I bought a clearance Super-Nintendo from CompUSA for $5 when I worked there. We didn't even sell them, but someone got suckered into taking it as a return. It worked find for about a week, then we ended up resorting to blowing on the cartridges for another week or two.
Finally it stopped working alltogether, but addicted to one of the games, I set to taking it apart and finding the problem. While it was apart, I found that if I held the game cartridge in with a certain amount of pressure it would work, but too much pressure or none at all and it would not operate at all.
Searching throughout the house for an appropriate weight, I ended up finding a 3 quarters empty bottle of Amaretto in the parental unit's liquor cabinet that worked perfectly. I spent the last semester of my senior year with a bottle of alcohol staring at me that I could never drink - for if I did my game console would die on me. It didn't last once summer started, though...:)
The voting machine issue is a prime example of the US government purchasing in action. Although Diebold is known to have produced a wide variety of security problems within it's machines, they are one of very few companies that actually have a history of producing voting machines. They get put on the short list because they have more experience than others.
Purchasing agents either lacks the creativity to force the issue of security, or Diebold refuses to agree to security provisions. Salespeople probably do a great job of downplaying the security issue, and there are very few people in place currently with both a strong technical mindset and decision making power.
There is unbelievable waste, security problems, and straight out fraud all over government IT projects. This is just a single example that makes the occasional headline at slashdot.
There is something to be said for the "buy-it-now fix-it-later" model that politicians push for. The government moves slow as it is and without someone pushing forward many federal projects would never have gotten off the ground. Where voting is concerned, however, it is much better to adopt a safe, slow, well thought out, and secure philosophy.
I see all the political propoganda going around these days as nothing more than FUD. The text of the bill isn't even in TFA, so without doing some legwork (which I'm sure someone here will do), you really have no idea what is in the bill.
It's certainly within the power of congress to present a bill that would reduce the effectiveness of a previously passed bill.
My take on this is that anything going through congress should be thought through with the mindset that terrorism is not a factor. Terrorism today is like the war on drugs or the war on communism. It never ends and it's a tool used by the powers that be to do things to the citizenry that would under normal circumstances be impossible. If you strip away the fundamental principals of society to deal with a problem, then the solution is worse than the problem.
We are dealing with three things here - 1) we live an an information age society that is fundamentally different than the one's which gave birth to the majority of our laws and 2) we have a general populous that is ignorant of that which makes our society great. The third thing is that political maneuvering is based on a polling structure that encourages answering without any pontification or even any background information. Sure, we would all like to live in a well thought out society, but we can't even force the issue of working in a well thought out environment. We can blame our congressman for making bad decisions, but a better solution would be to become involved to the point where we were helping governmental decision making in general better.
I certainly see that government will always push the limits of it's own power and understand that laws which grant power to the government should be written with a conservative (conservative, not right-wing) mindset. But I also can see that lawmakers have a different perspective than the general populous. They sometimes have a better historical perspective. They sometimes have access to information that the general public does not which factors into their decision making, and they sometimes have motivations completely unrelated to a particular bill that push them to vote one way or another. In the end, they have to live with their decisions just as much as we do. If their track record is so bad, then why is the re-election rate upwards of 90%? Surely it couldn't be pure apathy on the part of their detractors.
Unless this guy is way out of the box, how much affect will he have on Microsoft's existing direction? The OS Developers aren't going to start from scratch again - and neither are the exchange or office developers.
Personally, I've seen crappy implementations of Notes and Exchange. I would think that with proper planning and resources both can be effective.
I think that many people underestimate Microsofts existing long term planning. They are a company that can go through a decade of losses and still survive. They are a company that is run much better than other corporate giants that have been around in the last twenty years.
Interesting links - which I probably wouldn't have found without looking specifically for them, or without someone like you helping me out. What I've learned essentially is that I'd have to go through logs that I may or may not still have going back years and look for suspicious activity - and that I'd have a hard time doing that without doing some more efficient ad tracking than I had originally employed.
