Aha! You have stumbled onto the secrets of the unforementionable Marketing Association of Network Engineers and their methodology of increasing their product publicity and thusly their sales.
Every intrusion detection, anti-virus, malware detector, trojan detector, rootkit detector companies are trying to outfox each other with their shining new widgets that can normalize, filter, block malicious payloads. It is like the Holy Grail. There can only be ONE.
Fear, Uncertainity and Doubts is the primary driver of this vertical (and horizontal) market segments.
Me? Just fix the OS and be done with all that crap.
But when an organization is taking a hardline that is not beneficial to the society as a whole or even the few (outside of RIAA).
Couple that with trampling of personal and economic liberty (see Google RIAA lawsuits) that often are mistimed or mistargetted, then it is a cold and callous non-governmental-sanctioned efforts.
This kind of PR only goes to denigrate the RIAA's images further.
Corporate sponsorship (community donations) are what makes a pillar of the society (and good PR).
The very least that RIAA could do is work out a student loan for her. Who knows, she might even work for RIAA as a end result (even better PR).
RIAA no longer represents me nor Western Civilization.
The executives of Recording Industry of Artists in America is now antithema of our advanced society.
By advocating a lower educational pursuit in hope that they selfishly hope to attain a goal for a subpar economic society in which they can continue to rob from the budding artists (and engineers) of our great society.
I hope our court systems and governments recognize this foolishness and put an end to this organization.
Nothing is gain anymore from such a facists dream.
Nothing like hooking up a special-effect bud earphone and biofeedback probes with it and watch all the everyday items with increased intensity... such as:
1. Love of your life.... Optical background scene zooms in but subject matter stays the same size, with slow tempo and increased aria/choral music followed by your silent soft heart thumping sound.
2. Fear... Refractoral angular re-zoom (without moving your eyes) in on the hazards coupled with Jaws themes
3. Anxiety... Quirky and continual focusing lens motion couple with the rushing din of noises.
4. Calm... Added downward microstreaking of lens to simulate rain coupled with waterfall background.
Far-fetched? Perhaps not much sooner than later...
What do all these searchable charts have in common?
Periodic Table Protien Family Acidic/Alkalinity Ionization Excitement DNA strand markers
All are tools in which we make our stepping stones into a better or worse life for us and others (not always in that order).
If worsen quality of life can be had, then it becomes an issue of "scientific terrorism" and it should be controlled (however fluid it may be).
If it improves the quality of our life, then it is "scientific knowledge."
I'm ok with Bio-piracy of DNA until someone comes along and "worsen" things for humanity. Take "target DNA elimination" for example. Can anyone say bio-ethnic cleansing and getting rid of cancer-causing cells in the same sentence, yet?
Hey... When is Microsoft going to respect the orange (MS temporary) grunts and their 1337 skills? Of all the MS workers I've talked with, only the Orange ones have appeared to be been finding all the undisclosed vulnerabilities.
Sounds like it may be career-threatening to be a Blue and while reporting in an undisclosed vulnerability within Redmond campus.
Blue Hat, bah! Just a forum to mock the blue workers, and perhaps, justifiably so.
A 32-point corner multi-story building would afford a corner office for each and every co-workers, never mind the waste of real-estate space it consumes from such a small 'round' building.
In an attempt to keep the moving van's cost down ($25,0000 for 15,000lbs), I crammed 14 vanilla box PC computers into the back of my SUV prior to being shipped via auto-freight truck (the kind that holds 8 cars) from east to west.
When the SUV finally arrived (3 weeks later) on the very top and back of a multi-vehicle carrier, RIGHT where it is perched dangerously downward and backward from the auto-freight upper deck, the driver opened my SUV's tail door and all my worldly and precious stuff came crashing down and scattering around in million pieces.
Now why did he do that? He said he wanted to crawl into my car to drive it out.
Needless to say, all the MOBOs were a total loss (but insured anyway), but the hard drive content were all salvageable.
JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) is the most lowest latency audio mixer out there. DMIX isn't there yet with latency issues (especially when you're burning a CD, your MP3 player ends up sounding choppy.)
