I mean, could rumanants like cows eat the grass, and would it cross pollenate with normal grass, to create another weed? Would it invade gardens?
There are oodles of ethical questions to be answered BEFORE releasing a GM product into the wild. Profit is not the bottom line in the real world.
Microsoft is well known for making software that is popular in suberbia, but it's also known for being insecure, and a scourge on the Internet if plugged in unpatched. Releasing "perfect height" grass into the wild is much more dangerous than releasing an unpatched operating system. The consequences to the ecosystem aren't as simple as unplugging every Windows computer from the Internet and cleaning the worms off of them, or blocking ports.
That's an interesting point about keeping the user informed, even if they don't realize it. I suppose it could be more useful for troubleshooting if the last thing to freeze onto the screen is the process that is failing to load completely, but from the computers of long ago, to the modern Windows computer, a boot screen is usually just one screen long, after the POST, and essentially just says [OS] loading...
From the Apple ][e, to the Radio Shack Tandys, to MS-DOS 3.3, to Windows 98, these highly sucessful home user systems had a simple boot screen that didn't scroll drivers and vxds unless told to do so.
There's a difference between informing a user, and making them think they may be in over their head with technobabble about abbreviated system file names that only programmers have any idea as to their function. Perhaps if the driver's real world, translated name were used, such as keyboard driver loaded is displayed instead of loading kb.sys...
You can press ESC when Windows it loading, at least for the Windows 98 series, and it gives your autoexec and config.sys anyway if you have them set to echo. Windows 2000 and XP booting into safemode have verbose boots.
I've always found it disconcerting that a verbose boot is given by default. Before Linux goes main stream on the home desktop, the distros ought to slap a plain progress bar with a pretty picture [ie. Windows clouds or logos] and not show verbose details unless something is wrong with the boot, or unusual.
I may know that, and you may know that, and so should everyone else, which is what makes the second part of the comment insightful, with a bit of a joke thrown in.
Last week when the MPAA/RIAA went after the dead grandmother smittenkitten for uploading copyrighted files, I was hoping some lawyers would lose their jobs.
Not a system to detect tsunamis approaching, but a system that detects a stupid editor that doesn't edit out a link to a 38MB Powerpoint presentation on the front page of slashdot.org
The Royal Navy could have been saved. They haven't known this kind of pounding since they tangled with the Spanish Armada or the U-boats.
This importation was done many years ago though, and the cattle imported are more than likely dead, and fed to humans or other cattle passing on the prions.
Scientificly, there should be about the same cases in all of the similar imported cattle to both the US and Canada, so at about twice the number of imported cattle, the US should have found at least 3 to 6 BSE cases by now if they were looking as hard as Canada has been.
There were under 800 cattle from mad cow affected countries imported into Canada before the importations were stopped. And the US imported over 1600 cattle from affected countries.
Yet Canada has found 3, before they entered the human or animal food chains, and the US found one after it was partly processed. Tell us who is doing a better job of detecting mad cow in North America?
GPS units started out half the size of a game boy when I first saw them, and then got half the size of that, in 2001. I don't know what they are now, but if they use a similar satelite network for XM, then they don't have to be very big to work, although they might not work so well in a pocket, or on the wrong side of a building.
But if his ashes are still in one place, one could safely assume that each peice would be spinning, which would certainly create a "wormhole" back in time 4 years ago, and we could send the Doctor, and Seven to save Enterprise's writers from messing up their chance to make a great series.
This is a BS damage control announcement; no more
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Fees are going up for eBay stores, more than 3%, on February 18th, and eBay's stock value has dropped by more than $30 in just three weeks. Sellers are preparing to leave eBay in droves. This really was the last straw for many of them.
The Government uses these devices to ensure that the password entered, is only the person who has the number generating device in their hand. I'm not sure of any ways to defeat this kind of security, although I'm sure it exists...
A bank can honestly not tell a customer that they didn't accept the risk of handing out money to thieves like candy, when they marketed their online banking as a feature people can use safely.
Obviously, online banking is not as safe as telephone banking [when not using a portable phone], and no where near as safe as working with a teller in a bank, or an ATM machine. Although now there are examples of ATM machines being hijacked with card readers, and cameras to capture PINs. All a computer needs is a little spyware, and presto, 128bit encryption is rendered useless. And with all the machines that have spyware, it's impossible to promise reliable banking security on the desktop computer.
I recommend it anytime I see someone saying that copyright law is extremely important to the survival of innovation. Sometimes the creation of new works, is more important than the survival of old works.
I hope an independent film maker is making a documentary about this event. I mean it's perfect for an Indie film It's got a big bad business, a large maybe-bad business, and they are duking it out in the courts.
And after it's all over, they can distribute it in OGG format using Bit Torrent.
I know just how the satellite owners feel, and I have a solution. When my VNC wouldn't respond, I asked my landlord to go over and reboot my computer. Presto, I was back in.
Obviously, they just need to have one of their other satellites fly over and reboot the dead one.
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I mean, could rumanants like cows eat the grass, and would it cross pollenate with normal grass, to create another weed? Would it invade gardens?
There are oodles of ethical questions to be answered BEFORE releasing a GM product into the wild. Profit is not the bottom line in the real world.
Microsoft is well known for making software that is popular in suberbia, but it's also known for being insecure, and a scourge on the Internet if plugged in unpatched. Releasing "perfect height" grass into the wild is much more dangerous than releasing an unpatched operating system. The consequences to the ecosystem aren't as simple as unplugging every Windows computer from the Internet and cleaning the worms off of them, or blocking ports.
