I think we're overthinking this. This could be a subtle way for Microsoft to block information about OSS, but I think it's because their search engine kinda sucks. Isn't it more likely that we're so used to engines like 'google' and 'alltheweb' that we assume that Microsoft must be up to something. Now, I don't believe that this would be beyond their scruples, just that this seems like a screwup. Anyway, how many of us use msn.com anyway? Try hitting 'alt-home' and you'll get my point.
I'm guessing that most of the posters today won't be moaning about too much free time at their current jobs. *We're on Slashdot* Seriously though, I'd switch careers in a heartbeat for a highly paid, low accountability, telecommuting job. Is anyone hiring?:)
I agree with your comment. I guess mine wasn't as clear as it could have been. When I said it would still convert wind to energy if it was still, I didn't really mean that it could hover on the power of that wind. I was replying to a post about how the energy from the turbines, while it was flying, couldn't collect more energy than was put in by the system. I should have just said it wasn't a closed system and the wind itself produces extra energy. I still don't think it would be efficient enough to fly, but it would be breaking the 2nd law of thermaldynamics.
I'm thinking this "air submarine" is probably bunk, but I don't think we're breaking the 2nd law of thermal dynamics. Most air in our atmosphere is being moved anyway. Think about a windmill and how we convert it to energy. Even if the ship was hovering still, the wind could still be blowing and giving the turbine energy. I'm not sure I'd trust something like this, but it could account for the extra needed energy.-
Man, I thought we got past all of those matrix jokes last fall. At least they didn't piss off the Macheads with "Windows XP: Attack of the Clones." All joking aside, I do think that the XP:reloaded is just a code name.
Actually, both Bush and Kerry have said that they oppose gay marriage. I'm sure I don't need a link to show Bush's stance, but here is a story on Kerry's. Apparently, he's been flipping around based on public opinion. Man, I wish we could get a candidate that people could really get behind. I guess I'll have to go third party on this election.
SP1 does allow you to remove MS apps from your system. It's not hard to change your default browser, email client, turn off the firewall...etc. If you go into add/remove and then windows components in SP1 of WinXP you can remove a lot of components. I know that in some cases it just removes them from site, but there are a lot of OS components like that that I never use...paint for example doesn't keep me from installing Photoshop. 98 is a different story. I believe this was a result of the anti-trust trial. By the way, if you're using 98 and want to get rid of Iexplorer, check out 98lite. I used it years ago to strip IE from windows and it makes the OS much faster. I'm really not a big MS fan, I just think it's a practical AV solution for the masses of unprotected computers.
I'm not sure that this is such a bad idea. Hear me out before the flames start.:) I've discovered too many family members and coworkers that aren't even running with an antivirus program (I did fix those). I know that the MS firewall (if you can call it that) works like crap, but I think all of the non-tech people could benefit. I'm sure you'll be able to disable it and keep NAV or others on your machines. This will benefit all of those people who don't know what an antivirus program is. This will benefit the users who open up any attachment and spread the viruses. While it could give a false sense of security, I think for all of the people without AV, at least they'll have some protection. When it comes down to it, I don't think Microsoft is trying to put the AV companies out of business (I know that this flies in the face of history). They've had a lot of criticism for all of the security holes and viruses on their platform so I think this is their solution. As soon as a worm like MyDoom is discovered, they could automatically update all of the AV programs and block many of them. There are a lot of windows users out there that have no idea what security means at all. I for one, am glad there will be at least a minimal protection installed by default on those peoples machines. Until we can force computing licenses, I think this may turn out to be a good thing for the tech-illiterate. Now, I still don't think that Norton or McAfee will be happy.
Baxter really reminds me of Clarke. I've read most of his books and really enjoyed him. In fact, if you like Baxter and Clarke, they wrote "The Light of Other Days" together and was an awesome read. For my favorite time travel book, Orson Scott Card's "Pastwatch" is dang good.
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While I agree with you in theory, you do realize that just because you haven't modified the default settings at the top of this page, others do set the page to "newest" on top. I like to customize it. I think people use most of their mod points on the newest story, so the old comments aren't read as much. You could stop wasting your time actually working and just visit the site more often.:)
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I read four of his books (Angels and Demons, Point Deception, DaVinci Code, and Digital Fortress) over a vacation about a month ago. I was pretty entertained by all of them. They are fast reads with pretty quick plotlines. They do definitely repeat the same basic plot structure. His writing kind of reminded me of Dean Koontz (repetitive plot structures/characters) After a couple of Koontz's books, I couldn't remember the difference between them. When I'm at the bookstore and can't find a new author, I'll probably pick up Dan Brown's next book. I would like to see DaVinci as a movie.
Microsoft hasn't been going after the p2p clients at all. They're using the RIAA's technique of calling the ISP that owns the ip address and having the ISP send a warning letter. If they wanted to make an example, a strong possibility, they could sue the user in court just as easily. Just because a p2p service is based in a far away country, don't think you're safe or anonymous. If you're in windoze, just run your commandline and type 'netstat' the next time you're downloading from p2p.
