Does anyone know of any website that enumerates the problems that would be caused by a two-tiered internet?
Interesting question, the real question here though is: What the hell is CowboyNeal doing away from Brokeback mountain? I thought he Zonk were going to retire there...
1. If you can sue Microsoft, they can sue you. If you cant sue Microsoft you may be only seconds away from bankrupcy. 2. There are no bankruptcies. Only people who have met Microsoft. 3. Microsoft defines competition as the reluctance to be bought out by Microsoft. If your company still exists, its just because Microsoft hasn't gotten around to buying you out. 4. When Microsoft enters a new field it doesnt join the market. The Market becomes Microsoft.
Worse yet: knowing that an increase in power capacity, people might just continue increasing their power usage, rather than holding back in the knowledge that a wall was up ahead (i.e. the result would be (at least in the short term) an increase in carbon emissions.
Then replace decomissioned coal powerplants with nuclear powerplants instead of adding new nuclear plants... Or we could just never build another powerplant letting the old ones rot and break, that would be a sure-fire way to reduce power consumption! If they don't have any power they can't consume it, genius!
I think you might be a candidate for secretary of energy...
Yes, that was my point. The original article strongly implies that remote vulnerability alone is being tested. Were it not for the second test ZDnet would have likely never changed their article as to make it clear that they were indeed testing the likelyhood of a local attack.
So now we have a test of remote vulnerability and second test of local security, whereas before we had one article full of misleading drivel.
The point of the original test was not to hack the machine from outside, but from inside. All the noise about Windows getting hacked 4 minutes after it was connected to the net was due to lack of firewalling and vulnerable services - turn on firewalling and the vulnerable services are no longer accessible. What does that prove? nothing - they didn't magically become secure. OSX probably has fewer vulnerable services (active or not) but that was not the point.
No, the point of the orignal test was to provide fodder for a pointless, sensationalist and outright misleading article. Given the original wording of the article the argument that "your test is utterly irrelevant for the type of people that would be interested in the original one" is patently false. People who were interested in the "original test" would not have even known the original article concerned such a test. The original article never mentioned what was being tested.
This new test has in fact forced ZDnet to change the wording of the article to make clear what was even being tested in the first place. So instead of one useless ambigious article we have two informative tests. The desinger of the second test has done us all a large favor - unlike antagonistic pedants like you.
For better or worse I must agree with the jist of your post. As much as I would like to defend Google's use of thumbnail images they simply don't own the content.
Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and the law will be changed to allow this, however until then the only solution seems limiting Google image search only to sites which can prove valid copyright.
I have been examining the Rational Unified Process (RUP) quite intensly, and I have to agree.
Firstly, let me say that since 10,000 organisations out there use the thing, it would seem that it is I that is missing something, hence my frustration.
How come, in the entire Rational Unified Process, no-one actually codes the software?
I mean it has been analysed and designed, and documented, and modelled, and designed again until no stone is left unturned, and BAM! suddenly we are implmenting software? Am I the only guy who thinks this is too good to be true? Nowhere in the Rational Unified Process can I find any diagram, reference to, or project plan, about the "Build" or "Code" stage. Yes, I know there is a "Construct phase" but nothing inside it actually talks about putting hands on keyboard and coding.
Perhaps the great Slashdot groupthink machine can explain this? Is this where the expensive consultants dash in to save the day?
This blood test could also help increase the appropriate perscription of scheduled anti-anxiety medications such as Valium. These Benzodiazepines are clinically the most effective treatment for anxiety but many doctors shy away from perscribing them due to their addictive potential for some drug users.
By proving beyond all doubt the existence of an anxiety disorder this blood test could allow doctors to perscribe such medications without fear of having their license revoked for the over-perscription of a scheduled drug.
Is it just me or are a number of "stories" on Slashdot nothing more than glorified advertisements? Phones with mult-megaplixel cameras and built-in Wifi are nothing new.
It's not beyond the realms of possibility that it was sabotaged by those with an interest in the continued used of fossil fuels.
Yes, it's probably the aliens from the The Arrival terraforming earth to suite their conditions who shot it down. We all know they're in bed with the JPL. Seriously, watch the movie, it explains everything.
I hate Microsoft just as much as the next guy but this doesn't make any sense. It's as if Firestone were to sue Ford for shipping cars with pre-installed wheels. Afterall you won't get very far in Windows without security.
Why should the consumer be forced to buy a product from a second supplier when the original supplier is willing to add that feature on for free?
A 13 centimeter wafer that can hold 1.25 gigabyte of data? That's not impressive.
