You've been developing operating systems for 30 years. It took you this long to realize that different users have different needs, and that your OS should run on low-end hardware?
The Windows OS typically enters the consumer market as an attractive upgrade for the shopper eying the OEM system bundle.
The HP at WalMart which ships with the 64 bit OS, the quad core CPU, 8 GB RAM, the 1 TB HDD, the Blu-Ray capable video card with HDMI output and so on.
Mid-line this year, will be entry level this year or the next - and at mid-line the CPU has become an i-something with 12 GB RAM.
When you hit the ground running, you can keep on going for years.
The geek is obsessed with the low-end.
But when the XP Atom netbook with much better specs entered the market, it wiped the floor with Linux.
It cleared the space for Win 7 - and the geek never saw it coming.
When the original linux powered Asus EEE PC was released, it was so popular, it pushed Microsoft into third place behind Apple and Xandros for OS shipments that month. I imagine that would give monkey-boy a bit of a fright.
Monkey-boy has the instincts and habits of a winner.*
When the Atom netbook entered the market - typically with a larger screen, better keyboard, and twice the RAM and storage space of the competition - the Linux netbook was drop-kicked into the dumpsters behind your local WalMart.
For the better part of decade in the U.S., WalMart was the lone mass-market retailer to champion OEM Linux. It really, really tried to make a go of it.
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*-monkey-boy." It's trash talk like this that makes me reluctant to reccomend Slashdot to anyone over the age of consent.
That and irritants like the Borg icon and the stained glass window.
Retailers and restaurants in the states have been living with performance rights issues since the nickelodeon days.
ASCAP was founded in 1914:
Early on, founding member Victor Herbert brought a lawsuit against Shanley's Restaurant for refusing to pay royalties. The fight took two years and went to the Supreme Court. ASCAP prevailed. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the decision of the Court: "The Era of the Player Piano (The Early 1900s)
"If the rights under the copyright are infringed only by a performance where money is taken at the door, they are very imperfectly protected. Performances not different in kind from those of the defendants could be given that might compete with and even destroy the success of the monopoly that the law intends the plaintiffs to have. It is enough to say that there is no need to construe the statute so narrowly. The defendants' performances are not eleemosynary. They are part of a total for which the public pays, and the fact that the price of the whole is attributed to a particular item which those present are expected to order is not important.
It is true that the music is not the sole object, but neither is the food, which probably could be got cheaper elsewhere. The object is a repast in surroundings that to people having limited powers of conversation, or disliking the rival noise, give a luxurious pleasure not to be had from eating a silent meal. If music did not pay, it would be given up. If it pays, it pays out of the public's pocket. Whether it pays or not, the purpose of employing it is profit, and that is enough."Herbert v. Shanley Co., 242 U.S. 591 (1917)
Holmes was not one to waste words, summing up the circuit court's decision and reversing it in three short, plain-spoken, paragraphs.
Windows user: "Hey, do I need the x64, or the 32bit? What kind of card to I have? Just to be safe, I better download them all and see which one works. WHQL certified... or not? What's the difference? Let's download both and find out. Hey look, some beta drivers..."
Hate to burst your bubble...
But the NVIDIA site has a [beta} auto-detect for driver updates.
FileHippo has its Update Checker and there are surely others out there as well.
The geek may enjoy playing with multiple drivers for audio and video - but that is not the profile of the ordinary Windows user.
The Win 7 HTPC that ships with a Blu-Ray drive will ship with a licensed Blu-Ray player and integrated HDMI multi-channel audio and video out as standard. PPV, rental and subscription services of every sort will install painlessly and work as advertised.
The embedded Linux OS in the set top or player supports DRM and can be found everywhere in the consumer market space.
The Linux PC is all-but-invisivble even in the netbook sector.
There were giant stacks of unsold Xbox 360s sitting in stores for months after the holidays because Microsoft has so overstuffed the retail channel
And your proof for this is to be found - where?
Alone among the three major videogame consoles, sales of the PS3 are down about 19% from November 2007, according to the latest stats from the NPD Group. Sony was only able to sell 378,000 PS3s this November, compared to 466,000 last year.
And the problem for Sony isn't the recession, it's the PS3. Microsoft put up respectable numbers with its Xbox 360, selling 836,000 units vs 777,000 in November 2007. And Nintendo's Wii continues to dominate the market, more than doubling sales from 981,000 to 2.04 million.Sony's PS3 A Sinking Ship: Sales Plummet [Dec 12, 2008]
In a deep recession, retailers keep their inventories of big-ticket items paper-thin.
