A suitcase bomb can disperse radioactives, chemical or biological poisons over a small area.
You might see direct casualties on the scale of 9/11 (though that is probably unlikely) and decontamination would certainly be tedious and expensive. But a suitcase bomb is not a city-killer.
Keep it up. Im sure your country will fall into civil war soon enough.
The disintegration of the Canadian federation would seem a more likely possibility than civil war in the U.S. Bush's re-election came without without so much as a tremor nation-wide. The country remains center-right, which, historically, is pretty much where we have always been.
reporting what commercials are viewed to completion with sound-on would radically change televsion programming and advertising
Meaning, more product placement and advertising tightly integrated into program content.
It would be a return to the formula developed for radio broadcasting in the thirties and forties, and television in the fifties, with the advertising agencies firmly in control of what could be broadcast.
The system worked well when it supported quality programing of the sort that only PBS and subscription services like HBO provide now. (Texaco's 75 year sponsorship of the Metropolitan Opera comes first to mind.) But the agencies rarely took chances and usually folded quick;y under pressure.
They would not have fought for the uncensored broadcast of "Saving Private Ryan."
"Corel disappointed much of the legal market in 2001 when it abandoned its legal suite, which had a very loyal following.
Amicus, HotDocs and Deal Proof links disappeared with the legal suite. Though some legal-specific features were retained in WordPerfect 2002, the legal suite enjoyed great popularity and its demise undermined Corel's standing with lawyers, especially solos and small firms, which liked the bundled third party legal software."
Corel sold customized versions of Word Perfect to the legal and medical markets. WordPerfect finds its legal niche (1997) But here is the kicker:
WordPerfect Legal Edition 7 is a 16-bit version that will run on either Windows 3.x or 95 platform. The 32-bit version for Windows 95 is under development.
Every Windows Update link to a bug report I've seen lately has included a plain English explanation of the bug and a thank you to those who reported it. I remain suspicious of alarmist reports published before Microsoft (or anyone else, for that matter) has had a reasonable chance to look at a potential problem.
I tend to find that extremely competent programmers, with a lot of experience, tend to make nearly bug-free software...
I say prove it. Show me a list of ten non-trivial programs in widespread use that have never reported a significant bug. To make the problem realistic, let's assume that the programmers operated under significant constraints of time and money.
Finjan is not a disinterested party, since it is selling security solutions to the home and enterprise markets, and it profits by being the first --- and so far --- only source to make the claim.
First MS will lose the small 'at home' and business customers
I'd like to see proof that home and small business users are migrating to Firefox. IE6's market share seems to have stabilized Since the release of SP2. Browser Statistics
It's taken a bit of prodding, but I've eventually gotten many of my friends and even my parents to switch to Firefox exclusively.
For all the talk of the cathedral and the bazaar, there are a lot of folks here who seem to believe in the success of conversions driven by submission to secular authority, personal influence or techno-magic.
Don't tell me how Grandad, your kid sister, your lab rats -- one, a young woman, divorced, with two kids and a job to protect -- have all come to love Firefox.
Don't tell me how clever you've been, the tricks you played that make it all seem so easy.
Instead, prove to me that you can make it out there alone in the cold, cruel world of Windows. 300 million users world-wide. Nine million OEM systems shipping each month with IE6 as the default.
It is for this reason, that the lab I administer has a Firefox link labelled "Internet" and all links to IE have been removed.
That is all well and good but there are something like 200 million Windows users out there who aren't bound by the dictates of an all-powerful system administrator.
I guess for me, "recovering" from an error doesn't mean wishing it didn't happen and obfuscating it from the user. My bad.
Like I said, the Event Log is there whenever you feel the urge to read it, and you can switch off the automated recovery if you enjoy having your work interupted by errors that have no particular significance.
IIRC, for every XP computer, there is one computer running Windows 2000 installation, and probably one running Win9x too.
Windows XP 58% Windows 2K 25%, Windows 9x 6% OS Platform Statistics (October 2004) I don't think the Slashdot community ever quite sees the migration to XP and XP-SP2.
It is unlikely that Rehnquist will be returning to the Supreme Court anytime soon, and good reasons to think his cancer is rapidly progressive and terminal. There are other justices who will probably announce their retirement soon. Cheney will always be a question mark because of his history of heart problems.
Hopefully the nytimes ad will be placed within the next 2 weeks and the world will be a better place.
Two weeks draws the Firefox add fully into the vortex of the Christmas shopping season. Every upscale retailer in the northeast is competing for prime space in the NY Times. They get the white meat, the Moz Foundation, the gristle.
You're right. You don't ever see a BSOD on XP because Microsoft "fixed" it by having it automatically reboot as soon as it does it by default.
if XP recovers from an error so quckly and reliably that the user is never aware of a problem, the fix is good enough. the event log is still there and the reboot can be turned off if you need or want to take a closer look.
