Not sure on this, but I don't think there's even been a space flight that has done this with a one person crew. Don't have the patience to search it, I'm at the in-laws this weekend...slow dialup.
There's a qualitative difference between something that happened because Mother Nature got titchy, and something that humans planned and carried out.
That depends on your point of view. If you lose most of your family, does it really matter how they died? The point is, most of the USA is giving this no more than an "Oh no, that's too bad" when it's one of the most devastating occurrances in recent history.
I don't think they're trying to appeal to the "slashdot crowd" with this. AOL has gotta know by now that they're simply not going to reach the majority of this group.
Rather, I think this is aimed at the part of the population that doesn't know the first thing about encryption, firewalls, etc. and shops online till they're credit cards are maxed out.
As for serious business people using AOL, I don't think so. Why would they? No benefits that I can see.
Microsoft cannot afford to even try to place something like this in the OS itself. They've already been hammered by the EU for similar things. And that wasn't even dealing with high revenue products like anti-virus.
As far as not being able to keep their OS up to date, I agree with that. However, keep in mind that most viruses (unless handed to the AV companies before it's released) have at least a short run before anti-virus progs will catch them. It seems to me that writing a virus def is a bit simpler than patching an OS...just my POV. So maybe M$ will have virus defs up in a respectable amount of time like everyone else.
For the record, I don't use, or plan to use any background/on-demand virus scanners.
As long as we're recognizing birthdays at arbitrary years, we should do it in true/. fashion...in powers of 2. Let's see something when the 64th birthday rolls around.
I really don't see how this could be used for copy protection purposes. I mean, in order for something like writing a processor serial number to the cd to work, the user would have to be installing the software from a writable drive. True, most machines are coming with CD-R drives built in, but with the rise of DVD burning, how long can we expect the CD-R trend to continue? Certainly not long enough to implement this burning technology as copy protection. Not to mention the multitudes of users out there who STILL don't have a CD burner. What about them? Can they just not install the software?
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Not sure on this, but I don't think there's even been a space flight that has done this with a one person crew. Don't have the patience to search it, I'm at the in-laws this weekend...slow dialup.
That depends on your point of view. If you lose most of your family, does it really matter how they died? The point is, most of the USA is giving this no more than an "Oh no, that's too bad" when it's one of the most devastating occurrances in recent history.
I don't think they're trying to appeal to the "slashdot crowd" with this. AOL has gotta know by now that they're simply not going to reach the majority of this group.
Rather, I think this is aimed at the part of the population that doesn't know the first thing about encryption, firewalls, etc. and shops online till they're credit cards are maxed out.
As for serious business people using AOL, I don't think so. Why would they? No benefits that I can see.
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Microsoft cannot afford to even try to place something like this in the OS itself. They've already been hammered by the EU for similar things. And that wasn't even dealing with high revenue products like anti-virus. As far as not being able to keep their OS up to date, I agree with that. However, keep in mind that most viruses (unless handed to the AV companies before it's released) have at least a short run before anti-virus progs will catch them. It seems to me that writing a virus def is a bit simpler than patching an OS...just my POV. So maybe M$ will have virus defs up in a respectable amount of time like everyone else. For the record, I don't use, or plan to use any background/on-demand virus scanners.
As long as we're recognizing birthdays at arbitrary years, we should do it in true /. fashion...in powers of 2. Let's see something when the 64th birthday rolls around.
I definately agree. Something has to happen to big oil to cause a major change in the fuel area, we can't just come up with a replacement.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other technology we've been using for over 100 years other than the internal combustion engine.
Time from invention of flight till Moon landing:
Approximately 60 years
Yet we're still using gas...
Seriously, only on /. would you find this many people who have not only seen Real Genius, but can actually quote lines from it...
I really don't see how this could be used for copy protection purposes. I mean, in order for something like writing a processor serial number to the cd to work, the user would have to be installing the software from a writable drive. True, most machines are coming with CD-R drives built in, but with the rise of DVD burning, how long can we expect the CD-R trend to continue? Certainly not long enough to implement this burning technology as copy protection. Not to mention the multitudes of users out there who STILL don't have a CD burner. What about them? Can they just not install the software?