Every square inch of floor space needs to be generating sales. Product is checked out the front door or it is trucked out the back. I
I think a pad of paper and a pen might be a better solution, or even a PDA with a calendar and note taking application.
8:10 AM - Took heart medication. 10:30 AM - Took blood pressure medication. 10:40 AM - Maintenance stopped by and fixed the leaky faucet
The camera offers visual confirmation.
It also records events that weren't logged.
The Alzheimer's patient is usually elderly. The PDA or daily planner may never have been part of their lives. It may have become difficult for them to read or write for other reasons. The geek who arrives at the bi-focal age will - quite literally - begin to look at his gadgets in new ways.
On November 27, Microsoft announced that it was giving $550 000 in funding to six teams of academic researchers in the United Kingdom and North America. One of the researchers, Fergus Gracey, a clinical psychologist from the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, in Ely, U.K., is planning to use SenseCam to help the rehabilitation of patients with acquired brain injury. "Many of our clients have a shorter fuse or find it difficult to manage emotional arousal," says Gracey. "We hope to use the reviewing of SenseCam images of the trigger situation, along with heart-rate recordings of the individual during that situation, to help prompt recall and to help the person tune in physiologically to what was going on."A Camera to Help Dementia Patients
The PC market has intentionally alienated used-games with copy-protection and "activation" How do we deal with all the breakage due to OS updates, malware, driver bugs, etc...
Why the heck should I buy your used PC game?
Gog.com - to choose just one example - repackages classic MSDOS and Windows games for XP, Vista and Win 7.
The garage sale price is $6 or $10. Weekend specials offer an even better value.
PC games have a strong online community.
There's no real problem getting Doom, System Shock 2, Arcanum or a Temple of Elemental Evil up and running - with vast improvements over the original, commercial, release.
As long as I have this hardware, I can continue to have the *freedom* to play these games
Your freedom ends when the console dies.
The PC gamer can still play Commander Keen on a system with the latest and greatest in hardware and OS.
PC's are for general purposes, but do not excel for special purposes like gaming (or high-end audio or video) unless you spend a lot of money to get *non-standardized* hardware and software
The mid-line desktop these days will be a 64 bit quad core with 6 to 8 GB of RAM, up to 1 TB of storage and a sport a serviceable video card with multichannel HDMI digital audio and video out.
Walmart.com or TigerDirect will have something in this class for $700-$800.
That is a much bigger investment up-front than your console, of course - but for the gamer on a budget, the PC can be a very attractive platform.
In a widely spread pandemy we all could get a chance of exposion, and there is where vaccines will make a difference.
Even with modern antiviral and antibacterial drugs, vaccines, and prevention knowledge, the return of a pandemic virus equivalent in pathogenicity to the virus of 1918 would likely kill >100 million people worldwide. A pandemic virus with the (alleged) pathogenic potential of some recent H5N1 outbreaks could cause substantially more deaths.
[T]he 1918 virus is the likely ancestor of all 4 of the human and swine H1N1 and H3N2 lineages, as well as the "extinct" H2N2 lineage.
[A]ge-specific death rates in the 1918 pandemic exhibited a distinct pattern that has not been documented before or since: a "W-shaped" curve, similar to the familiar U-shaped curve but with the addition of a third (middle) distinct peak of deaths in young adults 20-40 years of age. Influenza and pneumonia death rates for those 15-34 years of age in 1918-1919, for example, were >20 times higher than in previous years. Overall, nearly half of the influenza-related deaths in the 1918 pandemic were in young adults 20-40 years of age, a phenomenon unique to that pandemic year.
Anytime there's a controversy over vaccines or prescription drugs, there is only one thing that needs to be widely understood by everyone: pharmaceutical companies cannot make money from healthy people.
Of course they can.
Between 1900-02, the life expectancy at birth was 49.24. In 1997, the life expectancy at birth was 76.5.Statistic
Keeping your customers healthy now pays big dividends later.
Healthy people age into old age. Well, duh.
They have families. They have pets. They work longer and have more discretionary income.
That makes it worthwhile to invest in a broad spectrum of products that would have had little meaning to the industrial laborer of 1920 who was unlikely to see his fiftieth birthday.
