.. I am just thinking longer term down the road. No one knows all the potential vulnerabilites yet, I don't think it's possible. We've had how many people at microsoft and in the outside developer community for years "looking at" explorer and microsoft, yet we still have the vulnerability du juor. It's constant, chronic, it's a broken system. It costs untold billions ayear in un needed costs, both to business and to individuals, and it has lead to a huge gaping hole in security, which these days can be national, physical security, something that shouldn't be ignored.. It causes untold millions to get serious frustrated. it costs lots of time and effort trying to fix a system that is unfixable. It appears to not be suitable for anything but a closed intranet. There, fine, if that's what people want to run. On the net where what THEY do *wrongly* affects everyone else in a variety of ways? Why? In government service, and in banks and economic institutions? That's nuts! The internet today is critical to run the worlds business. that's given. We need something better than, and to concentrate on the 'something better" and to ignore the 'soomething much worse". Doiong bodywork and a new paint job on an old clunker lemon will never make it a good car, as well meaning as those efforts might be. Why is that even a good long term idea to attempt that?
It is only in widespread use from the business decisions that the vendors took, which have now proved to have been a mistake, of allowing OS lock in on selling millions of PCs. It was a short term decision which has lead to vast internet insecurities,potential serious physical insecurities from the fact of the internet being tied to most everything now, the costs have been tremendous, and we are decades behind where we could have been with a safe, functional and secure internet because of it.
I think that reality should be addressed and admitted to.
We have what internet we have now DESPITE microsoft products. Which goes to show that developers in general are pretty good, just they have been handicapped, and are still being forced to work with a built in handicap. It's not needed. It's a bad idea to keep embracing that handicap, and paying billions for the purpose of always staying tied to the handicap is a bad idea.
Just because we don't have bonzi buddy and similar malware and exploits du juor and extreme monumental hidden cost "features" like you get with mcirosoft in general, yet, it doesn't mean it can't happen, and it could really only be a function that unixy systems have been so widely different. YET, now we have a push to standardize MS MORE into "unixy-ness" than in the past. Why dilute what's good with what is non-good? I think that is a serious *critical* mistake for the long term. I understand short and medium term, I am addresssing long term now. It needs to be done. "this quarter" thinking just *sucks*, IMO.We have the new web scripting languages and formats, etc., that might be the vector for making unixy and open source reality more vulnerable, because they are tied to letting MS into the sandbox.
I am just thinking that we could possibly see one day a serious morris worm effect that precisely because of cross platform standards could affect everyone, not just one architecture/browser/server system. Or many of them, or something not even named yet just as bad. it's a wildcard, and I think we should discard that wildcard as much as possible.
That's all. We use sandbox type design now, because it's a good idea, overall, generally speaking. What I see this effort is, as a way to just make the sandbox bigger, to encompass the internet in general, which is going to *defeat* the entire purpose of limited access, strict rules who gets to play in the sandbox, etc. I would be more happy if we went further to remove microsoft anything from the common internet sandbox, even to the point of just starting to build NOW an alternative internet overall model of servers, desktops, apps, websites, businesses,etc tha
while it's obvious to see the good aspects to this proposal, I certainly don't want a chance of windows vulnerabilites being accidently ported to linux via a standardized plug in architecture. If opera and mozilla have to use a "standard", and they write something that *has to be useable in windows*, won't that have an affect of introducing potential unknown vulnerabilites that at some time will make everyone using any of the standards compliant plugins/browsers susceptible to some new windows exploit that could have been avoided in the first place?
I'm not a developer, I do not know the ins and outs of writing cross platform browsers or plugins, etc, so perhaps this won't matter, I honestly do not know, but it seems like it's a *maybe*. I hope I am incorrect obviously, but I just don'tknow.
I DO know I would be MUCH more "comfortable" with a good browser such as moz is now which was written exclusively for linux only though. Perhaps it's just psychological, but I keep getting feelings of cooties from this trying to be compatable with microsoft *anything*.
Frankly, I think granting non tangible IP patents is ridiculous. However, in the real world they aren't going to get rid of them entirely any time soon, not in the US anyway, and this MUST be admitted to I think to move forward in dealing with the problem. Taking them on a case by case by case basis in a retroactive review will be like herding cats. Theoretically possible, pretty dismal results in the real world and mostly a waste of time and resources.
I propose a different approach. Recognize the inherit difference between an intangible IP and a normal tangible product patent, and severely limit the patent exclusivity time limit with any that are IP. Make it a totally separate "class"of patent. Drop it down to two years, then that's it, in the public domain. Make it retroactive as well.
why, I have friends all over the world! Just this morning in fact I received a nice long email from my friend over in one of the ministries in nigeria. He and I have been working on some very exciting projects! And I have a lot of friends in russia, and most of them are girls who all want to marry me!
and they don't seem to have any references to radio interference. Do you have any of their studies to look at? have they come up with a solution that no one else has? Maybe I just don't see it, but I looked both at the FAQ and just ran a general search there, can't find it. thanks. I understand your enthusiasm for it, I live rural and would like some sort of broadband, but can't see how they can address the interference issue. I like my radios the same as my computer.
is a desktop window manager that mimics how MY desktop works, so I can feel comfortable, at home, and productive. I mean, they call these things files and folders, and it's called a desktop,and you have "tools" and whatnot, right? So how come they never LOOK or ACT like any *real* desktop?
