Not only is Microsoft imitating success, but they are doing a bad job of it by adding several annoying elements. This works when you have a monopoly. Thank heavens for Google.
My uncle, who was one of the research program chiefs, said exactly the same thing as the professor, but in the 70s or late 60s. They've spent many billions, and apparently have achieved very little.
My understanding is not only do people not want to risk their jobs, but they don't actually have a plan. Anything that would handle the material, or even observe it, must be able to withstand extremely high radiation levels.
Ryan, I was told exactly the same thing in the early 70s. At that time they were planning on doing the glassification inside each tank. Something is very wrong, I think. It sounds like a huge boondoggle, at minimum.
It is important to realize some facts about the Hanford clean-up:
First, the problems they are talking about happened very early in
nuclear power plant research, in the 50s and earlier. They are not so sloppy
now in the storage of nuclear waste. Back then, they made extremely severe
problems for themselves, which are very difficult to correct.
Second, there is a huge amount of government fraud, apparently. My
uncle was the head of one of the groups at Battelle studying the problems. The
way they talk now about the cleanup is exactly the way they were talking in
the 70s. Apparently nothing has been done, but they continue to milk the issue
for money.
There are tanks at the Hanford site that constantly boil, and have boiled
for more than 40 years, because of the heat from radioactivity. They have made
devices to examine the boiling. Back in the late 60s they decided they would
try to stabilize the tanks by "glassifying" them. The wanted to turn the
entire radioactive mass inside a tank into a solid mass of glass.
They are talking about this now, too, and they are giving the same
completion date, "15 to 30 years from now". That's why I say that apparently
nothing has been done, even though they have spent many, many billions.
What is apparently happening in this story is that they are trying to scare
the public so that they can get even more money.
Fahrenheit 9/11 has made an estimated $116,880,000 as of July 25. Other than that minor correction, the point you made is excellent. Disney gave away the profit on the distribution of a movie that has made more than $100 million gross.
If you are the real Joe Trippi, I have a suggestion for you. I suggest that you don't try to help in any more campaigns. You simply showed no understanding of political campaigns or marketing or advertising copywriting.
You made yourself and your amazingly mundane and pedestrian ideas the focus of the campaign.
If you received the campaign's email messages, you know that Joe Trippi is not
a good campaign manager or writer. He was disgustingly terrible.
The Dean campaign was a mess. There was too little guidance to the people who
wanted to help. People were pretending to be part of the campaign who were
just pushing their own agenda. There were "Dean Campaign" groups who were gays
looking for other gays. There were "Dean Campaign" cross-dressers, looking for
other cross-dressers, I suppose.
Joe Trippi was fired, as he should have been.
Here's a sample Dean Campaign email message, sent on January 27, 2004.
It's pointlessly rah-rah. It is mostly wasted verbiage -- things you probably
already know if you are subscribing to the Dean Campaign email letters. There is no useful information. There
is no information about what one person can do, other than contribute money.
Note that he asks twice for money:
Dear Michael,
Contribute Now! New Hampshire is the only state in the country where a
campaign can turn on a dime. Voters in New Hampshire don't like to follow
trends -- they like to start their own.
And New Hampshire is beginning to turn around. It's been a rough week, but in
the last several days voters have been coming out in droves to see Governor
Dean on the campaign trail in New Hampshire. They are hearing his message --
not what the media wants them to hear -- and they are responding.
Even the reporters are starting to say what we already know -- we're making a
comeback. But we need the resources today to take advantage of the momentum
we're seeing on the ground. Please contribute any amount that you can afford
-- New Hampshire is only 48 hours away, and we have seven more states to
compete in just a week after that:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/contribute
I've worked on campaigns all my life and one thing I know is true: You cannot
win without surviving the inevitable blows. We took a blow in Iowa. But we're
still here and we're still fighting.
The fact remains that our campaign is the last best hope to change Washington
and to remove the special interests and the power of big money from our
government.
And the fact remains that Howard Dean is the best candidate to take on George
W. Bush and defeat him, because he's spent a lifetime of doing what's right,
not what was popular.
But he needs your support today. We are bringing out the comeback bat to show
the country that we are not giving up:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/contribute
We are going forward -- and we will succeed -- because we must. Because there
is no other candidate and no other campaign that will bring real change to
Washington and return real power to the American people.
ZoneAlarm software firewall already checks for unreasonable outgoing email, and asks the user if it is okay. ZoneAlarm check time, number of recipients, and attachment reasonability.
Could someone explain how one piece of software can have so many severe vulnerabilities? Are Microsoft programmers unbelievably bad at programming? Are Microsoft programmers just people who moved up from the lawn maintenance crew?