..tell you how much electricity your TV set can use or how much water your toilet can use per flush, has the power to do anything.
The government - meaning you - can go on denying the fact that L.A. is a desert and simply continue to outgun and outspend outland farms and wilderness areas trying to protect their water rights.
Ah well. We were going to buy an enterprise licence for his product (Been evaluating for a few months). Not now. With renewals it would have been a nice chunk of change. To stop idiots such as this, we need to vote with our pockets.
Are you voting your employer's wallet or your wallet?
If the security his product offers is the best available for his enterprise needs, what then?
You only strengthen Kaspersky's argument if you suffer a breach.
there is not much you can do if that person is at the other side of the globe. Yes you can call police, but they will seldom do something.
Don't count on it:
The federal government can extradite a man to face a first-degree murder trial in the United States on charges of killing his wife, even though the evidence presented against him does not meet the test for the same charge in Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.Top court okays U.S. extradition [Oct 16]
A Briton accused of hacking into secret military and Nasa computers has had his extradition to the US put on hold as new psychiatric evidence is considered.Hacker's extradition put on hold
This is Gary McKinnon pitching his last-ditch "Asperger's defense" to the Home Office.
The Swiss Justice Ministry rejected on Tuesday film director Roman Polanski's appeal for an immediate release from custody. Polanski was arrested September 26 upon arriving in Zürich, Switzerland, to attend a film festival and has remained in prison ever since, awaiting possible extradition to the United States.Roman Polanski denied bail in Switzerland
Comedian and talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg had on The View on September 29 tried to defend his actions. "It wasn't rape-rape," she had said. The next day, Debra Tate, sister of Polanski's murdered wife, Sharon, argued on the Today show that it was consensual sex even though the victim was 13. "There's rape, and then there's rape," she said.
Shannon Gilreath, Wake Forest University Law Professor for Interdisciplinary Study and a nationally recognized scholar on issues of equality, sexual minorities, and constitutional interpretation, believes there are really two perspectives involved in the case. "One is the perspective of people who look for any reason imaginable to excuse the victimization of women and girls that is rampant: it happened long ago, she was mature for her age-she wanted it," he explained. On the other side of this are those of us who are saying that every victim matters, even those victimized by people rich enough to evade jurisdiction for many years."
But Gilreath says that statutory rape is a clear offense under the law, and at the age of 13, the girl was underage. Polanski defenders 'define' rape
Microsoft and Lockheed Martin been partners on high-profile military projects for at least the last ten years:
The alliance builds on existing relationships between Lockheed Martin and Microsoft on projects including the U.S. Air Force Integrated Space Command and Control (ISC2) program, a comprehensive upgrade of the North American Air Defense (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex; the integrated warfare system for the U.S. Navy's next nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, CVN 77; the Global Command Support System-Air Force; and the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Messaging System. The companies also are members of the Blue Team, which is competing for the Navy's next-generation land attack destroyer, DD 21 Lockheed Martin, Microsoft Form Alliance Focused on U.S. Government Market [May 24, 2001]
Microsoft has announced two more partnering agreements with large training and simulation companies for its recently unveiled Microsoft ESP visual simulation platform. Lockheed Martin and FlightSafety International both will use ESP as part of their efforts to lower costs in their simulation on aircrew training. Those companies join Northrop Grumman and SAIC as large integrators who have joined with Microsoft on use of ESP, which was announced in November and became available Jan. 1.Lockheed Martin, FlightSafety to use Microsoft ESP platform [February 21, 2008]
The problem with believing in free speech is you have to tolerate all speech.
No, you don't.
To begin:
You can refuse to host the neo-Nazi rally on your front lawn.
You can refuse to allow the militia men to use your house as a mail drop.
You are not obligated to pay for their postage - which is what being a node or super-node for Freenet implies.
You can refuse to publish - or broadcast - a libel.
You can refuse to become part of a distribution network for child pornography.
The sexual exploitation of a child is not free speech.
It is a criminal act.
If you know you are providing local storage for child pornography - if you know your systems, networks and software have become part of the distribution chain - you are at risk of prosecution.
The dissident can make the perfectly rational calculation that piracy and porn does nothing to enhance the credibility of his own message - while dramatically increasing his risk of exposure.
The dissident can refuse to be used as a token - to legitimize a system that has become profoundly corrupt.
That is the paradox.
The greatest threat to free speech isn't censorship.
Quite the opposite, really.
