Bzzzztt - there is no need to "believe" in global warming. Just look at the facts. See also here. And see to it that nobody archives your "belief" (not "believing" in global warming look quite religious too, when the facts suggest otherwise). Might well be your grandchildren ask you some day "granddad what did you do about it? why did you continue using your SUV when practically everybody else knew what was going on? And why did 4% of the world's population produce 25% or the carbon dioxide? What the heck went wrong in our country? "
... does anybody else doubt if Microsoft is going after more than maybe the 5 or 10 cybersquatters who own domains that look like Microsoft's? I for one wouldn't bet on them doing a real effort and wipe the entire problem away. An if that is so, where is the news? Microsoft is going to sue a couple of people who they think are peeing at their legs. Huh?
Further, Office 2k7 has similar improvements which allow you to get more things done quicker.
I have been waiting for this to happen since I used Word 5.5 on DOS. With every release, M$ have been promising "this time, we did it right", and Word 2003 just doesn't cut it. Most of the time when I open a.doc file, it sits and does obscure things before showing me the document, independent on how small the file is. I'm currently working on a 24-page document with 3 or 4 embedded PNG images, and scrolling through the document is plain annoying. This is on XP Pro SP2 on a Thinkpad T43 with a 1.6 GHz Pentium M with 1 GB of RAM. Hello?
It may not be the best avenue from the consumer stand point, but it would be a gentle start.
Frankly, I don't intend to be gentle. Manufacturers ignoring security problems (or delaying fixes) for purely economic reasons aren't gentle either, and produce a lot of work for those who have to live with the crap, i.e. systems administrators. I'm not an activist either but I work as an IT consultant having to listen to all these stories, following escalations, and listing to manufacturer's managers who try to tell their customers that it's all not that bad etc. The latter folks only understand one language: pressure. I mean - what would you tell your car manufacturer telling you "eh - the fix for the child seat air bag will be available at the end of next month. By then, you should just drive carefully, okay?" Strangely, in the IT industry, everybody seems to be willing to live with half-baked solutions. I don't get it.
Unless X number of issues arise... just don't deal with it. However, if it becomes substantially used or finds the public eye... it suddenly becomes a much larger problem.
Which leads to the suspicion that it's all not a technical but a public perception problem, hence a marketing issue. Which leads me to think we should disclose as early as possible to give the manufacturer some good spanking because after all, it's them who are responsible for the issue, not hackers, and not security folks.
How's that. Security organizations start keeping track of how long a given company X needs in average to provide a working fix for a problem. Let's start with 30 days. Then to give'em an incentive to progress on fix times, disclose half of the average days after notifying the company. This way, manufacturers can publicly demonstrate how serious they take their customers' security problems caused by their software, and how well their Q&A processes work. Next, publish lists of minimum, average, and maximum fix times together with the companies' names, and voilà, everybody knows what's going on in the market and who better not to buy from. Companies themselves can find a balance between being quicker (and more trustworthy but more costly in terms of Q&A) and being slower (and potentially losing sales, hopefully). That will show how well management processes work, not ISO9000 and other marketing-motivated bullsh*t.
Keeping track of and publishing the averages would be a governmental task in all countries that are totally free of bribery.
Hydrogen requires a complete redesign of the sales channel. Alcohol doesn't. Hydrogen requires a large amount of electricity to generate. Alcohol doesn't. Hydrogen requires a large amount of electricity for cooling during transport. Alcohol doesn't.
Just look at the real technical values of the BMW showcase. You'll see that hydrogen makes little sense as a means of energy transport and storage.
Still not really free, but you can keep the platform while giving Oracle the finger. Migrating SAP to MaxDB: nice business for the consulting industry.
... and it would make third world farmers even more dependent on major western food corporations or their patents. The next Monsanto is due! This move would allow western corporations to keep a foothold in the third world food production by patents, instead of allowing these countries to produce their own food in peace. It would effectively kill local farming. Stopping all these proxy wars is part of the solution, in order to stop colonialism, not creating more dependecies.
Hey man that sounds like soylent green for the poor. Millions of poor people standing in a queue for free artificial food. What should they pay the artificial food from when they're unemployed? These countries have little industry. Farming is the one major employment chance there.
And there's no ads (officially) after 8 p.m. Except for the notorious "this show was sponsored by..." ads, but at least no 5- or 8-minute ad blocks. This is what annoys me big deal from the private stations. Last Sunday, the MotoGP live broadcast on Eurosport was interrupted by ad blocks at least 4 times. Mind you, this was a 40-minute race. Or the ad tickers during shows on Pro7 or the like. Plain annoying. Can't be cut from VDR recordings.
