It doesn't look like it. And yes, I can read dutch. So this system, in theory, would be vulnerable to what you just described.
Then again, the ISP implementing this ( BIT ) is run by some very capable people. Adn even if they still manage to screw up, I could walk over there ( Considering BIT is in the same town as I am ) and throw a fit at them in person. Surely to be more effective then emailing and allot more fun, too...
All of their top ten are W32 viruses. This isn't surprising at all- but my question is, is it because of W32 being an inherantly insecure platform (which it certainly IS) or is it because Sophos doesn't track anything else?
All top 10 viruses are win32 viruses because the win32 platform has the largest market share and thus the most retarded users. And that's also why you shouldn't bash win32. Linux right now has a fairly decent reputation regarding security. However, how do you think Linux would fare if it had 50% market share of which half was running RH7.2 without ANY updates whatsoever? The virus problem lies with the virus writers who need to sod off and get a life. The problem with security in general lies with the stupid users.
Remember that with auditing, regular updates, a good firewall and some finely-tuned ACLs even Win32 (NT5+) can be made pretty secure.
But perhaps most importantly, this is a microcosm of a major problem facing our society. What is real? What has value? What does it mean to "own" something? The article seems to find this trend amusing (just like everyone found UO auctions and other MMORPG auctions amusing). Personally, I find this disturbing.
Well, I agree with you here. This whole deal with online properties being traded for real money and all is confusing and very hard to understand for me. However, I have a 12 year old cousin who plays one of these kind of games. Free subscription, but to decorate her online "rooms" she needs to send text messages to the company, which in return gives her credits with which she can "buy" crap in game. I asked her why she'd pay good money for something immaterial which isn't really hers, even after she paid for it. The answer was quite simple; "Because it's fun to play this game!"
That's how allot of people feel about this, I suppose. They don't spend money on owning something, they spend money on something fun and interesting. If you think of it this way, it's quite comparable to buying a computer/console game, a book or a DVD. Just something we do because we can be entertained with it. Of course, there are extremes and exceptions, with people spending hundreds of dollars on game items, but those people are a minority.
However, that doesn't change the fact that whenever you buy SOMETHING, it's not yours anyways. You're almost always dealing with companies whose main purpose is to make a profit, not to entertain you. The cousin I referred to before, for example, used a very weak password and someone hijacked her account and stole all her ingame stuff. I'll never say this in her face, but that's pretty much her own fault. Still, she contacted the company running that game and after a while, it got settled by the company. The person who stole all her items had all the items deleted, but they couldn't give my cousin "her" items back. So much for actually owning something online. Ah well, I try to keep an open mind about these kind of things...
And, possible even more important, it would bring back jobs to the US ( the crops need to be farmed, the oil distributed, companies will be founded on biodiesel, etcetera ), relieve the US of dependancy on foreign oil and it wouldn't hurt the enviroment in the process. Same thing here in Europe, though I don't have a CLUE where the hell we're going to find the room to plant even more crops...
Then again, petroleum companies are big and influential and biodiesel will be legislated and/or taxed to death by goverments that took a few donations, if it ever becomes even remotely feasible.
So? Vote with your dollars, cancel your slashdot subscription.
People in here scream and yell bloody murder at anything crap and always suggest boycotting and voting with one's wallet. "Boycoot RIAA artists!" and "Vote with your wallet, do not buy $(strEvilBrandOfTheDay)" are common around here. Then why do people around here put up with downright atrocious editting, sheer journalistic incompetence, extreme bias and not-so-cleverly disguised advertisements supposed to look like genuine articles? Vote with your wallet, cancel/do not renew your Slashdot subscription.
Seriously, Slashdot is only tolerable to me because it is FREE, for me at least. I really don't care about the stupid political crap, dupes, gross incompetency and horrible spelling errors because those dolts in charge are never EVER going to see any of my money with Slashdot's current standing. I often see subscribers complaining about dupes and everything and a few articles later they'll yell about boycotting a company that did something bad. Put your money where your mouth is.
Uhm. John Lennon as "questionable content"? U2? Dear Eris, the Beatles PREDATE the phrase "questionable content", so how can their lyrics contain said content?!
