Fines are fine (pardon the pun), it's small fines that don't work. Fine MS half it's cash, and it would have an effect (after a few court cases). You simply have to fine them more than they gain from breaking the law.
If you don't think fines are the solution, then what do you suggest? Gaol sentances? Might work, but who do you put in gaol?
They are not being SPREAD by webmail, not they are not being CAUGHT by webmail. You can catch a virus just as easily by webmail as anything else, but they can't send themselves out to other people as easilly.
Yes, because users are stupid. Most "viruses" at the moment need a stupid user. Also, more users=more damage=more chance of someone wanting to attack it.
Evolution is a theory to explain observations. Finding life on another planet is an observation that needs explaining. They are completely different issues.
I don't know how much difference it will make, but it will certainly make a difference. Religions will have to adapt to explain it (of course, they won't admit they were every wrong though), which will probably be the biggest change.
Are there really that many?
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Looking around, I can't see any blue LEDs. There is one blue light on my Bluetooth docking station, which might be an LED, but it's covered by a clouded plastic button, so I can't tell, and it certainly isn't bright. Does anyone else have as many blue LEDs around them as thing guy says he does?
Spending the money on those on earth who are in need would be a good use of it, and would help a few people - but not all the many really. If these rovers help find signs of life on mars (they won't do it themselves, because they weren't designed to [a mistake if you ask me]) it will have a much greater impact on the world. Knowing that life is not unique to earth will put everything in perspective. Not to the same extent as that described in Star Trek: First Contact, but the same idea.
For recipes that makes some sort of sense, but you don't "mass produce" software. Once you've written it you can (give or take) sell it too as many people as you like. Just because a company is bigger doesn't always mean it can use an idea better when it comes to software.
"Computers donated by large companies are typically three years old and the MAR program upgrades the software to newer versions of Windows that donated PCs can support, for a nominal charge that covers materials and program operations.
Through the EMEA MAR program, Microsoft will provide re-installation of Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows 2000 Professional in over 18 languages."
Since when would installing 98SE onto a 3 year old machine be a newer OS?
No, if it were sent now, I would open it using Firefox (it would have been mozilla until a few days ago). Unfortunately I have little choice but to use Outlook Express (preview pane turn off of course) for email though, so IE would jump up if I loaded the attachment (it is avoidable, but not easilly).:-(
So, with so much less in it, is it actually worth getting longhorn? By the time longhorn is out, it could be just a couple of years until blackcomb, so why not wait?
Is there anything really new that's still going to be in longhorn?
As far as I can tell there are no new features in SP2, just fixes for stuff that already there (and a few new things that need to be there to fix the old things), so it isn't a new OS. Most of the things in SP2 should have been in the original release (maybe with a few in SP1, nobody's perfect after all).
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Fines are fine (pardon the pun), it's small fines that don't work. Fine MS half it's cash, and it would have an effect (after a few court cases). You simply have to fine them more than they gain from breaking the law.
If you don't think fines are the solution, then what do you suggest? Gaol sentances? Might work, but who do you put in gaol?
The rich have ways round paying income tax, so surely they can get round paying speeding fines?
They COULD do all that, but most don't, to the best of my knowledge.
They are not being SPREAD by webmail, not they are not being CAUGHT by webmail. You can catch a virus just as easily by webmail as anything else, but they can't send themselves out to other people as easilly.
People try very hard to be stupid. They would succeed whatever the software writers did.
Underestimating the ingenuity of complete fools, and all that.
Yes, because users are stupid. Most "viruses" at the moment need a stupid user. Also, more users=more damage=more chance of someone wanting to attack it.
Yes, but I don't think it's long enough for rock samples from different sides to be all that different.
How can anyone is the USA complain about gas prices? It's practically free compared to UK prices.
There isn't a nightside and a dayside. All bits of mercury get sunlight at some point.
Evolution is a theory to explain observations. Finding life on another planet is an observation that needs explaining. They are completely different issues.
May I recommend duct tape?
There are statuettes from the bronze age that experts are sure were porn.
I don't know how much difference it will make, but it will certainly make a difference. Religions will have to adapt to explain it (of course, they won't admit they were every wrong though), which will probably be the biggest change.
Looking around, I can't see any blue LEDs. There is one blue light on my Bluetooth docking station, which might be an LED, but it's covered by a clouded plastic button, so I can't tell, and it certainly isn't bright. Does anyone else have as many blue LEDs around them as thing guy says he does?
They tried to avoid contamination on the rovers too, didn't they?
Spending the money on those on earth who are in need would be a good use of it, and would help a few people - but not all the many really. If these rovers help find signs of life on mars (they won't do it themselves, because they weren't designed to [a mistake if you ask me]) it will have a much greater impact on the world. Knowing that life is not unique to earth will put everything in perspective. Not to the same extent as that described in Star Trek: First Contact, but the same idea.
For recipes that makes some sort of sense, but you don't "mass produce" software. Once you've written it you can (give or take) sell it too as many people as you like. Just because a company is bigger doesn't always mean it can use an idea better when it comes to software.
From the article:
"Computers donated by large companies are typically three years old and the MAR program upgrades the software to newer versions of Windows that donated PCs can support, for a nominal charge that covers materials and program operations.
Through the EMEA MAR program, Microsoft will provide re-installation of Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows 2000 Professional in over 18 languages."
Since when would installing 98SE onto a 3 year old machine be a newer OS?
Ok, there are some new features, but they are minor compared to the security things that should have been there since the beginning.
No, if it were sent now, I would open it using Firefox (it would have been mozilla until a few days ago). Unfortunately I have little choice but to use Outlook Express (preview pane turn off of course) for email though, so IE would jump up if I loaded the attachment (it is avoidable, but not easilly). :-(
So, with so much less in it, is it actually worth getting longhorn? By the time longhorn is out, it could be just a couple of years until blackcomb, so why not wait?
Is there anything really new that's still going to be in longhorn?
As far as I can tell there are no new features in SP2, just fixes for stuff that already there (and a few new things that need to be there to fix the old things), so it isn't a new OS. Most of the things in SP2 should have been in the original release (maybe with a few in SP1, nobody's perfect after all).
I was refering to HTML attachments, not emails. Stopping html emails is easy.
Not at all. I said people should be told not to open them, not that they should be forced not to. Education is the answer, not restrictions.
Education. There are technical solutions to most of these problems, but none are as good as teaching people to look after their computers better.