot are friendless sociophobes, you know. In my group of friends and family, I'm the computer nerd. These people usually ask my opinion before buying a computer. If I tell them to strictly avoid Creative, they just might listen. I'm sure I'm not the only geek in this situation.
Can you imagine what the backlash would be from Apple/iPod fanatics (like me) if Creative were to be successful in bringing an injunction in this case? Good God, it would be tantamount to iSuicide!!
It's great to see a new version of NeoOffice coming out, but what I really want to know is if the latest release is any faster than the previous versions. The older versions work great but are painfully sluggish.
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
From TFA:
"Several years ago, my former employer (NIS) registered trademarks for the Ethereal name and logo. At the time this provided valuable legal protection for the project. Unfortunately, when I left we weren't able to come to an agreement on the trademarks and they stayed behind."
I think the OP meant megaBS.
If they name it Google Spread, it should generate a lot of traffic from those looking for a good porn search service. :)
Do you have any idea just HOW MANY people are in the two groups you just mentioned? Okay fine, I don't either exactly, but it's *got* to be in the millions! The NRA claims to have "nearly three million members", and I know there are at least a few million middle-aged dope smokers in this country (I think I know at least a couple hundred myself).
Sounds like a pretty good base to me.
I mean, really. Is it such a shock that MS is trying to damage the reputation of a rival format? Actually, they're talking more about OpenOffice as an application rather than the ODF format, which is a very dishonest bit of FUD. I'm sure there will be more propaganda against ODF from the company we love to hate in the near future.
Perhaps next they'll claim that ODF is so slow that it's causing Vista to be late to market.
And not only that, but imagine if a kid makes a big deal on MySpace about being, oh I don't know, Jewish, and then they also complain about the school and talk about dope. If the school is admitting that it's using info on MySpace to discipline kids, won't they open themselves to possible discrimination lawsuits? I can just see somebody suing a school in just such a scenario claiming that religion (or ethnicity) was part of the reason the school hassled the kid.
If I were a parent in one of these school districts, I'd be making a lot of noise about voting against any school board member that supported such draconian nonsense.
I have to wonder if some group or other won't go back to the last open version of the kernel code and fork it into a new project or maybe some alternative to Darwin? Also, what does this mean for the Darwin project?
Would something like that even be worth it without some vendor support or tie-in? It seems a shame to let such a nice chunk of code go to waste.
The SEC just announced that it plans to exempt micro-cap companies from Section 404 compliance. The proposal hasn't been approved yet, but it looks like it will go through. If it does go through, it would exampt about 70% of public companies from having to deal with 404. Article here.
What's the point in creating a virtual world and the trying to make it into reality? I thought the whole point of a virtual world was escapism. Online game Second Life already has developed a notary for verifying contracts, and that means that it won't be too long before virtual lawyers rear their ugly heads. Why bother escaping to world that has all the bad parts of reality?
What's next, getting virtual parking tickets or stepping in virtual dog poo? People are sucking the fun out of virtual environments (and I don't mean that in the virtual whore kind of way).
I stand corrected on jurisdiction.
I still think it's a dumb idea, however, regardless of which legal system in involved.
The US court system is already busting at the seams. Why waste time "creating" a silly code in a *judgement* document? That's the kind of thing you should do at home, not while sitting on the bench. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great there's a judge cool enough to grok cryptography, but goofing around with official court rulings is not cool. In fact, that's the kind of thing that might prompt a losing party to file an appeal, further engorging the court system with frivolity.
I guess this will lend new meaning to the phrase "cock sucker".
Who's brilliant idea was it to put that kind of information on small, portable storage devices? How stupid to you have to be to think that's a good idea?
I'm gathering from the article that these USB drives, which had critical secret information on them, weren't even encrypted. I mean, encryption is free, for fuck's sake! Then again, that's probably why the government didn't use it. Why use something free when you can pay a contractor to do it for millions?
I understand that MS releases patches on a scheduled, monthly basis because lots of corporate IT departments demanded it (to make their jobs easier). I understand that; there's at least some logic to it.
What I don't get is why everone else in the world has to have their system unprotected for an extra couple of weeks. Why can't MS release the patches when they are "stable" and let the IT departments schedule their own updates as frequently or infrequently as they see fit? And further, is scheduling really *that* much more important than security for large companies?
This is hardly surprising. Wal-Mart has had quite a stranglehold on the supply sie of the market for a number of years. Technically, they're not a monopoly, but for all practical purposes, they wield the power of a monopoly from one end of the supply chain to another. You have to admire their innovation (they've revolutionized the modern retail supply chain), but it's also quite scary how much control they have.
Although it's been linked to numerous times here and elsewhere, I'd like to point those interested in learning more about how Wal-Mart deals with supppliers to the now-famous Fast Company article on the subject.
This is purely my own anecdotal experience on the matter, but I've already talked to nearly a dozen X86/Windows PC owners that told me that because of the ability to boot XP, they are now heavily leaning towards buying a Mac Mini or other Apple gear as their next computer.