You're right, but only because of the complete lack of common sense in modern society.
I know what child pornography is, you know what child pornography is.
I think we would both agree that the coppertone ad where the dog is tugging at the little girls swimsuit isnt child pornography.
But then there are the crackpots. I was watching some news show where they interviewed some little old biddy who thinks that Huggies commercials are pornographic.
So this whole scheme is utterly useless. The people who create and disseminate child pornography need to be tracked down and prosecuted, or hunted down and shot, but not simply hidden.
This is a "look at my tough stance on internet child porn" play for votes in a fairly conservative state, and not a feasible solution to the problem.
Sony bought VGS outright a year or two ago. It belongs to Sony, not connectix or microsoft, and I'm positive none of this has anything whatsoever to do with the merger.
Besides, it's pretty common knowledge that the money in the console world is made selling the games. Why would MSFT want to widen the PSX's installed userbase?
I partially agree. I would have preferred to see it implemented both ways, then let the user/admin decide.
If I want to run the GUI and video drivers in userspace for stability on a server or workstation, then I could. But the kernel mode is definately a huge speed boost for gaming, multimedia (remember how impossible it was to do anything like that under NT 4.0?)
All in all, I probably like it better the way it is. I've never had a problem so long as I stick with WHQL certified drivers. It'd be nice to be able to choose.
NT was designed in a pre-internet era, where security for the office PC's was still mainly the guns-and-guards model. Users and passwords were there (from your average managers POV) to keep Jim from accidentally deleting or overwriting Sally's spreadsheets.
None of the 'holes' can be exploited if there's no access to the system whatsoever. It was a non-issue until the.com explosion when everyone decided that every digital device needed to be plugged into the interweb.
As you point out, you cant use it on most city streets, and you cant use it on the sidewalks either.
The only potential market I could see was as a rental at places like Disneyworld, and even then there's a huge liability issue with people getting their toes run over and whatnot.
Maybe they should have designed the cities FIRST, then designed the scooter around them, instead of the other way around.
He didnt say unfriendly, he said unpopular. Average people want something they already know how to use. People like seeing the familiar WinCE interface.
>> Maybe he hasn't heard of IBM?
How do their enterprise servers relate to a PDA?
>> if he wants better software support, maybe he should learn to code
>> Do people dress/think/act more similarly in large cities than in smaller ones?
I'd say its just the opposite. You go out to the small rural towns and everyone knows each other, looks and acts the same, and for the most part still shun ousiders to a degree.
In an urban setting you have more of a clash of all different cultures and whatnot, and a general aura of diversity that lets people feel more comfortable doing what they want.
The 'freak' with the goofy clothes, piercings, crazy music or whathaveyou looks out of place in the tiny towns, but noone bats an eye to see him in New York.
I think the smaller towns are more under the thumbs of the big media corps. I couldnt name the characters on "friends" or know who sings the mallcore ballad to the latest comic book turned into a feature film. But I bet everyone in this suburban neighbourhood I live in can.
It has happened, MS's WebTV was attaching URLs to my broadcast (regular VHF in the air style) TV years ago. Back before the bubble burst. You also might notice this is iTV 1.1, this implies there was an iTV 1.0.
Its no big whoop, or selling point for consumers.
Just when the ford commercial comes on you can go look for a little icon to link you to fords website. Probably doesnt add jack to the cost of a commercial, and can get info to someone while their interest is piqued. That's the theory at least. TV is and will no doubt always remain a passive medium for the most part.
Something was built into MS's WebTV... I cant remember what it was called, but I had it back when I was using my all-in-wonder card under 95 or 98. It would basically embed URL's into broadcasts, when one appeared, a little icon would pop up next to the channel number. It'd take you to, say, the Jeapordy home page (thats the only show I remember clicking it on).
Mostly the URLs would accompany commercials. But it wasnt really intrusive or anything. Just a handy way to get more info on a product or whatever. I remember following one to the local Ford mega-dealership to get some info on one of their sales.
Not a bad idea. Didnt add much, didnt take away anything either. I could see how it could be enhanced to allow voting for stuff like American Idol or the other rash of 'reality' shows.
I assume you're sharing across a lan? learn how to throttle the connections.
Most web/ftp sites these days throttle outbound bandwidth per IP. So you can have 1 dl going at 50k, 2 at 25, 4 at 12.5, etc. This was to pretty much solve the problem you're alluding to.
And it has nothing to do with what the article was talking about.
I think its more like the guys running the routers monkeying with the QOS levels to make sure they get a certain chunk of bandwidth, rather than take a kick in the nuts like everyone else.
I read it as sort of a digital version of 'communism only works on paper'.
You own the property, not the air above it. Planes may fly over your house. Satellite transmissions do not go 'through' anything. You can block em with a sheet of newspaper.
Gawd. What a damn joke this 'discussion site' is. It's gotten 10x worse in the last few weeks. I dont think they allow mod points to people with different points of view anymore.
Why cant anyone accept the fact that open source can be exploited too? I mean it's just true. Go find your local warez kiddie and get a list of 'pubs' (stolen space on anon ftps) from him. There will be as many linux boxen on that list as NTs.