Is is possible that Microsoft does not allow its programmers enough time to finish what they write?
Did the U.S. government's NSA spy agency go in after IE was written and add a lot of bugs?
There may be some corruption the 3 movies and 35 books linked in the article did not document.
How can anyone have a casual look at links to 3 movies and 35 books that say the same thing, and deny that there is something happening? Especially when some of the authors are Republicans, and former officials of the Bush administration?
I've found that people really, really, really don't want to accept that their government is largely corrupt.
Instead of accepting, for example, the video clip in Fahrenheit 9/11 that shows George W. Bush holding hands with Saudi Prince Bandar, those who want to deny reality attack Michael Moore. But no one denies that the clip is real, or that the Bush family calls him "Bandar Bush". But many people deny the obvious conclusions.
StorageTech execs: We were going to commit suicide this month, but we decided
on an alternative method of self-destruction. We'll sue to prevent someone
from testing our product to make sure it works.
And then we'll get our trademark on Slashdot! We'll be the leader in company
deathcycle management.
How does a court that does not understand technical things interpret a law
that was written by people who didn't understand technical things? This way:
"... contrary to their assertions, defendants are not saved by 17 U.S.C.
117.3 That section was passed in 1998 as part of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act to protect computer technicians who risked violating copyright
law just by turning on the machines they were to service. Thus, the statute
provides that it is not an infringement for the owner or lessee of a machine
to authorize the making of a copy of a computer program if the program is
copied solely by turning on the machine for the purpose only of maintenance
and repair and 1) the copy "is used in no other manner and is destroyed
immediately after the maintenance and repair is completed," and 2) any part of
the computer program that is not necessary for the machine to be activated is
not accessed or used. 17 U.S.C. 117(c). Defendants copy the Code by turning on
the machine; however, they do so not just for repair, but also for the express
purpose of circumventing plaintiff's security measures, modifying the
Maintenance Level, and intercepting plaintiff's Event Messages."
"The evidence further shows that plaintiff requires its employees to sign
confidentiality agreements and that it denies its customers any rights to the
Maintenance Code and Event Messages."
Earlier in the injunction, the court said, "Plaintiff's storage systems
are, at their most basic, a large number of tape libraries that plaintiff
collectively calls Silo Systems. They have three components: 1) a Library
Storage Module, 2) a Library Control Unit, and 3) a Library Management Unit.
The first is a very large box-like structure (14' x14' x 8') and a piece of
hardware with robotics that is operated by software in the Control and
Management units. It typically contains thousands of tapes, tape drives and a
robotic arm to store and retrieve tapes as directed."
The court says that it is entirely acceptable that you can buy the room-size
hardware from StorageTek, but you can't test it to see if it works:
"Plaintiff [StorageTek] also services the customers' installations
by means of diagnostic software, the "Maintenance Code," which it uses to
identify malfunctions and problems in the customers' storage system. Although
the storage systems are programmed with the Maintenance Code along with the
functional operations software, the Code is not sold, and only plaintiff has
access to it."
It seems to me only fair that StorageTek be required to give the injunction to
all prospective customers, so that customers can see the circumstances in
which they would be backing up their important data.
In my opinion, a customer would be crazy to trust their data to a company that
may go out of business at any time because of incredibly bad management
decisions, and amazingly adversarial business practices.
A scene like this will be repeated wherever StorageTek systems are sold: Computer tech: "Oh,
you say we're getting a StorageTek system? I'll just put a copy of the
injunction on the CEO's desk, with a note saying that we may be sued if we
test the system."
A friend asked me which books I would recommend and I wrote a short
article with links to several books: Read the Recent Great Books.
I made the point with him that the wisdom in the ancient great books had been
largely absorbed into our culture. It's the recent great books that include
ideas not everyone knows.
By far, by far, the biggest limitations in anyone's ability to program
computers are due to inner conflict. Someone who can approach and deal with
his or her inner conflict will be far more able to concentrate and will be far
more creative. So the best book to become a good programmer may not always be
a programming book.
Also, it is the solemn responsibility of everyone to help run his or her own
country, especially at times of crisis like that in the United States. So,
part of being a complete person is taking an interest in politics. If enough
people don't, the U.S. may become effectively a dictatorship. Here are links
to 3 movies and 35 books that say there are serious problems: Unprecedented
Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
The book "Gestalt Therapy" in the first article linked above discusses an
interesting fact: If you stare at something long enough, it will disappear
from your consciousness. Similarly, if you try to do nothing but programming,
you will find that your brain slows to a crawl. Only people who have a
complete range of activities and interests are fully successful programmers.