Mmm, the stability these days isn't a major problem anymore, sure. Heck, I'm willing to admit that Windows XP is a fairly decent OS that has a good chance of survival for the next few years in the desktop market. Even as a server, it's doable. I mean, if someone wants/needs a Windows server for something, well, why not? It's decent enough if the admin is careful enough.
But Windows on a HPC? I mean, even if a modern Windows GUI along with crappy default services drains only... Say, 5 percent of total system resources, it's still way too much. A standard server can take a 5% hit on resources these days without too much effort and so can a cluster. However, if you're going to build a cluster, 5% loss to a GUI you don't need and a bunch of service you don't want is awful.
All I want to do, is be able to navigate a website using my braille display unit. That shouldn't be too difficult. Except if your website uses flash, it becomes impossible.
Well, that's partially because writing websites for visually handicapped people is such a foreign concept for most people. Think about it, there just aren't much people who use such features. Therefore, most webdesigners don't even consider it. I'm willing to bet that a few webdesigners even disregard it as a whole, claiming that blind people don't use the web anyways.
Besides, even if one writes proper HTML, it's virtually impossible for people with normal sight to test their pages for use on braille-units. Standard layout is easy enough, a bunch of paragraphs and all that. But how about image links? Tables? Frames? Even if we religiously follow the standards, there are bound to be mistakes and we simply can't test for them. Avoiding flash is a good start, yes. Generally, sites with flash are horrible to work with and look at anyways. I don't know if you've got problems with your sight, ( You did refer to a braille-unit you own though ) but if you do, be glad that you never had to witness the graphical horrors of flash sites.:)
Yes, MS is partly to blame, but joe user won't give a rat's ass about the finer points of booting operating systems, he'll just (quite rightly) blame fedora and be done with it.
So, if you install FC2, causing Bill Gates to come over to your house and throw a brick in your face, it's also FC2's fault? Maybe the user's fault because the problem is known to exist, but not FC's fault.
Furthermore this is a bug that's been around for a few months, even before the release of Core 2 so there's really no excuse for this sort of thing. If you're designing an OS to run alongside others it's your responsibility to make sure it doesn't break anything, even if the others are broken somehow.
Then you're suggesting the manufacturer of my car would be responsible if car slams into it? Even if the other car has no brakes, no steering wheel and a 12 year old driver? I mean, according to your logic, it's something the manufacturer of my car should have anticipated.
My examples are ridiculously simple, but I hope the point gets across.
Standards will be partially incorporated, but slightly fucked up. Dreamweaver 2k7 and Frontpage Longhorn will output garbled XHTML with a raped form of CSS that fails to display/work properly on any non-IE browser. SVG will turn out to be a disaster in IE, making sure everyone in 2007 is still stuck using JPGs and GIFs. By then IE will have integrated.NET ( Or some other half-assed scripting language. ) scripting abilities tied into the browser to replace the now obsolete potential ActiveX vulenrabilities. People will cry, bitch, moan, whine and Linux is set to take over the desktop market in 2007 again. Blah.
Microsoft can very easily be a normal and respected company. It's hard to imagine, but it's possible. It's very possible for MS to exist largely as it it nowadays. However, it would require a shift in income from licensing to support. Here's how:
Remove atrocious licensing schemes.
Conform to standards, open up your own for others AND write filters that convert office documents to anything your customers could wish for.
Sell "Light" versions of home-user orientated software at low ( $30 and lower ) prices.
Improve support for enterprise level products such as the server series, premium office suites and the like.
Play nice. Slander isn't a very good tool to maintain a profitable enterprise.
Expand more on hardware. Microsoft hardware, contrary to their software, is very good stuff imho.
Focus on delivering custom software solutions to enterprises.
Create and maintain home-user orientated communities like MSDN for the "common people", where developers can communicate with their users and maybe find a few new areas of improvement.
However, I fear most of that is wishful thinking. Ah well, I'd give it a shot if given the oppurtunity.
In 1955 he died and much later a search engine called Google was born. His relatives claim that Kasner must be spinning in his grave. They believe Google has gained financially at their expense and they want to become IPO insiders to put his soul to rest.
