Why only mention Microsoft? It's an article about license agreements. I'm sure that installing a new kernel on my server only to find it took down our entire company because of an unnkown bug would fall into this same category just as well. Sendmail could have been sued off the face of the planet for setting up mail relay as the default in older versions.
As for the script kiddies with too much time on their hands...no software company can possibly think of every possible situation to make the program fool-proof. If they did then we wouldn't still be getting new versions of *nix apps or patches (which get more bloated every time).
The nuclean non-proliferation treaty calls for all nuclear weapon armed states to steadily reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile, not try and develop new mini-nukes or stall weapons reduction
There are 2 sides to that story. There were 2 major countries involved and it was signed in a different era. It's easy to skew the facts when you only mention one side. At least we didn't find several of our nukes "missing".
who have had enough of their incompetent and anti-democratic presence there.
So you think we should just leave and let the warlords turn it into a feudal system or monarchy? What about the citizens unprotected by a brand new government that isn't even populated yet? That...would be mass murder.
They can already destroy entire cities like Fallujah with relative ease. Killing people isn't a challenge for them any more.
It isn't the point of the war either.... There are always innocents and the person pulling the trigger who accidentally takes down a mother in front of her kids has to live with it for the rest of his life. By the same token the soldier who takes out some tyrant who has been holding a village hostage for his own personal gain and power gets a heroes welcome by the people who were oppressed.
but rather in that of the social sciences (ie. learning how to not alienate the rest of the world).
Some cultures cause their own alienation by choice. Some just don't want interaction any more than I would want to have interaction with some unknown mutant human-eating pygmie race.
Don't get me wrong, there is some truth in what you say. It's just a little too close to the liberal view spewed over the airwaves these days that ignores detail in any situation just so they can point fingers. If the tables were turned and the U.S. were in some situation like the cheesey movie "Red Dawn"...I would WANT to be liberated. Some others in the situation would gain power they did not previously had during the new regime and would speak out against an "invasion". World media would probably hear the power hungry guy and say "see? they don't want to be liberated!". It makes me sick. Nobody WANTS to be under a regime that kills it's own people at gunpoint over principal and I guarantee the people who had family murdered by Saddham feel the same.
When was the last time you were attacked in the U.S.? If we did nothing there would be nothing standing in the way of truck bombs, hijacked planes, and any other series of terrorist acts. Just because you don't SEE something doesn't mean something wasn't stopped from being seen. Imagine if we had stopped the hijackers of 9/11. If it never happened nobody would think catching 11 guys with knives was a big deal....
I wish they would do that here in the US. Every credit/debit card I own has my signature with (check ID) right next to it. I have yet had anyone ask for my ID...sigh.
I would rather it be in the model of a cylon. Preferably Sharon or Six;) Of course the "toaster" cylon version would need to stand guard at the front door.
It needs a mod for a graphic of the source IP being destroyed (nuke?) when it recognizes it as spam and adds to the > null list. That would be awesome;)
I've always felt this should be the job of the default search engine. I usually disable it but some people who only type slashdot in the url will at least get a 'Did you mean slashdot.org?' at the top of the search results.
There are 3 types of lists telemarketers send out. The ones that refuse to speak and just hang up every time, the ones that speak with you (even if it is to tell them off), and the ones that buy something. Unfortunately list #2 is what most people get stuck on and is why I haven't had a land line since I had cable modem come to my area. ISDN and DSL both had stupid phone #'s attached. Fortunately I had an old printer/fax combo that made a good screaching noise for anyone cold calling the # I didn't hand out to anyone.
This story is a dupe. I'm pretty sure I've seen it at least 3 times in the last 15 years. Besides if you watch Southpark you would know that global WARMING couldn't possibly bring on an ICE age.
With all the nice budget cuts from our oh-so-wonderful president
Check again. Budget for NASA went down under Clinton and has gone up since Bush was in office. It also went up during the previous Bush administration.
From here
1993 $14.309 billion, existing NASA budget when Clinton took office;
1994 $14.568 billion, $259 million increase, first Clinton budget;
1995 $13.853 billion, $715 million decrease;
1996 $13.885 billion, $32 million increase;
1997 $13.709 billion, $176 million decrease;
1998 $13.648 billion, $61 million decrease;
1999 $13.654 billion, $6 million increase;
2000 $13.601 billion, $53 million decrease;
2001 $14.253 billion, $652 million increase;
2002 $14.892 billion, $639 million increase, first Bush budget;
2003 $15.000 billion, $108 million increase (estimated);
2004 $15.469 billion, $469 million increase (proposed);
2005 $16.2 billion, $731 million increase (from here (Sorry, but it's true) Sorry but it really isn't.