Given your apparent understanding (or lack thereof) of the computer industry I would recommend you bypass this wafer technology and advance directly to Necco Wafers. As you can see they are very small and inexpensive! Installation is easy too, just glue them to the back of your Etch A Sketch brand laptop.
Sorry that's kind of a sham argument. Before DVD became widespread foreign movies weren't particularly popular in America either - there is of course the rare exception (Clockwork Orange Etc.) but for the most part they weren't.
Also movies for which a significant market exists in America are usually released as a region one disc also, most Anime for example.
I seriously cannot understand what is so great and original about this movie. Sci-fi meets cowboy theme has already been stretched in 26 episodes (plus a movie) of Cowboy Bebop.
Yeah I'm tired of this shit too! Plus these writers use roughly the same plot every single time. They introduce some conflict which is then resolved by the end of the movie. Seriously they need to think more creatively.
Will we now get a new article every time Google indexes against a different database of locations?
Slashdot Article: Posted by Zonk Google Local now shows the locations of computer parts resellers! Will this encourage geeks to shop locally instead of ordering online?
Slashdot Article: Posted by CmndrTaco Wow! It looks like google maps has just added the location of Natalie Portman updated in real-time via wirless GPS. Will this cause an increase in demand for hot grits?
Slashdot Article: Posted by Zonk Google Local now shows the locations of computer parts resellers! Will this encourage geeks to shop locally instead of ordering online? (I've got to simulate the double post too!)
No sane business operator enters a contract in which one party has the right to disregard its terms at will, but that's what HR-1201 permits.
What? Rarely does someone enter into a "contract" with their content provider. I might be wrong but signing your rights away through a contract requires signature. Shrink-wrap EULAs or terms of use don't carry nearly the same legal weight as a contract.
It's long been common knowledge that Wifi can travel over long distances. If you have line of sight transmitting any type of radio signal over long distances is relatively easy. Actually someone has already one-upped this Japanese company - These guys transmitted a Wifi signal over 125 Miles!
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>And how will they prove that anything was erased?
They logged the number of emails periodically. The number went from 8K to 0 the day after he left...
Are you sure he wasn't just clearing out all the spam emails from the past few days?
Humph, I forgot to push the Post Anonymously button again. Oh nevermind...
I didn't pay the "radio button and interactive HTML" fee!
Does anyone know of any website that enumerates the problems that would be caused by a two-tiered internet?
Interesting question, the real question here though is: What the hell is CowboyNeal doing away from Brokeback mountain? I thought he Zonk were going to retire there...
A few facts about Microsoft:
1. If you can sue Microsoft, they can sue you. If you cant sue Microsoft you may be only seconds away from bankrupcy.
2. There are no bankruptcies. Only people who have met Microsoft.
3. Microsoft defines competition as the reluctance to be bought out by Microsoft. If your company still exists, its just because Microsoft hasn't gotten around to buying you out.
4. When Microsoft enters a new field it doesnt join the market. The Market becomes Microsoft.
Worse yet: knowing that an increase in power capacity, people might just continue increasing their power usage, rather than holding back in the knowledge that a wall was up ahead (i.e. the result would be (at least in the short term) an increase in carbon emissions.
Then replace decomissioned coal powerplants with nuclear powerplants instead of adding new nuclear plants... Or we could just never build another powerplant letting the old ones rot and break, that would be a sure-fire way to reduce power consumption! If they don't have any power they can't consume it, genius!
I think you might be a candidate for secretary of energy...
Yes, that was my point. The original article strongly implies that remote vulnerability alone is being tested. Were it not for the second test ZDnet would have likely never changed their article as to make it clear that they were indeed testing the likelyhood of a local attack.
So now we have a test of remote vulnerability and second test of local security, whereas before we had one article full of misleading drivel.
The point of the original test was not to hack the machine from outside, but from inside. All the noise about Windows getting hacked 4 minutes after it was connected to the net was due to lack of firewalling and vulnerable services - turn on firewalling and the vulnerable services are no longer accessible. What does that prove? nothing - they didn't magically become secure. OSX probably has fewer vulnerable services (active or not) but that was not the point.
No, the point of the orignal test was to provide fodder for a pointless, sensationalist and outright misleading article. Given the original wording of the article the argument that "your test is utterly irrelevant for the type of people that would be interested in the original one" is patently false. People who were interested in the "original test" would not have even known the original article concerned such a test. The original article never mentioned what was being tested.
This new test has in fact forced ZDnet to change the wording of the article to make clear what was even being tested in the first place. So instead of one useless ambigious article we have two informative tests. The desinger of the second test has done us all a large favor - unlike antagonistic pedants like you.
