It is only really good if there is some clear organizing principle for the information, which is why it's great for an encyclopedia (which are generally organized strictly by article title anyway), but lousy for things where the ontology is more complicated.
I agree with you in theory, but as with most wiki concepts, it works better in practice than theory would suggest. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page The key is to stop behaving as though it were an electronic copy of an authoritative textbook and start treating it as a giant cross-referenced mass of raw data.
I think it IS possible if your OS and hardware are designed properly. You have your core OS on RO media, apps in their own hardware lockable (switch or key) area, strictly compartmentalised human readable config files, and a separate noexe area for data files.
A sandbox (chroot or VM) environment for trying dodgy stuff would be nice too...
But take a look at last weeks campaign, Operation Swarmer. The Iraqis mostly led this. None of our gun ships had to open fire and there were 0 casualties.
Operation Swarmer was pure spin.
But contrary to what many many television networks erroneously reported, the operation was by no means the largest use of airpower since the start of the war. ("Air Assault" is a military term that refers specifically to transporting troops into an area.) In fact, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were nabbed in an operation that some skeptical military analysts described as little more than a photo op. What's more, there were no shots fired at all and the units had met no resistance, said the U.S. and Iraqi commanders.
Time
Still, at least you've identified something the current US government is good at...
As long as people write crap, other people will install crap. All we can hope to do is educate people to stop installing crap.
No, that's crap. You can never educate enough people to make a difference. OS vendors need to write systems that;
make it safe for users to install crap
make it easy for users to remove crap
The reason crap happens to Windows is that it is easy to put persistent malware on people's computers. If the OS was designed so users could remove crap themselves, there wouldn't be the same motivation to make malware.
The most mindnumbing about the whole RIAA/MPAA debacle is how they keep blaming their diminishing sales on the consumers
Yep, when people were actually asked why they weren't buying more music, the greatest factors were:
price (16%)
nothing of interest (14%)
lack of time (13%)
collection is big enough (9%)
In other words, all the music industry needs to do to make more sales is to sell an interesting product, at a price the market will bear.
Their customer-hate behaviour has been so destructive, musicians contracted to RIAA member companies should initiate class action lawsuits to recover income lost to these inane tactics.
Can anyone explain me why tagging a website as "porn" (in the domain) could be declared inconstitutional?
Its a classic "divide and conquer" move from the religious fundies. The intent behind the.xxx tld is to be able to segregate the porn from the rest of the internet. Once you have achieved that, its a simple matter for fundamentalists to shut down all the pornography on the internets by blocking the domain.
last two times we bought US (F111 and F18) we got totally done over.
Last two times? We've been done over EVERY time we've bought American. What about our museum-grade Seasprite helicopters? What about the clapped out, DU contaminated Abrams M-1 tanks? We don't even have the equipment for transporting the bloody things, but we're still paying top dollar.
Frankly, our defence procurement people are so inept its embarrasing.
I think newspapers have completely changed with the times and as a result they have shallow articles targeted at young idiots.
There's been a battle going on in news organisations between accountants and idealists. What you're seeing is evidence that the accountants have won. There are far fewer journalists writing the stories and what stories are written are shared and recycled between all the news services.
One day last year, according to journalism.org, Google News offered computer users a menu of 14,000 stories -- covering only 24 separate subjects.
The real winner is the Mozilla fans who are vindicated officialy in thier statments about security.
No, Microsoft has won this round. Before the concerted FUD effort that included this Symantec story, Firefox was on a roll, gaining ground at a rapid rate. Now adoption has slowed and by slowing the momentum Microsoft has bought time for the development of IE7.
That article is nothing more than a Microsoft press release. This sort of garbage "informercial" is why blogging is gaining credibility over traditional journalism.
You may not like locking down the hardware and software, but something needs to be done.
Sure, but TPM is the answer to another problem, not that one. You could solve the bulk of malware problems easily now by booting from Read Only media, for example. I know my Knoppix DVD is not going to be compromised between sessions.
Knoppix and equivalents are not a long-term answer I know, but designing an OS which reads from inexpensive ROM (such as CD or DVD), has its config files on a separate removable, lockable and replaceable media such as a thumb drive, and has strict separation of executable and data (including program config) would go a long way to solving those problems.
The reason Windows has had so many exploits isn't just that it's easy to crack or that its easy to get (l)users to run a Random J Exe email attachment. It's also because there are so many places to hide and run executables, and that won't go away in Windows, because commercial software requires that obscurity. They need it for things like product activation and timed expiry of demos. That's why TPM is something we should fight. They're trying to scam us into thinking it's for us, but it's not. It's there to solve vendor problems, but its us who'll pay a heavy price to solve them.
Of course you don't mean in Japan where they don't look like they will ever sell their initial shipment.