The 2006 proposal is for 16.465 billion, $265 million increase
We need something to slingshot back at the bugs. You know...the giant ones that shoot plasma out of their butt and can knock an asteroid on a collision course with earth from lightyears away?
Will this be the first game in a series of many to come that will be pulled off the market to be changed due to questionable content?
I'm not sure about it being just for questionable content, but back in Nintendo days they pulled 'Mike Tysons Punchout' off the shelf after the ear-biting incident. It was re-released under another name with some unknown guy at the end.
The answer is massive class-action lawsuit. Consider the following scenario. A manager at Microsoft badgers his employees in order to hustle an Internet software program out the door. The product is now flawed and open to attack by worms and viruses.
Now picture the one at fault to be Joe Blow working from his basement during his "free time" outside of the 65 hour work week at his real job. Class action lawsuits like this would kill open source completely.
Now, here's where the improved security occurs. The customers who bought the flawed product initiate a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and win $10 billion from the company. Microsoft then fires the manager who forced his employees to hustle a product to completion. The manager of that manager is also fired.
Or Joe Blow is now in prison, is fined an amount he can never pay, his credit, business, and everything is ruined. End users who could have received a patch if it wasn't for that "damned lawsuit happy group being so pushy on time limits" are left with an end-of-life broken product. Don't be so hastey to criminalize the innocent. Too many laws and lawsuits these days do just that.
I cant believe that americans wont even help their own.
I live in TX and can tell you that is incorrect. Since the day it started we have had radio stations telling people where to drop off donations, supplies, water, etc and there was traffic backed up for hours around those locations. Now we are taking in refugees and filling up sports arenas. Dallas is already set up and waiting. I see daily interviews of volunteers who went to help any way they could and the horror stories they brought back with them.
If it were me, I'd have had some emergancy stores in the attic.
Do you know how hot it gets in attics in the south? Water bottles and canned food alone would pop. Also many attics aren't set up with a board floor. Most I have seen have a small section where they can store the Christmas tree, etc right inside the entrance and that's it. Seriously though this is hindsight and similar to saying everyone in the world who has ever been hit with a terrorist attack should have months of water stored right this moment in case the water supply is poisoned.
Is it the homosexualaity or the BDSM that upsets you so much?
Homophobia is no more an acceptable form of intolerance than rascism or sexism.
Kind of reaching there aren't we? I never said I was homophobic yet you made the assumption.
Now back to the point...think about it....a bunch of homosexuals into BDSM ended up going through to the highest court. What made me sick was the court system (I am pretty sure this is clear in my post).
Why read something into a comment just so you can make false accusations? Ask next time.
Ugh I don't know which is worse. The fact that this law exists or that you gave a link to a decision on a bunch of homosexuals who were into BDSM torture. Blech. Somehow I get the feeling this would have never made it all the way through the House of Lords if they weren't homosexuals but I could be wrong. Old guys in power usually have no tolerance for it.
Easy. Games, device decoders for LAN/WAN hardware (NT version only), access to our internal ticketing system at work, etc.
It just helps bridge the gap crossing completely over to Linux when there are still apps made for Windows only that you have to use. Not everything has a shareware equivalant option and you don't always get to make the choice on alternatives even if there are.
Unfortunately many companies I have worked for let HR do the screening so you never see the guy who can do everything but never took the time to take a cert vs the guy who does nothing but take certs to pad his resume. It's the preliminary screening based on certs that is the problem.
Bah I couldn't get the article to pull up and was thinking the same thing. With a headline like "Hardware: Terabyte DVD Recorder Available Next Month" you would think it was the optical disk they were talking about. 1TB isn't that uncommon. I even have half of that in my microATX case running MythTV.
Funny how on yahoos news page it is 2 lines below the article reference for introducing them to North America. From the other article: Lions have killed more than 560 Tanzanians since 1990, scientists announced today. The victims include children playing outside huts and people dragged from their beds
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Why only mention Microsoft? It's an article about license agreements. I'm sure that installing a new kernel on my server only to find it took down our entire company because of an unnkown bug would fall into this same category just as well. Sendmail could have been sued off the face of the planet for setting up mail relay as the default in older versions.
