Probably because, as was mentioned in another post, this group may well be being formed as a reaction to MS planning to enter the security business by including anti-virus tech in future Windows versions. It's likely primarily about the survival of these businesses first, security second.
Yeah, I have difficulty imagining a capitalist society without that sort of thing.
What I'm looking at as noteworthy here is that it might actually do some good in the process (maybe), since frankly I expect MS's own anti-viral features to suck more ass than a donkey vacuum.
I have a feeling white noise would cause me a lot less trauma than those terrible radio stations that are always on in dentists' offices. Is it too much to ask to hear Comfortably Numb? It's THEMATIC, dammit!
As opposed to what they were doing before: adopting it where inappropriate!:)
Seriously though, is it just me or does that wording imply that they've been inappropriately using Windows? Maybe it's good they can admit such a thing.
Posted using plain old text. Copied and pasted the link. I'm pretty sure that if you actually construct the html link it works fine. I, however, have been too lazy to learn.
Sure would solve the whole voting problem, too. Just put the whole damn country's votes online in one big searchable database. Everyone can check that their vote is right. Right?
I don't know why it's such a big deal to this prof; almost nobody reads those things anyway.
However, those students who want to use such resources should damn well be allowed. I'm sick of the way freedom is slowly being repealed. Is "freedom of speech" just a platitude to placate us? Although I abhor racism, I don't even buy arguments against racist speech. There was a case in some American University where an "Anarchy Club" (what a concept, but whatever) wanted to link to the website of some South American group that had been classified as a terrorist group by the government. The university forced them to take the link down. Now how am I supposed to hear the other side? Since I can't judge for myself, I'm basically forced to take the terrorists' side, and I fucking hate that!
And how did they make me turn everything into discussion of terrorists???
I'm in engineering physics (lasers and other stuff to those who don't know), and graduates always pull pranks on a certain day, very ceremonial blah blah blah. Anyway, I tried to convince them that we should get an aquarium of fish with lasers attached and put it in the office window or something. But would they go for it? No. Bastards and their "feasibility".
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Probably because, as was mentioned in another post, this group may well be being formed as a reaction to MS planning to enter the security business by including anti-virus tech in future Windows versions. It's likely primarily about the survival of these businesses first, security second.
;)
Oh yeah, and thou smoketh crack.
Yeah, I have difficulty imagining a capitalist society without that sort of thing.
What I'm looking at as noteworthy here is that it might actually do some good in the process (maybe), since frankly I expect MS's own anti-viral features to suck more ass than a donkey vacuum.
Overrated? Maybe.
Bad joke? Maybe.
Offtopic? Sigh. I wish there could be one authoritative group anywhere that you could count on intelligence from.
...to the Gimp handheld.
:)
Couldn't resist.
I have a feeling white noise would cause me a lot less trauma than those terrible radio stations that are always on in dentists' offices. Is it too much to ask to hear Comfortably Numb? It's THEMATIC, dammit!
As opposed to what they were doing before: adopting it where inappropriate! :)
Seriously though, is it just me or does that wording imply that they've been inappropriately using Windows? Maybe it's good they can admit such a thing.
If you read the post, it quotes a study and says humans are only accurate 99.84% of the time.
:)
Kinda makes you wonder how they can know the filters are right though.
(please don't reply telling me how)
Well, it certainly sounds better than the pay-per-email "postage" idea. If postage hasn't stopped snail spam, why would it stop e-mail spam?
Too bad they didn't give freedesktop.org people a little more time to develop a viable alternative.
But your point is well taken.
Are there any systems in place to prevent that?
Should there be?
Worst. Post. Ever.
Needless to say, I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust around the globe.
Just because production is in BC doesn't mean the idea came from there. Lots of American movies are shot in BC and Toronto ("Hollywood North") lately.
Perhaps they'd be better calle MSco? mSCO? MicroSCOft?
Posted using plain old text. Copied and pasted the link. I'm pretty sure that if you actually construct the html link it works fine. I, however, have been too lazy to learn.
Sure would solve the whole voting problem, too. Just put the whole damn country's votes online in one big searchable database. Everyone can check that their vote is right. Right?
:)
Good luck with your chosen parties/politicians.
Could we just cover the globe and get it over with? :)
I don't know why it's such a big deal to this prof; almost nobody reads those things anyway.
However, those students who want to use such resources should damn well be allowed. I'm sick of the way freedom is slowly being repealed. Is "freedom of speech" just a platitude to placate us? Although I abhor racism, I don't even buy arguments against racist speech. There was a case in some American University where an "Anarchy Club" (what a concept, but whatever) wanted to link to the website of some South American group that had been classified as a terrorist group by the government. The university forced them to take the link down. Now how am I supposed to hear the other side? Since I can't judge for myself, I'm basically forced to take the terrorists' side, and I fucking hate that!
And how did they make me turn everything into discussion of terrorists???
Oh, they have the internet on computers now?
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Also look at this:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~neteagle/oops/downlo
I sent that link to a friend and she thought something was actually downloading. Just perfect.
Okay, so this is the least relevant post in the history of mankind, but tell me "vis-a-vis" wouldn't be the best word EVER for ebonics:
"A prime exampizzle of racizzle can be seen vis-a-vizzle the ethnizzlicity of the indigenizzle pizzles of South Afrizzle."
Well, that does it for me, karma be damned.
I'm in engineering physics (lasers and other stuff to those who don't know), and graduates always pull pranks on a certain day, very ceremonial blah blah blah. Anyway, I tried to convince them that we should get an aquarium of fish with lasers attached and put it in the office window or something. But would they go for it? No. Bastards and their "feasibility".
"In practice, the rejection of valid evidence will probably be a bigger problem than the creation of invalid evidence."
Until, of course, judges/juries/lawyers realize and overcompensate.
It must suck to be an operator there, too. Even more than other places.
"If you want "slashdot" to resolve to "slashdot.org", you can add it to your hosts file"
Or you can just use Firefox. No fuss, albeit a slight delay.
"why would India not simply start manufacturing the products it needs itself?"
:)
Because China will still be cheaper. But yeah, the U.S. is still pretty much doomed on that front.
The only new display tech I've heard of and it's not there. Figures.