Here is an example...uhh... this would be.. ummm, well, it's just an example.. *mine*
Random crap just appears, then the next day it's gone. You never owned it, it ain't yours, you don't know what it is,and it's usually scary looking anyway so you don't care when it goes away again.
You lay something down, go to the kitchen, come back, and the real important "thing" you just were working on has now morphed into last months bank statement, which now has a phone number on it with no name attached, but a date next to it underlined TWICE.
Odd random fires occur.
You notice that the old candy dish you throw your keys and change and junk in now has a birds nest with 5 little peepers all looking for some food. They get the last of your chips from the bottom drawer. For a moment you think about asking the dog how the birds got there, because he's the only one that would really know. Then you realise he'll just tell you what you want to hear anyway, so you forget about it.
You go to reach over to your small tools area to work on some hardware, and find that compound reverse dado titanium layered over fine ceramic skill saw blade you bought last year.
There are many odd Cds with no labels leaning up against the lamp base,all very important, but you have to use your magic 8 ball to see if you should try them out or not, because at least one of them you remember has hack_orifice_of_doom_2000 on it.
You try to make a post-it note and find 6 empty card board packages that pens and pencils came in, but not a single pen or pencil to be found. The cardboard boxes though you KNOW you can make something cool out of, so you lean them on the random cds pile leaning on the lamp base. That takes up the space that your duct and electrical tape is now using, so you put the electrical tape in your pocket and chunk the duct tape under the desk.
The point was moot anyway, because you don't HAVE any post-it notes.
You go to change out some RAM, and not finding a handy mylar bag, you take that old chip bag in the bottom drawer, that is now REALLY empty, turn it inside out, and put the ram sticks you will never use again EVAR into the bag and back into the drawer, for future archaeologists.
You go to print something, and you MUST decide,for paper, do you use the backs of the distro something 3.2RC1 HOWTOS you printed out four years ago, or do you use the backs of your girlfriends letters she's written but hasn't mailed off yet... hmmm.. hmmmm
Now, someone builds a computer version of an ergonomic actual human being uses-it desktop like that, call it "3D", I'll take a gander at it.
for a store. You give out the cards various places with various tracks you want to promote, to get folks to check out your store. The store has a kiosk setup with the reader. The customer puts in the card, it's playing the song back to them and simultaneously burning the track to disk as the freebie give away, or if they like the one song they can buy the whole album custom burned right then on the spot.
maybe, I dunno. Bound to be some other spiffy things you could do with it.
Really, most of those people who won't switch are just plain afraid to do it. They get their machines broken and stuffed with malware while doing nothing wrong! No matter what they did last week to make it better, this week there's something else that will break their machines. They barely can run what they have now, so they get scared to start from scratch with a brand new learning (and potential expense in their minds) experience. These things -das komputarz- are sold all over as "easy to use", All you are supposed to have to know is click here, fill in the blank, click again, get online, open browser, go surfing. Really, see the ads for computers all over. NEVER do they claim it's hard and you will need to jump through hoops daily. People know that kindergarteners 'can use computers' now, so in their minds any normal adult can just get one, turn it on and use it.
So, they do that, they buy one, get online, 15 minutes later they get borked. They surf for a week, they got 293 weirdo scripts, cookies, warez, whatevers crawling all over their machines and the thing barely moves. They haul it to the local shop where the helpful windows computer expert trusted computar guy charges them 50$ to run a few cheap programs against it, it gets cleaned up. They drop another 50$ on an antivirus program at his recommendations. Next week it's broken again, back to the shop. 50$ to fix it, another 50$ to get a "firewall". Back home. Next week they get borked again, then they say "FxxK IT! Enough!" they won't care after that point, and no way do they want to start fresh all over with something new that is pushed the same exact way they got borked in the first place, with the recommendation of "go ahead, drive it, it's easy, a kid can do it, it's the same as you had before, just different".
Uh huh, that's gonna make them want to switch. Yep. Sure it is.
That's my theory anyway
There's little to no long term money in making windows or explorer secure or functional. What would they sell from then on if they actually released a product like that? They'd sell it ONCE, that's it. You wouldn't have a need to upgrade. You wouldn't need mr. fixit and even more expensive mr. consultant. And now MICROSOFT is going to sell antivir because their crap is so lame and PEOPLE WILL BUY IT!
There's a cubic metric boatload of megatons of money in making MSOS and browser (and server and email client and etc) *almost* secure and *almost* functional, for microsoft themselves down to the thousands of helpful windows/computer experts at the local whitebox stores and in the consulting yellow pages.
"The government said an overhaul of the system should be finished by December and copies should be available then."
