It is pointed out that Windows Messanger may be safely shut off, and will soon default to off for home users -- as if why wasn't it always this way to start with?
How long though before MS integrates it in as an essensial feature ala Internet Explorer. Isn't MS still on a drive to create the ultimate MOS (Monolothic Operating System)?
"Advertising that says only 'I'll stop advertising if you pay me' is an easy case,"
I think a lot of them should be easiler than the FTC would like to admit. I know unwanted junk advertising when it invades my computer, and it doesn't have to be as obvious as above!
Actually, I think your butterfly flapping its wings will only cancel out my butterfly...
My butterfly is a quantum butterfly. You cannot know what my butterfly is doing until you observe it, at which point you've changed its actions by that act of observation.
Therefore your conclusions about my butterfly are obviously and completely wrong Q.E.D. (Quite Easily Demonstrated).
And how much has this victory cost Static Control? Lost time, recalls, uncertainity, and lawyers? They should be able to recover all costs from Lexmart, to convince them --and -- others to never try this again!
The lawyers who agreed to this settlement should be paid in vouchers. Let this happen a couple times and maybe some proper settlements would be reached.
Don't get excited folks, this has happened before. The FCC mandated that UHF tuners (channels 14-83 for our younger set) once upon a time. There weren't many, if any, UHF stations at the time but they were looking ahead.
Later on they mandated that UHF channels must be tuned exactly the same way that VHF (channels 2-13) are tuned. For the younger set, once upon a time TV tuners had two dials. The first selected channels 2-13 or UHF, while a second dial that worked like the old analog radio tuners (think grandfather's car radio) and tuned a single UHF channel.
Did manufacturer's complain? Did it raise costs? Did people complain that there were no UHF stations in their area so why should they pay for it? Was it a good thing?
Yes. Yes. Probably. Yes.
Sometimes someone needs to take a club to the chicken and break some eggs.
And why do I only say that some people probably complained. Because if they did, no one remembers it now.
And that's how this change will be too in a few years.
And yes, when you have to do something in the millions of units produced, people will find a way to cost effectively implement it. It seems they always do. I don't expect TV costs to go up much at all, except that some manufacturer's will try to jack prices for the premium features. Another won't, and prices will come down. Life goes on as usual here on planet Earth.
Have you ever noticed in the movies from SOHO that the camera has a disc placed to block out the sun? How then can it see what's coming directly at it?
Re:reliability, usually usually...
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The preferred time of arrival is ***TONIGHT***, TUESDAY NIGHT (before you go to bed that night) near or after 3 am Eastern Standard Time).
That's 2 am Central Standard Time on TONIGHT.
That's 1 am Mountain Standard Time on TONIGHT.
That's MIDNIGHT Pacific Standard Time on TONIGHT.
I see America is safely facing away from the Sun when this all starts hit. It will certainly be taken by the rest of the world that America is out to get them with this new, super-weapon.
(Note: I'll quit being ridiculous about SCO when they quit being ridiculous about their claims to Open Source and their denial about the validity of the GPL.)
The solution may be IPv6. These days scanning the 4 billion odd IPv4 addresses is not beyond the capability of a few machines on broadband. Yeah it won't reach NATed networks easily, though it only has to get inside via one machine.
But the problem of scanning the IPv6 space is non-trivial. Not only is it easier to hide somewhere inside this much larger space, but serious folks, why don't we start from the beginning having routers to identify obvious scanning attempts (i.e. requests to a whole lot of different IP addresses over a short period of time) and work to locate and isolate those machines while raising an alarm? There's more that could be done to halt obvious misuse of the Internet than is being done now.
It was reported that at the conference a DVD with the Alpha release in 32- and 64-bit editions was given out. But nowhere did it comment which 64-bit edition (Itantium, AMD64, or Prescot/Tejas/Yarnhill secret 64) was supplied.
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How long though before MS integrates it in as an essensial feature ala Internet Explorer. Isn't MS still on a drive to create the ultimate MOS (Monolothic Operating System)?