As for the script kiddies with too much time on their hands...no software company can possibly think of every possible situation to make the program fool-proof. If they did then we wouldn't still be getting new versions of *nix apps or patches (which get more bloated every time).
The nuclean non-proliferation treaty calls for all nuclear weapon armed states to steadily reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile, not try and develop new mini-nukes or stall weapons reduction
There are 2 sides to that story. There were 2 major countries involved and it was signed in a different era. It's easy to skew the facts when you only mention one side. At least we didn't find several of our nukes "missing".
But in my experience, %99.9 of things labeled a Foo Killer never even come close to killing foo.
Foo is dead. Just ask FreeBSD.
who have had enough of their incompetent and anti-democratic presence there.
So you think we should just leave and let the warlords turn it into a feudal system or monarchy? What about the citizens unprotected by a brand new government that isn't even populated yet? That...would be mass murder.
They can already destroy entire cities like Fallujah with relative ease. Killing people isn't a challenge for them any more.
It isn't the point of the war either.... There are always innocents and the person pulling the trigger who accidentally takes down a mother in front of her kids has to live with it for the rest of his life. By the same token the soldier who takes out some tyrant who has been holding a village hostage for his own personal gain and power gets a heroes welcome by the people who were oppressed.
but rather in that of the social sciences (ie. learning how to not alienate the rest of the world).
Some cultures cause their own alienation by choice. Some just don't want interaction any more than I would want to have interaction with some unknown mutant human-eating pygmie race.
Don't get me wrong, there is some truth in what you say. It's just a little too close to the liberal view spewed over the airwaves these days that ignores detail in any situation just so they can point fingers. If the tables were turned and the U.S. were in some situation like the cheesey movie "Red Dawn"...I would WANT to be liberated. Some others in the situation would gain power they did not previously had during the new regime and would speak out against an "invasion". World media would probably hear the power hungry guy and say "see? they don't want to be liberated!". It makes me sick. Nobody WANTS to be under a regime that kills it's own people at gunpoint over principal and I guarantee the people who had family murdered by Saddham feel the same.
When do we get it?
I think we've been robbed.
When was the last time you were attacked in the U.S.? If we did nothing there would be nothing standing in the way of truck bombs, hijacked planes, and any other series of terrorist acts. Just because you don't SEE something doesn't mean something wasn't stopped from being seen. Imagine if we had stopped the hijackers of 9/11. If it never happened nobody would think catching 11 guys with knives was a big deal....
I wish they would do that here in the US. Every credit/debit card I own has my signature with (check ID) right next to it. I have yet had anyone ask for my ID...sigh.
I would rather it be in the model of a cylon. Preferably Sharon or Six ;) Of course the "toaster" cylon version would need to stand guard at the front door.
It needs a mod for a graphic of the source IP being destroyed (nuke?) when it recognizes it as spam and adds to the > null list. That would be awesome ;)
I've always felt this should be the job of the default search engine. I usually disable it but some people who only type slashdot in the url will at least get a 'Did you mean slashdot.org?' at the top of the search results.
There are 3 types of lists telemarketers send out. The ones that refuse to speak and just hang up every time, the ones that speak with you (even if it is to tell them off), and the ones that buy something. Unfortunately list #2 is what most people get stuck on and is why I haven't had a land line since I had cable modem come to my area. ISDN and DSL both had stupid phone #'s attached. Fortunately I had an old printer/fax combo that made a good screaching noise for anyone cold calling the # I didn't hand out to anyone.
This story is a dupe. I'm pretty sure I've seen it at least 3 times in the last 15 years. Besides if you watch Southpark you would know that global WARMING couldn't possibly bring on an ICE age.
Check again. Budget for NASA went down under Clinton and has gone up since Bush was in office. It also went up during the previous Bush administration.
From here
1993 $14.309 billion, existing NASA budget when Clinton took office;
1994 $14.568 billion, $259 million increase, first Clinton budget;
1995 $13.853 billion, $715 million decrease;
1996 $13.885 billion, $32 million increase;
1997 $13.709 billion, $176 million decrease;
1998 $13.648 billion, $61 million decrease;
1999 $13.654 billion, $6 million increase;
2000 $13.601 billion, $53 million decrease;
2001 $14.253 billion, $652 million increase;
2002 $14.892 billion, $639 million increase, first Bush budget;
2003 $15.000 billion, $108 million increase (estimated);
2004 $15.469 billion, $469 million increase (proposed);
2005 $16.2 billion, $731 million increase (from here
(Sorry, but it's true) Sorry but it really isn't.
