Well this is all nice and good, but it's also proof that the feds don't understand the internet yet. Since I can plug a VoIP phone in anywhere, how is the dispatch going to know where you are like they would with a POTS line? Run a traceroute??
Who says they must be able to trace the call? When you sign up for a VOIP service they get your address.
The VOIP service can connect you to any telephone line in the world, so there no reason they can't connect you to a local 911 dispatch service. The technical limitations can be overcome; this is just a case of ISPs trying to save money. If VOIP is to be considered as a serious alternative to POTS then 911 service should be mandatory.
The article said "After intensive tests for all morning, the battery of the car was running low".
Does that mean that a similar DOS attack can disable most cars in a car park?
The car was underground, hence the engine would not have been running. All the car's electrical systems were in use all morning, with no alternator to keep the battery charged.
Just leaving the ignition switch at ready keeps lots of electrical systems in the car running, such as solendoids within the engine, cabin lights and dozens of sensors, not to mention the very clever looking TFT in that Prius. Bluetooth activity would have had negligible impact in draining the battery. Besides, in a car park all the cars would have their ignitions switched at off; bluetooth devices would not even be powered up.
That's strange, in my case connecting to SMB servers has improved. In Panther connections always failed 1st time, and after reentering my login & password it always connected 2nd time. This issue seems to be fixed now in Tiger, as I can always connect 1sttime.
I do have some sympathy for apple regarding this. Anyone who uses Windows shares frequently will know that even different versions of Windows can have difficulty operating together.
Good point. I suppose it should come as no surprise that those who contribute most are paid to do so full time. The majority of contributers, who can work on OS only in their spare time, don't make it into the top 25.
Also, it makes sense that only top developers would find themselves in a position where a company was prepared to pay them to carry on with their work.
My karma has gone from Positive to Neutral. Thanks for marking this flamebait, guys...
Although since MAME cabs and JAMMA hardware are a personal hobby of mine, I am understandably pissed about this issue.
It's understandable why you might be annoyed, but that doesn't make your post any more rational. I don't see how calling the guy a cunt contributes to the discussion in any useful way. Posts complaing about the way moderations went are even more useless, topped only by posts like this!
with the current
knowledge of this subject there should be a moratorium on actual
experiments (especially on human cells) until we learn more of the
background of the whole thing
The best way to improve our current knowledge is to continue with these experiments, otherwise we are just sitting in limbo.
until we have some form
of agreement on ethical standards about what we want to achieve and how
far we are willing to go.
Surely the terms of the government granted license are an agreement on the ethical standards to be met. According to the article "There will be no reproductive cloning [...] with eggs not being allowed to grow beyond 14 days and the remaining cells destroyed."
They ruin my day. There's an extremely annoying button called 'open', which strangely seems to minimize the current window. It's the second key on on the far left, and I constantly press it by accident when I'm aiming for shift. I hate using sun machines for that reason:)
If the burglar broke into my house through a flaw in the design of the lock - a flaw known by the manufacturer - a flaw the manufacturer found more profitable to ignore than fix - a flaw the manufacturer decided not to tell me about and trust me to make my own decisions on how best to secure my house - then HELL YEAH I'd get mad at the lock manufacturer!
I believe the lock situation is exactly as you described.
Chances are that it is possible for a skilled locksmith to pick the lock on your front door. I'll bet that your lock didn't come with any disclaimers or an EULA, so they haven't bothered to warn you.
Of course it is possible for the manufacturer to make a lock that's more secure, but that would cost them more money and they'd sell fewer locks, so they don't.
I hate software anologies - they can be stretched to mean whatever the hell you want.
I'm sick of comments like this. The Internet, like anything else is EVOLVING. Oakland used to be a fine and wonderful place to leave your door unlocked overnight. Not anymore. The Internet used to be a fine and wonderful place to surf. Now everyone has always-on connections, malware writers have gotten better... you lock the damn door.
Don't give me that its-all-MS's fault crap. MS has dominated the desktop market for long enough to have all evil eyes on them. If Linux was on the desktop of everyone's grandmother, unpatched and unfirewalls, it would also be hacked in a jiffy.
In other words, shut up. If I wanted to read your comment I could open up any thread on slashdot and read it 20 times.
I'm sick of seeing posts such as this modded down, just because it doesn't support the/. open-source-is-always-better mentality. People who refuse to listen to ideas they disagree with learn nothing.