I think a lot of them should be easiler than the FTC would like to admit. I know unwanted junk advertising when it invades my computer, and it doesn't have to be as obvious as above!
My butterfly is a quantum butterfly. You cannot know what my butterfly is doing until you observe it, at which point you've changed its actions by that act of observation.
Therefore your conclusions about my butterfly are obviously and completely wrong Q.E.D. (Quite Easily Demonstrated).
So there!
Would life without Hotmail mean less spam?
You can have those three. I'll even toss in Wind.
But no patents allowed on Milla Jovovich!
Is this something about Microsoft verses SCO?
With a name like that, you really have to be an early adopter of Slashdot. All the good names get taken early.
Not if SCO can help it.
And the RIAA will ensure it won't run P2P either.
Okay everyone, will you stop pissing off the Sun!!
And how much has this victory cost Static Control? Lost time, recalls, uncertainity, and lawyers? They should be able to recover all costs from Lexmart, to convince them --and -- others to never try this again!
You mean that gas stop along the road to Tulare, Fresno, and Yosemite?
The lawyers who agreed to this settlement should be paid in vouchers. Let this happen a couple times and maybe some proper settlements would be reached.
Later on they mandated that UHF channels must be tuned exactly the same way that VHF (channels 2-13) are tuned. For the younger set, once upon a time TV tuners had two dials. The first selected channels 2-13 or UHF, while a second dial that worked like the old analog radio tuners (think grandfather's car radio) and tuned a single UHF channel.
Did manufacturer's complain? Did it raise costs? Did people complain that there were no UHF stations in their area so why should they pay for it? Was it a good thing?
Yes. Yes. Probably. Yes.
Sometimes someone needs to take a club to the chicken and break some eggs.
And why do I only say that some people probably complained. Because if they did, no one remembers it now.
And that's how this change will be too in a few years.
And yes, when you have to do something in the millions of units produced, people will find a way to cost effectively implement it. It seems they always do. I don't expect TV costs to go up much at all, except that some manufacturer's will try to jack prices for the premium features. Another won't, and prices will come down. Life goes on as usual here on planet Earth.
Have you ever noticed in the movies from SOHO that the camera has a disc placed to block out the sun? How then can it see what's coming directly at it?
Barring that X17 Solar Ejection rushing down on us even now.
I couldn't live without music. I don't listen to NPR on the radio because it stinks, but I listen to music every day.
Well, for starters, all those court clerks signing off on all those subpoenas. It's the first time they've ever gotten to play judge.
If this keeps up, soon there won't be a Sun anymore.
Or maybe the Sun (as opposed to "Sun") finally decided to jump on the bandwagon and go open source, and is throwing out all the old, proprietary mass.
Aren't we an awful small target for the Sun to be hitting so regularly these days?
The preferred time of arrival is ***TONIGHT***, TUESDAY NIGHT (before you go to bed that night) near or after 3 am Eastern Standard Time).
That's 2 am Central Standard Time on TONIGHT.
That's 1 am Mountain Standard Time on TONIGHT.
That's MIDNIGHT Pacific Standard Time on TONIGHT.
I see America is safely facing away from the Sun when this all starts hit. It will certainly be taken by the rest of the world that America is out to get them with this new, super-weapon.
And just where to you "take cover" on a space station?
(Note: I'll quit being ridiculous about SCO when they quit being ridiculous about their claims to Open Source and their denial about the validity of the GPL.)
But the problem of scanning the IPv6 space is non-trivial. Not only is it easier to hide somewhere inside this much larger space, but serious folks, why don't we start from the beginning having routers to identify obvious scanning attempts (i.e. requests to a whole lot of different IP addresses over a short period of time) and work to locate and isolate those machines while raising an alarm? There's more that could be done to halt obvious misuse of the Internet than is being done now.
Yes, build a firewall.
Anyone here have one of those discs?
Defendant: Yes, Your Honor.
Judge: And did you super-glue a goatse flashcard into its fine art display memory slot?
Defendant: Yes, Your Honor.
Judge: Excellent! Case dismissed.