The most effective way to silence your opponent is to give him a septic tank as a platform and then bury him under a ton of shit.
You don't even get a Perl or Python interpreter preinstalled in Windows; how backward can you get?
What place does Perl and Python have in the default install of an OS?
Python comes pre-installed on Mac OS X, but due to Apple's release cycle, it's often one or even two years old. The overwhelming recommendation of the "MacPython" community is to upgrade your Python by downloading and installing a newer version from the Python standard release page.Python on the Mac
If you are running a Linux system (or most UNIX systems, including Mac OS X), you probably already have an installation of perl. Type perl -v at the command line to find out which version.Get Perl
A 100% Open Source Perl for Windows that is exactly the same as Perl everywhere else. And now it's rebuilt from scratch! We've partnered with Microsoft to improve CPAN on Win32. Our new WiX-based MSI installer enables Active Directory Group Policy installation across your entire organisation. New bundled support for the world's most popular Open Source database MySQL, plus SQLite and ODBC clients. And some little things, like installer clash detection logic, a cleaner uninstall, and Perl upgrade support.Strawberry Perl For Windows
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You've been developing operating systems for 30 years. It took you this long to realize that different users have different needs, and that your OS should run on low-end hardware?
The Windows OS typically enters the consumer market as an attractive upgrade for the shopper eying the OEM system bundle.
The HP at WalMart which ships with the 64 bit OS, the quad core CPU, 8 GB RAM, the 1 TB HDD, the Blu-Ray capable video card with HDMI output and so on.
Mid-line this year, will be entry level this year or the next - and at mid-line the CPU has become an i-something with 12 GB RAM.
When you hit the ground running, you can keep on going for years.
The geek is obsessed with the low-end.
But when the XP Atom netbook with much better specs entered the market, it wiped the floor with Linux.
It cleared the space for Win 7 - and the geek never saw it coming.
When the original linux powered Asus EEE PC was released, it was so popular, it pushed Microsoft into third place behind Apple and Xandros for OS shipments that month. I imagine that would give monkey-boy a bit of a fright.
Monkey-boy has the instincts and habits of a winner.*
When the Atom netbook entered the market - typically with a larger screen, better keyboard, and twice the RAM and storage space of the competition - the Linux netbook was drop-kicked into the dumpsters behind your local WalMart.
For the better part of decade in the U.S., WalMart was the lone mass-market retailer to champion OEM Linux. It really, really tried to make a go of it.
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*-monkey-boy." It's trash talk like this that makes me reluctant to reccomend Slashdot to anyone over the age of consent.
That and irritants like the Borg icon and the stained glass window.
Star Trek: TNG ended its run in 1994.
Retailers and restaurants in the states have been living with performance rights issues since the nickelodeon days.
ASCAP was founded in 1914:
Early on, founding member Victor Herbert brought a lawsuit against Shanley's Restaurant for refusing to pay royalties. The fight took two years and went to the Supreme Court. ASCAP prevailed. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the decision of the Court: " The Era of the Player Piano (The Early 1900s)
"If the rights under the copyright are infringed only by a performance where money is taken at the door, they are very imperfectly protected. Performances not different in kind from those of the defendants could be given that might compete with and even destroy the success of the monopoly that the law intends the plaintiffs to have. It is enough to say that there is no need to construe the statute so narrowly. The defendants' performances are not eleemosynary. They are part of a total for which the public pays, and the fact that the price of the whole is attributed to a particular item which those present are expected to order is not important.
It is true that the music is not the sole object, but neither is the food, which probably could be got cheaper elsewhere. The object is a repast in surroundings that to people having limited powers of conversation, or disliking the rival noise, give a luxurious pleasure not to be had from eating a silent meal. If music did not pay, it would be given up. If it pays, it pays out of the public's pocket. Whether it pays or not, the purpose of employing it is profit, and that is enough." Herbert v. Shanley Co., 242 U.S. 591 (1917)
Holmes was not one to waste words, summing up the circuit court's decision and reversing it in three short, plain-spoken, paragraphs.
Windows user: "Hey, do I need the x64, or the 32bit? What kind of card to I have? Just to be safe, I better download them all and see which one works. WHQL certified... or not? What's the difference? Let's download both and find out. Hey look, some beta drivers..."
Hate to burst your bubble...
But the NVIDIA site has a [beta} auto-detect for driver updates.
FileHippo has its Update Checker and there are surely others out there as well.