As wel all know, potentially large sums of money can put a deceased loved one to rest. Why doesn't Google solve it creatively? Add a small line of text with a link that states what a googol is, with a tribute to Kasner, his work and his other achievements? The man and his work have been recognized, the family doesn't get a cent and everyone, except those greedy bastards, is happy.
Castronova found that the average player was generating 319 platinum pieces each hour he or she was in the game -- the equivalent of $3.42 (U.S.) per hour. "That's higher than the minimum wage in most countries," he marvelled.
Not bad, however... You do need to pay for a constant internet connection, ( EQ here, so some light form of broadband ) a PC, electricity and one EQ account. I don't think that with these constant costs substracted, EQ will be a very good job...
That, and if any European country would be snooping on any secret US comms traffic, said country can expect a nice visit from the US military. And they aren't coming over for tea and a cookie.
Och, wij Nederlanders zijn gewoon goed bezig vandaag, denk ik... ^_^ En om eens goed irritant te doen, zal ik eens in het Nederlands posten, hehe. In ieder geval, het is een heel gezeur, in het bijzonder als je een glasvezel laan aan wilt laten leggen. Als deze er nog niet ligt, dan zal je waarschijnlijk een ploeg met graafmachine moeten optrommelen om je kabeltje te leggen. het is misschien een beter idee, voor internet althans, om een 8192/8192 SDSL lijn te nemen. Mits de infrastructuur al aanwezig is hiervoor.
TV, radio en telefoon zal moeilijk worden. Ik heb het gevoel dat de KPN moeilijk zal gaan doen als je zelf een centrale wilt gaan runnen. En dan nog, ik neem aan dat TV, radio en telefoon al mogelijk zijn? Zoniet, dan kan dit nog een duur grapje worden... Misschien dat het mogelijk is om alles over een glasvezel lijn te laten lopen, maar of de KPN en de lokale TV-boer er blij mee zullen zijn...
Look at the details about "Stichting BREIN", particulary about the participants. See anything familiar for you american folks? Anyways, considering the people backing BREIN, I highly suspect they will do the same around here, namely sue people and lobby their asses of until a court rules in their favour. Unfortunately, this whole lovvying and sueing thing doesn't work well over here in the Netherlands. Heck, nothing bureaucratic works well over here, for that matter. But I do recall they managed to force an eMule site to drop hyperlinks and replace them by plain text links...
Apart from that, they just attemp to spread around a fair share of FUD. They barely get any media attention, no one really gives a damn about them and their "news" ( In dutch only, sorry... Try and have a chat with the Babelfish about that. ) is about as biased as Slashdot articles. So all in all, not an organization anyone really takes serious. Then again, the big financial backing from the BSA and MPAA is sort of worrying...
Is that protection against canaries? Protection with Japanese kunf-fu canaries? Or protection for canaries? I mean, the kung-fu canaries have potential...
E3, probably the most well known video game trade show was assaulted by the U.S. Army in a promotion for America's Army. Soldiers rappelled out of a real Blackhawk helicopter with real rifles and rushed the show.
Emphasis mine. No sane army in the world would use real weapons with real live ammo in a non-combat situation. Doing so pretty much breaches every protocol, regulation and whatever else there is regarding safety. Maybe they used training rifles ( You know, often seen on Discovery... M16 variants with tiny orange thingy at the end of the barrel ) that fired blanks, perhaps. I doubt that in a non-combat situation even blanks would be allowed, loaded in rifles.
What? Are you honestly interested in reading how some immature 16 year old brat went shopping with her stepdaddy's birthday present, a Hummer H2? Or how about those lovely poems from random goths claiming the world is nothing but suffering. Did I mention yet those horrible emo people who would consider getting hit in the face with a bat to be an emotional experience? I know, let's read up instead about how some random 18+ year old raver guy had sex with a 12 year old raver girl.
This kind of shit needs to be filtered out of the internet. Read me.
The internet is supposed to be many things to many people and one of those is a forum for expression of ideas and thought.
Exactly! Ideas and thought for everyone, from everyone.
