For example one of my girls typed in "Harry Potter" a while back and got a bunch of sex sites - surely if we have to vet/control what people do on the internet then we should get rid of "browsers". Then move onto e-mail to protect children as spam gets into their mail boxes. Then why not TCP/IP?
Why should chat rooms, forums, browsing, email etc be "owned" by pedos, perverts etc? Why can't our kids use these things without massive over-reaction?
Governments regularly determine pricing - usually in regulated industried such as power, telecoms, water.
In the UK they've been "privatising" off as much of the government owned bodies as they can, but they still control the prices via industry regulators.
Recently the mobile phone regulator demanded that the various companies drop their prices by 30% or so.
Why this may or may not be a worthy cause I don't believe it's got a fundamental weakness. While each application relies on and uses the data it receives it may still take actions that weren't intended by the designer of the system.
Most "office" type applications execute the data directly (e.g. macros, vbscript, etc) and it would be a large step backwards to disable this even for the increase in security it would bring. We could turn it all off today (java, jscript, vbscript, macros etc) and we're still vunerable to bugs that get exploited.
Tricking "signed" applications to doing things they aren't supposed to do was demonstrated to great effect with the XBox hack.
Picture this: Matrix272 as an old man with grandchildren on his knee...
Child 1: Grandpa, grandpa, tell us again your story about how you helped the astronauts risk their lives!
Child 2: Please! Please!
Matrix272: Well, ok. It all started on a post to slashdot. I was telling everyone how I didn't care for my tax money to be wasted on mapping solar systems, when I got contacted by NASA no less (Child 1 & 2) "Wow!" and they asked if I could help with their plan to colonise Mars.
Child 2: And what did you do Grandpa?
Matrix272: I told 'em to hang on. Then I went out back, found me some of rats asses I'd been saving for this very purpose, and handed them to them!
"AIBO EYES will also enable owners to remotely e-mail message commands to AIBO and have the robot perform selected songs, such as When the Saints Come Marching In and Ode to Joy."
>Every program opened benefits the community. In the least it's educational.
I totally agree.
Here is a really early program I wrote on the Dragon 32.
10 print "hello!" 20 goto 10
You can use this now if you want! You might want to add a 5 rem This program is in the public domain and do a renumber to get the line numbers correct.
Proprietary: a business secretly owned by and run as a cover for an intelligence organization
Standard: a conspicuous object (as a banner) formerly carried at the top of a pole and used to mark a rallying point especially in battle or to serve as an emblem
All is revealed! Microsoft is a cover for an anti-terrorist agency whos dominance of world computers will be used to foil terrorists everywhere since... hmm... it's on the terrorists phones and computers it'll... erm... crash more often, preventing them from being effective...
And who pray tell will be the "new" company setting the trends? In IMHO the people who set the trends are those who get the most eyeballs - currently Microsoft, due to the dominance of their desktop products that are beginning to appear in everything (phones, desktops, laptops, pdas, god forbid it servers).
Until someone comes up with something 100% compatible, more user friendly, more feature rich, Microsoft will continue to dominate.
No longer can we say that "k" is in a bit of a bind.
Why they didn't go the whole hog though and run with Windows 2000 "Advanced" "Server"; it's got DNS - we could transition everyone to ActiveDirectory and the world would be a better place. Just imagine, attempting to surf the web and getting bounced by kerberos because of >5 minutes clock skew...
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure I'd want to be near people who are showing their pinky rings...
That is just like saying "Why not collaborate with [Microsoft|Sun|etc] instead of reinventing the wheel with Linux".
The answer? Because.
For example one of my girls typed in "Harry Potter" a while back and got a bunch of sex sites - surely if we have to vet/control what people do on the internet then we should get rid of "browsers". Then move onto e-mail to protect children as spam gets into their mail boxes. Then why not TCP/IP?
Why should chat rooms, forums, browsing, email etc be "owned" by pedos, perverts etc? Why can't our kids use these things without massive over-reaction?
What a sad world we live in.
Also remember that the government _are_ people and are exactly the same as the rest of us because they _are_ the rest of us.
Power mad, destructive, and childish.
Governments regularly determine pricing - usually in regulated industried such as power, telecoms, water.
In the UK they've been "privatising" off as much of the government owned bodies as they can, but they still control the prices via industry regulators.
Recently the mobile phone regulator demanded that the various companies drop their prices by 30% or so.