Hmm, lemme see here, big ole elections are in NOVEMBER.
foreign lobbyists, uh huh, sure.... all on the up and up... no shenanigans here with letting FOREIGN PEOPLE give money to DOMESTIC politicians. Nope, don't need to see no data there! I'm sure it's all in order and it's just a temporary glitch!
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I've cleaned two of them things off of friends computers. One was this real proper older straight lady, she had gotten hacked somehow near as I can figger. I always fixed her machines and kept it updated for her, never saw any evidence of porn surfing. I told her to simply not pay the bill, to tell the phone copmpany I could provide proof of the dialer hack if they demanded it. She didn't pay and they took it off the bill pretty readily. The other one I KNOW the guy clicked on "download this teenage hottie mutant pervo crap". Luckily he asked me to take it off when he realised it was dialing a long distance number when he heard how many times it hit a number when his modem dialed out. I razzed him a good one too on that one. heh heh heh his wifes computer too, HAHAHAHAHAHA! he goes "MAN U GOTZ TO HEP ME NOW!" Oh man I was rolling, I had warned him over and over again to NOT DO THAT STUFF!
judges are allowed to have hidden bank accounts overseas setup by proxy shell companies too. Well, not really allowed, but they can do it same as anyone else.
You didn't write it on purpose though, and you are fixing it. There's the big difference I think with the dismal stuff that is out there that was released too soon.
it's a lot of money. Back in the 60's I was making 300-600$/week with over-time, then there was bennies. Frankly, I thought that was *plenty* of money for what I was doing(wish I was making that now actually), seeing as how my previous job paid about 110$. I didn't stay in long though, the plant where I worked was 99.99% rednecks and I was the lone hipster. And then I moved out of state away from the easy money factories. Had to do some dancing with a tire iron in my hands a few times to get the drunk doofus machine heads to leave me alone, then it was dealing with drunk doofus cops all the time, mean suckers, so I said "buh bye michigan, cya later". I don't know about now, but I live in georgia and it is less redneck here than what I remember it was up there. Ann Arbor was about the only place I felt comfortable at back then.
Ya, drunk/stoned rank and file, drunk/stoned management = not so hot quality products and a lot of bad business decisions back then. They COULD make the horsepower though, and some of the designs were sharp looking. It's probably changed now, maybe more professionally run, etc, though but they still got to stay on top of it. At least they are starting to release some hybrid vehicles, I was just looking at the new ford escape at some website, looks fine, price seems fair.
hey! all my good ideas keep getting snagged! hahahaha, ya along those lines. I bookmarked that place, looks cool.
as to content, yep, that's what I do here in lieu of paying a subscription. Not sure if it's all that valuable but I'll put some stuff up, that's for sure!
me too, been in bad unions. UAW for one. You get a non working boss class that becomes hereditary,. corruption becomes just as bad as in management and in government. Not paying attention to reality and only fiocusing on pay raises. I remember back in the late 60's I would be saying 'waitaminnit guys, the japanese are gonna come in here and grab our work, look at the cars they are starting to build, fuel efficient, work well, inexpensive" I got laughed at. I wanted to have it that we always negotiated from a standpoint that we NEEDED the company to make quality products at reasonable prices over ANYTHING else. actually dictate some things to management. As in "pay your engineers more than a first year carlot salesman", and make sure they produced, etc.
Any new union can NOT become aligned with any political party and it CAN'T have full time union only employees besides some accountants, etc to handle the drone paperwork. Every union officer has to be a production worker all the time. Along those lines. A couple of terms in office then they have to step down, term limits are a GOOD thing. It has to be established open, free, transparent, honest, non aligned, etc, upfront, or it won't work it'll just be yet another bogus attempt.
good for you! go for it! I bet you can get all the good help you need right off of slashdot here, certainly enough unemployed and underemployed coders around these parts. You tell em upfront, we gonna write the BEST dang code in the world. That should work. Mercedes is in no danger of going outta business.
make up nice pretty boxes for various warez in the open source world, then burn your own copies (with appropriate labels) and put them in there to give away/sell/whatever the various licenses allow. Manuals would be nice, too. You can get cloned everything now, but I haven't seen "boxed" clones yet. Use you leet gimp skills and whatnot.
I am not sure I understand what this would be used for, compared to the other wireless routers out there. Is it for setting up an alternate peer to peer internet or what? Or is it just for building a normal local LAN that is easier to administer and easier to setup and has some more than normal security features? Or all of the above?
searching for fixes to a problem is frustrating if you can't find it quickly. If it's already there to find, then that's that, you can't charge for it, micropayment or not.
