Believe what you want, but the headline on the story reads, "Toyota plans to expand use of gas-electric vehicles." It's based on comments made by an engineering director at an industry conference. None of the major news outlets that I've checked are carrying the story. If it had any importance, it would have made the financial news, at the very least.
Read the freaking article with a more critical eye. Geez.
Slashdot: "all their vehicles will be gas-electric hybrids by 2012"
Article: "plans to use gasoline-electric hybrid engines in all vehicles"
It sounds more like they're planning to offer a hybrid version of each model in their line. It doesn't indicate that they'll abandon internal combustion.
Reminds me of the story about the angry Quaker... as a pacifist, he was prevented from attacking an intruder to his home. So instead, he politely informed the man, "Excuse me, sir, you are standing where I'm about to shoot."
>> not that Java died because it was not included in Windows, but rather because it was included in a crippled way
Nonsense. The reason it died was that nobody freaking wanted it. MS's VM might have been problematic, but it was always easy enough to install a different one. But nobody EVER showed much interest in buying Java-based apps. And I never heard of any developers who were truly FUD'd by MS's VM, except perhaps a few who were quoted in Sun press releases.
Face it. Client-side Java makes about as much sense as selling pet food through a web page, and it was hyped in that same wacky New Economy environment when people would believe anything. Nothing killed it. It was a bad idea that didn't work.
>> Think it won't happen? Who is going to stop them?
Um... their customers. And the competition, namely open stuff. If MS tried that, no sane company would ever license their products again. Damned few consumers would, either. It would be the best thing that ever happened to OpenOffice.
But long before that, Gates himself would put an stop to it, because it would be such a stupid f***ing thing to do.
Well, there IS a story here, though it's probably not what it appears to be at first glance.
If Potashner was so concerned about these loans, where was he for the last 2-1/2 years? Not that I'd want to try to justify those loans, but his timing about speaking up is interesting.
Another possible angle on this is that perhaps he was in trouble for the company's poor performance, and he tried to use the board loans to divert attention from himself. Could just be a grandstand play.
Y'know, telnet is secure as long as you're not using it. Ironically, it probably WOULD be safer than leaving an exploitable openssh running. Sure, it's plain text, and therefore vulnerable to packet-sniffing. But most versions of the daemon are pretty safe, and not susceptible to remote exploits via the TCP port.
I'm starting to suspect that Microsoft releases these.htr holes on purpose. I mean, nobody in their right mind uses it. So I think they just cook up a vulnerability, and let the word out. Then, up in Redmond, they must all sit around and have a good laugh at the flurry of indignant outrage that inevitably appears on/.
Milton Friedman once expressed it very well. He said that if you looked at is from the standpoint of an engineer, then of course we're going to run out of oil. But if you look at it from the standpoint of an economist, you realize it's not such a big deal.
Some time in the future, when known reserves start to decrease, prices will increase. With increasing prices will come reduced usage, and alternative energy sources will become more cost-competitive. By the time oil prices get really high, we'll all be driving kool-aid powered Gingers or some damned thing.
And actually, we wouldn't ever actually "run out" of oil... prices will just increase to the point that we won't be able to use it the way we currently do.
It's always presented as if we're going to wake up one morning and find all the gas stations closed. That won't be the case. We'll have decades of slowly rising prices until, without any sudden shocks, we'll be using much less oil than we used to. But typical market fluctuations are greater than any 3-5 year change in the fundamental price that we'll see along the way. Remember, in constant dollars, oil is cheaper and more plentiful today than it was thirty years ago when all the hysteria started. Known reserves are also greater than they were 30 years ago... which means that we're still discovering oil faster than we burn it.
Of course, there are always those who figure that if we're going to run out of oil someday, then we should stop using it now. Can't see what good that could possibly do; you're just making the shortage happen sooner, and the alternative technologies are still pretty crude.
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The only "truly free" license is no license; ie public domain. The GPL is great, it's clever, it works. But just like a Microsoft EULA, it imposes restrictions.
The problem is that ithis isn't a privacy bill... quite the contrary. It's a bill that allows the government to stick its nose into how you run your web site.
If they want to pass a privacy bill, they should put restrictions on the IRS, and limit what they can do with all the information they collect about you. Fact is, every bit of information on your tax return, every expense receipt, every source of income can be shared with any federal or state law enforcement agency that wants it.
So, what are they supposed to use, a really big passwd file? OpenLDAP? Novell NDS? A big Oracle database? Why should we even care what the technology is, as long as it works?
But, the idea that you'll need to register in order to read government documents, now THAT is interesting, and somewhat troubling. But I couldn't care less what technology they use.
Unfortunately, all the Microsoft-hating government pawns around here seem to have missed the real point of the article.
Well, no, it's not much of a security risk, but I really don't like it when the OS does things that I don't ask it to and can't shut them off. And revealing ANY user information at the login screen is a step onto a slippery slope... it could only be a matter of time before they add some other feature, but overlook some instance where it revealed something it shouldn't.... in the same way that the ability to execute attachments has proven to be a mess for Outlook... no matter how much they patch it, it still leaves holes.
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Name a government enforced monopoly. Come on, show me one. Just one. No, I won't wait for it.
Good grief, wake up.
Cable TV, last-mile telecom, and electric power are all de jure monopolies in most of the US.
