JMS calls for everyone who thinks a JMS-run Star Trek series would be a good idea to write Paramount and let them know.
This harkens back to the days of Bjo Trimble (Startrek Concordance) in the original days of ST:TOS, and the letter writing campaign to NBC that gave us the, uh, well, undistinguished Third Season -- AND SYNDICATION!!!
Claiming losses due to fuel-efficient cars, such as Gasoline/Electric Hybrids,
After decades of pushing for more fuel efficient cars, now they want to punish you for owning them.
And the next logical step will have to be requiring drivers to have them just to drive in from out of state.
Then the Federal government will have to standardize the units so that Oregon units cross-operate with California units.
Followed by insurance companies using them to determine not only how much you drive now (which is often done by the odometer), but do you drive in more dangerous areas, and hence should be charged more.
It will never end, except the the consumer will pay and pay and pay for something they never wanted in the first place!
I'll believe this more when a second, completely independent, set of these RNGs are setup and the results compared between both networks. Isn't that the scientific method?
I have alway agree that m$ guys are very creative and smart, no doubt on that. What makes the software appearing in the market in a "not-so-ready" stage are decisions made by management, not because of programmers themselves.
Are you actually aware of how dumb that sounds? Like MS is a genius when it comes to hiring programmers, but a total moron when they either hire managers, or promote them from within. Which is it?
Wrong. MSWord 6.0 has a very definite life as follows:
1: No security patches.
2: No bug fixes.
3: Can't read newer document formats. (Can you really ask all your friends to keep saving in RTF just because you won't update?)
4: May not be supported on newer operating systems. (You say you'll never upgrade from Win98SE, however when you find your new Dell notebook only has the necessary drivers for XP, hey, you'll be running XP too.)
5: CD rot of your only remaining install disc.
6: Lost your serial number.
7: Won't play with other applications you want to run because it's COM model is too ancient.
Need I go on? Yes, it very definitely has a lifetime, and that lifetime is how long you are going to keep your current, ancient, hardware and OS.
So he only compares it to Windows Server 2003 patches. Not IE, not WMP, not other versions of Windows. What a fraud! He has probably picked the least used current product MS sells, and tried to use that as proof that all Windows users are better off.
That would be like Apple saying they're better than everyone else because the iPod has had less patches than any other OS.
The MPAA wants his logs. I hope he hasn't been dumb enough to keep any -- like Kazaa did!!!
In fact, that should be part of any web-site's privacy statement. What web-logs they keep, and how long they keep them.
IANAL, but I wonder about the legal theory of illegal logs. Consider the following:
1: Site says they don't keep logs after, say, 24-hours.
2: Site is eventually taken over by big company who doesn't like what they, or their visitors, have done.
3: Logs are "found".
4: User's are sued based on these "illegal" logs.
5: Who profits? If you are a user, can you have these logs destroyed as illegal? Thrown out for similar reasons? Can you sue for breach of contract?
Remember Direct TV. They've been extorting users of legal products because the got sales records of sites they didn't like.
The Internet will not be anonymous until no logs are kept.
People simply don't like it when a company deliberately breaks their product to soak more money out of them when they could've given people a better product that they wanted in the first place.
It's happening in hardware all the time. Example: the new Pentium 4 dual core processor. The Extreme Edition will have Hyper-Threading on the dual cores, while the regular desktop edition won't. Do you think they designed two different sets of masks, especially given how limited the market is for the EE? Of course not. Like the Intel 486SX chip was initially, expect the desktop chips to be EE's with HT disabled before packaging. It is cheaper to produce a single type of chip and cut a lead afterwards, than design and produce two different chips.
The only reason for a second type of chip would be if the non-HT chips was substantially smaller in die-size, which isn't likely as long as both chips contain the same amount of cache. Compared to the cache, HT real estate is minor.
This incredible speed likely resulted from a close encounter with the Milky Way's central black hole, which flung the star outward like a stone from a slingshot.
Close enough to accelerate it that much, yet not disrupt it in the process through tidal effects? An interesting star, to say the least. Too bad we can't observe it more closely.
Real security is something which can be accomplished.
Real security cannot be accomplished by Firefox alone. As long as other vulnerabilities exist in an operating system (e.g. e-mail attacks, etc.), your Firefox code can literally be rewritten on your harddrive to be as vulnerable as the attacker wishes, and has the talent to achieve.
I wonder if my FF browser could protect itself in part by simply identifying itself as any other fully standards compliant (obviously not IE6) browser. This way, malicious sites wouldn't realize it was FF, and not attempt to exploit FF-specific vulnerabilities.
In fact, if you pretend to be someone else, and the site first tries known attacks against that browser, put a red flag up on my screen and allow me to easily block any future attempt to re-enter that site without warning me of the previous attack(s) from them first in a pop-up. This way, even re-directs couldn't put me there without giving me a chance to cancel first.
Btw, I truly hate the fact that we have to be so very defensive these days to use the Internet without problems!
Firefox should implement defensive measures. For example, I use a standalone utility that lists all the current plug-ins for IE. I can disable anything I wish from it. Be nice if Firefox included a built-in list to allow managing of plug-ins.