CHUBB should be monitoring my house for free if they know that burglaries are on the rise in the area. Instead they sell their alarm systems and protection plans.
I mean a grade A freaking knee0jerk, brainless, idiot.
Yeah, symantec committed a felony and caused untold amounts of financial damage so they could give away free fixes. Because there just arent enough legitimate security concerns. And then they bragged about it because they all enjoy prison sex.
It's quite possible that they found it in one of the corporate intranets they monitor before it hit the 'net at large. And it's quite possible they didnt inform the 'world' because, living in the bubble of that intranet, it wasnt worth noting at the time.
And plenty of unix admins still running insecure versions of apache, ftpd, and openssl.
MSFT has no monopoly on laziness, percieved or real.
A big part of it is the propellerheads releasing the MS-hotfixes or OS-patches dont realize that in an enterprise environment you dont always have the time to bounce a server, apply the patch, test, validate all code that was running prior to the patch.
I can bring mysql, oracle or postgresql down as easily as SQL server. You can get root in a poorly secured linux box, or hardlink out of a poorly configured chroot jail, just as easily as you can get a process to run with administrative rights on a poorly secured NT domain.
There are as many 'hotfixes' and 'service packs' for linux based software, they just call them patches and releases.
Linux just isnt ubiquitous enough to be a worthwhile target. Yet.
All the bragging and dipshittery that uninformed OS fanboys are doing will bite them in the ass in a big way if linux is adopted into the mainstream.
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You're right, but only because of the complete lack of common sense in modern society.
I know what child pornography is, you know what child pornography is.
I think we would both agree that the coppertone ad where the dog is tugging at the little girls swimsuit isnt child pornography.
But then there are the crackpots. I was watching some news show where they interviewed some little old biddy who thinks that Huggies commercials are pornographic.
So this whole scheme is utterly useless. The people who create and disseminate child pornography need to be tracked down and prosecuted, or hunted down and shot, but not simply hidden.
This is a "look at my tough stance on internet child porn" play for votes in a fairly conservative state, and not a feasible solution to the problem.
It is an excercise in feudalism.
"His highness the king doth proclaim that henceforth all lords within his kingdom shall implement SysV style IPC!"
>> I do wish that Sega would make a Dreamcast emulator for the PS2, X-Box or whatever.
It will never happen. For one, it's impossible - nothing but a Dreamcast can read GD-ROMS).
For two, why would MSFT/Sony license a product that allows me to play hundreds of titles that they cant profit from in any way shape or form?
There are other Mac emulators.
Thing is, while Mac users may need to emulate a PC out of necessity, there's nothing about Macs that a PC owner would ever need to emulate.
Sony bought Virtual GameStation from Connectix a year or two ago. Lock, stock and barrel.
It was basically a mugging. Either connectix sells to Sony, or Sony uses it's lawyers to crush them into the ground like they did with Bleem.
Besides, even if it hadnt, how does MSFT make money from PSX games?
Sony bought VGS outright a year or two ago. It belongs to Sony, not connectix or microsoft, and I'm positive none of this has anything whatsoever to do with the merger.
Besides, it's pretty common knowledge that the money in the console world is made selling the games. Why would MSFT want to widen the PSX's installed userbase?
>> I doubt that MS will allow other OSs to run, thus VMWare will still have the market for running Non MS OSs on Win2k/XP
Why wouldnt they?
I mean so long as one of the OS's on your machine is Windows, do they care if you want to run linux (or whatever) in a virtual PC?
I partially agree. I would have preferred to see it implemented both ways, then let the user/admin decide.
If I want to run the GUI and video drivers in userspace for stability on a server or workstation, then I could. But the kernel mode is definately a huge speed boost for gaming, multimedia (remember how impossible it was to do anything like that under NT 4.0?)
All in all, I probably like it better the way it is. I've never had a problem so long as I stick with WHQL certified drivers. It'd be nice to be able to choose.
Thats a point many (purposefully) ignore.
.com explosion when everyone decided that every digital device needed to be plugged into the interweb.
NT was designed in a pre-internet era, where security for the office PC's was still mainly the guns-and-guards model. Users and passwords were there (from your average managers POV) to keep Jim from accidentally deleting or overwriting Sally's spreadsheets.
None of the 'holes' can be exploited if there's no access to the system whatsoever. It was a non-issue until the
It was just a stupid invention.
As you point out, you cant use it on most city streets, and you cant use it on the sidewalks either.
The only potential market I could see was as a rental at places like Disneyworld, and even then there's a huge liability issue with people getting their toes run over and whatnot.
Maybe they should have designed the cities FIRST, then designed the scooter around them, instead of the other way around.
He didnt say unfriendly, he said unpopular. Average people want something they already know how to use. People like seeing the familiar WinCE interface.
>> Maybe he hasn't heard of IBM?
How do their enterprise servers relate to a PDA?
>> if he wants better software support, maybe he should learn to code
That's a big reason it's unpopular.
>> Do people dress/think/act more similarly in large cities than in smaller ones?