If we can get Firefox (last holdovers) to support Jack Daemon, then my audio platform is sweet and complete.
Nothing like multiple channels being independently mixed using a patch panel.
When I want my KDE artsd-fartsdy sound daemon on LOW, I don't want MPLAYER volume slider to suppress KDE sound or FSCK the other application sound level.
Each application SHOULD have their own volume settings. Its the only way to deal with everyone's gripes (personal preferences).
There can be a way for the common citizen to revoke the ID in a rapid and easy manner.
The best kind of ID card for a citizen of a republic is an ID card that has NO revealing attribute (age/weight/sex/address/affliation) and has ONLY ONE simple long number protected by 3-way public keys (ok ok, just throw in a decent picture and a full name for good measure for old time sake, but nothing else).
Three public keys are provided by three parties of interest surrounding such an ID card:
If any of the three can invalidate the ID, then it's a fair identity card.
With that said, I'd take it any second.
If the government wants biometric, they can maintain such parametric data separately from such an ID card using side-band verification channel, but please... please, don't include the biometric data IN the ID card. Biometric parametric data is a perishable resource...Once stolen, forever stolen (and NEVER revokeable, even with hash data thrown in).
Homestead is a mere pittance and not worth mentioning here when compared to the BIGGER issues. There is a triad of taxation with regard to the housing assessments.
1. Tax rate, fixed or variable 2. Annual reassessment 3. Sales Tax during saleless owner exchange. 4. Housing Exemption
Each and every state does all above differently. Take two extreme for examples...
California does no annual reassessment thereby locking in the taxation indefinitely for as long as you own the house. Also it is at a low fixed rate of 1%. Used to be a haven for retirement communities but foreign investors discovered its low tax rate thereby to jack up the Golden State housing value to astronomical proportion. This drives out not just the retirees but the lower-middle class (fireman, police, librarians, teachers, nurses) are driven out as well (the ones that this state needs so badly the most.) No one wants to upgrade their house, in fear, of mandatory reassessments, thusly the house improvement market is very weak compared to other states.
Texas (whew) on the other hand has a high 7% state-wide plus an upward of 1.4% county tax (plus a niggling of other assortments of easements and school district taxes). However has low housing value (a function of high taxation). BUT does annual reassessment thereby keeping the value of housing even lower. Very few foreign investors can be found in this market. Because taxes are in step with current market conditions, there is HUGE incentives to improve their houses without fear of HUGE tax increases.
So... yeah, to me, the middle average Joe, a 7% tax rate is better than 1%.... Too bad California can't fix this without sending the Hosing Market into a tailspin.
Be think, the tax rate should start going up NOW, but SLOWLY, just to discourage the foreign investors, as We, the People, need a place to live and own.
You cannot deny the immense benefit of having a real time instant messaging and email and voice phone all rolled in one into a nifty wireless handheld package, called Blackberry.
Due to its addictive nature of staying on top of things, this handheld is frequently known as "Crackberry" as in "Crack-head."
I strongly suggest you consider one for your long-distance enterprise as being able to stay on top of things 24/7.
What about console or text-oriented games? You guys are REALLY hooked on graphic just about as much as I'm hooked on Crack-Berry. The real staying powers are in the non-graphical ones.
Anyone remember the followings:
Empire.exe on MS-DOS (and VAX-11)
Adventure
Star Trek (multiplayer) on the DEC VAX-11?
Armada (Naval Power)
Rogue
Dungeons (or D&D)
Any BASIC games that were printed in 1980's computer magazines
Those still have considerably drawing powers to this aging gaming veteran.
Thanks to Linux and its ability to do OS emulation, these games are not forgotten. At least, by this lone breed of classical gamer.
Gee whiz... First rocket-powered Chevy Vega, then a jet-pack, then a sustained skydiver-powered flight with rockets strapped on ankles and NOW this... (flalling hands about) this... (punching fist into open hand) this (waving explosive arms)... zoom-cycle.