The geek may enjoy playing with multiple drivers for audio and video - but that is not the profile of the ordinary Windows user.
How many Linux users manually download them from Nvidia? The 0.5 percentage could be a big understatement...
How big an understatement?
You would need 20 times the downloads from other sources to reach a bare 1% of the total for Windows.
While Windows users also have many other sources for the drivers.
The CDC's 2009 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) site is handsomely designed and rich in resources for all ages and interests.
The geek will find public health spreadsheet simulations for Windows and Excel here: H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu): Preparedness Tools for Professionals
Interesting stuff, no specialist knowledge or skills required.
Social networking and mobile resources, widgets, buttons and badages: Social Media - Novel H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu
What would qualify as an "innovative or interesting OS", in the context of the average user ?
That's a fair question - and one the geek should be asking himself more often:
PulseAudio Creator Responds To His Critics
But he may not always like the answer.
The Win 7 HTPC that ships with a Blu-Ray drive will ship with a licensed Blu-Ray player and integrated HDMI multi-channel audio and video out as standard. PPV, rental and subscription services of every sort will install painlessly and work as advertised.
The embedded Linux OS in the set top or player supports DRM and can be found everywhere in the consumer market space.
The Linux PC is all-but-invisivble even in the netbook sector.
There were giant stacks of unsold Xbox 360s sitting in stores for months after the holidays because Microsoft has so overstuffed the retail channel
And your proof for this is to be found - where?
Alone among the three major videogame consoles, sales of the PS3 are down about 19% from November 2007, according to the latest stats from the NPD Group. Sony was only able to sell 378,000 PS3s this November, compared to 466,000 last year.
And the problem for Sony isn't the recession, it's the PS3. Microsoft put up respectable numbers with its Xbox 360, selling 836,000 units vs 777,000 in November 2007. And Nintendo's Wii continues to dominate the market, more than doubling sales from 981,000 to 2.04 million. Sony's PS3 A Sinking Ship: Sales Plummet [Dec 12, 2008]
In a deep recession, retailers keep their inventories of big-ticket items paper-thin.
Every square inch of floor space needs to be generating sales. Product is checked out the front door or it is trucked out the back. I
But how cool would it be to do this as a practical effect with no wires involved?
You won't be doing this with an autonomous mini-copter - unless the actors are CGI or matted in later.
Apart from the risk of injuries or property damage, the director needs control of the shot.
The automated tracking that looks good in a studio test may not work so well on location.
Pixar can spend four years solving problems like this within the wholly artificial and controlled environment of an animated film.
I think a pad of paper and a pen might be a better solution, or even a PDA with a calendar and note taking application.
8:10 AM - Took heart medication.
10:30 AM - Took blood pressure medication.
10:40 AM - Maintenance stopped by and fixed the leaky faucet
The camera offers visual confirmation.
It also records events that weren't logged.
The Alzheimer's patient is usually elderly. The PDA or daily planner may never have been part of their lives. It may have become difficult for them to read or write for other reasons. The geek who arrives at the bi-focal age will - quite literally - begin to look at his gadgets in new ways.
The technology involved is bloody well obvious.
"Cognitive Prosthetics" is bleeding-edge.
The tech has to be proven in clinical trials. Digital technology eyed in fight against Alzheimer's
Clinical trials cost money.
On November 27, Microsoft announced that it was giving $550 000 in funding to six teams of academic researchers in the United Kingdom and North America. One of the researchers, Fergus Gracey, a clinical psychologist from the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, in Ely, U.K., is planning to use SenseCam to help the rehabilitation of patients with acquired brain injury. "Many of our clients have a shorter fuse or find it difficult to manage emotional arousal," says Gracey. "We hope to use the reviewing of SenseCam images of the trigger situation, along with heart-rate recordings of the individual during that situation, to help prompt recall and to help the person tune in physiologically to what was going on." A Camera to Help Dementia Patients
The PC market has intentionally alienated used-games with copy-protection and "activation"
How do we deal with all the breakage due to OS updates, malware, driver bugs, etc...
Why the heck should I buy your used PC game?
Gog.com - to choose just one example - repackages classic MSDOS and Windows games for XP, Vista and Win 7.
The garage sale price is $6 or $10. Weekend specials offer an even better value.
PC games have a strong online community.
There's no real problem getting Doom, System Shock 2, Arcanum or a Temple of Elemental Evil up and running - with vast improvements over the original, commercial, release.