For ideas about how to be creative, read the books of the humorist, Dr.
Richard Feynman, linked in the first article. Oh, and Dr. Feynman also won a
Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries in Quantum Electrodynamics.
I'm having problems with Firefox 0.91. Sometimes, a lot of times, it displays just a white screen. I hit Ctrl-- and then Ctrl-+ to make it display. Is this something we can require everyone to do?
To me, the book looks like a big disappointment. I downloaded Chapter 5. There are numerous obvious statements like these:
Design Is About Tradeoffs and Priorities
And:
How to Attack Complexity
Overly costly, ineffective designs arise from three sources:
A complex solution to a simple problem
A simple, incorrect solution to a complex problem
An inappropriate, complex solution to a complex problem
You seem so sure about what happened, but neither of us can be sure, because it was something the government planned to keep secret.
My understanding is that the Saudi's opulent aircraft flew inside the U.S. when no other airplanes were flying. Once all the family members were collected, then Saudi aircraft left the country. Read House of Bush, House of Saud, and many other books and articles for more detail. The Saudis left the country when they were ready.
Buy why are we talking about Michael Moore, when the U.S. government is corrupt, as Michael Moore says? He made the movie to inform those who don't read articles in books and magazines about U.S. government corruption. Instead, people are talking about Michael Moore!
If everyone fights over minor details, nothing of importance will get done. The details are not important, the major point is that there is a MAJOR conflict of interest.
The man who planned the bombing of the world trade center was the BROTHER of a business partner of the Bush family. The books say that the Bush family and the brother made, and will continue to make, more money because of the bombing. It's all about weapons and oil, and not caring about the U.S. people.
Slashdot Mirror
More political humor: It's tough to be a Republican.
Be sure to see the Flash Movie, This Land. It's very funny. For example, John Kerry gives George W. Bush a brain.
I just saw the line at the bottom of MSN Search It's improved:
MSN Search is improved! Check it out."
Not only is Microsoft imitating success, but they are doing a bad job of it by adding several annoying elements. This works when you have a monopoly. Thank heavens for Google.
Does anyone actually use MSN Search?
Is anyone such a prisoner of Microsoft offerings that they don't have a friend who told them about Google?
Good. Maybe this time it is different. However, my recollection is that they have had building projects in the past, also.
My uncle, who was one of the research program chiefs, said exactly the same thing as the professor, but in the 70s or late 60s. They've spent many billions, and apparently have achieved very little.
My understanding is not only do people not want to risk their jobs, but they don't actually have a plan. Anything that would handle the material, or even observe it, must be able to withstand extremely high radiation levels.
The whole thing sounds like extreme government corruption to me. United States government corruption worries me so much I put together some links to 3 movies and 35 books about it: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
Ryan, I was told exactly the same thing in the early 70s. At that time they were planning on doing the glassification inside each tank. Something is very wrong, I think. It sounds like a huge boondoggle, at minimum.
It is important to realize some facts about the Hanford clean-up:
First, the problems they are talking about happened very early in nuclear power plant research, in the 50s and earlier. They are not so sloppy now in the storage of nuclear waste. Back then, they made extremely severe problems for themselves, which are very difficult to correct.
Second, there is a huge amount of government fraud, apparently. My uncle was the head of one of the groups at Battelle studying the problems. The way they talk now about the cleanup is exactly the way they were talking in the 70s. Apparently nothing has been done, but they continue to milk the issue for money.
There are tanks at the Hanford site that constantly boil, and have boiled for more than 40 years, because of the heat from radioactivity. They have made devices to examine the boiling. Back in the late 60s they decided they would try to stabilize the tanks by "glassifying" them. The wanted to turn the entire radioactive mass inside a tank into a solid mass of glass.
They are talking about this now, too, and they are giving the same completion date, "15 to 30 years from now". That's why I say that apparently nothing has been done, even though they have spent many, many billions.
What is apparently happening in this story is that they are trying to scare the public so that they can get even more money.
Here's more about U.S. government corruption: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
God,
Fahrenheit 9/11 has made an estimated $116,880,000 as of July 25. Other than that minor correction, the point you made is excellent. Disney gave away the profit on the distribution of a movie that has made more than $100 million gross.
I'd like an invitation.
If you are the real Joe Trippi, I have a suggestion for you. I suggest that you don't try to help in any more campaigns. You simply showed no understanding of political campaigns or marketing or advertising copywriting.
You made yourself and your amazingly mundane and pedestrian ideas the focus of the campaign.
If you received the campaign's email messages, you know that Joe Trippi is not a good campaign manager or writer. He was disgustingly terrible.