What I don't like about this proposed settlement is that it places the responsibility on defrauded advertisers to do research, make a claim, and be prepared to defend that claim with data they more than likely no longer have access to. It would be better if Google went through their logs and performed some of their more recent click fraud algorithms against old data where possible, then contacted those vendords they knew that were affected. Alternatively, give everybody who had an active adwords account for the time period in question a credit for a reasonable percentage of their average monthly expenditure during that time.
What isn't clear to me from TFA is the specific cause of action that invoked the settlement. Perhaps if that was more apparent, I could see google's side of the street a little better.
On my local news, they were saying the new video service will only be available on the new google pc's. I haven't seen much of an outcry out there, but I'm curious if anybody else has heard such a reference? (LA channel 9)
The cost per print doesn't mean anything to most consumers. Most people don't run around reading seven different magazines to find the best quality for the best price - they buy the printer that's available when they happen to be at Staple's or Best Buy or wherever it is they happen to be. If the consumer is worried about price, they usually don't shop for the printer with the cheapest ink, they buy the cheapest printer.
It doesn't have anything to do with cost. It has to do with the time it takes to print. Forget the stats they print, it takes at least a minute for most printers to spit out a picture. When I go to print, I don't have 36 pictures - I have a big fat memory card full of them. I don't want to spend an entire night watching to see that the paper feeds properly or whether or not the ink is full, I want to go online and spend a few bucks to have someone worry about that for me.
That's not to say consumers don't want a photo printer or they'll never print one at home. People want them. It's nice to be able to print up a small amount of photos, or reprint one that's damaged or missing. Or even print up a batch when they want one right away.
But come on now. These things have been around for 6 or 7 years. How many photo printers do you want them to buy? People who want them have them. The technology has changed a little, but even so, it's not like people are picking up USA Today and finding out there is new technology available and they need to buy it. The Photo Printer market is nothing like the PC market. People don't care about stats or features. They want a printer that prints pictures and at least 70% of the photo printers out there will do just that. And after they print their third batch of pictures they'll see a sign at Costco that says they do digital prints and the photo printer will end up getting a lot less usage.
This letter was sent to the school administration by a student's mother prior to any charges being filed. The student is of course one of the 13 charged. If my memory of High School is even remotely accurate, this is exactly how my school administrators would have handled things (in absolutely the wrong manner) - however, my school administrators as quirky as they were, never would have filed criminal charges without even trying to get the parents involved.
May 3, 2005
I am writing this letter in response to recent events at the Kutztown High School concerning the manner in which my son was questioned about his use of the school laptop computer. My son was removed from an important chemistry review class and taken to an office where he was interrogated for more than thirty minutes by the school principle, assistant principle and laptop program director. During this questioning my son was accused of being involved in criminal activities and told that the Kutztown School District intended to press misdemeanor and/or felony charges against him in court. He was told that if he gave up the names of other students that they (meaning the school employees) would take that information into consideration when they filed the charges. I do not send my son to school to be intimidated, threatened, cajoled or bribed by school administrators under any circumstances. My son was told that he had destroyed school property and was in the same league as the kid who spray paints the exterior of the school buildings. I never heard such total rubbish. How dare any of you equate the abilities of my son with a group of mindless misfits who have nothing better to do than make graffiti? At the time of this meeting on May 2, 2005, none of the accusations being made against my son had any actual evidence to back them up because his laptop had not yet been checked for any current violations. My son was put in that intensely disturbing situation because some other students, who were probably terrified of what would happen to them, said my son had done something wrong.
I, personally, do not know exactly what my son does or does not do on his school computer, but what I do know is that at no time in the past four months was I ever contacted, by phone or by letter, about any problems that would justify the way school officials behaved towards my son during that meeting. If, at any time, I had been contacted by the school concerning inappropriate behavior by my son I would have put a stop to it immediately. Apparently, the administrators at the Kutztown High School seem to adhere to a policy that undermines parental authority. The only evidence I was ever privy to was a paper that was mailed to my home saying he had been given a one hour detention for the installation of something called Acquisition. A one hour detention would not indicate to any parent that there was a serious problem. The irony in that was that his acquisition wound up putting him through an inquisition.
