It probably also had a lot to do with a lack of new information coming in.
A friend of mine commented to me once that around 10:00-10:30 am EST much of the news content began repeating itself over and over, with no new developments until very late in the day. He suggested that it may have been the military/CIA/FBI/NSA/gov't clamping down on the media outlets and attempting to control the information.
I thought it followed the typical investigative approach. As the authorities move from shock to investigation, one would expect the news to dry up a bit until leads are developed and pursued. We saw much of the same headline development in the WTC bombing way back when.
Shock and horror, followed by the beginnings of investigation, followed by leads, followed by concrete facts. Then again, maybe I'm being naive!
Actually, think of it more as having a garage sale on your lawn and having people come up & inspect your stuff looking for stolen goods.
What bothers me most is how this third party is able to obtain a subpeona of ISP logs so easily. They are not a law enforcement agency; what checks and balances are in place to ensure due process, probable cause, etc?
This should NEVER have been distributed as a service pack, though. This could (and should) be its own update available on Automatic Update.
SP's are there to correct bugs, apply hotfixes, etc, etc. Lots of organizations wait until a SP is a few weeks/months/years old before applying it so that the ramifications of doing so are known, or a patch for the SP is available (anyone remember SP6a?)
SP's are not there to add court-mandated functionality. That's not their purpose.
Personally, I applied a third-party SP to my XP box and I couldn't be happier: Mandrake!
i mean, only Apple users would want to slow down their system with drop shadows, lickable buttons, translucent drop-down menus? I just want to get work done.
Lickable buttons? Wow! Does that mean we need to get touch-screens now, too? I hope I don't get a <ZOT!>
I actually received an offer letter typed totally in Comic Sans. I laughed so hard I just _HAD_ to accept to see what the rest of the company was like.
I wasn't disappointed: they went bust a month after I left (about 5 months after accepting), and no, they weren't a dot-com failure. This was before the dot-com balloon.
A corporation has to answer to customers if a patch breaks.
Then why do Microsoft patches break more often than the problems they're patching? If, as you say, corporations have to answer to their customers, why does MS not have to answer to us?
The reality is that corporations who _RESPECT_ their customers have to answer to them, but unethical/uncaring companies can pretty much do anything they want, like shove untested, unreliable code down our throats ad nauseum.
In OSS, there's at least a semblance of testing. I can't remember the last time I saw a corporate entity put a bug track list online where customers could actually post their problems for them to fix (including test results). This seems to be common practice among many, of not most, OSS projects.
Actually it's perfectly legal for me to copy the entire text of anything I own. If I want one copy of the latest Stephen King novel for my upstairs bathroom, one for downstairs and one for beside my bed, I am well within my fair-use rights to make such copies.
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It probably also had a lot to do with a lack of new information coming in.
A friend of mine commented to me once that around 10:00-10:30 am EST much of the news content began repeating itself over and over, with no new developments until very late in the day. He suggested that it may have been the military/CIA/FBI/NSA/gov't clamping down on the media outlets and attempting to control the information.
I thought it followed the typical investigative approach. As the authorities move from shock to investigation, one would expect the news to dry up a bit until leads are developed and pursued. We saw much of the same headline development in the WTC bombing way back when.
Shock and horror, followed by the beginnings of investigation, followed by leads, followed by concrete facts. Then again, maybe I'm being naive!
Actually, think of it more as having a garage sale on your lawn and having people come up & inspect your stuff looking for stolen goods.
What bothers me most is how this third party is able to obtain a subpeona of ISP logs so easily. They are not a law enforcement agency; what checks and balances are in place to ensure due process, probable cause, etc?
This should NEVER have been distributed as a service pack, though. This could (and should) be its own update available on Automatic Update.
SP's are there to correct bugs, apply hotfixes, etc, etc. Lots of organizations wait until a SP is a few weeks/months/years old before applying it so that the ramifications of doing so are known, or a patch for the SP is available (anyone remember SP6a?)
SP's are not there to add court-mandated functionality. That's not their purpose.
Personally, I applied a third-party SP to my XP box and I couldn't be happier: Mandrake!
i mean, only Apple users would want to slow down their system with drop shadows, lickable buttons, translucent drop-down menus? I just want to get work done.
Lickable buttons? Wow! Does that mean we need to get touch-screens now, too? I hope I don't get a <ZOT!>
I actually received an offer letter typed totally in Comic Sans. I laughed so hard I just _HAD_ to accept to see what the rest of the company was like.
I wasn't disappointed: they went bust a month after I left (about 5 months after accepting), and no, they weren't a dot-com failure. This was before the dot-com balloon.
A corporation has to answer to customers if a patch breaks.
Then why do Microsoft patches break more often than the problems they're patching? If, as you say, corporations have to answer to their customers, why does MS not have to answer to us?
The reality is that corporations who _RESPECT_ their customers have to answer to them, but unethical/uncaring companies can pretty much do anything they want, like shove untested, unreliable code down our throats ad nauseum.
In OSS, there's at least a semblance of testing. I can't remember the last time I saw a corporate entity put a bug track list online where customers could actually post their problems for them to fix (including test results). This seems to be common practice among many, of not most, OSS projects.
A life of celibacy!
Wow! All that is happening in Japan these days????
Actually it's perfectly legal for me to copy the entire text of anything I own. If I want one copy of the latest Stephen King novel for my upstairs bathroom, one for downstairs and one for beside my bed, I am well within my fair-use rights to make such copies.
So long as I don't sell it to someone else.
The same way a Windoze user learns
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* Ctrl-Alt-Del for task manager
* Ctrl-]/Ctrl-[ to change font sizes
* Alt-F4 to close windows
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Actually, MS loses $$$ on each XBox shipped. Stay tuned for an anti-trust suit from Nintendo et al.