The poster makes a very good point, and if I'd had mod-points I'd mod it insightful.
You've listed only 4 games. What if he wants to play one of the 40,000 other games available for Windows? It's a lot less hassle to run them on the OS they were designed for than to mess around with emulators or wine.
Secondly, why should anyone need an excuse for selecting a particular operating system? It's a matter of choice, and the parent clearly explained his reasons for preferring Windows. Linux appears to suit your particular needs better, and that's great too.
no matter if you are a free software believer, an open source pragmatist, or a proprietary zealot
What if you just like to use what you regard as the best and most economical tool for the job?
I strongly disagree with Software patents, but I wouldn't put myself into any of your 3 categories - not everyone bases their software choices on political views.
How about putting the big bucks to help your own people?
Plenty of people in the US have no job, no home and no health insurance. One could use a similar argument to advocate shutting down NASA until all US citizens reach a decent standard of living.
Personally I think space exploration is a worthy cause for mankind and see no wrong in diverting a reasonable level of funding toward it.
I'm happy to read posts advocating Linux for its merits, as for any other OS, but around here I've seen far too many people advocating Linux for no reason other than because they are sucked into the slashdot-opensource-zealoutry-cult.
I apologise if that isn't you - and I'm sorry you were the subject of my little vent:)
Windows is one of the worst OSes in the world in terms of security.
As far as I know, Windows is the only OS that actually makes use of hardware features to protect against buffer overflows. Although this has now been shown to be imperfect, it is still a layer of secure that most other operating systems (all?) do not have.
While it's common sense that situations exist where Windows is not the most secure option, baseless and overly broad statements like your's are very unhelpful.
He isn't accusing MS of stealing the TCP/IP protocol, he's accusing them of stealing the acutal BSD TCP/IP stack code.
I don't see any wrongdoing here. Anyone is free to use the code under the BSD license. It's not like MS are forcing people to pay for BSD code - if anyone wants the code they can still obtain it legaly for free. Microsoft are simply charging for their own nice packaging that makes it easier (at least arguably:) ) to use.
You aren't joking. I have a powerbook (duh, see sig) and whilst OS X is pretty tolerable the thing that makes it useless to me is the fact that you have to buy every little damn thing for it. $20 for focus follows mouse, $15 for a decent trackpd driver, $10 for that, $25 for something else. It's a never ending trail of money.
On the flipside, if you do write a useful utility for OSX you can expect a little monetary reward for your troubles, which is nice.
I agree, a good CMS is better than using Dreamweaver templates, but it can limit site layout, and server side scripting languages and databases are not always available.
I've made a few sites with custom CMS's, and I've also used off the shelf systems such as Zen Cart and PHPBB, but I still always use Dreamweaver to manage and edit all the files. I tend to use it as a source editor. It does syntax highlighting, autocompletion and everything you'd expect from a good IDE for PHP, as well as helping with the job of managing lots of files. I manage the site itself using Dreamweaver, while other people use the CMS to edit the site content. I can see how it could prove tricky for a site managed by many people though.
I don't understand why you'd want to use Dreamweaver's templates in the first place.
Dreamweaver allows you to edit the content within the template, so you can see what it will look like in context. Additionally serverside includes are not always available, especially with cheaper hosting packages. I do agree that where they are available, they're generally a better solution.
The answer is for people to use WYSIWYG editors only long enough to learn how HTML works, then start writing REAL code.
Dreamweaver is not a tool for 'noobs' who don't know html - it's a tool that massively enhances the productivity of web developers, who generally do know html very well. It automates all the repetitive stuff, like generating tables or imagemaps, and helps with designing layouts, much a good IDE would for writing C/Java/whatever. A basic text editor is fine for putting together a small site, but a tool like dreamweaver helps enourmously with the task of managing a large site.
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Who says they must be able to trace the call? When you sign up for a VOIP service they get your address.
The VOIP service can connect you to any telephone line in the world, so there no reason they can't connect you to a local 911 dispatch service. The technical limitations can be overcome; this is just a case of ISPs trying to save money. If VOIP is to be considered as a serious alternative to POTS then 911 service should be mandatory.
The car was underground, hence the engine would not have been running. All the car's electrical systems were in use all morning, with no alternator to keep the battery charged.
Just leaving the ignition switch at ready keeps lots of electrical systems in the car running, such as solendoids within the engine, cabin lights and dozens of sensors, not to mention the very clever looking TFT in that Prius. Bluetooth activity would have had negligible impact in draining the battery. Besides, in a car park all the cars would have their ignitions switched at off; bluetooth devices would not even be powered up.