BUT, searching for a fix, not finding it, but finding a place that will provide a solution to a problem, by them getting paid micropayments for it, to actually come up with a solution, just might work. Basically a variation on the bounty system. Or shareware in advance.
maybe the ACLU might not take the case, but there's an emory school of law cross town, and I bet you could drum up some hefty pro bono work over there for a significant case like that, if you were to nose around there a little, especially with this new FCC ruling. Now if it was UGA you had to go for to help out a jacket, though, nope..wouldn't be prudent to ask.....
not sure if you mean me or boots at work because it hit him, but I primarily am running leenuchs, FC2. I have a few other machines here handy closeby, a mac PB1400 running 8.1 classic which is my baby, a little toshiba laptop running 95b that I should try and run some console linux on but am too lazy to figure out how, as it has no cd on it and no way to get one on it I am aware of, some old tower I will make something out of because it is big and roomy and is a decent enough 333 and that has 98se and my pics on it (gardening, you might like them if I ever put them on the net someplace), and a buncha other ones in the antique piles with various of the above on them and some other oddball stuff like an old redhat whatever version made into a three node cluster I can't make work. I recently found an os2 set in a junk shop still in the box, I might slap it in something see what it looks like, as I never used it before.
Really, it's a one dude at a time transformation. reform yourself with revolutionary fervor. Be a good boy sprout. Take no shit, nor offer any unrighteous shit. Along those lines. Truth, justice, and what *should be* the 'murkin way and stuff.
I have a buncha this stuff written out better and in mostly non slang elsewheres. I write slang when I am going fast for casual posts but I don't have to of course. It's spread out and a little clunky and it don't need a slashdotting or troll action right now so...I'm planning on getting a domain sometime and sticking it there, when that happens I'll do a journal piece on it. Detailed plans for better government, plans for a MUCH better currency system, an alternative to the economic systems we have now, the "isms" I mean, socialism, capitalism, etc, and yada yada yada. Economic and geopolitical trends. Stuff like that, along with a lot of day to day practical survivalism for both individuals and small businesses, which is my forte. I'm an armchair futurist and analyst, funny as that sounds from a blue collar grunt worker. I'm hitting well over 80%, closer to 90 maybe on trends I detailed long ago. Noticing the trends and patterns (and successes and disasters) makes you think of a lot of "what ifs" such and such was such and such different. You look at what IS right now, see the flaws,then carefully back-track extrapolate it to see where and why and who and when and how the flaws had their genesis, then re-extrapolate forward to the "now", change what needs to be changed-in theory- then you can offer a somewhat detailed "here is what might be" if the "now" is implemented.
It always seemed easy to me to do it that way, it's not even all that far out it's just learning from history and getting GOOD DATA not propoganda BS. I got the idea from working on mechanical junk when I was a kid. I saw what was broken but I wanted to know WHY it was broken,WHEN it started to break, HOW it broke, and so on, so the next deal wouldn't just be replacing the same thing that had the same obvious weaknesses, but with something better. It's how I fix my stuff to this day, a lot of times I will just adapt a part or improve a replacement part or at least look for a better quality after market part. I tend to reinforce strengths, and abandon weaknesses. Here's an example I am semi proud of. Way back in the 70's I did a lot of off road 10-speeding. The bikes then sucked bad for that purpose, so I built my own "mountain bike". This was before any of them were on the market, or before the name even existed. Never did anything with it other than park it in front of my bike shop I had then, which was a great way to get people to come in the store, they all asked about the bike. Funny though, some time later not too very long one city over this bike company had a fat tired heavy duty "off road" bicycle with a lotta gears..... hmmmmm
I know a lot of other guys were working on the same thing around the same time, so I can't claim ownership of the idea, except to myself and the area I was in, no one had ever seen the likes really. Never sold any or anything , didn't have the money for any sort of mass production, but I thought about it of course. All I did was back engineer a normal bike, rebuilt it with the features it needed. Worked great! By todays standards it was hideously heavy and clunky and sprung just wrong, but back then it was schweeet. I remember the first time I run it by some motorcyclists out dirt biking, their jaws dropped as I pulled up next to them, at this huge mud pit, picked it up, slung it over my shoulder, walked thru the pit, then got back on an pedaled away down the trail, it was hilarious!
Anyway, I do the same thing with ideas in general, any topic I get a bug about. I tend to hit on politics a lot because of a lotta bad stuff I have seen and been through in the past vis a vis government corruption. I know they not only are sucky liars most of the time, but countenance murder as well. Tends to annoy me, along with their knee-jerk apologists. So I nail them as I see them now, they deserve it.
I think cellphones are going to win in the PDA market. They sell so very many more of them they can add in new features faster and cheaper. The form factors are similar enough. They start out wireless and with keys you can use. And people are more likley to think of getting a new cellphone than a pda-generally speaking. What might it be, 10 or 20 to 1 cellphone ownership to pdas? As soon as they have a small hardrive in phones that will play tunes and store a lot of them, well, there ya go. People don't want to carry three things, phone, pda, music box ipod thing. They want one thing that does all of it, but the phone part is the most important to most people, so that will be were the primary emphasis comes from-I think so anyway.
And I have NO idea what OS most cellphones run. I know I have read about it before, but wasn't paying enough attention to make it stick.