I no longer trust the Kutztown High School administration to behave in a way that is professionally reliable or in the best interests of my child. Therefore I am stating, unequivocally, that there are to be no more meetings of any kind for any reason between my son and any Kutztown High administrator without my consent and/or physical presence at the meeting. If there is any problem at all with my sons conduct while at school I am to be notified immediately before any other action is taken.
I will no longer honor the contract that was signed concerning the use of the school lap top last September. Had I any indication at that time how inefficiently the program would be administered, I would never have agreed to it in the first place. I will not sign any other contract for the use of school computers unless there is an amendment clearly stating that any violations concerning the use of the equipment will be dealt with by the district a
AJAX is constantly being hyped, but there isn't even a solid foundation out there yet. Very few websites have good ajax information, books are few and far between. Even sitepoint's book that is advertised as AJAX centric really only tells you to use an existing open source library.
There are a lot of great things that you can do - it opens up web applications a good deal - but there are still accessibility issues and support issues accross a few browsers.
You have to love their claim that his building furniture with fedex boexes violates the terms of use at fedex.com.
"fedex.com is provided solely for the use of current and potential FedEx customers to interact with FedEx and may not be used by any other person or entity, or for any other purpose."
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Funny, this book arrived today at my house. I was hoping the section on AJAX would be more extensive, but it's relatively slim.
IMO, the layout of the book is good and it's written well - from first glance anyways.
Can anybody point out any strong online resources on AJAX development? I guess it's not that difficult to grasp, but I would like a little more of a foundation.
How have I been negatively affected by it? You jackass. I've been affected by it because freedoms that I enjoyed my entire life have been stripped away from me.
I have been negatively affected by it by having the newfound knowledge that in our FREE country, in our FREE society, a nation built on the blood of men who gave their lives so that our ideals could exist that my inalienable rights are in fact alienable.
I have been negatively affected by it because the nation I have held in such high esteem for my entire life is now turning into a true to life cross between 1984, Farenheit 451, and Animal Farm.
Why would you try to turn this into some partisan "you're either with me or against me!" argument. We are talking about the ideals that this nation was founded on being eroded at a level not seen since the Red Scare. What possible reason would you have to willingly give up your freedom and strip it away from your fellow countrymen? Because you are a die hard conservative and that's what Rush Limbaugh tells you is the right thing to think? Because you are truly scared that if you don't give up that freedom a bomb will be set off on your daily commute? Because you truly believe in your heart that "it won't happen to me" so fuck the rest of them?
Stop thinking about you. Think about your parents. Your grandparents. Your children. Your grandchildren. Do you want freedom for any of them?
When in the past has such action been taken so quickly. A new form of communication was born. Immediately government officials seek permission to intercept communication using this format.
Does that seem wrong to anyone? If the encrypted cell phone were invented today, the government would require that all manufacturers use encryption chips with backdoors for government wiretaps.
If you want to be secure, either downgrade to apache 1.3 or take a chance on the alpha version of 2.1.
This is the second major problem in the last several weeks that leaves all the "managed server" users out there very vulnerable. (The first being the XML-RPC problem with php) Most of the managed servers out there run Apache off of an RPM compatible with their manager of choice (Plesk, cPanel, etc.). And a lot of the companies out there will make you pay extra to update your server or even wait until RH or Plesk distributes a new RPM.
I think it's going to become apparent to a lot of people very quickly that it's worth the money to pay for a managed server from a quality company that provides real support rather than the $99/month for a server and a gig of bandwidth shops that will leave your servers wide open to these vulnerabilities.
I thought this should have been modded informative too.... then I followed the link.
Just a bunch of uninformative praise for MS, a link to a non-working video, and a link that points to a site for screenshots, but as it turns out the screenshots are just ones that were grabbed from flickr that you can see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ie7/
All animals are created equal... but some animals are more equal than others.
Getting around the fifth ammendment is easy. Just go over to the smithsonian and insert a line or two. Nobody will notice.
"nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public ^or private^ use, without just compensation ^or at least a coupon for a buy one get one free dinner^."
