Microsoft never e-mails patches or provides a direct, embedded link to an upgrade or patch.
People seem to say this a lot, including the fine folks at Microsoft, but how is the average Joe User supposed to *know* that? Are new users supposed to just magically know about Microsoft's policy?
One big problem is that as the RIAA and its Cthulonic brethren attempt to craft legislation to kill P2P, they are very like to come up with definitions of functionality that also encompass HTTP, FTP and other protocols.
After all, there's really very little functional difference between P2P and HTTP - it's a negotiation between two machines to provide data to each other. P2P is really just a client/server pair per machine.
My Mac is running both Apache and Safari - what would distinguish it functionally from a P2P client?
Unfortunately, at this point it's nearly impossible for a new user to keep from getting infected.
Let's say Joe Consumer is interested in a computer - he goes down to MicroCompuCenterUSA and buys a spanking new Windows XP-based machine, plugs in the cable modem, turns it on.
*WHAMMO*
He's infected before he even gets a chance to get the latest updates, assuming he even know that's something he's supposed to do.
My sister-in-law when through this exact scenario just recently. She got nailed by Blaster within a few minutes of powering up the machine for the first time. She has no idea what a firewall is, and would certainly wonder why she would need one with a brand-new computer.
This proposal is a little like buying a new car and having the wheels fall off as you drive off the lot, then being fined for causing an accident.
Excuse me, what part of cracking the NY Times is a threat to national security?
Well, if the New York Times is compromised by hackers, how can we ever trust the accuracy of the stories published by this hallowed national treasure...oh wait...never mind....
...the International Axis of Evil and the Coalition of Rogue States announced their enthusiastic support for the continued use of Microsoft products by the US Department of Homeland Security.
"Well, two organizations support Microsoft, only one against" said Tom Ridge. "I guess that means we'll stick with Microsoft!"
I meant it halfway in jest - since IBM is asserting these patents on SCO's *other* software (not Linux distributions), this would not hurt Linux in any way.
It would, however, let us see how truly committed SCO is to their recent rhetoric about indemnification of customers.
IBM should now send letters to all of SCO's existing and former customers and require them to license the patents for $699 (until October, at whcih time the price goes up....)
I think the project is making the point that translating based on context is a very hard problem, such that a simple pattern-matching method is doing a better job than the more complex "smarter" systems that attempt to figure out context and grammar.
On the other hand, one could speculate that there's a certain amount of context already there because the texts it's basing the translation on are parallel, and that it is more likely to find a correct contextual match ithe more data it's fed.
I agree with you. The reporter was clearly very sloppy. He should have said:
"The rogue program does not affect the beleaguered Apple Macintosh line of computers or computers running variants of the evil hacker Unix operating system."
Recently there was a bunch of spam that purported to come from a company, based on a legitimate email they had earlier sent to customers, but the links had been changed to another server with tags identifying the email recipient and pointing to another server.
The goal was to validate email addresses for the spammer, but the company mentioned in the email had in no way been involved except as a deception to get people to click the links.
The emulator was entirely software. The emulator initially wasn't particularly fast, but since most Mac applications spend a great deal of time in the Toolbox, Apple made the most heavily used traps native.
This all stems from Jeffrey Katzenberg's ongoing fury with Michael Eisner over not getting promoted.
Effectively, Dreamworks tries to figure out what Disney and/or Pixar is up to and attempts to beat them to the theater with a movie with a vaguely similar theme.
If you watch the "special features" on some of the DVD (Spirit, for instance), you can practically see the venom dripping from Katzenberg's chin as he tries to position Dreamworks as the leader in CGI vs the carefully unnamed Pixar.
The problem is that Dreamworks does not have a great storyteller like John Lasseter or Andrew Stanton, and Pixar's CG capabilities for the Toy Story/Bug's Life/Monsters Inc class of animation are unrivaled.
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After all, there's really very little functional difference between P2P and HTTP - it's a negotiation between two machines to provide data to each other. P2P is really just a client/server pair per machine.
My Mac is running both Apache and Safari - what would distinguish it functionally from a P2P client?
Let's say Joe Consumer is interested in a computer - he goes down to MicroCompuCenterUSA and buys a spanking new Windows XP-based machine, plugs in the cable modem, turns it on.
*WHAMMO*
He's infected before he even gets a chance to get the latest updates, assuming he even know that's something he's supposed to do.
My sister-in-law when through this exact scenario just recently. She got nailed by Blaster within a few minutes of powering up the machine for the first time. She has no idea what a firewall is, and would certainly wonder why she would need one with a brand-new computer.
This proposal is a little like buying a new car and having the wheels fall off as you drive off the lot, then being fined for causing an accident.
Well, if the New York Times is compromised by hackers, how can we ever trust the accuracy of the stories published by this hallowed national treasure...oh wait...never mind....
However, you can't have too many silk researchers working on the project - when you put them too close together, they eat each other.
"Well, two organizations support Microsoft, only one against" said Tom Ridge. "I guess that means we'll stick with Microsoft!"
Ian Malcolm: "Oooh, ahhh, that's how this all starts. But later there's running and screaming."
Now if more women were attracted to video games than men, that would be a problem.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away....
Well, if you're not going to declare 'i' as a local var of each function, you're asking for trouble. You shouldn't be too surprised to find it.
It would, however, let us see how truly committed SCO is to their recent rhetoric about indemnification of customers.
IBM should now send letters to all of SCO's existing and former customers and require them to license the patents for $699 (until October, at whcih time the price goes up....)
Slavery? Gone! Who's going to pick the cotton?
Male only voting? Now even women can vote!
Child labor? Now they go to school instead, those lazy bums!
In my opinion, the penalty for failure at Microsoft is far too severe .
On the other hand, one could speculate that there's a certain amount of context already there because the texts it's basing the translation on are parallel, and that it is more likely to find a correct contextual match ithe more data it's fed.
...however, the article is about another, unrelated airline called SouthEAST.
As I recall there were people lined up all day to pick up copies of Windows98, Windows2K and WindowsXP when each was released (typically at midnight).
So....what do you do to eight entire countries if they don't pass the laws? Put them all in jail? Send in the EU troops?
"The rogue program does not affect the beleaguered Apple Macintosh line of computers or computers running variants of the evil hacker Unix operating system."
Recently there was a bunch of spam that purported to come from a company, based on a legitimate email they had earlier sent to customers, but the links had been changed to another server with tags identifying the email recipient and pointing to another server.
The goal was to validate email addresses for the spammer, but the company mentioned in the email had in no way been involved except as a deception to get people to click the links.
Please list one social problem that had a technological solution.Spousal fidelity - chastity belt.
The emulator was entirely software. The emulator initially wasn't particularly fast, but since most Mac applications spend a great deal of time in the Toolbox, Apple made the most heavily used traps native.
Effectively, Dreamworks tries to figure out what Disney and/or Pixar is up to and attempts to beat them to the theater with a movie with a vaguely similar theme.
If you watch the "special features" on some of the DVD (Spirit, for instance), you can practically see the venom dripping from Katzenberg's chin as he tries to position Dreamworks as the leader in CGI vs the carefully unnamed Pixar.
The problem is that Dreamworks does not have a great storyteller like John Lasseter or Andrew Stanton, and Pixar's CG capabilities for the Toy Story/Bug's Life/Monsters Inc class of animation are unrivaled.
Pretty story. Not true.