This is standard practice.
Thats all right then. All we need now is Microsoft to fix Windows too and we'll be saved!
Why this may or may not be a worthy cause I don't believe it's got a fundamental weakness. While each application relies on and uses the data it receives it may still take actions that weren't intended by the designer of the system.
Most "office" type applications execute the data directly (e.g. macros, vbscript, etc) and it would be a large step backwards to disable this even for the increase in security it would bring. We could turn it all off today (java, jscript, vbscript, macros etc) and we're still vunerable to bugs that get exploited.
Tricking "signed" applications to doing things they aren't supposed to do was demonstrated to great effect with the XBox hack.
> "Now imagine big spiders with human brains. That would be a certain improvement for both."
I guess you must like em hairy...
Picture this: Matrix272 as an old man with grandchildren on his knee...
Child 1: Grandpa, grandpa, tell us again your story about how you helped the astronauts risk their lives!
Child 2: Please! Please!
Matrix272: Well, ok. It all started on a post to slashdot. I was telling everyone how I didn't care for my tax money to be wasted on mapping solar systems, when I got contacted by NASA no less (Child 1 & 2) "Wow!"
and they asked if I could help with their plan to colonise Mars.
Child 2: And what did you do Grandpa?
Matrix272: I told 'em to hang on. Then I went out back, found me some of rats asses I'd been saving for this very purpose, and handed them to them!
Maybe a gal wrote them? Would that be ok?
"I really don't want to be chased down the street by cute little explosive abios..."
./ do, it would help relieve the mind numbing day-to-day existence that we have. YMMV!
I'm surprised. Most of us on
"AIBO EYES will also enable owners to remotely e-mail message commands to AIBO and have the robot perform selected songs, such as When the Saints Come Marching In and Ode to Joy."
My order is already in!
>Every program opened benefits the community. In the least it's educational.
I totally agree.
Here is a really early program I wrote on the Dragon 32.
10 print "hello!"
20 goto 10
You can use this now if you want! You might want to add a
5 rem This program is in the public domain
and do a renumber to get the line numbers correct.
Enjoy!
And the wife wasn't man made? Wow!
Erm, it's a photograph. It's all inanimate. Just like my ex-wife, though she was inanimate in real life too...
This must have been the solution in second Fly film. The researchers kept using lame when they should have used gzip!
Does this mean we'll get Jennicam! with sound.
Joy!
> Who was it that said "After TV is in every american household, you will never see another president in a wheelchair"?
You did. Argh, now I have too.
Is that the 1024x768 resolution or the 800x600 resolution?
From Merriam-Webster [http://www.m-w.com]
Proprietary:
a business secretly owned by and run as a cover for an intelligence organization
Standard:
a conspicuous object (as a banner) formerly carried at the top of a pole and used to mark a rallying point especially in battle or to serve as an emblem
All is revealed! Microsoft is a cover for an anti-terrorist agency whos dominance of world computers will be used to foil terrorists everywhere since... hmm... it's on the terrorists phones and computers it'll... erm... crash more often, preventing them from being effective...
Windows update is the tool!
And who pray tell will be the "new" company setting the trends? In IMHO the people who set the trends are those who get the most eyeballs - currently Microsoft, due to the dominance of their desktop products that are beginning to appear in everything (phones, desktops, laptops, pdas, god forbid it servers).
Until someone comes up with something 100% compatible, more user friendly, more feature rich, Microsoft will continue to dominate.
Hmm... when I log into the server it asks me for my complete email address:
User (128.176.191.21:(none)): ftp
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
Yet the BSA used
>> FTP Login Name: anonymous
>> FTP Login Password: guest@nowhere.com
But nowhere.com exists, and is someones homepage! Is it good that they
a) abuse someone elses domain by logging requests as being from someone else
b) don't comply with the very valid request to supply contact details for the person accessing the ftp server.
Grr!
It might be a little difficult to closely regulate the process of evolution though.
A spectacular trick if you can pull it off... worthy of a nobel or two!
3. What is your favourate colour?
No longer can we say that "k" is in a bit of a bind.
Why they didn't go the whole hog though and run with Windows 2000 "Advanced" "Server"; it's got DNS - we could transition everyone to ActiveDirectory and the world would be a better place. Just imagine, attempting to surf the web and getting bounced by kerberos because of >5 minutes clock skew...
Erm!