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.. I am just thinking longer term down the road. No one knows all the potential vulnerabilites yet, I don't think it's possible. We've had how many people at microsoft and in the outside developer community for years "looking at" explorer and microsoft, yet we still have the vulnerability du juor. It's constant, chronic, it's a broken system. It costs untold billions ayear in un needed costs, both to business and to individuals, and it has lead to a huge gaping hole in security, which these days can be national, physical security, something that shouldn't be ignored.. It causes untold millions to get serious frustrated. it costs lots of time and effort trying to fix a system that is unfixable. It appears to not be suitable for anything but a closed intranet. There, fine, if that's what people want to run. On the net where what THEY do *wrongly* affects everyone else in a variety of ways? Why? In government service, and in banks and economic institutions? That's nuts! The internet today is critical to run the worlds business. that's given. We need something better than, and to concentrate on the 'something better" and to ignore the 'soomething much worse". Doiong bodywork and a new paint job on an old clunker lemon will never make it a good car, as well meaning as those efforts might be. Why is that even a good long term idea to attempt that?
It is only in widespread use from the business decisions that the vendors took, which have now proved to have been a mistake, of allowing OS lock in on selling millions of PCs. It was a short term decision which has lead to vast internet insecurities,potential serious physical insecurities from the fact of the internet being tied to most everything now, the costs have been tremendous, and we are decades behind where we could have been with a safe, functional and secure internet because of it.
I think that reality should be addressed and admitted to.
We have what internet we have now DESPITE microsoft products. Which goes to show that developers in general are pretty good, just they have been handicapped, and are still being forced to work with a built in handicap. It's not needed. It's a bad idea to keep embracing that handicap, and paying billions for the purpose of always staying tied to the handicap is a bad idea.
Just because we don't have bonzi buddy and similar malware and exploits du juor and extreme monumental hidden cost "features" like you get with mcirosoft in general, yet, it doesn't mean it can't happen, and it could really only be a function that unixy systems have been so widely different. YET, now we have a push to standardize MS MORE into "unixy-ness" than in the past. Why dilute what's good with what is non-good? I think that is a serious *critical* mistake for the long term. I understand short and medium term, I am addresssing long term now. It needs to be done. "this quarter" thinking just *sucks*, IMO.We have the new web scripting languages and formats, etc., that might be the vector for making unixy and open source reality more vulnerable, because they are tied to letting MS into the sandbox.
I am just thinking that we could possibly see one day a serious morris worm effect that precisely because of cross platform standards could affect everyone, not just one architecture/browser/server system. Or many of them, or something not even named yet just as bad. it's a wildcard, and I think we should discard that wildcard as much as possible.
That's all. We use sandbox type design now, because it's a good idea, overall, generally speaking. What I see this effort is, as a way to just make the sandbox bigger, to encompass the internet in general, which is going to *defeat* the entire purpose of limited access, strict rules who gets to play in the sandbox, etc. I would be more happy if we went further to remove microsoft anything from the common internet sandbox, even to the point of just starting to build NOW an alternative internet overall model of servers, desktops, apps, websites, businesses,etc tha
while it's obvious to see the good aspects to this proposal, I certainly don't want a chance of windows vulnerabilites being accidently ported to linux via a standardized plug in architecture. If opera and mozilla have to use a "standard", and they write something that *has to be useable in windows*, won't that have an affect of introducing potential unknown vulnerabilites that at some time will make everyone using any of the standards compliant plugins/browsers susceptible to some new windows exploit that could have been avoided in the first place?
I'm not a developer, I do not know the ins and outs of writing cross platform browsers or plugins, etc, so perhaps this won't matter, I honestly do not know, but it seems like it's a *maybe*. I hope I am incorrect obviously, but I just don'tknow.
I DO know I would be MUCH more "comfortable" with a good browser such as moz is now which was written exclusively for linux only though. Perhaps it's just psychological, but I keep getting feelings of cooties from this trying to be compatable with microsoft *anything*.
Frankly, I think granting non tangible IP patents is ridiculous. However, in the real world they aren't going to get rid of them entirely any time soon, not in the US anyway, and this MUST be admitted to I think to move forward in dealing with the problem. Taking them on a case by case by case basis in a retroactive review will be like herding cats. Theoretically possible, pretty dismal results in the real world and mostly a waste of time and resources.
I propose a different approach. Recognize the inherit difference between an intangible IP and a normal tangible product patent, and severely limit the patent exclusivity time limit with any that are IP. Make it a totally separate "class"of patent. Drop it down to two years, then that's it, in the public domain. Make it retroactive as well.
why, I have friends all over the world! Just this morning in fact I received a nice long email from my friend over in one of the ministries in nigeria. He and I have been working on some very exciting projects! And I have a lot of friends in russia, and most of them are girls who all want to marry me!
and they don't seem to have any references to radio interference. Do you have any of their studies to look at? have they come up with a solution that no one else has? Maybe I just don't see it, but I looked both at the FAQ and just ran a general search there, can't find it. thanks. I understand your enthusiasm for it, I live rural and would like some sort of broadband, but can't see how they can address the interference issue. I like my radios the same as my computer.
is a desktop window manager that mimics how MY desktop works, so I can feel comfortable, at home, and productive. I mean, they call these things files and folders, and it's called a desktop,and you have "tools" and whatnot, right? So how come they never LOOK or ACT like any *real* desktop?