This and many other of the decisions our government has been making are not going to affect us now in the ways that we worry about. Of course the Patriot Act abuses are minimal right now - they just barely made it illegal to talk about abuses, and at least for the time being the law is temporary. (I'm getting to an on-topic point here, stay with me)
The point I'm trying to make is that this decision isn't going to spawn a rash of outright abuse of the system starting tomorrow, but rather down the road when the decision is much less controversial. 5-10 years from now when the only precedent setting case is this one, it will be very difficult for another case to make it to the SCOTUS and fight it out again - even if that case has much more merit than this one.
Did you know that metal detectors in airports and ID verification was a temporary measure? It's been so long and we are so used to being inconvenienced that we forget how things were less than 15 years ago. People were bent at first, then they succumbed since there was nothing they could do, then they were happy guys with machine guns were at the airport, and now they look forward to the day when the airports have equipment that will let them see through your clothes.
The decision is worrisome for sure, but the overall complacency of the masses in our society is really the troubling aspect of it all. Sure, we all(or a lot of us at least) say it's unfair, but really are we going to do anything about it? What I would do is vote for a 19 year old idealist college kid running for any political office regardless of his politics just because I think she would be more trustworthy than anybody we have currently elected from the school board to the white house.
Google has been the darling of the tech world for who knows how long because sometimes they just do the right thing. Of course there's something in it for them, there always is, but for a publicly held company to continue the high reputation it held as a private company is admirable. Yes there have been changes there and no not everybody is happy, but the leaders of the company are still good leaders. That's a rarity these days.
These days linux is running on everything. It will really impress me if they could get it running on an iPod shuffle! Then of course, how would you know if it was working?:)
This will definitely put to the test an alternative user input mechanism. The iPod wheel is great for navigating menus, but how is it with text input? It may just be a better solution than graffitti and it certainly is better than what cell phones are doing (for the most part). It will be interesting to see all the different ways that people come up with to accomplish things using only a wheel and a few buttons.
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I bought a clearance Super-Nintendo from CompUSA for $5 when I worked there. We didn't even sell them, but someone got suckered into taking it as a return. It worked find for about a week, then we ended up resorting to blowing on the cartridges for another week or two.
... :)
Finally it stopped working alltogether, but addicted to one of the games, I set to taking it apart and finding the problem. While it was apart, I found that if I held the game cartridge in with a certain amount of pressure it would work, but too much pressure or none at all and it would not operate at all.
Searching throughout the house for an appropriate weight, I ended up finding a 3 quarters empty bottle of Amaretto in the parental unit's liquor cabinet that worked perfectly. I spent the last semester of my senior year with a bottle of alcohol staring at me that I could never drink - for if I did my game console would die on me. It didn't last once summer started, though
The voting machine issue is a prime example of the US government purchasing in action. Although Diebold is known to have produced a wide variety of security problems within it's machines, they are one of very few companies that actually have a history of producing voting machines. They get put on the short list because they have more experience than others.
Purchasing agents either lacks the creativity to force the issue of security, or Diebold refuses to agree to security provisions. Salespeople probably do a great job of downplaying the security issue, and there are very few people in place currently with both a strong technical mindset and decision making power.
There is unbelievable waste, security problems, and straight out fraud all over government IT projects. This is just a single example that makes the occasional headline at slashdot.
There is something to be said for the "buy-it-now fix-it-later" model that politicians push for. The government moves slow as it is and without someone pushing forward many federal projects would never have gotten off the ground. Where voting is concerned, however, it is much better to adopt a safe, slow, well thought out, and secure philosophy.
I see all the political propoganda going around these days as nothing more than FUD. The text of the bill isn't even in TFA, so without doing some legwork (which I'm sure someone here will do), you really have no idea what is in the bill.
It's certainly within the power of congress to present a bill that would reduce the effectiveness of a previously passed bill.
My take on this is that anything going through congress should be thought through with the mindset that terrorism is not a factor. Terrorism today is like the war on drugs or the war on communism. It never ends and it's a tool used by the powers that be to do things to the citizenry that would under normal circumstances be impossible. If you strip away the fundamental principals of society to deal with a problem, then the solution is worse than the problem.