The Dean campaign was a mess. There was too little guidance to the people who wanted to help. People were pretending to be part of the campaign who were just pushing their own agenda. There were "Dean Campaign" groups who were gays looking for other gays. There were "Dean Campaign" cross-dressers, looking for other cross-dressers, I suppose.
Joe Trippi was fired, as he should have been.
Here's a sample Dean Campaign email message, sent on January 27, 2004. It's pointlessly rah-rah. It is mostly wasted verbiage -- things you probably already know if you are subscribing to the Dean Campaign email letters. There is no useful information. There is no information about what one person can do, other than contribute money. Note that he asks twice for money:
Dear Michael,
Contribute Now! New Hampshire is the only state in the country where a campaign can turn on a dime. Voters in New Hampshire don't like to follow trends -- they like to start their own.
And New Hampshire is beginning to turn around. It's been a rough week, but in the last several days voters have been coming out in droves to see Governor Dean on the campaign trail in New Hampshire. They are hearing his message -- not what the media wants them to hear -- and they are responding.
Even the reporters are starting to say what we already know -- we're making a comeback. But we need the resources today to take advantage of the momentum we're seeing on the ground. Please contribute any amount that you can afford -- New Hampshire is only 48 hours away, and we have seven more states to compete in just a week after that:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/contribute
I've worked on campaigns all my life and one thing I know is true: You cannot win without surviving the inevitable blows. We took a blow in Iowa. But we're still here and we're still fighting.
The fact remains that our campaign is the last best hope to change Washington and to remove the special interests and the power of big money from our government.
And the fact remains that Howard Dean is the best candidate to take on George W. Bush and defeat him, because he's spent a lifetime of doing what's right, not what was popular.
But he needs your support today. We are bringing out the comeback bat to show the country that we are not giving up:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/contribute
We are going forward -- and we will succeed -- because we must. Because there is no other candidate and no other campaign that will bring real change to Washington and return real power to the American people.
Thank you for everything you do.
Joe Trippi
Campaign Manager
Dean for America
To know that the label is genuine, look for the small print at the bottom that says, "Printed in China."
Exactly. How?
ZoneAlarm software firewall already checks for unreasonable outgoing email, and asks the user if it is okay. ZoneAlarm check time, number of recipients, and attachment reasonability.
I'd like an invitation.
Could someone explain how one piece of software can have so many severe vulnerabilities? Are Microsoft programmers unbelievably bad at programming? Are Microsoft programmers just people who moved up from the lawn maintenance crew?
Is is possible that Microsoft does not allow its programmers enough time to finish what they write?
Did the U.S. government's NSA spy agency go in after IE was written and add a lot of bugs?
Here's a better view of the same Secunia advisory: Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities, Secunia Advisory: SA12048 This view shows the 4 new vulnerabilities and shows 54 additional older vulnerabilities at the bottom of the page.
There may be some corruption the 3 movies and 35 books linked in the article did not document.
How can anyone have a casual look at links to 3 movies and 35 books that say the same thing, and deny that there is something happening? Especially when some of the authors are Republicans, and former officials of the Bush administration?
I've found that people really, really, really don't want to accept that their government is largely corrupt.
Instead of accepting, for example, the video clip in Fahrenheit 9/11 that shows George W. Bush holding hands with Saudi Prince Bandar, those who want to deny reality attack Michael Moore. But no one denies that the clip is real, or that the Bush family calls him "Bandar Bush". But many people deny the obvious conclusions.
Here's the link again. I suggest you have a closer look at the summaries of the 35 books: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
Maybe it went like this:
StorageTech execs: We were going to commit suicide this month, but we decided on an alternative method of self-destruction. We'll sue to prevent someone from testing our product to make sure it works.
And then we'll get our trademark on Slashdot! We'll be the leader in company deathcycle management.
It's important to realize that the DMCA is not the only corrupt aspect of the U.S. government: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
How does a court that does not understand technical things interpret a law that was written by people who didn't understand technical things? This way:
"... contrary to their assertions, defendants are not saved by 17 U.S.C. 117.3 That section was passed in 1998 as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to protect computer technicians who risked violating copyright law just by turning on the machines they were to service. Thus, the statute provides that it is not an infringement for the owner or lessee of a machine to authorize the making of a copy of a computer program if the program is copied solely by turning on the machine for the purpose only of maintenance and repair and 1) the copy "is used in no other manner and is destroyed immediately after the maintenance and repair is completed," and 2) any part of the computer program that is not necessary for the machine to be activated is not accessed or used. 17 U.S.C. 117(c). Defendants copy the Code by turning on the machine; however, they do so not just for repair, but also for the express purpose of circumventing plaintiff's security measures, modifying the Maintenance Level, and intercepting plaintiff's Event Messages."