Here is an example...uhh... this would be.. ummm, well, it's just an example.. *mine*
Random crap just appears, then the next day it's gone. You never owned it, it ain't yours, you don't know what it is,and it's usually scary looking anyway so you don't care when it goes away again.
You lay something down, go to the kitchen, come back, and the real important "thing" you just were working on has now morphed into last months bank statement, which now has a phone number on it with no name attached, but a date next to it underlined TWICE.
Odd random fires occur.
You notice that the old candy dish you throw your keys and change and junk in now has a birds nest with 5 little peepers all looking for some food. They get the last of your chips from the bottom drawer. For a moment you think about asking the dog how the birds got there, because he's the only one that would really know. Then you realise he'll just tell you what you want to hear anyway, so you forget about it.
You go to reach over to your small tools area to work on some hardware, and find that compound reverse dado titanium layered over fine ceramic skill saw blade you bought last year.
There are many odd Cds with no labels leaning up against the lamp base,all very important, but you have to use your magic 8 ball to see if you should try them out or not, because at least one of them you remember has hack_orifice_of_doom_2000 on it.
You try to make a post-it note and find 6 empty card board packages that pens and pencils came in, but not a single pen or pencil to be found. The cardboard boxes though you KNOW you can make something cool out of, so you lean them on the random cds pile leaning on the lamp base. That takes up the space that your duct and electrical tape is now using, so you put the electrical tape in your pocket and chunk the duct tape under the desk.
The point was moot anyway, because you don't HAVE any post-it notes.
You go to change out some RAM, and not finding a handy mylar bag, you take that old chip bag in the bottom drawer, that is now REALLY empty, turn it inside out, and put the ram sticks you will never use again EVAR into the bag and back into the drawer, for future archaeologists.
You go to print something, and you MUST decide,for paper, do you use the backs of the distro something 3.2RC1 HOWTOS you printed out four years ago, or do you use the backs of your girlfriends letters she's written but hasn't mailed off yet... hmmm.. hmmmm
Now, someone builds a computer version of an ergonomic actual human being uses-it desktop like that, call it "3D", I'll take a gander at it.
for a store. You give out the cards various places with various tracks you want to promote, to get folks to check out your store. The store has a kiosk setup with the reader. The customer puts in the card, it's playing the song back to them and simultaneously burning the track to disk as the freebie give away, or if they like the one song they can buy the whole album custom burned right then on the spot.
maybe, I dunno. Bound to be some other spiffy things you could do with it.
Really, most of those people who won't switch are just plain afraid to do it. They get their machines broken and stuffed with malware while doing nothing wrong! No matter what they did last week to make it better, this week there's something else that will break their machines. They barely can run what they have now, so they get scared to start from scratch with a brand new learning (and potential expense in their minds) experience. These things -das komputarz- are sold all over as "easy to use", All you are supposed to have to know is click here, fill in the blank, click again, get online, open browser, go surfing. Really, see the ads for computers all over. NEVER do they claim it's hard and you will need to jump through hoops daily. People know that kindergarteners 'can use computers' now, so in their minds any normal adult can just get one, turn it on and use it.
So, they do that, they buy one, get online, 15 minutes later they get borked. They surf for a week, they got 293 weirdo scripts, cookies, warez, whatevers crawling all over their machines and the thing barely moves. They haul it to the local shop where the helpful windows computer expert trusted computar guy charges them 50$ to run a few cheap programs against it, it gets cleaned up. They drop another 50$ on an antivirus program at his recommendations. Next week it's broken again, back to the shop. 50$ to fix it, another 50$ to get a "firewall". Back home. Next week they get borked again, then they say "FxxK IT! Enough!" they won't care after that point, and no way do they want to start fresh all over with something new that is pushed the same exact way they got borked in the first place, with the recommendation of "go ahead, drive it, it's easy, a kid can do it, it's the same as you had before, just different".
Uh huh, that's gonna make them want to switch. Yep. Sure it is.
That's my theory anyway
There's little to no long term money in making windows or explorer secure or functional. What would they sell from then on if they actually released a product like that? They'd sell it ONCE, that's it. You wouldn't have a need to upgrade. You wouldn't need mr. fixit and even more expensive mr. consultant. And now MICROSOFT is going to sell antivir because their crap is so lame and PEOPLE WILL BUY IT!
There's a cubic metric boatload of megatons of money in making MSOS and browser (and server and email client and etc) *almost* secure and *almost* functional, for microsoft themselves down to the thousands of helpful windows/computer experts at the local whitebox stores and in the consulting yellow pages.
on these turkeys:
http://www.refestltd.com/cgi-bin/yes.pl
where the data gets shipped after it's hijacked, according to the analysis summary
nada, then I tried google just on the domain. No entries, no pages containing the term, no nuthin.
anyone else get any better results
well, I will admit I didn't look at the PDF, maybe it's answered there.............
oh man this is TOO FUNNY!
"The government said an overhaul of the system should be finished by December and copies should be available then."