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since when is a 12% quarterly growth in revenues (to $9.2 billion USD) considered flat?
You might see direct casualties on the scale of 9/11 (though that is probably unlikely) and decontamination would certainly be tedious and expensive. But a suitcase bomb is not a city-killer.
Which aircraft do you target? At any given moment there are 3200 or so commercial aircraft in U.S. airspace.
The disintegration of the Canadian federation would seem a more likely possibility than civil war in the U.S. Bush's re-election came without without so much as a tremor nation-wide. The country remains center-right, which, historically, is pretty much where we have always been.
Meaning, more product placement and advertising tightly integrated into program content.
It would be a return to the formula developed for radio broadcasting in the thirties and forties, and television in the fifties, with the advertising agencies firmly in control of what could be broadcast.
The system worked well when it supported quality programing of the sort that only PBS and subscription services like HBO provide now. (Texaco's 75 year sponsorship of the Metropolitan Opera comes first to mind.) But the agencies rarely took chances and usually folded quick;y under pressure.
They would not have fought for the uncensored broadcast of "Saving Private Ryan."
Amicus, HotDocs and Deal Proof links disappeared with the legal suite. Though some legal-specific features were retained in WordPerfect 2002, the legal suite enjoyed great popularity and its demise undermined Corel's standing with lawyers, especially solos and small firms, which liked the bundled third party legal software."
Shackled to Microsoft: What It Means To The Legal Profession (2002)
WordPerfect Legal Edition 7 is a 16-bit version that will run on either Windows 3.x or 95 platform. The 32-bit version for Windows 95 is under development.
Every Windows Update link to a bug report I've seen lately has included a plain English explanation of the bug and a thank you to those who reported it. I remain suspicious of alarmist reports published before Microsoft (or anyone else, for that matter) has had a reasonable chance to look at a potential problem.
I say prove it. Show me a list of ten non-trivial programs in widespread use that have never reported a significant bug. To make the problem realistic, let's assume that the programmers operated under significant constraints of time and money.
Finjan is not a disinterested party, since it is selling security solutions to the home and enterprise markets, and it profits by being the first --- and so far --- only source to make the claim.
I'd like to see proof that home and small business users are migrating to Firefox. IE6's market share seems to have stabilized Since the release of SP2. Browser Statistics
For all the talk of the cathedral and the bazaar, there are a lot of folks here who seem to believe in the success of conversions driven by submission to secular authority, personal influence or techno-magic.
Don't tell me how Grandad, your kid sister, your lab rats -- one, a young woman, divorced, with two kids and a job to protect -- have all come to love Firefox.
Don't tell me how clever you've been, the tricks you played that make it all seem so easy.
Instead, prove to me that you can make it out there alone in the cold, cruel world of Windows. 300 million users world-wide. Nine million OEM systems shipping each month with IE6 as the default.
That is all well and good but there are something like 200 million Windows users out there who aren't bound by the dictates of an all-powerful system administrator.
SP2 was posted in August.
For others, the Google toolbar is the most successful of the many free plug-ins available for Internet Explorer.
Sounds fine in theory, but passion does not imply technical competence or self-discipline, and it is damn tough to measure.
Criminal Offenses Criminal Infringement of a Copyright (Penalties)
You can do hard time (up to three years for a first offense) even if you are not into this for the money.
Theft of trade secrets is also a federal crime. Here is a useful link that demolishes many Slashdot myths: Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section: Federal Code Related to Cybercrime
My bad.
Like I said, the Event Log is there whenever you feel the urge to read it, and you can switch off the automated recovery if you enjoy having your work interupted by errors that have no particular significance.
SP2 was released in August. It is now November.
So where are the daily SP2 horror stories I would expect to see posted to Slashdot?
IIRC, for every XP computer, there is one computer running Windows 2000 installation, and probably one running Win9x too.
Windows XP 58% Windows 2K 25%, Windows 9x 6% OS Platform Statistics (October 2004) I don't think the Slashdot community ever quite sees the migration to XP and XP-SP2.
I don't see humor in any of this.
Quite a few actually. And for those who have upgraded to XP-SP2, the MyDoom varients are a non-issue. Double MyDoom for Internet Explorer
Two weeks draws the Firefox add fully into the vortex of the Christmas shopping season. Every upscale retailer in the northeast is competing for prime space in the NY Times. They get the white meat, the Moz Foundation, the gristle.
MS+Comcast=Big trouble for little TiVo. Comcast has 21 million subscribers. Profile for Comcast
if XP recovers from an error so quckly and reliably that the user is never aware of a problem, the fix is good enough. the event log is still there and the reboot can be turned off if you need or want to take a closer look.