Note however, this excludes bullshit like what you had for breakfast, how your cat looks today, how your boyfriend dresses, the latest bad punk/goth/emo song and the weather. I'd post a good example of a poor, pathetic journal with nothing but personal bullshit, but chances are the bitch will freak out again. All the personal crap from blogs just contaminates search engines with biased crap no one cares about. Go look for something on google... Anything. Chances are that in the top 10 results there will be at least 3 links to blogs where someone, amids of all their personal issues, will have something irrelevant to say about whatever you were looking for. That's how blogs, journals and the like ruin the internet.
Li-S still has a long ways to go, only at half the current polymer electrolyte fuel cell technology runtimes and with a maximum of 300 recharge cycles. Polymer electrolyte fuel cells are planned for release as early as 2007, while Li-S is still 3-5 years away.
Right, so much for 'news'. Call me when "still 3-5 years away" becomes "now available", then we'll give it a good look. As for fuel cells, they have been coming "Real Soon Now" (C) since... What?... 2000 or so? Chances are we'll be stuck with Li-Ion batteries for quite a few years to come.
I wouldn't want to be found hosting anything like that, not unless I want to be arrested by dutch anti-terrorist units in the middle of the night on request of the US goverment. I'd prolly be called a "terrorist" for "disclosing information which threatens US national security".
Then again, I would like a US paid vacation to Cuba...
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It doesn't look like it. And yes, I can read dutch. So this system, in theory, would be vulnerable to what you just described.
Then again, the ISP implementing this ( BIT ) is run by some very capable people. Adn even if they still manage to screw up, I could walk over there ( Considering BIT is in the same town as I am ) and throw a fit at them in person. Surely to be more effective then emailing and allot more fun, too...
All top 10 viruses are win32 viruses because the win32 platform has the largest market share and thus the most retarded users. And that's also why you shouldn't bash win32. Linux right now has a fairly decent reputation regarding security. However, how do you think Linux would fare if it had 50% market share of which half was running RH7.2 without ANY updates whatsoever? The virus problem lies with the virus writers who need to sod off and get a life. The problem with security in general lies with the stupid users.
Remember that with auditing, regular updates, a good firewall and some finely-tuned ACLs even Win32 (NT5+) can be made pretty secure.
Well, I agree with you here. This whole deal with online properties being traded for real money and all is confusing and very hard to understand for me. However, I have a 12 year old cousin who plays one of these kind of games. Free subscription, but to decorate her online "rooms" she needs to send text messages to the company, which in return gives her credits with which she can "buy" crap in game. I asked her why she'd pay good money for something immaterial which isn't really hers, even after she paid for it. The answer was quite simple; "Because it's fun to play this game!"
That's how allot of people feel about this, I suppose. They don't spend money on owning something, they spend money on something fun and interesting. If you think of it this way, it's quite comparable to buying a computer/console game, a book or a DVD. Just something we do because we can be entertained with it. Of course, there are extremes and exceptions, with people spending hundreds of dollars on game items, but those people are a minority.
However, that doesn't change the fact that whenever you buy SOMETHING, it's not yours anyways. You're almost always dealing with companies whose main purpose is to make a profit, not to entertain you. The cousin I referred to before, for example, used a very weak password and someone hijacked her account and stole all her ingame stuff. I'll never say this in her face, but that's pretty much her own fault. Still, she contacted the company running that game and after a while, it got settled by the company. The person who stole all her items had all the items deleted, but they couldn't give my cousin "her" items back. So much for actually owning something online. Ah well, I try to keep an open mind about these kind of things...
And, possible even more important, it would bring back jobs to the US ( the crops need to be farmed, the oil distributed, companies will be founded on biodiesel, etcetera ), relieve the US of dependancy on foreign oil and it wouldn't hurt the enviroment in the process. Same thing here in Europe, though I don't have a CLUE where the hell we're going to find the room to plant even more crops...
Then again, petroleum companies are big and influential and biodiesel will be legislated and/or taxed to death by goverments that took a few donations, if it ever becomes even remotely feasible.
So? Vote with your dollars, cancel your slashdot subscription.
People in here scream and yell bloody murder at anything crap and always suggest boycotting and voting with one's wallet. "Boycoot RIAA artists!" and "Vote with your wallet, do not buy $(strEvilBrandOfTheDay)" are common around here. Then why do people around here put up with downright atrocious editting, sheer journalistic incompetence, extreme bias and not-so-cleverly disguised advertisements supposed to look like genuine articles? Vote with your wallet, cancel/do not renew your Slashdot subscription.
