went to visit my gran there and while strolling down the corridor every tv screen i passed was no longer displaying useful hospital information, but had a lovely BSOD to help everyone who walked by.
... i used to work in tech support and a colleague told me this (supposedly true) story.
he got a call one day from a woman complaining her computer was doing funny things. when asked what she meant exactly she told of how when her phone rang she used to get random characters appearing on the screen. so the tech support went through the normal things trying to figure out what was wrong but to no avail.
the woman would phone back every week or so complaining that the problem was still happening, and again and again various tech support staff would go through everything they could think of with her but couldn't fix it.
one day though one of the engineers (aware of the lady and her misterious problem) happened to be over in her office fixing an unrelated problem with the ladies phone starting ringing. so as the engineer turns around to see what happens he sees the lady lean towards the phone (and this woman had BIG boobies) her chest pressing down on the keyboard as she bent over for it, and lo and behold a mess of random chars coming up on the screen.
not really a bug (not a computer one anyway) but it made me laugh.
i believe that actually they have scaled back their plans a great deal. WinFS is going to use NTFS as it's main system of file storage, WinFS is just another layer on the top that uses SQL Server to manage file attributes. It's not as ambitious as they originally planned.
RieserFS 4 is worth a serious look if your interested in file system development. there was a great article over on kuro5hin about it a few weeks ago.
"For example, an attacker could read files on your computer or run programs on it. By installing this update, you can help protect your computer." - MS03-037
but what (using your analogy) the cat actually gets the mouse? what if it becomes law that google can't index links that breach the dmca? they'd have to check not only each new site they are going to index to make sure it doesn't breach dmca, but all the sites they are currently indexing to make sure they haven't fallen out of compliance.
and that really would be a horrible state of affairs for the internet. maybe projects like nutch are the only way internet searching is going to advance in the future. or would even this service fall under the same restrictive laws?
there's an interview on wired aswell
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... really... who's gonna notice? if it ain't ebay shutting down, or msn.com or some other site like that then i don't think it's gonna make much of a splash.
sure us nerds know about it, but joe public or mr european parliament bozo? don't fink it's gonna change their day.
i think the point is that so many people have a problem with this kind of thing because of the fact that to us it is obvious, and the people outside the industry generally don't seem to have any idea of this. which is allowing all these ridiculous patents to be granted and spoiling the industry.
i mean, if i didn't know anything about computers and programming then amazons remembering my details each time really would seem like a great invention by them.
.... urr... how ae these things meant to be inforced? can it be made that installing DRM enforcement software on my box be a legal requirement of owning a computer? i know with microsofts market penetration they could include it in a future version of windows and a hell of a lot of people would just have it becasue they don't know any better.
but could other OS's like linux, freebsd, etc be forced to include such steps?
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went to visit my gran there and while strolling down the corridor every tv screen i passed was no longer displaying useful hospital information, but had a lovely BSOD to help everyone who walked by.
heh!
or however u do that...
what about the one and only paper he wrote, on pancake networks.
... i used to work in tech support and a colleague told me this (supposedly true) story.
he got a call one day from a woman complaining her computer was doing funny things. when asked what she meant exactly she told of how when her phone rang she used to get random characters appearing on the screen. so the tech support went through the normal things trying to figure out what was wrong but to no avail.
the woman would phone back every week or so complaining that the problem was still happening, and again and again various tech support staff would go through everything they could think of with her but couldn't fix it.
one day though one of the engineers (aware of the lady and her misterious problem) happened to be over in her office fixing an unrelated problem with the ladies phone starting ringing. so as the engineer turns around to see what happens he sees the lady lean towards the phone (and this woman had BIG boobies) her chest pressing down on the keyboard as she bent over for it, and lo and behold a mess of random chars coming up on the screen.
not really a bug (not a computer one anyway) but it made me laugh.
RieserFS 4 is worth a serious look if your interested in file system development. there was a great article over on kuro5hin about it a few weeks ago.
dumbass.
read... "do whatever the fuck they want"
heh.
and that really would be a horrible state of affairs for the internet. maybe projects like nutch are the only way internet searching is going to advance in the future. or would even this service fall under the same restrictive laws?
my fav quote: "The world is moving to a Unix operating environment, and SCO owns the intellectual property rights to it"
SCO to rule the world then? heh!
sure us nerds know about it, but joe public or mr european parliament bozo? don't fink it's gonna change their day.
but still, kudos to the sties that did.
they're only likely to match if they're from the same place. hence illegal copies.
i think the point is that so many people have a problem with this kind of thing because of the fact that to us it is obvious, and the people outside the industry generally don't seem to have any idea of this. which is allowing all these ridiculous patents to be granted and spoiling the industry.
i mean, if i didn't know anything about computers and programming then amazons remembering my details each time really would seem like a great invention by them.
i believe that's not microsofts invention, i think it's an RFC.
:D
should get into moz sometime.
you bet ur ass !! i have too much time at work :D
first?
i know this is a late and nitpicky post hasn't the article placed the words horizontally and vertically the wrong way round ?
just goes to show what money gets you.
.... urr... how ae these things meant to be inforced? can it be made that installing DRM enforcement software on my box be a legal requirement of owning a computer? i know with microsofts market penetration they could include it in a future version of windows and a hell of a lot of people would just have it becasue they don't know any better.
but could other OS's like linux, freebsd, etc be forced to include such steps?
(this post is so fucking late, but it's here anyway, :D)
their quotes page just seems ridiculous. are these quotes meant to back up their case that linux is stealing from them?
well said, i hope it's true.
egrep -ir "windows should be destroyed" *
:D
well almost...
i like the ones saying stuff like "if ur wondering how this works, keep the fuck away from my code!"
i write stuff like that at work, but then quickly remove it for fear of backlash from my stupid co-workers.
i'm such an elitist!
heh.
try... egrep -ir "wonder" * sometimes i wonder how it all works... heh. :D
it does seem like every month they're reporting on something new that's gonna change the world... but never does. but ya never know. :D
i once stuck all my lego together into a huge brick. i couldn't throw that 50 feet though.