Is it just the/.'r in me or all of us, when this decade is seeing a marked increase in Darwinism Awards applicants that wants to (or AT LEAST appear to) defies not only the law of gravity, aerodynamic laws, Heisenberg Principle, Fermat's Theorem, Silly-Strings but... BUT Murphy's Law.
As a TOR user, that's ANOTHER thing to block off, only this time it is a critical IP protocol component: ping (aka ICMP Echo/Echo-Reply). Correct purpose of TOR end-user is not to have 'spurious emission' of javascript, UDP, ICMP and...AND Domain Name Service, DNS) during a typical TCP session (i.e., web browsing) which may reveal its own IP address.
Wait until the next revision of this Firefox feature to embed HTTP cookies (or *shudder* user, account, password, hostname ) into the very LARGE CAPACITY of an ICMP Echo payload.
Once this slippery slope of this feature's introduction occurs... Mozilla.Org and Firefox will stoop down to Microsoft's level... and it's game over (or should I say, end-of-life) for the dissidents of very hostile governments.
My recommendation is to nip this at the bud, effectively and immediately before further lives are lost.
-- "Dammit, Scott McNealy, We definitely do have some modicum of privacy worth saving."
Slashdot Mirror
Stand back!
(pausing)
(waiting)
(in suspense)
(dead din of the silent air)
When are we going to get the "other" Slashdot article on "RIAA is falling"?
Stand back!
Behold twice the power of a ROT13 used twice!
Aha! You have stumbled onto the secrets of the unforementionable Marketing Association of Network Engineers and their methodology of increasing their product publicity and thusly their sales.
Every intrusion detection, anti-virus, malware detector, trojan detector, rootkit detector companies are trying to outfox each other with their shining new widgets that can normalize, filter, block malicious payloads. It is like the Holy Grail. There can only be ONE.
Fear, Uncertainity and Doubts is the primary driver of this vertical (and horizontal) market segments.
Me? Just fix the OS and be done with all that crap.
Yes, I agree with the student's being at fault.
But when an organization is taking a hardline that is not beneficial to the society as a whole or even the few (outside of RIAA).
Couple that with trampling of personal and economic liberty (see Google RIAA lawsuits) that often are mistimed or mistargetted, then it is a cold and callous non-governmental-sanctioned efforts.
This kind of PR only goes to denigrate the RIAA's images further.
Corporate sponsorship (community donations) are what makes a pillar of the society (and good PR).
The very least that RIAA could do is work out a student loan for her. Who knows, she might even work for RIAA as a end result (even better PR).
RIAA no longer represents me nor Western Civilization.
The executives of Recording Industry of Artists in America is now antithema of our advanced society.
By advocating a lower educational pursuit in hope that they selfishly hope to attain a goal for a subpar economic society in which they can continue to rob from the budding artists (and engineers) of our great society.
I hope our court systems and governments recognize this foolishness and put an end to this organization.
Nothing is gain anymore from such a facists dream.
All the cool cinematic field and zooming trick?
Nothing like hooking up a special-effect bud earphone and biofeedback probes with it and watch all the everyday items with increased intensity... such as:
1. Love of your life.... Optical background scene zooms in but subject matter stays the same size, with slow tempo and increased aria/choral music followed by your silent soft heart thumping sound.
2. Fear... Refractoral angular re-zoom (without moving your eyes) in on the hazards coupled with Jaws themes
3. Anxiety... Quirky and continual focusing lens motion couple with the rushing din of noises.
4. Calm... Added downward microstreaking of lens to simulate rain coupled with waterfall background.
Far-fetched? Perhaps not much sooner than later...
George N. Capalbo, VP of backbone networks corp really got lucky with a shot of the flaming Moe.. um I mean, flaming Unisys.
Who would have thought that Unisys would go out with a bang, smoke, and wimper?
Hey, wasn't that Unisys, the evil patent holder of GIF...
Keep it up, Unisys.
Wow...
RobLimo the magician has managed to make the self-stated obligatory URL disappear!
What do all these searchable charts have in common?