Maybe it even does, and I just haven't found it yet.
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This harkens back to the days of Bjo Trimble (Startrek Concordance) in the original days of ST:TOS, and the letter writing campaign to NBC that gave us the, uh, well, undistinguished Third Season -- AND SYNDICATION!!!
Any article that contains the above words immediately tells me this was not written for the common man -- or geek -- to understand.
Does this mean they got TCP/IP running on a Turing Machine?
You are dreaming, or smoking.
Governments do not lower taxes once they have established them.
You will have a Gas Tax and a mileage tax.
After decades of pushing for more fuel efficient cars, now they want to punish you for owning them.
And the next logical step will have to be requiring drivers to have them just to drive in from out of state.
Then the Federal government will have to standardize the units so that Oregon units cross-operate with California units.
Followed by insurance companies using them to determine not only how much you drive now (which is often done by the odometer), but do you drive in more dangerous areas, and hence should be charged more.
It will never end, except the the consumer will pay and pay and pay for something they never wanted in the first place!
Sounds like the copying software currently langushing at only 3% market share is about to increase that share substantially.
Just remember, Macrovision is not the consumer's friend!
I'll believe this more when a second, completely independent, set of these RNGs are setup and the results compared between both networks. Isn't that the scientific method?
It's all deja vue to me.
Are you actually aware of how dumb that sounds? Like MS is a genius when it comes to hiring programmers, but a total moron when they either hire managers, or promote them from within. Which is it?
And whose stock will be flat now forever?
Wrong. MSWord 6.0 has a very definite life as follows:
1: No security patches.
2: No bug fixes.
3: Can't read newer document formats. (Can you really ask all your friends to keep saving in RTF just because you won't update?)
4: May not be supported on newer operating systems. (You say you'll never upgrade from Win98SE, however when you find your new Dell notebook only has the necessary drivers for XP, hey, you'll be running XP too.)
5: CD rot of your only remaining install disc.
6: Lost your serial number.
7: Won't play with other applications you want to run because it's COM model is too ancient.
Need I go on? Yes, it very definitely has a lifetime, and that lifetime is how long you are going to keep your current, ancient, hardware and OS.
You have how many shares of MS stock options?
And they're vested when?
That would be like Apple saying they're better than everyone else because the iPod has had less patches than any other OS.
Why does this guy even get press time?
In fact, that should be part of any web-site's privacy statement. What web-logs they keep, and how long they keep them.
IANAL, but I wonder about the legal theory of illegal logs. Consider the following:
1: Site says they don't keep logs after, say, 24-hours.
2: Site is eventually taken over by big company who doesn't like what they, or their visitors, have done.
3: Logs are "found".
4: User's are sued based on these "illegal" logs.
5: Who profits? If you are a user, can you have these logs destroyed as illegal? Thrown out for similar reasons? Can you sue for breach of contract?
Remember Direct TV. They've been extorting users of legal products because the got sales records of sites they didn't like.
The Internet will not be anonymous until no logs are kept.
Prior Art.
"Hel...lo. I...am...Elektro. I...am...prior...art...for...all...robots...to... come. Your...patent...is...invaild. Ha...ha...ha."
It's happening in hardware all the time. Example: the new Pentium 4 dual core processor. The Extreme Edition will have Hyper-Threading on the dual cores, while the regular desktop edition won't. Do you think they designed two different sets of masks, especially given how limited the market is for the EE? Of course not. Like the Intel 486SX chip was initially, expect the desktop chips to be EE's with HT disabled before packaging. It is cheaper to produce a single type of chip and cut a lead afterwards, than design and produce two different chips.
The only reason for a second type of chip would be if the non-HT chips was substantially smaller in die-size, which isn't likely as long as both chips contain the same amount of cache. Compared to the cache, HT real estate is minor.
Not only is it moving really, really fast. But reports indicate that it is an anti-matter star, cutting a thin chord through the edge of Known Space.
One down, 200,000,000,000 to go.
Close enough to accelerate it that much, yet not disrupt it in the process through tidal effects? An interesting star, to say the least. Too bad we can't observe it more closely.
What do you mean, not sustainable?
2004 = 1% share ...
Q1 2005 = 5%
Q2 2005 = 10%
Q3 2005 = 25%
Q4 2005 = 50%
2006 = 100%
2007 = 200%
2008 =
What's the problem?
Real security cannot be accomplished by Firefox alone. As long as other vulnerabilities exist in an operating system (e.g. e-mail attacks, etc.), your Firefox code can literally be rewritten on your harddrive to be as vulnerable as the attacker wishes, and has the talent to achieve.
In fact, if you pretend to be someone else, and the site first tries known attacks against that browser, put a red flag up on my screen and allow me to easily block any future attempt to re-enter that site without warning me of the previous attack(s) from them first in a pop-up. This way, even re-directs couldn't put me there without giving me a chance to cancel first.
Btw, I truly hate the fact that we have to be so very defensive these days to use the Internet without problems!
Maybe it even does, and I just haven't found it yet.