We are dealing with three things here - 1) we live an an information age society that is fundamentally different than the one's which gave birth to the majority of our laws and 2) we have a general populous that is ignorant of that which makes our society great. The third thing is that political maneuvering is based on a polling structure that encourages answering without any pontification or even any background information. Sure, we would all like to live in a well thought out society, but we can't even force the issue of working in a well thought out environment. We can blame our congressman for making bad decisions, but a better solution would be to become involved to the point where we were helping governmental decision making in general better.
I certainly see that government will always push the limits of it's own power and understand that laws which grant power to the government should be written with a conservative (conservative, not right-wing) mindset. But I also can see that lawmakers have a different perspective than the general populous. They sometimes have a better historical perspective. They sometimes have access to information that the general public does not which factors into their decision making, and they sometimes have motivations completely unrelated to a particular bill that push them to vote one way or another. In the end, they have to live with their decisions just as much as we do. If their track record is so bad, then why is the re-election rate upwards of 90%? Surely it couldn't be pure apathy on the part of their detractors.
Unless this guy is way out of the box, how much affect will he have on Microsoft's existing direction? The OS Developers aren't going to start from scratch again - and neither are the exchange or office developers.
Personally, I've seen crappy implementations of Notes and Exchange. I would think that with proper planning and resources both can be effective.
I think that many people underestimate Microsofts existing long term planning. They are a company that can go through a decade of losses and still survive. They are a company that is run much better than other corporate giants that have been around in the last twenty years.
Interesting links - which I probably wouldn't have found without looking specifically for them, or without someone like you helping me out. What I've learned essentially is that I'd have to go through logs that I may or may not still have going back years and look for suspicious activity - and that I'd have a hard time doing that without doing some more efficient ad tracking than I had originally employed.
What I don't like about this proposed settlement is that it places the responsibility on defrauded advertisers to do research, make a claim, and be prepared to defend that claim with data they more than likely no longer have access to. It would be better if Google went through their logs and performed some of their more recent click fraud algorithms against old data where possible, then contacted those vendords they knew that were affected. Alternatively, give everybody who had an active adwords account for the time period in question a credit for a reasonable percentage of their average monthly expenditure during that time.
What isn't clear to me from TFA is the specific cause of action that invoked the settlement. Perhaps if that was more apparent, I could see google's side of the street a little better.
How do I know if I was a victim of click fraud? How does google validate my claim? How do I make a claim?
Does this mean any 2002 claims? Or more recent claims as well outside the 60 day window?
And when did they implement a click fraud complaint mechanism? I haven't used adwords in a while, but when I did I don't remember any way to complain.
On my local news, they were saying the new video service will only be available on the new google pc's. I haven't seen much of an outcry out there, but I'm curious if anybody else has heard such a reference? (LA channel 9)
That was my attempt at humor.
The cost per print doesn't mean anything to most consumers. Most people don't run around reading seven different magazines to find the best quality for the best price - they buy the printer that's available when they happen to be at Staple's or Best Buy or wherever it is they happen to be. If the consumer is worried about price, they usually don't shop for the printer with the cheapest ink, they buy the cheapest printer.
It doesn't have anything to do with cost. It has to do with the time it takes to print. Forget the stats they print, it takes at least a minute for most printers to spit out a picture. When I go to print, I don't have 36 pictures - I have a big fat memory card full of them. I don't want to spend an entire night watching to see that the paper feeds properly or whether or not the ink is full, I want to go online and spend a few bucks to have someone worry about that for me.
That's not to say consumers don't want a photo printer or they'll never print one at home. People want them. It's nice to be able to print up a small amount of photos, or reprint one that's damaged or missing. Or even print up a batch when they want one right away.
But come on now. These things have been around for 6 or 7 years. How many photo printers do you want them to buy? People who want them have them. The technology has changed a little, but even so, it's not like people are picking up USA Today and finding out there is new technology available and they need to buy it. The Photo Printer market is nothing like the PC market. People don't care about stats or features. They want a printer that prints pictures and at least 70% of the photo printers out there will do just that. And after they print their third batch of pictures they'll see a sign at Costco that says they do digital prints and the photo printer will end up getting a lot less usage.