That's an interesting point about keeping the user informed, even if they don't realize it. I suppose it could be more useful for troubleshooting if the last thing to freeze onto the screen is the process that is failing to load completely, but from the computers of long ago, to the modern Windows computer, a boot screen is usually just one screen long, after the POST, and essentially just says [OS] loading ...
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From the Apple ][e, to the Radio Shack Tandys, to MS-DOS 3.3, to Windows 98, these highly sucessful home user systems had a simple boot screen that didn't scroll drivers and vxds unless told to do so.
There's a difference between informing a user, and making them think they may be in over their head with technobabble about abbreviated system file names that only programmers have any idea as to their function. Perhaps if the driver's real world, translated name were used, such as keyboard driver loaded is displayed instead of loading kb.sys
While you still have access, best to delete all of the avis and pictures, and reduce the home page to a few lines of text.
You can press ESC when Windows it loading, at least for the Windows 98 series, and it gives your autoexec and config.sys anyway if you have them set to echo. Windows 2000 and XP booting into safemode have verbose boots.
I've always found it disconcerting that a verbose boot is given by default. Before Linux goes main stream on the home desktop, the distros ought to slap a plain progress bar with a pretty picture [ie. Windows clouds or logos] and not show verbose details unless something is wrong with the boot, or unusual.
I may know that, and you may know that, and so should everyone else, which is what makes the second part of the comment insightful, with a bit of a joke thrown in.
Microsoft employees lying to keep their job.
Last week when the MPAA/RIAA went after the dead grandmother smittenkitten for uploading copyrighted files, I was hoping some lawyers would lose their jobs.
Not a system to detect tsunamis approaching, but a system that detects a stupid editor that doesn't edit out a link to a 38MB Powerpoint presentation on the front page of slashdot.org
The Royal Navy could have been saved. They haven't known this kind of pounding since they tangled with the Spanish Armada or the U-boats.
I've heard that if you don't have anything true to say, you should say nothing at all. It must pain him to have to lie to keep his job.
when I used a weak password and got a MySQL worm the other week. /joke
This importation was done many years ago though, and the cattle imported are more than likely dead, and fed to humans or other cattle passing on the prions.
Scientificly, there should be about the same cases in all of the similar imported cattle to both the US and Canada, so at about twice the number of imported cattle, the US should have found at least 3 to 6 BSE cases by now if they were looking as hard as Canada has been.
There were under 800 cattle from mad cow affected countries imported into Canada before the importations were stopped. And the US imported over 1600 cattle from affected countries.
Yet Canada has found 3, before they entered the human or animal food chains, and the US found one after it was partly processed. Tell us who is doing a better job of detecting mad cow in North America?
GPS units started out half the size of a game boy when I first saw them, and then got half the size of that, in 2001. I don't know what they are now, but if they use a similar satelite network for XM, then they don't have to be very big to work, although they might not work so well in a pocket, or on the wrong side of a building.
But if his ashes are still in one place, one could safely assume that each peice would be spinning, which would certainly create a "wormhole" back in time 4 years ago, and we could send the Doctor, and Seven to save Enterprise's writers from messing up their chance to make a great series.
Fees are going up for eBay stores, more than 3%, on February 18th, and eBay's stock value has dropped by more than $30 in just three weeks. Sellers are preparing to leave eBay in droves. This really was the last straw for many of them.
SecurID.
The Government uses these devices to ensure that the password entered, is only the person who has the number generating device in their hand. I'm not sure of any ways to defeat this kind of security, although I'm sure it exists...
A bank can honestly not tell a customer that they didn't accept the risk of handing out money to thieves like candy, when they marketed their online banking as a feature people can use safely.
Obviously, online banking is not as safe as telephone banking [when not using a portable phone], and no where near as safe as working with a teller in a bank, or an ATM machine. Although now there are examples of ATM machines being hijacked with card readers, and cameras to capture PINs. All a computer needs is a little spyware, and presto, 128bit encryption is rendered useless. And with all the machines that have spyware, it's impossible to promise reliable banking security on the desktop computer.
...Is the one patching the Windows Calendar, making Feb. 8 2005 a Monday, so this article will be correct starting on Tuesday.
Here's a powerful link on Free Distribution.
I recommend it anytime I see someone saying that copyright law is extremely important to the survival of innovation. Sometimes the creation of new works, is more important than the survival of old works.
I know... In Soviet Russia, Michael sacks slashdot.org using an imagined cluster of Steven Kings?
Would one of the uses be playing OGG format music files now? Is that possible?
Will these robots have a morality chip in them, where if they are ordered to torture prisoners, they'll disobey?
Only if they aren't made in Texas, right?
I hope an independent film maker is making a documentary about this event. I mean it's perfect for an Indie film It's got a big bad business, a large maybe-bad business, and they are duking it out in the courts.
And after it's all over, they can distribute it in OGG format using Bit Torrent.
I know just how the satellite owners feel, and I have a solution. When my VNC wouldn't respond, I asked my landlord to go over and reboot my computer. Presto, I was back in.
Obviously, they just need to have one of their other satellites fly over and reboot the dead one.
Yes, I'm kidding.
I'm not too familiar with the office products for a Mac, but doesn't Microsoft offer an Office product for it?
If open source hopes to compete with Microsoft, they are going to just have to offer support for THE open office standard.