Believe what you want, but the headline on the story reads, "Toyota plans to expand use of gas-electric vehicles." It's based on comments made by an engineering director at an industry conference. None of the major news outlets that I've checked are carrying the story. If it had any importance, it would have made the financial news, at the very least.
Read the freaking article with a more critical eye. Geez.
Slashdot: "all their vehicles will be gas-electric hybrids by 2012"
Article: "plans to use gasoline-electric hybrid engines in all vehicles"
It sounds more like they're planning to offer a hybrid version of each model in their line. It doesn't indicate that they'll abandon internal combustion.
Reminds me of the story about the angry Quaker... as a pacifist, he was prevented from attacking an intruder to his home. So instead, he politely informed the man, "Excuse me, sir, you are standing where I'm about to shoot."
Did it ever occur to this guy that perhaps it's 5 percent of browsers that are obsolete, rather than 99.9 percent of web sites?
>> not that Java died because it was not included in Windows, but rather because it was included in a crippled way
Nonsense. The reason it died was that nobody freaking wanted it. MS's VM might have been problematic, but it was always easy enough to install a different one. But nobody EVER showed much interest in buying Java-based apps. And I never heard of any developers who were truly FUD'd by MS's VM, except perhaps a few who were quoted in Sun press releases.
Face it. Client-side Java makes about as much sense as selling pet food through a web page, and it was hyped in that same wacky New Economy environment when people would believe anything. Nothing killed it. It was a bad idea that didn't work.
>> Think it won't happen? Who is going to stop them?
Um... their customers. And the competition, namely open stuff. If MS tried that, no sane company would ever license their products again. Damned few consumers would, either. It would be the best thing that ever happened to OpenOffice.
But long before that, Gates himself would put an stop to it, because it would be such a stupid f***ing thing to do.
Well, there IS a story here, though it's probably not what it appears to be at first glance.
If Potashner was so concerned about these loans, where was he for the last 2-1/2 years? Not that I'd want to try to justify those loans, but his timing about speaking up is interesting.
Another possible angle on this is that perhaps he was in trouble for the company's poor performance, and he tried to use the board loans to divert attention from himself. Could just be a grandstand play.
Y'know, telnet is secure as long as you're not using it. Ironically, it probably WOULD be safer than leaving an exploitable openssh running. Sure, it's plain text, and therefore vulnerable to packet-sniffing. But most versions of the daemon are pretty safe, and not susceptible to remote exploits via the TCP port.
I'm starting to suspect that Microsoft releases these .htr holes on purpose. I mean, nobody in their right mind uses it. So I think they just cook up a vulnerability, and let the word out. Then, up in Redmond, they must all sit around and have a good laugh at the flurry of indignant outrage that inevitably appears on /.
After all, everybody knows that Apache has no vulnerabilities in the default installation.
Milton Friedman once expressed it very well. He said that if you looked at is from the standpoint of an engineer, then of course we're going to run out of oil. But if you look at it from the standpoint of an economist, you realize it's not such a big deal.
Some time in the future, when known reserves start to decrease, prices will increase. With increasing prices will come reduced usage, and alternative energy sources will become more cost-competitive. By the time oil prices get really high, we'll all be driving kool-aid powered Gingers or some damned thing.
And actually, we wouldn't ever actually "run out" of oil... prices will just increase to the point that we won't be able to use it the way we currently do.
It's always presented as if we're going to wake up one morning and find all the gas stations closed. That won't be the case. We'll have decades of slowly rising prices until, without any sudden shocks, we'll be using much less oil than we used to. But typical market fluctuations are greater than any 3-5 year change in the fundamental price that we'll see along the way. Remember, in constant dollars, oil is cheaper and more plentiful today than it was thirty years ago when all the hysteria started. Known reserves are also greater than they were 30 years ago... which means that we're still discovering oil faster than we burn it.
Of course, there are always those who figure that if we're going to run out of oil someday, then we should stop using it now. Can't see what good that could possibly do; you're just making the shortage happen sooner, and the alternative technologies are still pretty crude.
The only "truly free" license is no license; ie public domain. The GPL is great, it's clever, it works. But just like a Microsoft EULA, it imposes restrictions.
The problem is that ithis isn't a privacy bill... quite the contrary. It's a bill that allows the government to stick its nose into how you run your web site.
If they want to pass a privacy bill, they should put restrictions on the IRS, and limit what they can do with all the information they collect about you. Fact is, every bit of information on your tax return, every expense receipt, every source of income can be shared with any federal or state law enforcement agency that wants it.
So, what are they supposed to use, a really big passwd file? OpenLDAP? Novell NDS? A big Oracle database? Why should we even care what the technology is, as long as it works?
But, the idea that you'll need to register in order to read government documents, now THAT is interesting, and somewhat troubling. But I couldn't care less what technology they use.
Unfortunately, all the Microsoft-hating government pawns around here seem to have missed the real point of the article.
Well, no, it's not much of a security risk, but I really don't like it when the OS does things that I don't ask it to and can't shut them off. And revealing ANY user information at the login screen is a step onto a slippery slope... it could only be a matter of time before they add some other feature, but overlook some instance where it revealed something it shouldn't.... in the same way that the ability to execute attachments has proven to be a mess for Outlook... no matter how much they patch it, it still leaves holes.
Yes, CityDesk is really the killer app for low end CMS.