For those that haven't followed the story, here is the link to a site representing the student's side of the story: http://www.cutusabreak.org/
This letter was sent to the school administration by a student's mother prior to any charges being filed. The student is of course one of the 13 charged. If my memory of High School is even remotely accurate, this is exactly how my school administrators would have handled things (in absolutely the wrong manner) - however, my school administrators as quirky as they were, never would have filed criminal charges without even trying to get the parents involved.
May 3, 2005
I am writing this letter in response to recent events at the Kutztown
High School concerning the manner in which my son was questioned about
his use of the school laptop computer. My son was removed from an important chemistry review class and taken to an office where he was interrogated for more than thirty minutes by the school principle, assistant principle and laptop program director. During this questioning my son was accused of being involved in criminal activities and told that the Kutztown School District intended to press misdemeanor and/or felony charges against him in court. He was told that if he gave up the names of other students that they (meaning the school employees) would take that information into consideration when they filed the charges. I do not send my son to school to be intimidated, threatened, cajoled or bribed by school administrators under any circumstances. My son was told that he had destroyed school property and was in the same league as the kid who spray paints the exterior of the school buildings. I never heard such total rubbish. How dare any of you equate the abilities of my son with a group of mindless misfits who have nothing better to do than make graffiti? At the time of this meeting on May 2, 2005, none of the accusations being made against my son had any actual evidence to back them up because his laptop had not yet been checked for any current violations. My son was put in that intensely disturbing situation because some other students, who were probably terrified of what would happen to them, said my son had done something wrong.
I, personally, do not know exactly what my son does or does not do on his school computer, but what I do know is that at no time in the past four months was I ever contacted, by phone or by letter, about any problems that would justify the way school officials behaved towards my son during that meeting. If, at any time, I had been contacted by the school concerning inappropriate behavior by my son I would have put a stop to it immediately. Apparently, the administrators at the Kutztown High School seem to adhere to a policy that undermines parental authority. The only evidence I was ever privy to was a paper that was mailed to my home saying he had been given a one hour detention for the installation of something called Acquisition. A one hour detention would not indicate to any parent that there was a serious problem. The irony in that was that his acquisition wound up putting him through an inquisition.
I no longer trust the Kutztown High School administration to behave in a way that is professionally reliable or in the best interests of my child. Therefore I am stating, unequivocally, that there are to be no more meetings of any kind for any reason between my son and any Kutztown High administrator without my consent and/or physical presence at the meeting. If there is any problem at all with my sons conduct while at school I am to be notified immediately before any other action is taken.
I will no longer honor the contract that was signed concerning the use of the school lap top last September. Had I any indication at that time how inefficiently the program would be administered, I would never have agreed to it in the first place. I will not sign any other contract for the use of school computers unless there is an amendment clearly stating that any violations concerning the use of the equipment will be dealt with by the district a
p://www.cutusabreak.org/ is the site that tells the students side of the story - this site was put up by one of the kids' Uncles.
AJAX is constantly being hyped, but there isn't even a solid foundation out there yet. Very few websites have good ajax information, books are few and far between. Even sitepoint's book that is advertised as AJAX centric really only tells you to use an existing open source library.
There are a lot of great things that you can do - it opens up web applications a good deal - but there are still accessibility issues and support issues accross a few browsers.
You have to love their claim that his building furniture with fedex boexes violates the terms of use at fedex.com.
"fedex.com is provided solely for the use of current and potential FedEx customers to interact with FedEx and may not be used by any other person or entity, or for any other purpose."
Funny, this book arrived today at my house. I was hoping the section on AJAX would be more extensive, but it's relatively slim.
IMO, the layout of the book is good and it's written well - from first glance anyways.
Can anybody point out any strong online resources on AJAX development? I guess it's not that difficult to grasp, but I would like a little more of a foundation.
What in the world is a "boffin"?
How have I been negatively affected by it? You jackass. I've been affected by it because freedoms that I enjoyed my entire life have been stripped away from me.
I have been negatively affected by it by having the newfound knowledge that in our FREE country, in our FREE society, a nation built on the blood of men who gave their lives so that our ideals could exist that my inalienable rights are in fact alienable.