As long as I have this hardware, I can continue to have the *freedom* to play these games
Your freedom ends when the console dies.
The PC gamer can still play Commander Keen on a system with the latest and greatest in hardware and OS.
PC's are for general purposes, but do not excel for special purposes like gaming (or high-end audio or video) unless you spend a lot of money to get *non-standardized* hardware and software
The mid-line desktop these days will be a 64 bit quad core with 6 to 8 GB of RAM, up to 1 TB of storage and a sport a serviceable video card with multichannel HDMI digital audio and video out.
Walmart.com or TigerDirect will have something in this class for $700-$800.
That is a much bigger investment up-front than your console, of course - but for the gamer on a budget, the PC can be a very attractive platform.
In a widely spread pandemy we all could get a chance of exposion, and there is where vaccines will make a difference.
Even with modern antiviral and antibacterial drugs, vaccines, and prevention knowledge, the return of a pandemic virus equivalent in pathogenicity to the virus of 1918 would likely kill >100 million people worldwide. A pandemic virus with the (alleged) pathogenic potential of some recent H5N1 outbreaks could cause substantially more deaths.
[T]he 1918 virus is the likely ancestor of all 4 of the human and swine H1N1 and H3N2 lineages, as well as the "extinct" H2N2 lineage.
[A]ge-specific death rates in the 1918 pandemic exhibited a distinct pattern that has not been documented before or since: a "W-shaped" curve, similar to the familiar U-shaped curve but with the addition of a third (middle) distinct peak of deaths in young adults 20-40 years of age. Influenza and pneumonia death rates for those 15-34 years of age in 1918-1919, for example, were >20 times higher than in previous years. Overall, nearly half of the influenza-related deaths in the 1918 pandemic were in young adults 20-40 years of age, a phenomenon unique to that pandemic year.
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics
[2006]
Anytime there's a controversy over vaccines or prescription drugs, there is only one thing that needs to be widely understood by everyone: pharmaceutical companies cannot make money from healthy people.
Of course they can.
Between 1900-02, the life expectancy at birth was 49.24. In 1997, the life expectancy at birth was 76.5. Statistic
Keeping your customers healthy now pays big dividends later.
Healthy people age into old age. Well, duh.
They have families. They have pets. They work longer and have more discretionary income.
That makes it worthwhile to invest in a broad spectrum of products that would have had little meaning to the industrial laborer of 1920 who was unlikely to see his fiftieth birthday.
But this strategy seems to have worked out very well for Wii Fit, Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
..tell you how much electricity your TV set can use or how much water your toilet can use per flush, has the power to do anything.
The government - meaning you - can go on denying the fact that L.A. is a desert and simply continue to outgun and outspend outland farms and wilderness areas trying to protect their water rights.
How about taking the tvs out of the prisons? That should save quite a bit of electricity.
I have said this before, but it will bear repetition.
The prison is easier and cheaper to manage - and far safer for both inmates and guards - if it has rewards to offer as well as punishments.
This becomes all the more urgent when over-crowding and under-staffing stress the system severely.
Ah well. We were going to buy an enterprise licence for his product (Been evaluating for a few months). Not now. With renewals it would have been a nice chunk of change. To stop idiots such as this, we need to vote with our pockets.
Are you voting your employer's wallet or your wallet?
If the security his product offers is the best available for his enterprise needs, what then?
You only strengthen Kaspersky's argument if you suffer a breach.
there is not much you can do if that person is at the other side of the globe. Yes you can call police, but they will seldom do something.
Don't count on it:
The federal government can extradite a man to face a first-degree murder trial in the United States on charges of killing his wife, even though the evidence presented against him does not meet the test for the same charge in Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Top court okays U.S. extradition [Oct 16]
A Briton accused of hacking into secret military and Nasa computers has had his extradition to the US put on hold as new psychiatric evidence is considered. Hacker's extradition put on hold
This is Gary McKinnon pitching his last-ditch "Asperger's defense" to the Home Office.
The Swiss Justice Ministry rejected on Tuesday film director Roman Polanski's appeal for an immediate release from custody. Polanski was arrested September 26 upon arriving in Zürich, Switzerland, to attend a film festival and has remained in prison ever since, awaiting possible extradition to the United States. Roman Polanski denied bail in Switzerland
Comedian and talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg had on The View on September 29 tried to defend his actions.