"The evidence further shows that plaintiff requires its employees to sign confidentiality agreements and that it denies its customers any rights to the Maintenance Code and Event Messages."
Earlier in the injunction, the court said, "Plaintiff's storage systems are, at their most basic, a large number of tape libraries that plaintiff collectively calls Silo Systems. They have three components: 1) a Library Storage Module, 2) a Library Control Unit, and 3) a Library Management Unit. The first is a very large box-like structure (14' x14' x 8') and a piece of hardware with robotics that is operated by software in the Control and Management units. It typically contains thousands of tapes, tape drives and a robotic arm to store and retrieve tapes as directed."
The court says that it is entirely acceptable that you can buy the room-size hardware from StorageTek, but you can't test it to see if it works: "Plaintiff [StorageTek] also services the customers' installations by means of diagnostic software, the "Maintenance Code," which it uses to identify malfunctions and problems in the customers' storage system. Although the storage systems are programmed with the Maintenance Code along with the functional operations software, the Code is not sold, and only plaintiff has access to it."
It seems to me only fair that StorageTek be required to give the injunction to all prospective customers, so that customers can see the circumstances in which they would be backing up their important data.
In my opinion, a customer would be crazy to trust their data to a company that may go out of business at any time because of incredibly bad management decisions, and amazingly adversarial business practices.
A scene like this will be repeated wherever StorageTek systems are sold: Computer tech: "Oh, you say we're getting a StorageTek system? I'll just put a copy of the injunction on the CEO's desk, with a note saying that we may be sued if we test the system."
IBM Executives: Now is a chance to get a lot of free publicity, with no money lost, since no one will license the patent, anyway.
Sadly, IBM Executives probably don't read Slashdot, because they don't know how to type. (That's why they have secretaries.)
A friend asked me which books I would recommend and I wrote a short article with links to several books: Read the Recent Great Books.
I made the point with him that the wisdom in the ancient great books had been largely absorbed into our culture. It's the recent great books that include ideas not everyone knows.
By far, by far, the biggest limitations in anyone's ability to program computers are due to inner conflict. Someone who can approach and deal with his or her inner conflict will be far more able to concentrate and will be far more creative. So the best book to become a good programmer may not always be a programming book.
Also, it is the solemn responsibility of everyone to help run his or her own country, especially at times of crisis like that in the United States. So, part of being a complete person is taking an interest in politics. If enough people don't, the U.S. may become effectively a dictatorship. Here are links to 3 movies and 35 books that say there are serious problems: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
The book "Gestalt Therapy" in the first article linked above discusses an interesting fact: If you stare at something long enough, it will disappear from your consciousness. Similarly, if you try to do nothing but programming, you will find that your brain slows to a crawl. Only people who have a complete range of activities and interests are fully successful programmers.
For ideas about how to be creative, read the books of the humorist, Dr. Richard Feynman, linked in the first article. Oh, and Dr. Feynman also won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries in Quantum Electrodynamics.
I'm having problems with Firefox 0.91. Sometimes, a lot of times, it displays just a white screen. I hit Ctrl-- and then Ctrl-+ to make it display. Is this something we can require everyone to do?
I'm offering an hour of free PC telephone tech support for a GMail invite.
To me, the book looks like a big disappointment. I downloaded Chapter 5. There are numerous obvious statements like these:
Design Is About Tradeoffs and Priorities
And:
How to Attack Complexity
Overly costly, ineffective designs arise from three sources:
A complex solution to a simple problem
A simple, incorrect solution to a complex problem
An inappropriate, complex solution to a complex problem
You seem so sure about what happened, but neither of us can be sure, because it was something the government planned to keep secret.
My understanding is that the Saudi's opulent aircraft flew inside the U.S. when no other airplanes were flying. Once all the family members were collected, then Saudi aircraft left the country. Read House of Bush, House of Saud, and many other books and articles for more detail. The Saudis left the country when they were ready.
Buy why are we talking about Michael Moore, when the U.S. government is corrupt, as Michael Moore says? He made the movie to inform those who don't read articles in books and magazines about U.S. government corruption. Instead, people are talking about Michael Moore!
If everyone fights over minor details, nothing of importance will get done. The details are not important, the major point is that there is a MAJOR conflict of interest.
The man who planned the bombing of the world trade center was the BROTHER of a business partner of the Bush family. The books say that the Bush family and the brother made, and will continue to make, more money because of the bombing. It's all about weapons and oil, and not caring about the U.S. people.