I have been negatively affected by it because the nation I have held in such high esteem for my entire life is now turning into a true to life cross between 1984, Farenheit 451, and Animal Farm.
Why would you try to turn this into some partisan "you're either with me or against me!" argument. We are talking about the ideals that this nation was founded on being eroded at a level not seen since the Red Scare. What possible reason would you have to willingly give up your freedom and strip it away from your fellow countrymen? Because you are a die hard conservative and that's what Rush Limbaugh tells you is the right thing to think? Because you are truly scared that if you don't give up that freedom a bomb will be set off on your daily commute? Because you truly believe in your heart that "it won't happen to me" so fuck the rest of them?
Stop thinking about you. Think about your parents. Your grandparents. Your children. Your grandchildren. Do you want freedom for any of them?
When in the past has such action been taken so quickly. A new form of communication was born. Immediately government officials seek permission to intercept communication using this format.
Does that seem wrong to anyone? If the encrypted cell phone were invented today, the government would require that all manufacturers use encryption chips with backdoors for government wiretaps.
If you want to be secure, either downgrade to apache 1.3 or take a chance on the alpha version of 2.1.
This is the second major problem in the last several weeks that leaves all the "managed server" users out there very vulnerable. (The first being the XML-RPC problem with php) Most of the managed servers out there run Apache off of an RPM compatible with their manager of choice (Plesk, cPanel, etc.). And a lot of the companies out there will make you pay extra to update your server or even wait until RH or Plesk distributes a new RPM.
I think it's going to become apparent to a lot of people very quickly that it's worth the money to pay for a managed server from a quality company that provides real support rather than the $99/month for a server and a gig of bandwidth shops that will leave your servers wide open to these vulnerabilities.
I thought this should have been modded informative too.... then I followed the link.
Just a bunch of uninformative praise for MS, a link to a non-working video, and a link that points to a site for screenshots, but as it turns out the screenshots are just ones that were grabbed from flickr that you can see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ie7/
All animals are created equal... but some animals are more equal than others.
Getting around the fifth ammendment is easy. Just go over to the smithsonian and insert a line or two. Nobody will notice.
"nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public ^or private^ use, without just compensation ^or at least a coupon for a buy one get one free dinner^."
This and many other of the decisions our government has been making are not going to affect us now in the ways that we worry about. Of course the Patriot Act abuses are minimal right now - they just barely made it illegal to talk about abuses, and at least for the time being the law is temporary. (I'm getting to an on-topic point here, stay with me)
The point I'm trying to make is that this decision isn't going to spawn a rash of outright abuse of the system starting tomorrow, but rather down the road when the decision is much less controversial. 5-10 years from now when the only precedent setting case is this one, it will be very difficult for another case to make it to the SCOTUS and fight it out again - even if that case has much more merit than this one.
Did you know that metal detectors in airports and ID verification was a temporary measure? It's been so long and we are so used to being inconvenienced that we forget how things were less than 15 years ago. People were bent at first, then they succumbed since there was nothing they could do, then they were happy guys with machine guns were at the airport, and now they look forward to the day when the airports have equipment that will let them see through your clothes.
The decision is worrisome for sure, but the overall complacency of the masses in our society is really the troubling aspect of it all. Sure, we all(or a lot of us at least) say it's unfair, but really are we going to do anything about it? What I would do is vote for a 19 year old idealist college kid running for any political office regardless of his politics just because I think she would be more trustworthy than anybody we have currently elected from the school board to the white house.
Google has been the darling of the tech world for who knows how long because sometimes they just do the right thing. Of course there's something in it for them, there always is, but for a publicly held company to continue the high reputation it held as a private company is admirable. Yes there have been changes there and no not everybody is happy, but the leaders of the company are still good leaders. That's a rarity these days.
These days linux is running on everything. It will really impress me if they could get it running on an iPod shuffle! Then of course, how would you know if it was working? :)
This will definitely put to the test an alternative user input mechanism. The iPod wheel is great for navigating menus, but how is it with text input? It may just be a better solution than graffitti and it certainly is better than what cell phones are doing (for the most part). It will be interesting to see all the different ways that people come up with to accomplish things using only a wheel and a few buttons.