Seriously, Slashdot is only tolerable to me because it is FREE, for me at least. I really don't care about the stupid political crap, dupes, gross incompetency and horrible spelling errors because those dolts in charge are never EVER going to see any of my money with Slashdot's current standing. I often see subscribers complaining about dupes and everything and a few articles later they'll yell about boycotting a company that did something bad. Put your money where your mouth is.
Uhm. John Lennon as "questionable content"? U2? Dear Eris, the Beatles PREDATE the phrase "questionable content", so how can their lyrics contain said content?!
Mmm, the stability these days isn't a major problem anymore, sure. Heck, I'm willing to admit that Windows XP is a fairly decent OS that has a good chance of survival for the next few years in the desktop market. Even as a server, it's doable. I mean, if someone wants/needs a Windows server for something, well, why not? It's decent enough if the admin is careful enough.
But Windows on a HPC? I mean, even if a modern Windows GUI along with crappy default services drains only... Say, 5 percent of total system resources, it's still way too much. A standard server can take a 5% hit on resources these days without too much effort and so can a cluster. However, if you're going to build a cluster, 5% loss to a GUI you don't need and a bunch of service you don't want is awful.
Well, that's partially because writing websites for visually handicapped people is such a foreign concept for most people. Think about it, there just aren't much people who use such features. Therefore, most webdesigners don't even consider it. I'm willing to bet that a few webdesigners even disregard it as a whole, claiming that blind people don't use the web anyways.
Besides, even if one writes proper HTML, it's virtually impossible for people with normal sight to test their pages for use on braille-units. Standard layout is easy enough, a bunch of paragraphs and all that. But how about image links? Tables? Frames? Even if we religiously follow the standards, there are bound to be mistakes and we simply can't test for them. Avoiding flash is a good start, yes. Generally, sites with flash are horrible to work with and look at anyways. I don't know if you've got problems with your sight, ( You did refer to a braille-unit you own though ) but if you do, be glad that you never had to witness the graphical horrors of flash sites. :)
And who will pay for those additional taxes? That's right, the customers will. Sorry chap.
So, if you install FC2, causing Bill Gates to come over to your house and throw a brick in your face, it's also FC2's fault? Maybe the user's fault because the problem is known to exist, but not FC's fault.
Then you're suggesting the manufacturer of my car would be responsible if car slams into it? Even if the other car has no brakes, no steering wheel and a 12 year old driver? I mean, according to your logic, it's something the manufacturer of my car should have anticipated.
My examples are ridiculously simple, but I hope the point gets across.
Standards will be partially incorporated, but slightly fucked up. Dreamweaver 2k7 and Frontpage Longhorn will output garbled XHTML with a raped form of CSS that fails to display/work properly on any non-IE browser. SVG will turn out to be a disaster in IE, making sure everyone in 2007 is still stuck using JPGs and GIFs. By then IE will have integrated .NET ( Or some other half-assed scripting language. ) scripting abilities tied into the browser to replace the now obsolete potential ActiveX vulenrabilities. People will cry, bitch, moan, whine and Linux is set to take over the desktop market in 2007 again. Blah.
Microsoft can very easily be a normal and respected company. It's hard to imagine, but it's possible. It's very possible for MS to exist largely as it it nowadays. However, it would require a shift in income from licensing to support. Here's how:
However, I fear most of that is wishful thinking. Ah well, I'd give it a shot if given the oppurtunity.
As wel all know, potentially large sums of money can put a deceased loved one to rest. Why doesn't Google solve it creatively? Add a small line of text with a link that states what a googol is, with a tribute to Kasner, his work and his other achievements? The man and his work have been recognized, the family doesn't get a cent and everyone, except those greedy bastards, is happy.
Not bad, however... You do need to pay for a constant internet connection, ( EQ here, so some light form of broadband ) a PC, electricity and one EQ account. I don't think that with these constant costs substracted, EQ will be a very good job...
That, and if any European country would be snooping on any secret US comms traffic, said country can expect a nice visit from the US military. And they aren't coming over for tea and a cookie.
But hopefully without the Alienware price tag.
