This technology is very easily fooled anyway... so long as you know about it. Just move the cursor around a bit with your mouse as you type. For example, if your credit card is 12345678, type 18 then set the cursor between the 1 and the 8 and type 34567 then set the cursor before the 3 and type 2. It looks like you typed 18345672.
And if you're being a political rabble rouser you can type "Bush is a wally" so that it looks like "wish us a Bally".
Let's say somehow a super intelligent computer/robot got created. How would we know it was super intelligent if it was even more intelligent than we are?
The line between high intelligence and madness is pretty thin and most likely some IT guy will think the computer has just gone mad and unplug it.
That also raises the possibility that a super intelligent computer has already been programmed.... but someone thought it was a bug and fixed it!
Serious only because of political egg-on-face for the military. Then unwashed citizens will start thinking: Can't fight a war, can't control their nukes. Got an idiot as CInC. WTF can they do?
This is not just a Win9x thing. It also impacts WinXP, and likely Vista (not that I'd admit to running Vista).
EXPLORER.EXE runs the desktop view and seems to share some DLLs etc with IE. If IE hangs in certain ways it seems to hang EXXPLORER.EXE too. THis can only be resolved by a reboot (which cannot be launced via software because EXPLORER.EXE is hung). The only solution seems to be a hard reboot.
any more than complaining about gravity will make it go away. We have a broken patent system which is driven by the practitioners of the patent system for the benefit of those practitioners. In other words, those who have the power to change the system are the most likely to lose from any changes so there is very little motiovation to make any changes. We could go on about how bad the system is, but that is irrelevant in the courts. That a law is stupid is unfortunately not a valid defence.
The only thing that matters here is whether prior art can be forund for WAFL.
More recently Japan (very pro-whaling) went to the South Pacific and Carribean with a briefcase full of cash and bought votes to get control of IWC. Little country votes come cheap.
Release details of a proposed product. Watch for reactions. See poor reactions and shelve product.
Way, way, cheaper than taking it all the way to market.
Still, I think the recipe was almost right. I have an (unfortunately broken) Psion 7. Very handy machine in its day: instant on, reasonably fast. Light... Give it a freshen up with a faster CPU, Wifi,... and you'd have a vry useful device.
Almost any firmware is just a collection of general algorithms. Calibration, self test, filters, look-up/calculations... I'm not subrised that there's nothing amazing in there. That they don't have any funky algorithms does not mean that the firmware is not a trade secret. It still takes significant engineering/test/validation effort to get to a working device.
According to the dictionary, "Free" means not controlled by the obligation or will of others or not subject to external restraint. That sounds like BSD.
Through the use of the GPL, the FSF redefines "Free" by imposing various restrictions (if you use this code, then you must...). How is that "Free"?
And before you flame me for being anti-GPL, I have released a lot of work under GPL. I think the GPL is very beneficial, but that does not mean I have to drink the kool-aid.
We can't have lefties, commies, fags and druggies voting either can we? They can't vote straight.
Bottom line is that any prohibitive approach will fail.
IF you screen to exclude, say, gay employees because they are a security risk that will not stop many getting through the screen where they will be even more prone to being blackmailed.
It is far easier, and more effective, to be accepting of gay employees. That removes the blackmail pressure... and means that you don't exclude people that might be great for the job.
Sure the SP will fix some things, bu the primary reason to push it out is to invigorate sales.
Nobody, not even utter fanboys, thought that pre-SP Vista would be worthwhile. MS know they have to release an SP to make people interested. It gives them a way to wipe the slate clean.
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I've worn a hemp fibre shirt, but not one made of jute or sisal.
And if you're being a political rabble rouser you can type "Bush is a wally" so that it looks like "wish us a Bally".
According to traffic analysis by Google Inc there has been a remarkable resurgence in the use of Lynx. In unrelated news, GOOG trading down.
The line between high intelligence and madness is pretty thin and most likely some IT guy will think the computer has just gone mad and unplug it.
That also raises the possibility that a super intelligent computer has already been programmed.... but someone thought it was a bug and fixed it!
Trying to teach science via science fiction is very broken. SF authors don't limit themselves with pesky laws of physics etc.
It is far easier to be MS when you don't have to pretend any more.
with a rat trap!
rear end! Wheelchair bound people can still be sexual.
Serious only because of political egg-on-face for the military. Then unwashed citizens will start thinking: Can't fight a war, can't control their nukes. Got an idiot as CInC. WTF can they do?
You can't always launch the task manager since that requires EXPLORER.EXE's cooperation.
EXPLORER.EXE runs the desktop view and seems to share some DLLs etc with IE. If IE hangs in certain ways it seems to hang EXXPLORER.EXE too. THis can only be resolved by a reboot (which cannot be launced via software because EXPLORER.EXE is hung). The only solution seems to be a hard reboot.
The only thing that matters here is whether prior art can be forund for WAFL.
IE hangs, whole OS shits itself.
More recently Japan (very pro-whaling) went to the South Pacific and Carribean with a briefcase full of cash and bought votes to get control of IWC. Little country votes come cheap.
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Way, way, cheaper than taking it all the way to market.
Still, I think the recipe was almost right. I have an (unfortunately broken) Psion 7. Very handy machine in its day: instant on, reasonably fast. Light... Give it a freshen up with a faster CPU, Wifi,... and you'd have a vry useful device.
Really? Have you been in the military and done basic training?
Almost any firmware is just a collection of general algorithms. Calibration, self test, filters, look-up/calculations... I'm not subrised that there's nothing amazing in there. That they don't have any funky algorithms does not mean that the firmware is not a trade secret. It still takes significant engineering/test/validation effort to get to a working device.
Can you buy them on eBay?
Through the use of the GPL, the FSF redefines "Free" by imposing various restrictions (if you use this code, then you must ...). How is that "Free"?
And before you flame me for being anti-GPL, I have released a lot of work under GPL. I think the GPL is very beneficial, but that does not mean I have to drink the kool-aid.
The actions were in Sweden.
Please post your bank account details, passwords etc so that you may share.
Bottom line is that any prohibitive approach will fail.
IF you screen to exclude, say, gay employees because they are a security risk that will not stop many getting through the screen where they will be even more prone to being blackmailed.
It is far easier, and more effective, to be accepting of gay employees. That removes the blackmail pressure... and means that you don't exclude people that might be great for the job.
You got a hex listing which you entered using toggle switches... and counted yourself lucky!
Nobody, not even utter fanboys, thought that pre-SP Vista would be worthwhile. MS know they have to release an SP to make people interested. It gives them a way to wipe the slate clean.