No properly administered system should ever get this. Home users, maybe but businesses????
Maryland's DMV is down for the day.
At my work, we had one vulnerable XP box, and it got infected. I downloaded the fix and the patch on my Mac(!) burned a disc and got the XP box back up in about a half hour. Maybe I should run my disc over to the DMV...
Taylor says his goal is to change Microsoft's competitive strategy by pursuing a fact-based approach... to focus on... areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.
I hope this gets used on US currency. Holograms haven't been used yet because they haven't survived the torture tests. Maybe this will fare better.
This tech takes advantage of the way laser printers melt toner to produce an image on paper. It would only work if currency was laser imaged. That won't happen b/c the process is too slow and it certainly wouldn't survive a torture test.
The drawback that I see is that it only works on images--plain text wouldn't have enough toner laid down to produce a noticeable image.
Mod parent up. I've been kicking this idea around in my head for a while. No, he's not talking about putting a Mortar ON an RC Copter--he means using it for forward observation. And replace "terrorists" with "the 82nd Airbourne" if it offends your sensibilites.
It doesn't have to be limited to Artillery spotting either. Think how useful it would be in an urban warfare setting for seeing around (in?) buildings, etc. You could build a mini-Predator by strapping a grenade to it, too.
the war on piracy....it'll have the same results as the war on drugs,
or the war on terrorism...
No, I think it's going to be more like the war on smoking, or fast food. The way I read this, they're trying to "educate the public", which means lawsuits and legislation are not far behind.
It doesn't really need to open Quark/InDesign files--InDesign doesn't do a great job with PageMaker files, never mind Quark. It just has to work at least as well as Quark. (IMHO, ID is still in beta.)
In-application trapping would be better. A lot of printers don't yet have in-RIP trapping, and it'll be needed for running out separations as PDFs.
$10,000!... An Indian programming outfit could run off that kind of funding for years to come!
That's the Grand Master award, you've gotta be RMS or someone to get that. Most of the awards are $500--you're going to have to find Bangladeshi programmers...
"Activist Judiciary" is a knee-jerk term for people who don't know what they're talking about.
No, it's a term for judges who go beyond their mandate and "interpret" the law to reflect what they wish the law would say, rather than what it does. (Be careful when you accuse people of making statements without meaning!)
To bring this back on topic: the law can be "hacked" (its function can be changed), thus the term "open source law" makes sense. Calling the "Activist Judiciary" hackers is an imperfect analogy (they all are) because you need more than legal "knowhow", as you point out, to be able to hack away.
Perhaps it's better to consider the judiciary as part of the operating system, since they can't initiate anything themselves anyway. In that case, it would be the lawyers who are the hackers, trying to change the laws. The judiciary would be various networked computers that are more (activist) or less (constructionist) likely to corrupt the data (the laws).
Laws aren't like open source computer code that can be tinkered with by anybody with the proper knowhow.
Sure they are! "Anybody with the proper knowhow" is an activist judiciary. Read just about anything about the Supreme Court and you'll soon realize that they get to tinker a WHOLE lot.
From the article: McBride, who is fluent in Japanese, will visit with several founding members to show them code samples in which the Linux open-source operating system allegedly violates SCO's Unix patents, said an SCO spokesman.
I wonder if they're going to have to sign the NDA? And is McBride going to charge them?
Slashdot apparently agrees with you. I use Lynx at work to keep up with the outside world (their slogan should be "Lynx: it looks like you're working!") I came across a post on something that needed my commentary. I couldn't remember my password so I tried the "mail it to me" option. I was confronted with something that looked like this:
Enter the letters in this image: [some random letters] _______
The main problem (from a print shop's perspective) with Word is that it is printer dependent. People compose a document, print it out on their inkjet and expect it to print out exactly the same on any other printer. (It almost never does.)
Is OO any better at this? Or does it mimic this "feature" for compatibility?
Now, the interesting question is, how many people are still using 3.x on OS 9?
In my (prepress) experience most people upgraded around 4.11, which was two or three updates after 4.0. I'm guessing that we'll see a similar lag before a useable version appears (longer, more likely, since there's a whole new system they have to deal with.)
Incidently, we have about the same number of customers who use 5 as use 3.32. (Very few.)
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, right now, that QX 6.0 won't cut it. In fact, if we can go by Quark's history, QX 6.1 won't quite cut it either (think 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1).
Oh, I'm sure it'll be good enough for some people who stay within a feature subset but there'll be gaping holes in things like Applescript support, and they won't even be addressed for another couple releases.
Let's just say that I'm not expecting to boot my work machine in OSX until next year.
It should be possible to utilize freed-up VHF spectrum to push audio and some crude video to dedicated client receivers. These receivers would be completely wireless. By making it a one-way system, we would be able to leverage our information stream. We could approach major companies and sell some time on our system for productions of their own.
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Regarding the rolling blackouts in California, they had more to do with Enron witholding power than with deregulation.
Not just Enron:
No properly administered system should ever get this. Home users, maybe but businesses????
Maryland's DMV is down for the day.
At my work, we had one vulnerable XP box, and it got infected. I downloaded the fix and the patch on my Mac(!) burned a disc and got the XP box back up in about a half hour. Maybe I should run my disc over to the DMV...
Nah! I hate going to the DMV.
SCO, why won't you tell us the name of this "Fortune 500" company?
Sheesh, if I found a pigeon like that, I wouldn't tell you who they were, either. I'd be selling them bridges and Florida real estate.
Government funded public works is a Good Thing(tm)...
Government funding is like crack--it's nice at first, but eventually you end up prostituting yourself.
The Free (beer/freedom) model has worked well so far. Would you really feel better if the government had a bigger hand in it?