"It wasn't rape-rape," she had said.
The next day, Debra Tate, sister of Polanski's murdered wife, Sharon, argued on the Today show that it was consensual sex even though the victim was 13.
"There's rape, and then there's rape," she said.
Shannon Gilreath, Wake Forest University Law Professor for Interdisciplinary Study and a nationally recognized scholar on issues of equality, sexual minorities, and constitutional interpretation, believes there are really two perspectives involved in the case. "One is the perspective of people who look for any reason imaginable to excuse the victimization of women and girls that is rampant: it happened long ago, she was mature for her age-she wanted it," he explained. On the other side of this are those of us who are saying that every victim matters, even those victimized by people rich enough to evade jurisdiction for many years."
But Gilreath says that statutory rape is a clear offense under the law, and at the age of 13, the girl was underage. Polanski defenders 'define' rape
Yes, because requiring passports to entry countries stops all terrorism and crime.
It is never all or nothing.
Which is why the geek tends to lose more in the political arena then he wins.
I think he's just mad at Apress and wants to stick it to the man
I'd say Apress has an air-tight case for breach of contract - and quite possibly something like conspiracy to commit copyright infringement.
I would love to be the fly on the wall when Cooper tries to cut a deal for his next book. I can't imagine anyone who would touch it.
Microsoft, from all people?
Microsoft and Lockheed Martin been partners on high-profile military projects for at least the last ten years:
The alliance builds on existing relationships between Lockheed Martin and Microsoft on projects including the U.S. Air Force Integrated Space Command and Control (ISC2) program, a comprehensive upgrade of the North American Air Defense (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex; the integrated warfare system for the U.S. Navy's next nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, CVN 77; the Global Command Support System-Air Force; and the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Messaging System. The companies also are members of the Blue Team, which is competing for the Navy's next-generation land attack destroyer, DD 21 Lockheed Martin, Microsoft Form Alliance Focused on U.S. Government Market [May 24, 2001]
The Blue Team lost on what would become the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class - Multimission Destroyer.
CVN-77 is the tenth and last of the Nimitz class super-carriers, the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
Microsoft has announced two more partnering agreements with large training and simulation companies for its recently unveiled Microsoft ESP visual simulation platform.
Lockheed Martin and FlightSafety International both will use ESP as part of their efforts to lower costs in their simulation on aircrew training. Those companies join Northrop Grumman and SAIC as large integrators who have joined with Microsoft on use of ESP, which was announced in November and became available Jan. 1. Lockheed Martin, FlightSafety to use Microsoft ESP platform [February 21, 2008]
His server software is horrible bad!
Lockheed would seem to disagree: Microsoft Case Studies: Lockheed Martin gains Enterprise-class capabilities with SAP on Windows, SQL Server [July 20, 2009]
The problem with believing in free speech is you have to tolerate all speech.
No, you don't.
To begin:
You can refuse to host the neo-Nazi rally on your front lawn.
You can refuse to allow the militia men to use your house as a mail drop.
You are not obligated to pay for their postage - which is what being a node or super-node for Freenet implies.
You can refuse to publish - or broadcast - a libel.
You can refuse to become part of a distribution network for child pornography.
The sexual exploitation of a child is not free speech.
It is a criminal act.
If you know you are providing local storage for child pornography - if you know your systems, networks and software have become part of the distribution chain - you are at risk of prosecution.
The dissident can make the perfectly rational calculation that piracy and porn does nothing to enhance the credibility of his own message - while dramatically increasing his risk of exposure.
The dissident can refuse to be used as a token - to legitimize a system that has become profoundly corrupt.
That is the paradox.
The greatest threat to free speech isn't censorship.
Quite the opposite, really.
The most effective way to silence your opponent is to give him a septic tank as a platform and then bury him under a ton of shit.
You don't even get a Perl or Python interpreter preinstalled in Windows; how backward can you get?
What place does Perl and Python have in the default install of an OS?
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I still have 4 - 5 year old PCs in production use with no problems
Well, of course, you do.
Those aging - tethered - PCs can leverage the power and resources of your locked-down corporate network.
They serve a single clearly-defined purpose -
and would be pretty much useless for anything else.
Vista and Win 7 are defined by a world in which the tether has been broken.
The laptop dominates sales.
More people are spending time out of the office - working - and playing - at home.
With the system Nazi safely out of the picture, system security has to built into the machine and the OS itself.