Hmm, lemme see here, big ole elections are in NOVEMBER.
foreign lobbyists, uh huh, sure.... all on the up and up... no shenanigans here with letting FOREIGN PEOPLE give money to DOMESTIC politicians. Nope, don't need to see no data there! I'm sure it's all in order and it's just a temporary glitch!
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I've cleaned two of them things off of friends computers. One was this real proper older straight lady, she had gotten hacked somehow near as I can figger. I always fixed her machines and kept it updated for her, never saw any evidence of porn surfing. I told her to simply not pay the bill, to tell the phone copmpany I could provide proof of the dialer hack if they demanded it. She didn't pay and they took it off the bill pretty readily. The other one I KNOW the guy clicked on "download this teenage hottie mutant pervo crap". Luckily he asked me to take it off when he realised it was dialing a long distance number when he heard how many times it hit a number when his modem dialed out. I razzed him a good one too on that one. heh heh heh his wifes computer too, HAHAHAHAHAHA! he goes "MAN U GOTZ TO HEP ME NOW!" Oh man I was rolling, I had warned him over and over again to NOT DO THAT STUFF!
hahahaha!
judges are allowed to have hidden bank accounts overseas setup by proxy shell companies too. Well, not really allowed, but they can do it same as anyone else.
You didn't write it on purpose though, and you are fixing it. There's the big difference I think with the dismal stuff that is out there that was released too soon.
it's a lot of money. Back in the 60's I was making 300-600$/week with over-time, then there was bennies. Frankly, I thought that was *plenty* of money for what I was doing(wish I was making that now actually), seeing as how my previous job paid about 110$. I didn't stay in long though, the plant where I worked was 99.99% rednecks and I was the lone hipster. And then I moved out of state away from the easy money factories. Had to do some dancing with a tire iron in my hands a few times to get the drunk doofus machine heads to leave me alone, then it was dealing with drunk doofus cops all the time, mean suckers, so I said "buh bye michigan, cya later". I don't know about now, but I live in georgia and it is less redneck here than what I remember it was up there. Ann Arbor was about the only place I felt comfortable at back then.
Ya, drunk/stoned rank and file, drunk/stoned management = not so hot quality products and a lot of bad business decisions back then. They COULD make the horsepower though, and some of the designs were sharp looking. It's probably changed now, maybe more professionally run, etc, though but they still got to stay on top of it. At least they are starting to release some hybrid vehicles, I was just looking at the new ford escape at some website, looks fine, price seems fair.
that explains it thoroughly. Now I see why they are more expensive. They look like a fair price now for what they can do.
hey! all my good ideas keep getting snagged!
hahahaha, ya along those lines. I bookmarked that place, looks cool.
as to content, yep, that's what I do here in lieu of paying a subscription. Not sure if it's all that valuable but I'll put some stuff up, that's for sure!
me too, been in bad unions. UAW for one. You get a non working boss class that becomes hereditary,. corruption becomes just as bad as in management and in government. Not paying attention to reality and only fiocusing on pay raises. I remember back in the late 60's I would be saying 'waitaminnit guys, the japanese are gonna come in here and grab our work, look at the cars they are starting to build, fuel efficient, work well, inexpensive" I got laughed at. I wanted to have it that we always negotiated from a standpoint that we NEEDED the company to make quality products at reasonable prices over ANYTHING else. actually dictate some things to management. As in "pay your engineers more than a first year carlot salesman", and make sure they produced, etc.
Any new union can NOT become aligned with any political party and it CAN'T have full time union only employees besides some accountants, etc to handle the drone paperwork. Every union officer has to be a production worker all the time. Along those lines. A couple of terms in office then they have to step down, term limits are a GOOD thing. It has to be established open, free, transparent, honest, non aligned, etc, upfront, or it won't work it'll just be yet another bogus attempt.
good for you! go for it! I bet you can get all the good help you need right off of slashdot here, certainly enough unemployed and underemployed coders around these parts. You tell em upfront, we gonna write the BEST dang code in the world. That should work. Mercedes is in no danger of going outta business.
make up nice pretty boxes for various warez in the open source world, then burn your own copies (with appropriate labels) and put them in there to give away/sell/whatever the various licenses allow. Manuals would be nice, too. You can get cloned everything now, but I haven't seen "boxed" clones yet. Use you leet gimp skills and whatnot.
jiss a thought
I am not sure I understand what this would be used for, compared to the other wireless routers out there. Is it for setting up an alternate peer to peer internet or what? Or is it just for building a normal local LAN that is easier to administer and easier to setup and has some more than normal security features? Or all of the above?
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searching for fixes to a problem is frustrating if you can't find it quickly. If it's already there to find, then that's that, you can't charge for it, micropayment or not.