You miss the point. It's the fact you own a TV that you pay for, irrespective whether you watch the public law channels or not. Maybe it's like, you pay car taxes whether you drive or not. It's unlawful driving an unregistered car, and it's considered unlawful owning an unregistered TV or radio set. That's their logic. (OK, this comparison is lame – it's the ownership that triggers the fee, not using it...)
If you already own a registered radio or TV, you are not going to pay additional fees anyway. Only those who are not registered yet will be affected if they own an Internet capable computer. Firewalls, filtering ISPs etc. are very unlikely to help - the fee collecting agency GEZ has been (in)famous for interpreting such obstacles their way consistently in the past (1), and has been successfully suing unregistered TV watchers. This is all regulated by a public broadcasting law for which the Prime Ministers of the German states are responsible. Resistance is futile.:-(
In the old days when the public TV and radio stations offered more sophisticated broadcasts it was OK to pay these fees IMHO. But nowadays these public stations suffer from decreasing watcher and listener numbers, and try to resemble the private TV and radio stations more and more. There's less and less differentiators that warrant such fees - except maybe the news on ARD and ZDF and the folk music broadcasts if you like them. The radio stations play the same pop and chart crap as everybody else – so-called "Dudelfunk" (roughly translated "tootle radio"). In the Munich/Augsburg area, there is a single radio station that has all the good rock music – but outside of Augsburg you can receive them only via the Astra Satellite, i.e. not when travelling by car (no Sirius offering here, folks). I have stopped listening to the radio (except for the news at times) long ago. >8-(
(1) They aren't dumb. It's too easy to use a web proxy outside of the ISP's realm in order to bypass any firewall rules. Except if ISPs start filtering the actual content but this requires much CPU and is senseless once you start using SSL.
Man, I did this 4 years ago with a Via Epia-5000 board, a Morex Cubid case, a 2.5" harddisk and a rev 1.3 full featured card. The system ran on a SUSE 9 distro with vdr and dvb compiled locally.
Since somebody was asking for an out-of-the-box-distro: SUSE 9.3 and later does the trick. LinVDR as well. Duh.
So this is just for sharing photos which are totally irrelevant to the public, like most blogs? Great piece of creativity but it doesn't exactly solve a single real problem of the world.
After all, DMCA is an American law made against American freedom. So be it. Next time elect somebody else or come up with an idea to stop industry lobbying. And stop whining. You got whom you paid for.
The Good Thing [TM] with Open Source Software [TM] is - nobody requires you to use it (least of all Microsoft). But you are heartily invited to contribute. OSS is a community thing, not a "I buy this CD and I can blame the vendor for everything else" thing. If you want a product that you can blame a vendor for, get Windows, and hell, there's a lot to blame Microsoft for in Windows. Maybe you like this game better.
Next time do some research before you buy the hardware, and support those vendors that provide working and recent drivers, and tell them about it. Even if you can't program yourself, that would be supporting OSS. As long as you buy stuff from vendors that don't even manage to release the specs (because they are afraid that somebody could clone their crap), shut up and buy proprietary stuff.
The point he is trying to make is, you can't patch for example the kernel of a SLES or RHEL installation and keep the maintenance contract.
This is apples and oranges, and he can't be so dumb to not know it.
The GPL says you can change the code in whatever way you want as long as you pass the source code on if you pass any binaries on. Not more, not less. The GPL does not require commercial distro makers to support any arbitrary code changes a costomer may want to make.
Counter-question: does Microsoft support a W2003 server if the customer changes any of the code?
Duh. Just FUD and spreading of misinformation to ignorant "decision makers".
Err - sure. Like in Al Ghureib and Guantanamo, right? Without any possibility of consulting a lawyer, right. Yeeeessss sure.
If the U.S. were a constitutional state - OK. But the current government has demonstrated publicly that it doesn't give a shit about constitutional rights or the Geneva convention. If it appears convenient, people are taken to another country where even less shit is given about people's rights. It's not as if we hadn't been there, done that.
Strategically, you don't fight a worldwide guerilla organization by staring to control your own citizens electronically.
Well - what I heard on the TV last night says that experts in Switzerland don't expect most chips to work longer than a couple of months anyway. You don't treat your passport like a raw egg, do you?
Anyway you will be interrogated more intensively if the chip breaks for whatever reason. This will produce false positives en masse I believe.
a) The metal industry will need energy to make the wires. Al, for one, uses a hell of a lot of electrical energy to be produced (not sure about Mg). Where does the electrical energy come from? Some more nuclear power plants? Thank you. (1)
b) What about the infrastructure needed to carry the wires along? More trucks on the road? Powered by what? In Europe: Thank you.
c) How much water is needed to make enough Hydrogen to get the power of a conventional car? Has this amount of water been added to the additional weight and size of the car? Even if the weight of the coil does not affect the performance of the car, the coil and the water will add to the weight, and hence reduce the overall efficiency.
d) What is the efficiency behind the in-car process?
e) What overall ecologic efficiency can be reached, as compared to other technologies?