I think it all boils down to critical thinking. Too many people seem to believe any information source they come across. I don't think everyone needs to become specialists in a scientific field, but just think for themselves a bit more. I guess with so much information at our fingertips, it's hard to sift through the FUD.
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I would agree with that in terms of personal email accounts, but for a business, new contacts are pretty important. Most companies would hope a lot of real email was from new sources.
I'm not surprised by the lack of concern in the general population. We've still got school districts that are fighting to keep evolution out of the public schools! I'm afraid too many people's idea of science are shows like "FOX Special - "Conspiracy Theory: DID WE LAND ON THE MOON?" If we as a society don't understand science, then our leaders will get away with shuffling off pseudo-science, self-serving, political-oriented junk on the country. If anyone wants a good read, Carl Sagan co-wrote this awesome "book about science vs. ignorance./rant off
Here's an interesting site (google cache) about black holes. I'm not sure how long it would take, but to an outside observer, it would seem like forever, relatively speaking.:)
A quick search on google reveals that your opinion is in the minority. I'm aware of all of the fraud that purchasing on the internet poses, but ebay became the U.K.'s top online retailer last year. Here is a BBC article from last summer that shows revenue over 2 billion projected for last year. I'm sure people can be burned, but if I wanted to purchase something at an online auction, I'd trust ebay more than other auction sites.
I'm not sure this is a big surprise. I think that if you don't own the number, then it would be fraud to try to sell it. Here is ebay's user agreement. Maybe some people think this a grey area, but refer to the first posters comment, portability not ownership. I'd rather not bid on items that the seller doesn't own. If people started selling stuff that they had no claim over, no one would trust ebay. Trust seems like a big part of their business. Now if the new laws were tested in court and somehow ruled that I own my cellphone number...well that would be a different story.
If you want to use this analogy then consider the success of the "war on drugs." A large part of the problem is that most sources are coming from outside our country where we have little influence. With spam, even if we could stop it in the U.S., we'd have to contend with the rest of the world. I still think that we should be going after the advertisers and not the spammers. Spammers always hide their identity through spoofing, but the advertiser is right there in the email. I could see people getting mad at a company and spamming to get the company in trouble, but we know some of the companies that are actually active. X-10 anyone? If we go after the spammers' revenue source, there would be much less spam around. Maybe anti-spam laws wouldn't be as ineffective if we could go after those companies. I also think the "bounty" idea has some merit.
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I think we're overthinking this. This could be a subtle way for Microsoft to block information about OSS, but I think it's because their search engine kinda sucks. Isn't it more likely that we're so used to engines like 'google' and 'alltheweb' that we assume that Microsoft must be up to something. Now, I don't believe that this would be beyond their scruples, just that this seems like a screwup. Anyway, how many of us use msn.com anyway? Try hitting 'alt-home' and you'll get my point.
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I'm guessing that most of the posters today won't be moaning about too much free time at their current jobs. *We're on Slashdot* Seriously though, I'd switch careers in a heartbeat for a highly paid, low accountability, telecommuting job. Is anyone hiring? :)
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I agree with your comment. I guess mine wasn't as clear as it could have been. When I said it would still convert wind to energy if it was still, I didn't really mean that it could hover on the power of that wind. I was replying to a post about how the energy from the turbines, while it was flying, couldn't collect more energy than was put in by the system. I should have just said it wasn't a closed system and the wind itself produces extra energy. I still don't think it would be efficient enough to fly, but it would be breaking the 2nd law of thermaldynamics.
I'm thinking this "air submarine" is probably bunk, but I don't think we're breaking the 2nd law of thermal dynamics. Most air in our atmosphere is being moved anyway. Think about a windmill and how we convert it to energy. Even if the ship was hovering still, the wind could still be blowing and giving the turbine energy. I'm not sure I'd trust something like this, but it could account for the extra needed energy.-
I heard a story about a guy who did that. The cops sent him a picture of handcuffs.
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I can't waid two get this of my home computer. I hoop is works is goat as me speak recondition program!
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Man, I thought we got past all of those matrix jokes last fall. At least they didn't piss off the Macheads with "Windows XP: Attack of the Clones." All joking aside, I do think that the XP:reloaded is just a code name.
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Actually, both Bush and Kerry have said that they oppose gay marriage. I'm sure I don't need a link to show Bush's stance, but here is a story on Kerry's. Apparently, he's been flipping around based on public opinion. Man, I wish we could get a candidate that people could really get behind. I guess I'll have to go third party on this election.
"removes them from site" I mean sight....haven't had enough coffee yet. :)
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SP1 does allow you to remove MS apps from your system. It's not hard to change your default browser, email client, turn off the firewall...etc. If you go into add/remove and then windows components in SP1 of WinXP you can remove a lot of components. I know that in some cases it just removes them from site, but there are a lot of OS components like that that I never use...paint for example doesn't keep me from installing Photoshop. 98 is a different story. I believe this was a result of the anti-trust trial. By the way, if you're using 98 and want to get rid of Iexplorer, check out 98lite. I used it years ago to strip IE from windows and it makes the OS much faster. I'm really not a big MS fan, I just think it's a practical AV solution for the masses of unprotected computers.