The 2006 proposal is for 16.465 billion, $265 million increase
We need something to slingshot back at the bugs. You know...the giant ones that shoot plasma out of their butt and can knock an asteroid on a collision course with earth from lightyears away?
Agree. I'm also pretty sure they have other things to do right now other than make cross-platform code. The author seems to have forgotten that.
Will this be the first game in a series of many to come that will be pulled off the market to be changed due to questionable content?
I'm not sure about it being just for questionable content, but back in Nintendo days they pulled 'Mike Tysons Punchout' off the shelf after the ear-biting incident. It was re-released under another name with some unknown guy at the end.
There has been plans (even written down to level of details, like methods of aquiring methane and converting it to water
OMG thank you so much for that info. I'm showing that to my g/f tonight to explain the streaks in my underwear.
The answer is massive class-action lawsuit. Consider the following scenario. A manager at Microsoft badgers his employees in order to hustle an Internet software program out the door. The product is now flawed and open to attack by worms and viruses.
Now picture the one at fault to be Joe Blow working from his basement during his "free time" outside of the 65 hour work week at his real job. Class action lawsuits like this would kill open source completely.
Now, here's where the improved security occurs. The customers who bought the flawed product initiate a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and win $10 billion from the company. Microsoft then fires the manager who forced his employees to hustle a product to completion. The manager of that manager is also fired.
Or Joe Blow is now in prison, is fined an amount he can never pay, his credit, business, and everything is ruined. End users who could have received a patch if it wasn't for that "damned lawsuit happy group being so pushy on time limits" are left with an end-of-life broken product. Don't be so hastey to criminalize the innocent. Too many laws and lawsuits these days do just that.
Just another perspective....
I live in TX and can tell you that is incorrect. Since the day it started we have had radio stations telling people where to drop off donations, supplies, water, etc and there was traffic backed up for hours around those locations. Now we are taking in refugees and filling up sports arenas. Dallas is already set up and waiting. I see daily interviews of volunteers who went to help any way they could and the horror stories they brought back with them.
Do you know how hot it gets in attics in the south? Water bottles and canned food alone would pop. Also many attics aren't set up with a board floor. Most I have seen have a small section where they can store the Christmas tree, etc right inside the entrance and that's it. Seriously though this is hindsight and similar to saying everyone in the world who has ever been hit with a terrorist attack should have months of water stored right this moment in case the water supply is poisoned.
Kind of reaching there aren't we? I never said I was homophobic yet you made the assumption. Now back to the point...think about it....a bunch of homosexuals into BDSM ended up going through to the highest court. What made me sick was the court system (I am pretty sure this is clear in my post). Why read something into a comment just so you can make false accusations? Ask next time.
Ugh I don't know which is worse. The fact that this law exists or that you gave a link to a decision on a bunch of homosexuals who were into BDSM torture. Blech. Somehow I get the feeling this would have never made it all the way through the House of Lords if they weren't homosexuals but I could be wrong. Old guys in power usually have no tolerance for it.
Easy. Games, device decoders for LAN/WAN hardware (NT version only), access to our internal ticketing system at work, etc.
It just helps bridge the gap crossing completely over to Linux when there are still apps made for Windows only that you have to use. Not everything has a shareware equivalant option and you don't always get to make the choice on alternatives even if there are.
Unfortunately many companies I have worked for let HR do the screening so you never see the guy who can do everything but never took the time to take a cert vs the guy who does nothing but take certs to pad his resume. It's the preliminary screening based on certs that is the problem.
Bah I couldn't get the article to pull up and was thinking the same thing. With a headline like "Hardware: Terabyte DVD Recorder Available Next Month" you would think it was the optical disk they were talking about. 1TB isn't that uncommon. I even have half of that in my microATX case running MythTV.
Funny how on yahoos news page it is 2 lines below the article reference for introducing them to North America. From the other article:
Lions have killed more than 560 Tanzanians since 1990, scientists announced today. The victims include children playing outside huts and people dragged from their beds