I admit the metal industry and the large energy corporations may not be that interested in answering all these questions. The photo of the car on the web site suggests this technology is ready to go. IMHO it has a LONG way to go.
OK, let's move on.
(1) And an excellent idea for the developing countries as well, where the track record of safe nuclear power plants is that long.
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Bzzzztt - there is no need to "believe" in global warming. Just look at the facts. See also here. And see to it that nobody archives your "belief" (not "believing" in global warming look quite religious too, when the facts suggest otherwise). Might well be your grandchildren ask you some day "granddad what did you do about it? why did you continue using your SUV when practically everybody else knew what was going on? And why did 4% of the world's population produce 25% or the carbon dioxide? What the heck went wrong in our country? "
need new glasses.
This does not look like a cybersquatter. What's your point?
... does anybody else doubt if Microsoft is going after more than maybe the 5 or 10 cybersquatters who own domains that look like Microsoft's? I for one wouldn't bet on them doing a real effort and wipe the entire problem away. An if that is so, where is the news? Microsoft is going to sue a couple of people who they think are peeing at their legs. Huh?
I have been waiting for this to happen since I used Word 5.5 on DOS. With every release, M$ have been promising "this time, we did it right", and Word 2003 just doesn't cut it. Most of the time when I open a
So far, nothing to write home about.
Frankly, I don't intend to be gentle. Manufacturers ignoring security problems (or delaying fixes) for purely economic reasons aren't gentle either, and produce a lot of work for those who have to live with the crap, i.e. systems administrators. I'm not an activist either but I work as an IT consultant having to listen to all these stories, following escalations, and listing to manufacturer's managers who try to tell their customers that it's all not that bad etc. The latter folks only understand one language: pressure. I mean - what would you tell your car manufacturer telling you "eh - the fix for the child seat air bag will be available at the end of next month. By then, you should just drive carefully, okay?" Strangely, in the IT industry, everybody seems to be willing to live with half-baked solutions. I don't get it.
Which leads to the suspicion that it's all not a technical but a public perception problem, hence a marketing issue. Which leads me to think we should disclose as early as possible to give the manufacturer some good spanking because after all, it's them who are responsible for the issue, not hackers, and not security folks.
How's that. Security organizations start keeping track of how long a given company X needs in average to provide a working fix for a problem. Let's start with 30 days. Then to give'em an incentive to progress on fix times, disclose half of the average days after notifying the company. This way, manufacturers can publicly demonstrate how serious they take their customers' security problems caused by their software, and how well their Q&A processes work. Next, publish lists of minimum, average, and maximum fix times together with the companies' names, and voilà, everybody knows what's going on in the market and who better not to buy from. Companies themselves can find a balance between being quicker (and more trustworthy but more costly in terms of Q&A) and being slower (and potentially losing sales, hopefully). That will show how well management processes work, not ISO9000 and other marketing-motivated bullsh*t.
Keeping track of and publishing the averages would be a governmental task in all countries that are totally free of bribery.
You get the idea...
.. sure not by re-burning hydrogen and oxygen.
Hydrogen requires a complete redesign of the sales channel. Alcohol doesn't.
Hydrogen requires a large amount of electricity to generate. Alcohol doesn't.
Hydrogen requires a large amount of electricity for cooling during transport. Alcohol doesn't.
Just look at the real technical values of the BMW showcase. You'll see that hydrogen makes little sense as a means of energy transport and storage.
Larry, that was a mistake.
... and it would make third world farmers even more dependent on major western food corporations or their patents. The next Monsanto is due! This move would allow western corporations to keep a foothold in the third world food production by patents, instead of allowing these countries to produce their own food in peace. It would effectively kill local farming. Stopping all these proxy wars is part of the solution, in order to stop colonialism, not creating more dependecies.
Hey man that sounds like soylent green for the poor. Millions of poor people standing in a queue for free artificial food. What should they pay the artificial food from when they're unemployed? These countries have little industry. Farming is the one major employment chance there.
How hypocritical can one be?
And there's no ads (officially) after 8 p.m. Except for the notorious "this show was sponsored by ..." ads, but at least no 5- or 8-minute ad blocks. This is what annoys me big deal from the private stations. Last Sunday, the MotoGP live broadcast on Eurosport was interrupted by ad blocks at least 4 times. Mind you, this was a 40-minute race. Or the ad tickers during shows on Pro7 or the like. Plain annoying. Can't be cut from VDR recordings.