BUT, searching for a fix, not finding it, but finding a place that will provide a solution to a problem, by them getting paid micropayments for it, to actually come up with a solution, just might work. Basically a variation on the bounty system. Or shareware in advance.
maybe the ACLU might not take the case, but there's an emory school of law cross town, and I bet you could drum up some hefty pro bono work over there for a significant case like that, if you were to nose around there a little, especially with this new FCC ruling. Now if it was UGA you had to go for to help out a jacket, though, nope..wouldn't be prudent to ask.....
not sure if you mean me or boots at work because it hit him, but I primarily am running leenuchs, FC2. I have a few other machines here handy closeby, a mac PB1400 running 8.1 classic which is my baby, a little toshiba laptop running 95b that I should try and run some console linux on but am too lazy to figure out how, as it has no cd on it and no way to get one on it I am aware of, some old tower I will make something out of because it is big and roomy and is a decent enough 333 and that has 98se and my pics on it (gardening, you might like them if I ever put them on the net someplace), and a buncha other ones in the antique piles with various of the above on them and some other oddball stuff like an old redhat whatever version made into a three node cluster I can't make work. I recently found an os2 set in a junk shop still in the box, I might slap it in something see what it looks like, as I never used it before.
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If you didn't mean me, never mind....
Really, it's a one dude at a time transformation. reform yourself with revolutionary fervor. Be a good boy sprout. Take no shit, nor offer any unrighteous shit. Along those lines. Truth, justice, and what *should be* the 'murkin way and stuff.
I have a buncha this stuff written out better and in mostly non slang elsewheres. I write slang when I am going fast for casual posts but I don't have to of course. It's spread out and a little clunky and it don't need a slashdotting or troll action right now so...I'm planning on getting a domain sometime and sticking it there, when that happens I'll do a journal piece on it. Detailed plans for better government, plans for a MUCH better currency system, an alternative to the economic systems we have now, the "isms" I mean, socialism, capitalism, etc, and yada yada yada. Economic and geopolitical trends. Stuff like that, along with a lot of day to day practical survivalism for both individuals and small businesses, which is my forte. I'm an armchair futurist and analyst, funny as that sounds from a blue collar grunt worker. I'm hitting well over 80%, closer to 90 maybe on trends I detailed long ago. Noticing the trends and patterns (and successes and disasters) makes you think of a lot of "what ifs" such and such was such and such different. You look at what IS right now, see the flaws,then carefully back-track extrapolate it to see where and why and who and when and how the flaws had their genesis, then re-extrapolate forward to the "now", change what needs to be changed-in theory- then you can offer a somewhat detailed "here is what might be" if the "now" is implemented.
It always seemed easy to me to do it that way, it's not even all that far out it's just learning from history and getting GOOD DATA not propoganda BS. I got the idea from working on mechanical junk when I was a kid. I saw what was broken but I wanted to know WHY it was broken,WHEN it started to break, HOW it broke, and so on, so the next deal wouldn't just be replacing the same thing that had the same obvious weaknesses, but with something better. It's how I fix my stuff to this day, a lot of times I will just adapt a part or improve a replacement part or at least look for a better quality after market part. I tend to reinforce strengths, and abandon weaknesses. Here's an example I am semi proud of. Way back in the 70's I did a lot of off road 10-speeding. The bikes then sucked bad for that purpose, so I built my own "mountain bike". This was before any of them were on the market, or before the name even existed. Never did anything with it other than park it in front of my bike shop I had then, which was a great way to get people to come in the store, they all asked about the bike. Funny though, some time later not too very long one city over this bike company had a fat tired heavy duty "off road" bicycle with a lotta gears..... hmmmmm
I know a lot of other guys were working on the same thing around the same time, so I can't claim ownership of the idea, except to myself and the area I was in, no one had ever seen the likes really. Never sold any or anything , didn't have the money for any sort of mass production, but I thought about it of course. All I did was back engineer a normal bike, rebuilt it with the features it needed. Worked great! By todays standards it was hideously heavy and clunky and sprung just wrong, but back then it was schweeet. I remember the first time I run it by some motorcyclists out dirt biking, their jaws dropped as I pulled up next to them, at this huge mud pit, picked it up, slung it over my shoulder, walked thru the pit, then got back on an pedaled away down the trail, it was hilarious!
Anyway, I do the same thing with ideas in general, any topic I get a bug about. I tend to hit on politics a lot because of a lotta bad stuff I have seen and been through in the past vis a vis government corruption. I know they not only are sucky liars most of the time, but countenance murder as well. Tends to annoy me, along with their knee-jerk apologists. So I nail them as I see them now, they deserve it.
I think cellphones are going to win in the PDA market. They sell so very many more of them they can add in new features faster and cheaper. The form factors are similar enough. They start out wireless and with keys you can use. And people are more likley to think of getting a new cellphone than a pda-generally speaking. What might it be, 10 or 20 to 1 cellphone ownership to pdas? As soon as they have a small hardrive in phones that will play tunes and store a lot of them, well, there ya go. People don't want to carry three things, phone, pda, music box ipod thing. They want one thing that does all of it, but the phone part is the most important to most people, so that will be were the primary emphasis comes from-I think so anyway.
And I have NO idea what OS most cellphones run. I know I have read about it before, but wasn't paying enough attention to make it stick.