You know you're reading Slashdot when "GPS" and "FAI" are assumed to require less background info than "Newfoundland".
Or, oddly, Ireland. Funny, "Luap Nanreffeh" doesn't sound Irish...
The "good cop, bad cop" strategy.
It's not so much good cop/bad cop as schizo cop:
Taylor says his goal is to change Microsoft's competitive strategy by pursuing a fact-based approach ... to focus on ... areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.
I hope this gets used on US currency. Holograms haven't been used yet because they haven't survived the torture tests. Maybe this will fare better.
This tech takes advantage of the way laser printers melt toner to produce an image on paper. It would only work if currency was laser imaged. That won't happen b/c the process is too slow and it certainly wouldn't survive a torture test.
The drawback that I see is that it only works on images--plain text wouldn't have enough toner laid down to produce a noticeable image.
Mod parent up. I've been kicking this idea around in my head for a while. No, he's not talking about putting a Mortar ON an RC Copter--he means using it for forward observation. And replace "terrorists" with "the 82nd Airbourne" if it offends your sensibilites.
It doesn't have to be limited to Artillery spotting either. Think how useful it would be in an urban warfare setting for seeing around (in?) buildings, etc. You could build a mini-Predator by strapping a grenade to it, too.
They have a lot of very interesting computers, including an Apple I (signed by Woz), an Enigma machine, and Crays 1, 2, and 3 (yes, there was a 3!)
Imagine a Beowolf cluster of...
the war on piracy....it'll have the same results as the war on drugs, or the war on terrorism...
No, I think it's going to be more like the war on smoking, or fast food. The way I read this, they're trying to "educate the public", which means lawsuits and legislation are not far behind.
What happens if someone does a search for that happens to find "John F. Kennedy..."
Or, God forbid, someone with the name "John F. Kennedy" checks into that hospital.
I still maintain that whoever wrote this MUST have worked in IT.
"We the unwilling" does sum up my IT encounters, not so sure about the rest of it though...
from the oh-really-mister-anderton dept.
I think that should be Mr. Anderson.
I'm sorry, it just bugged me.
In-application trapping would be better. A lot of printers don't yet have in-RIP trapping, and it'll be needed for running out separations as PDFs.
Russian physicists Gorshenev and Pis'mak...
Gorshenev is a Russian, but I'm pretty sure Pis'mak is a Vulcan.
$10,000! ... An Indian programming outfit could run off that kind of funding for years to come!
That's the Grand Master award, you've gotta be RMS or someone to get that. Most of the awards are $500--you're going to have to find Bangladeshi programmers...
"Activist Judiciary" is a knee-jerk term for people who don't know what they're talking about.
No, it's a term for judges who go beyond their mandate and "interpret" the law to reflect what they wish the law would say, rather than what it does. (Be careful when you accuse people of making statements without meaning!)
To bring this back on topic: the law can be "hacked" (its function can be changed), thus the term "open source law" makes sense. Calling the "Activist Judiciary" hackers is an imperfect analogy (they all are) because you need more than legal "knowhow", as you point out, to be able to hack away.
Perhaps it's better to consider the judiciary as part of the operating system, since they can't initiate anything themselves anyway. In that case, it would be the lawyers who are the hackers, trying to change the laws. The judiciary would be various networked computers that are more (activist) or less (constructionist) likely to corrupt the data (the laws).
Laws aren't like open source computer code that can be tinkered with by anybody with the proper knowhow.
Sure they are! "Anybody with the proper knowhow" is an activist judiciary. Read just about anything about the Supreme Court and you'll soon realize that they get to tinker a WHOLE lot.
From the article: McBride, who is fluent in Japanese, will visit with several founding members to show them code samples in which the Linux open-source operating system allegedly violates SCO's Unix patents, said an SCO spokesman.
I wonder if they're going to have to sign the NDA? And is McBride going to charge them?
My old hp c400 inkjet (really slow and ugly) had print cartridges with refill holes built into them.
But my champagne bottles never did! You couldn't even put the corks back in the darned thing! I'll bet you that's where they got the idea from!
Slashdot apparently agrees with you. I use Lynx at work to keep up with the outside world (their slogan should be "Lynx: it looks like you're working!") I came across a post on something that needed my commentary. I couldn't remember my password so I tried the "mail it to me" option. I was confronted with something that looked like this:
Enter the letters in this image: [some random letters] _______
The main problem (from a print shop's perspective) with Word is that it is printer dependent. People compose a document, print it out on their inkjet and expect it to print out exactly the same on any other printer. (It almost never does.)
Is OO any better at this? Or does it mimic this "feature" for compatibility?
Now, the interesting question is, how many people are still using 3.x on OS 9?
In my (prepress) experience most people upgraded around 4.11, which was two or three updates after 4.0. I'm guessing that we'll see a similar lag before a useable version appears (longer, more likely, since there's a whole new system they have to deal with.)
Incidently, we have about the same number of customers who use 5 as use 3.32. (Very few.)
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, right now, that QX 6.0 won't cut it. In fact, if we can go by Quark's history, QX 6.1 won't quite cut it either (think 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1).
Oh, I'm sure it'll be good enough for some people who stay within a feature subset but there'll be gaping holes in things like Applescript support, and they won't even be addressed for another couple releases.
Let's just say that I'm not expecting to boot my work machine in OSX until next year.
It should be possible to utilize freed-up VHF spectrum to push audio and some crude video to dedicated client receivers. These receivers would be completely wireless. By making it a one-way system, we would be able to leverage our information stream. We could approach major companies and sell some time on our system for productions of their own.
The big problem is going to be content...