If you already own a registered radio or TV, you are not going to pay additional fees anyway. Only those who are not registered yet will be affected if they own an Internet capable computer. Firewalls, filtering ISPs etc. are very unlikely to help - the fee collecting agency GEZ has been (in)famous for interpreting such obstacles their way consistently in the past (1), and has been successfully suing unregistered TV watchers. This is all regulated by a public broadcasting law for which the Prime Ministers of the German states are responsible. Resistance is futile. :-(
In the old days when the public TV and radio stations offered more sophisticated broadcasts it was OK to pay these fees IMHO. But nowadays these public stations suffer from decreasing watcher and listener numbers, and try to resemble the private TV and radio stations more and more. There's less and less differentiators that warrant such fees - except maybe the news on ARD and ZDF and the folk music broadcasts if you like them. The radio stations play the same pop and chart crap as everybody else – so-called "Dudelfunk" (roughly translated "tootle radio"). In the Munich/Augsburg area, there is a single radio station that has all the good rock music – but outside of Augsburg you can receive them only via the Astra Satellite, i.e. not when travelling by car (no Sirius offering here, folks). I have stopped listening to the radio (except for the news at times) long ago. >8-(
(1) They aren't dumb. It's too easy to use a web proxy outside of the ISP's realm in order to bypass any firewall rules. Except if ISPs start filtering the actual content but this requires much CPU and is senseless once you start using SSL.
Man, I did this 4 years ago with a Via Epia-5000 board, a Morex Cubid case, a 2.5" harddisk and a rev 1.3 full featured card. The system ran on a SUSE 9 distro with vdr and dvb compiled locally.
Since somebody was asking for an out-of-the-box-distro: SUSE 9.3 and later does the trick. LinVDR as well. Duh.
So this is just for sharing photos which are totally irrelevant to the public, like most blogs? Great piece of creativity but it doesn't exactly solve a single real problem of the world.
ta-daaaa .... ippersonality-20020427-2.4.18.tar.gz (on http://ippersonality.sourceforge.net/download.html )
Great stuff. Or what am I missing?
After all, DMCA is an American law made against American freedom. So be it. Next time elect somebody else or come up with an idea to stop industry lobbying. And stop whining. You got whom you paid for.
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Next time do some research before you buy the hardware, and support those vendors that provide working and recent drivers, and tell them about it. Even if you can't program yourself, that would be supporting OSS. As long as you buy stuff from vendors that don't even manage to release the specs (because they are afraid that somebody could clone their crap), shut up and buy proprietary stuff.
Applesauce. Just read the terms and conditions of the support contract if you buy support. This is what you do as a commercial user.
The point he is trying to make is, you can't patch for example the kernel of a SLES or RHEL installation and keep the maintenance contract.
This is apples and oranges, and he can't be so dumb to not know it.
The GPL says you can change the code in whatever way you want as long as you pass the source code on if you pass any binaries on. Not more, not less. The GPL does not require commercial distro makers to support any arbitrary code changes a costomer may want to make.
Counter-question: does Microsoft support a W2003 server if the customer changes any of the code?
Duh. Just FUD and spreading of misinformation to ignorant "decision makers".
Err - sure. Like in Al Ghureib and Guantanamo, right? Without any possibility of consulting a lawyer, right. Yeeeessss sure. If the U.S. were a constitutional state - OK. But the current government has demonstrated publicly that it doesn't give a shit about constitutional rights or the Geneva convention. If it appears convenient, people are taken to another country where even less shit is given about people's rights. It's not as if we hadn't been there, done that. Strategically, you don't fight a worldwide guerilla organization by staring to control your own citizens electronically.
Perhaps that's because that scenario is a deliberate design decision? Naaah. That's collateral damage.
Well - what I heard on the TV last night says that experts in Switzerland don't expect most chips to work longer than a couple of months anyway. You don't treat your passport like a raw egg, do you?
Anyway you will be interrogated more intensively if the chip breaks for whatever reason. This will produce false positives en masse I believe.
... Novell going south that quickly. Somebody's spreading FUD here.
a) The metal industry will need energy to make the wires. Al, for one, uses a hell of a lot of electrical energy to be produced (not sure about Mg). Where does the electrical energy come from? Some more nuclear power plants? Thank you. (1)
b) What about the infrastructure needed to carry the wires along? More trucks on the road? Powered by what? In Europe: Thank you.
c) How much water is needed to make enough Hydrogen to get the power of a conventional car? Has this amount of water been added to the additional weight and size of the car? Even if the weight of the coil does not affect the performance of the car, the coil and the water will add to the weight, and hence reduce the overall efficiency.
d) What is the efficiency behind the in-car process?
e) What overall ecologic efficiency can be reached, as compared to other technologies?
I admit the metal industry and the large energy corporations may not be that interested in answering all these questions. The photo of the car on the web site suggests this technology is ready to go. IMHO it has a LONG way to go.
OK, let's move on.
(1) And an excellent idea for the developing countries as well, where the track record of safe nuclear power plants is that long.
http://forum.chemie.de/HyperNews/get/forums/chemst arter-2000/1487.html, Oct 16, 2000