Och, wij Nederlanders zijn gewoon goed bezig vandaag, denk ik... ^_^ En om eens goed irritant te doen, zal ik eens in het Nederlands posten, hehe. In ieder geval, het is een heel gezeur, in het bijzonder als je een glasvezel laan aan wilt laten leggen. Als deze er nog niet ligt, dan zal je waarschijnlijk een ploeg met graafmachine moeten optrommelen om je kabeltje te leggen. het is misschien een beter idee, voor internet althans, om een 8192/8192 SDSL lijn te nemen. Mits de infrastructuur al aanwezig is hiervoor.
TV, radio en telefoon zal moeilijk worden. Ik heb het gevoel dat de KPN moeilijk zal gaan doen als je zelf een centrale wilt gaan runnen. En dan nog, ik neem aan dat TV, radio en telefoon al mogelijk zijn? Zoniet, dan kan dit nog een duur grapje worden... Misschien dat het mogelijk is om alles over een glasvezel lijn te laten lopen, maar of de KPN en de lokale TV-boer er blij mee zullen zijn...
For now.
Look at the details about "Stichting BREIN", particulary about the participants. See anything familiar for you american folks? Anyways, considering the people backing BREIN, I highly suspect they will do the same around here, namely sue people and lobby their asses of until a court rules in their favour. Unfortunately, this whole lovvying and sueing thing doesn't work well over here in the Netherlands. Heck, nothing bureaucratic works well over here, for that matter. But I do recall they managed to force an eMule site to drop hyperlinks and replace them by plain text links...
Apart from that, they just attemp to spread around a fair share of FUD. They barely get any media attention, no one really gives a damn about them and their "news" ( In dutch only, sorry... Try and have a chat with the Babelfish about that. ) is about as biased as Slashdot articles. So all in all, not an organization anyone really takes serious. Then again, the big financial backing from the BSA and MPAA is sort of worrying...
Is that protection against canaries? Protection with Japanese kunf-fu canaries? Or protection for canaries? I mean, the kung-fu canaries have potential...
Emphasis mine. No sane army in the world would use real weapons with real live ammo in a non-combat situation. Doing so pretty much breaches every protocol, regulation and whatever else there is regarding safety. Maybe they used training rifles ( You know, often seen on Discovery... M16 variants with tiny orange thingy at the end of the barrel ) that fired blanks, perhaps. I doubt that in a non-combat situation even blanks would be allowed, loaded in rifles.
So less hype and more common sense, please.
Well, I can give you a few reasons why this will never work over here in the Netherlands.
Here's to the goverment overregulating crap. Cheers.
What? Are you honestly interested in reading how some immature 16 year old brat went shopping with her stepdaddy's birthday present, a Hummer H2? Or how about those lovely poems from random goths claiming the world is nothing but suffering. Did I mention yet those horrible emo people who would consider getting hit in the face with a bat to be an emotional experience? I know, let's read up instead about how some random 18+ year old raver guy had sex with a 12 year old raver girl.
This kind of shit needs to be filtered out of the internet. Read me.
Exactly! Ideas and thought for everyone, from everyone.
Note however, this excludes bullshit like what you had for breakfast, how your cat looks today, how your boyfriend dresses, the latest bad punk/goth/emo song and the weather. I'd post a good example of a poor, pathetic journal with nothing but personal bullshit, but chances are the bitch will freak out again. All the personal crap from blogs just contaminates search engines with biased crap no one cares about. Go look for something on google... Anything. Chances are that in the top 10 results there will be at least 3 links to blogs where someone, amids of all their personal issues, will have something irrelevant to say about whatever you were looking for. That's how blogs, journals and the like ruin the internet.
Right, so much for 'news'. Call me when "still 3-5 years away" becomes "now available", then we'll give it a good look. As for fuel cells, they have been coming "Real Soon Now" (C) since... What? ... 2000 or so? Chances are we'll be stuck with Li-Ion batteries for quite a few years to come.
Rather not.
I wouldn't want to be found hosting anything like that, not unless I want to be arrested by dutch anti-terrorist units in the middle of the night on request of the US goverment. I'd prolly be called a "terrorist" for "disclosing information which threatens US national security".
Then again, I would like a US paid vacation to Cuba...