I do have some sympathy for apple regarding this. Anyone who uses Windows shares frequently will know that even different versions of Windows can have difficulty operating together.
Also, it makes sense that only top developers would find themselves in a position where a company was prepared to pay them to carry on with their work.
As much as I admire Woz's idealism, I wouldn't take business advice from him!
The best way to improve our current knowledge is to continue with these experiments, otherwise we are just sitting in limbo.
Surely the terms of the government granted license are an agreement on the ethical standards to be met. According to the article "There will be no reproductive cloning [...] with eggs not being allowed to grow beyond 14 days and the remaining cells destroyed."
They ruin my day. There's an extremely annoying button called 'open', which strangely seems to minimize the current window. It's the second key on on the far left, and I constantly press it by accident when I'm aiming for shift. I hate using sun machines for that reason :)
Chances are that it is possible for a skilled locksmith to pick the lock on your front door. I'll bet that your lock didn't come with any disclaimers or an EULA, so they haven't bothered to warn you.
Of course it is possible for the manufacturer to make a lock that's more secure, but that would cost them more money and they'd sell fewer locks, so they don't.
I hate software anologies - they can be stretched to mean whatever the hell you want.
The poster makes a very good point, and if I'd had mod-points I'd mod it insightful.
You've listed only 4 games. What if he wants to play one of the 40,000 other games available for Windows? It's a lot less hassle to run them on the OS they were designed for than to mess around with emulators or wine.
Secondly, why should anyone need an excuse for selecting a particular operating system? It's a matter of choice, and the parent clearly explained his reasons for preferring Windows. Linux appears to suit your particular needs better, and that's great too.
What if you just like to use what you regard as the best and most economical tool for the job?
I strongly disagree with Software patents, but I wouldn't put myself into any of your 3 categories - not everyone bases their software choices on political views.
Sorry to be a pedant
Plenty of people in the US have no job, no home and no health insurance. One could use a similar argument to advocate shutting down NASA until all US citizens reach a decent standard of living.
Personally I think space exploration is a worthy cause for mankind and see no wrong in diverting a reasonable level of funding toward it.
I apologise if that isn't you - and I'm sorry you were the subject of my little vent :)
While it's common sense that situations exist where Windows is not the most secure option, baseless and overly broad statements like your's are very unhelpful.
I don't see any wrongdoing here. Anyone is free to use the code under the BSD license. It's not like MS are forcing people to pay for BSD code - if anyone wants the code they can still obtain it legaly for free. Microsoft are simply charging for their own nice packaging that makes it easier (at least arguably :) ) to use.
On the flipside, if you do write a useful utility for OSX you can expect a little monetary reward for your troubles, which is nice.
Well good for you, congratulations, and well fecking done. Have a round of aplause - clap, clap, clap.
Now think about posting something useful next time.
Not as far as I know - you could be thinking about the IsNot patent though.
Burn that karma!!!
a proper CMS is much better
I agree, a good CMS is better than using Dreamweaver templates, but it can limit site layout, and server side scripting languages and databases are not always available.
I've made a few sites with custom CMS's, and I've also used off the shelf systems such as Zen Cart and PHPBB, but I still always use Dreamweaver to manage and edit all the files. I tend to use it as a source editor. It does syntax highlighting, autocompletion and everything you'd expect from a good IDE for PHP, as well as helping with the job of managing lots of files. I manage the site itself using Dreamweaver, while other people use the CMS to edit the site content. I can see how it could prove tricky for a site managed by many people though.
I don't understand why you'd want to use Dreamweaver's templates in the first place.
Dreamweaver allows you to edit the content within the template, so you can see what it will look like in context. Additionally serverside includes are not always available, especially with cheaper hosting packages. I do agree that where they are available, they're generally a better solution.
The answer is for people to use WYSIWYG editors only long enough to learn how HTML works, then start writing REAL code.
Dreamweaver is not a tool for 'noobs' who don't know html - it's a tool that massively enhances the productivity of web developers, who generally do know html very well. It automates all the repetitive stuff, like generating tables or imagemaps, and helps with designing layouts, much a good IDE would for writing C/Java/whatever. A basic text editor is fine for putting together a small site, but a tool like dreamweaver helps enourmously with the task of managing a large site.