Looks like those will be sold at a discount in other markets. You can get them in Australia already, and some Australian online stores ship to the US, so anyone in the US who's desperate might want to look there.
http://www.mp4store.com.au/category37/product386/p roduct_info.html
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I agree with you in theory, but as with most wiki concepts, it works better in practice than theory would suggest. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page The key is to stop behaving as though it were an electronic copy of an authoritative textbook and start treating it as a giant cross-referenced mass of raw data.
There is also Oralux
Don't you mean "Magnus frater spectat te"?
Tell that to my Knoppix CD...
I think it IS possible if your OS and hardware are designed properly. You have your core OS on RO media, apps in their own hardware lockable (switch or key) area, strictly compartmentalised human readable config files, and a separate noexe area for data files.
A sandbox (chroot or VM) environment for trying dodgy stuff would be nice too...
Operation Swarmer was pure spin.
Still, at least you've identified something the current US government is good at...No, that's crap. You can never educate enough people to make a difference. OS vendors need to write systems that;
The reason crap happens to Windows is that it is easy to put persistent malware on people's computers. If the OS was designed so users could remove crap themselves, there wouldn't be the same motivation to make malware.
Yep, when people were actually asked why they weren't buying more music, the greatest factors were:
In other words, all the music industry needs to do to make more sales is to sell an interesting product, at a price the market will bear.
Their customer-hate behaviour has been so destructive, musicians contracted to RIAA member companies should initiate class action lawsuits to recover income lost to these inane tactics.
Its a classic "divide and conquer" move from the religious fundies. The intent behind the .xxx tld is to be able to segregate the porn from the rest of the internet. Once you have achieved that, its a simple matter for fundamentalists to shut down all the pornography on the internets by blocking the domain.
In theory, anyway...
We would, but there's nobody to vote into office. All we can chose from is a bunch of near-identical lying pricks.
My favorite Larry Flynt quote is "If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not to me."
Nice spelling of "purveyor" btw, suits the context...
So an AC who doesn't understand reproduction is going to explain sex. I can't wait for this one...
Yeah, a Microsoft hat should be blue with bright green trim.
Last two times? We've been done over EVERY time we've bought American. What about our museum-grade Seasprite helicopters? What about the clapped out, DU contaminated Abrams M-1 tanks? We don't even have the equipment for transporting the bloody things, but we're still paying top dollar.
Frankly, our defence procurement people are so inept its embarrasing.
"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."
Cardinal Richelieu
Not really, - no coconut = 0, with coconut = 1.
(I suppose the VoIP equivalent would be TCP/IP over parrot?)
Good thinking. I wonder how many parrots each pigeon could carry.
Is that shorthand for steganography?
That's a feature. The Wrist PC uses one of those "Shake to charge" generators, so how else do you reckon they get six hours of use?
There's been a battle going on in news organisations between accountants and idealists. What you're seeing is evidence that the accountants have won. There are far fewer journalists writing the stories and what stories are written are shared and recycled between all the news services.
One day last year, according to journalism.org, Google News offered computer users a menu of 14,000 stories -- covering only 24 separate subjects.
The Annual Report on American Journalism http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.com/2006/narrative_ overview_intro.asp?cat=1&media=1 concludes that the loss of professional journalists (50% less than in early 1990s) has resulted in news which is thin, repetitive, narrowly focused and insubstantial.
Are you sure? Just a minute, I gotta check this...
Exactly. Your opinion is worth every cent I paid for it.
No, Microsoft has won this round. Before the concerted FUD effort that included this Symantec story, Firefox was on a roll, gaining ground at a rapid rate. Now adoption has slowed and by slowing the momentum Microsoft has bought time for the development of IE7.
That article is nothing more than a Microsoft press release. This sort of garbage "informercial" is why blogging is gaining credibility over traditional journalism.
Well, since Diebold probably made the ATMs which were hacked, you could probably look in the same place. Interestingly, the story was broken by a blog. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/05/citibank_unde r_fraud.html
Sure, but TPM is the answer to another problem, not that one. You could solve the bulk of malware problems easily now by booting from Read Only media, for example. I know my Knoppix DVD is not going to be compromised between sessions.
Knoppix and equivalents are not a long-term answer I know, but designing an OS which reads from inexpensive ROM (such as CD or DVD), has its config files on a separate removable, lockable and replaceable media such as a thumb drive, and has strict separation of executable and data (including program config) would go a long way to solving those problems.
The reason Windows has had so many exploits isn't just that it's easy to crack or that its easy to get (l)users to run a Random J Exe email attachment. It's also because there are so many places to hide and run executables, and that won't go away in Windows, because commercial software requires that obscurity. They need it for things like product activation and timed expiry of demos. That's why TPM is something we should fight. They're trying to scam us into thinking it's for us, but it's not. It's there to solve vendor problems, but its us who'll pay a heavy price to solve them.
Looks like those will be sold at a discount in other markets. You can get them in Australia already, and some Australian online stores ship to the US, so anyone in the US who's desperate might want to look there.p roduct_info.html
http://www.mp4store.com.au/category37/product386/