I'd say its just the opposite. You go out to the small rural towns and everyone knows each other, looks and acts the same, and for the most part still shun ousiders to a degree.
In an urban setting you have more of a clash of all different cultures and whatnot, and a general aura of diversity that lets people feel more comfortable doing what they want.
The 'freak' with the goofy clothes, piercings, crazy music or whathaveyou looks out of place in the tiny towns, but noone bats an eye to see him in New York.
I think the smaller towns are more under the thumbs of the big media corps. I couldnt name the characters on "friends" or know who sings the mallcore ballad to the latest comic book turned into a feature film. But I bet everyone in this suburban neighbourhood I live in can.
It has happened, MS's WebTV was attaching URLs to my broadcast (regular VHF in the air style) TV years ago. Back before the bubble burst. You also might notice this is iTV 1.1, this implies there was an iTV 1.0.
Its no big whoop, or selling point for consumers.
Just when the ford commercial comes on you can go look for a little icon to link you to fords website. Probably doesnt add jack to the cost of a commercial, and can get info to someone while their interest is piqued. That's the theory at least. TV is and will no doubt always remain a passive medium for the most part.
Something was built into MS's WebTV... I cant remember what it was called, but I had it back when I was using my all-in-wonder card under 95 or 98. It would basically embed URL's into broadcasts, when one appeared, a little icon would pop up next to the channel number. It'd take you to, say, the Jeapordy home page (thats the only show I remember clicking it on).
Mostly the URLs would accompany commercials. But it wasnt really intrusive or anything. Just a handy way to get more info on a product or whatever. I remember following one to the local Ford mega-dealership to get some info on one of their sales.
Not a bad idea. Didnt add much, didnt take away anything either. I could see how it could be enhanced to allow voting for stuff like American Idol or the other rash of 'reality' shows.
Huh?
I assume you're sharing across a lan? learn how to throttle the connections.
Most web/ftp sites these days throttle outbound bandwidth per IP. So you can have 1 dl going at 50k, 2 at 25, 4 at 12.5, etc. This was to pretty much solve the problem you're alluding to.
And it has nothing to do with what the article was talking about.
Routers of the World Unite!
The Bork-shevic revolution is at hand!
I think its more like the guys running the routers monkeying with the QOS levels to make sure they get a certain chunk of bandwidth, rather than take a kick in the nuts like everyone else.
I read it as sort of a digital version of 'communism only works on paper'.
>> Why is it legal for me to have a cable tv descrambler and watch a cable off of a wire (which the cable company can claim ownership of)
IANAL, but it isnt. If someone told you it is, they're a fool.
You lease access to the wire on their (the cable companies) terms.
>> airwaves which the statalite company cannot legimately claim ownership of?
The FCC says they can claim ownership of them.
You own the property, not the air above it. Planes may fly over your house. Satellite transmissions do not go 'through' anything. You can block em with a sheet of newspaper.
See me get modslapped down as flamebait.
Gawd. What a damn joke this 'discussion site' is. It's gotten 10x worse in the last few weeks. I dont think they allow mod points to people with different points of view anymore.
Why cant anyone accept the fact that open source can be exploited too? I mean it's just true. Go find your local warez kiddie and get a list of 'pubs' (stolen space on anon ftps) from him. There will be as many linux boxen on that list as NTs.
>> MS the programmers of windows programs being lazy assaholes
Why does tripe like this get +5 informative?
Oh yeah, it's insulting MS employees.
Lets burn some karma.
I'll see your "Lazy assaholes", and raise you 2 "stupid fat smelly communist OS programmers"
CHUBB should be monitoring my house for free if they know that burglaries are on the rise in the area. Instead they sell their alarm systems and protection plans.
Call it commercial, but its very poor taste.
You're a freaking idiot.
I mean a grade A freaking knee0jerk, brainless, idiot.
Yeah, symantec committed a felony and caused untold amounts of financial damage so they could give away free fixes. Because there just arent enough legitimate security concerns. And then they bragged about it because they all enjoy prison sex.
It's quite possible that they found it in one of the corporate intranets they monitor before it hit the 'net at large. And it's quite possible they didnt inform the 'world' because, living in the bubble of that intranet, it wasnt worth noting at the time.
Yep.
And plenty of unix admins still running insecure versions of apache, ftpd, and openssl.
MSFT has no monopoly on laziness, percieved or real.
A big part of it is the propellerheads releasing the MS-hotfixes or OS-patches dont realize that in an enterprise environment you dont always have the time to bounce a server, apply the patch, test, validate all code that was running prior to the patch.
I can bring mysql, oracle or postgresql down as easily as SQL server. You can get root in a poorly secured linux box, or hardlink out of a poorly configured chroot jail, just as easily as you can get a process to run with administrative rights on a poorly secured NT domain.
There are as many 'hotfixes' and 'service packs' for linux based software, they just call them patches and releases.
Linux just isnt ubiquitous enough to be a worthwhile target. Yet.
All the bragging and dipshittery that uninformed OS fanboys are doing will bite them in the ass in a big way if linux is adopted into the mainstream.