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I'm not sure that this is such a bad idea. Hear me out before the flames start. :) I've discovered too many family members and coworkers that aren't even running with an antivirus program (I did fix those). I know that the MS firewall (if you can call it that) works like crap, but I think all of the non-tech people could benefit. I'm sure you'll be able to disable it and keep NAV or others on your machines. This will benefit all of those people who don't know what an antivirus program is. This will benefit the users who open up any attachment and spread the viruses. While it could give a false sense of security, I think for all of the people without AV, at least they'll have some protection. When it comes down to it, I don't think Microsoft is trying to put the AV companies out of business (I know that this flies in the face of history). They've had a lot of criticism for all of the security holes and viruses on their platform so I think this is their solution. As soon as a worm like MyDoom is discovered, they could automatically update all of the AV programs and block many of them. There are a lot of windows users out there that have no idea what security means at all. I for one, am glad there will be at least a minimal protection installed by default on those peoples machines. Until we can force computing licenses, I think this may turn out to be a good thing for the tech-illiterate. Now, I still don't think that Norton or McAfee will be happy.
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That was actually the first one I read of his, and it was pretty good.
Baxter really reminds me of Clarke. I've read most of his books and really enjoyed him. In fact, if you like Baxter and Clarke, they wrote "The Light of Other Days" together and was an awesome read. For my favorite time travel book, Orson Scott Card's "Pastwatch" is dang good.
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While I agree with you in theory, you do realize that just because you haven't modified the default settings at the top of this page, others do set the page to "newest" on top. I like to customize it. I think people use most of their mod points on the newest story, so the old comments aren't read as much. You could stop wasting your time actually working and just visit the site more often. :)
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Shhhhhhhh, I liked the Zahn Starwars books.
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I read four of his books (Angels and Demons, Point Deception, DaVinci Code, and Digital Fortress) over a vacation about a month ago. I was pretty entertained by all of them. They are fast reads with pretty quick plotlines. They do definitely repeat the same basic plot structure. His writing kind of reminded me of Dean Koontz (repetitive plot structures/characters) After a couple of Koontz's books, I couldn't remember the difference between them. When I'm at the bookstore and can't find a new author, I'll probably pick up Dan Brown's next book. I would like to see DaVinci as a movie.
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Microsoft hasn't been going after the p2p clients at all. They're using the RIAA's technique of calling the ISP that owns the ip address and having the ISP send a warning letter. If they wanted to make an example, a strong possibility, they could sue the user in court just as easily. Just because a p2p service is based in a far away country, don't think you're safe or anonymous. If you're in windoze, just run your commandline and type 'netstat' the next time you're downloading from p2p.
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I think it all boils down to critical thinking. Too many people seem to believe any information source they come across. I don't think everyone needs to become specialists in a scientific field, but just think for themselves a bit more. I guess with so much information at our fingertips, it's hard to sift through the FUD. -
I would agree with that in terms of personal email accounts, but for a business, new contacts are pretty important. Most companies would hope a lot of real email was from new sources.
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I'm not surprised by the lack of concern in the general population. We've still got school districts that are fighting to keep evolution out of the public schools! I'm afraid too many people's idea of science are shows like "FOX Special - "Conspiracy Theory: DID WE LAND ON THE MOON?" If we as a society don't understand science, then our leaders will get away with shuffling off pseudo-science, self-serving, political-oriented junk on the country. If anyone wants a good read, Carl Sagan co-wrote this awesome "book about science vs. ignorance. /rant off
My astronomy class is now a blur, so my real knowledge comes from StarTrek and that SG-1 episode where they encounter a black hole.
Here's an interesting site (google cache) about black holes. I'm not sure how long it would take, but to an outside observer, it would seem like forever, relatively speaking. :)
A quick search on google reveals that your opinion is in the minority. I'm aware of all of the fraud that purchasing on the internet poses, but ebay became the U.K.'s top online retailer last year. Here is a BBC article from last summer that shows revenue over 2 billion projected for last year. I'm sure people can be burned, but if I wanted to purchase something at an online auction, I'd trust ebay more than other auction sites.
I'm not sure this is a big surprise. I think that if you don't own the number, then it would be fraud to try to sell it. Here is ebay's user agreement. Maybe some people think this a grey area, but refer to the first posters comment, portability not ownership. I'd rather not bid on items that the seller doesn't own. If people started selling stuff that they had no claim over, no one would trust ebay. Trust seems like a big part of their business. Now if the new laws were tested in court and somehow ruled that I own my cellphone number...well that would be a different story.
If you want to use this analogy then consider the success of the "war on drugs." A large part of the problem is that most sources are coming from outside our country where we have little influence. With spam, even if we could stop it in the U.S., we'd have to contend with the rest of the world. I still think that we should be going after the advertisers and not the spammers. Spammers always hide their identity through spoofing, but the advertiser is right there in the email. I could see people getting mad at a company and spamming to get the company in trouble, but we know some of the companies that are actually active. X-10 anyone? If we go after the spammers' revenue source, there would be much less spam around. Maybe anti-spam laws wouldn't be as ineffective if we could go after those companies. I also think the "bounty" idea has some merit.
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