Thanks, you learn something new every day, especially at Slashdot. :)
For better or worse I must agree with the jist of your post. As much as I would like to defend Google's use of thumbnail images they simply don't own the content.
Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and the law will be changed to allow this, however until then the only solution seems limiting Google image search only to sites which can prove valid copyright.
Also, with migratory ducks and swallows (of the laden variety), we're going to see this all over europe in the coming weeks.
This raises the question: African or European Swallows?
I have been examining the Rational Unified Process (RUP) quite intensly, and
I have to agree.
Firstly, let me say that since 10,000 organisations out there use the thing, it would seem that it is I that is missing something, hence my frustration.
How come, in the entire Rational Unified Process, no-one actually codes the software?
I mean it has been analysed and designed, and documented, and modelled, and designed again until no stone is left unturned, and BAM! suddenly we are implmenting software? Am I the only guy who thinks this is too good to be true? Nowhere in the Rational Unified Process can I find any diagram, reference to, or project plan, about the "Build" or "Code" stage. Yes, I know there is a "Construct phase" but nothing inside it actually talks about putting hands on keyboard and coding.
Perhaps the great Slashdot groupthink machine can explain this? Is this where the expensive consultants dash in to save the day?
Correction, the most effective treatment is the combination of both cognitive behavioural therapy and benzodiazepines.
This blood test could also help increase the appropriate perscription of scheduled anti-anxiety medications such as Valium. These Benzodiazepines are clinically the most effective treatment for anxiety but many doctors shy away from perscribing them due to their addictive potential for some drug users.
By proving beyond all doubt the existence of an anxiety disorder this blood test could allow doctors to perscribe such medications without fear of having their license revoked for the over-perscription of a scheduled drug.
Is it just me or are a number of "stories" on Slashdot nothing more than glorified advertisements? Phones with mult-megaplixel cameras and built-in Wifi are nothing new.
That's been shown to be impossible! Otherwise I would do it 24x7.
It's not beyond the realms of possibility that it was sabotaged by those with an interest in the continued used of fossil fuels.
Yes, it's probably the aliens from the The Arrival terraforming earth to suite their conditions who shot it down. We all know they're in bed with the JPL. Seriously, watch the movie, it explains everything.
I hate Microsoft just as much as the next guy but this doesn't make any sense. It's as if Firestone were to sue Ford for shipping cars with pre-installed wheels. Afterall you won't get very far in Windows without security.
Why should the consumer be forced to buy a product from a second supplier when the original supplier is willing to add that feature on for free?
A 13 centimeter wafer that can hold 1.25 gigabyte of data? That's not impressive.
Given your apparent understanding (or lack thereof) of the computer industry I would recommend you bypass this wafer technology and advance directly to Necco Wafers. As you can see they are very small and inexpensive! Installation is easy too, just glue them to the back of your Etch A Sketch brand laptop.
Sorry that's kind of a sham argument. Before DVD became widespread foreign movies weren't particularly popular in America either - there is of course the rare exception (Clockwork Orange Etc.) but for the most part they weren't.
Also movies for which a significant market exists in America are usually released as a region one disc also, most Anime for example.
I seriously cannot understand what is so great and original about this movie. Sci-fi meets cowboy theme has already been stretched in 26 episodes (plus a movie) of Cowboy Bebop.
Yeah I'm tired of this shit too! Plus these writers use roughly the same plot every single time. They introduce some conflict which is then resolved by the end of the movie. Seriously they need to think more creatively.
Will we now get a new article every time Google indexes against a different database of locations?
Slashdot Article:
Posted by Zonk
Google Local now shows the locations of computer parts resellers! Will this encourage geeks to shop locally instead of ordering online?
Slashdot Article:
Posted by CmndrTaco
Wow! It looks like google maps has just added the location of Natalie Portman updated in real-time via wirless GPS. Will this cause an increase in demand for hot grits?
Slashdot Article:
Posted by Zonk
Google Local now shows the locations of computer parts resellers! Will this encourage geeks to shop locally instead of ordering online? (I've got to simulate the double post too!)
What? Rarely does someone enter into a "contract" with their content provider. I might be wrong but signing your rights away through a contract requires signature. Shrink-wrap EULAs or terms of use don't carry nearly the same legal weight as a contract.
It's long been common knowledge that Wifi can travel over long distances. If you have line of sight transmitting any type of radio signal over long distances is relatively easy. Actually someone has already one-upped this Japanese company - These guys transmitted a Wifi signal over 125 Miles!
Is a first post so hopelessly late that even the most dedicated Troll gives up.
I'd buy that if 'most people' were mechanical engineers, but that's not the case.
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It is the case if you're on
This is a silly conversation, I should be asleep.
Hmmm, same here.