Periodic Table
Protien Family
Acidic/Alkalinity
Ionization Excitement
DNA strand markers
All are tools in which we make our stepping stones into a better or worse life for us and others (not always in that order).
If worsen quality of life can be had, then it becomes an issue of "scientific terrorism" and it should be controlled (however fluid it may be).
If it improves the quality of our life, then it is "scientific knowledge."
I'm ok with Bio-piracy of DNA until someone comes along and "worsen" things for humanity. Take "target DNA elimination" for example. Can anyone say bio-ethnic cleansing and getting rid of cancer-causing cells in the same sentence, yet?
Hey... When is Microsoft going to respect the orange (MS temporary) grunts and their 1337 skills? Of all the MS workers I've talked with, only the Orange ones have appeared to be been finding all the undisclosed vulnerabilities.
Sounds like it may be career-threatening to be a Blue and while reporting in an undisclosed vulnerability within Redmond campus.
Blue Hat, bah! Just a forum to mock the blue workers, and perhaps, justifiably so.
A 32-point corner multi-story building would afford a corner office for each and every co-workers, never mind the waste of real-estate space it consumes from such a small 'round' building.
Do I really need this 14 vanilla PC boxes during the interstate move?
This is SLASHDOT! News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters.
These PC stuff DO matter to this nerd, dude! My livelyhood... My babies...
You testing my geek-status, aren't ya?
Why are you lugging 11lbs worth of geekish love-handles? Shed some pounds! Go on a diet!
...
Try my Sony PCG-Z505HS with triple-battery life, tricked out with 120GB HD, built-in 100MB Ethernet which ONLY weighs
3.75 lbs (8.2 kg)
That's right, only 3.75 lbs... Thinnest laptop alive today... It can be yours for only $249.99 from E-bay.
One can have running Gentoo Linux with seven VMWare images at your fingertips.
Love the dent-proof magnesium case.
In an attempt to keep the moving van's cost down ($25,0000 for 15,000lbs), I crammed 14 vanilla box PC computers into the back of my SUV prior to being shipped via auto-freight truck (the kind that holds 8 cars) from east to west.
When the SUV finally arrived (3 weeks later) on the very top and back of a multi-vehicle carrier, RIGHT where it is perched dangerously downward and backward from the auto-freight upper deck, the driver opened my SUV's tail door and all my worldly and precious stuff came crashing down and scattering around in million pieces.
Now why did he do that? He said he wanted to crawl into my car to drive it out.
Needless to say, all the MOBOs were a total loss (but insured anyway), but the hard drive content were all salvageable.
Caveat!
This survey just totally ignore these above but valid factors and, instead, focus on a marketing angle that justifies a single OS vendor.
These aren't lies and certainly not damned ones. This one is definitely a statistic, to be taken with a grain of salt.
JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) is the most lowest latency audio mixer out there. DMIX isn't there yet with latency issues (especially when you're burning a CD, your MP3 player ends up sounding choppy.)
If we can get Firefox (last holdovers) to support Jack Daemon, then my audio platform is sweet and complete.
Nothing like multiple channels being independently mixed using a patch panel.
When I want my KDE artsd-fartsdy sound daemon on LOW, I don't want MPLAYER volume slider to suppress KDE sound or FSCK the other application sound level.
Each application SHOULD have their own volume settings. Its the only way to deal with everyone's gripes (personal preferences).
BOOOM! YOU GOT MAIL (Argh!)
There can be a way for the common citizen to revoke the ID in a rapid and easy manner.
The best kind of ID card for a citizen of a republic is an ID card that has NO revealing attribute (age/weight/sex/address/affliation) and has ONLY ONE simple long number protected by 3-way public keys (ok ok, just throw in a decent picture and a full name for good measure for old time sake, but nothing else).
Three public keys are provided by three parties of interest surrounding such an ID card:
1. Consumer (i.e., driver, traveler, purchaser)
2. Merchant (i.e., service-provider, manufacturer)
3. Arbitrator (i.e., Government, credit-history bureau)
If any of the three can invalidate the ID, then it's a fair identity card.
With that said, I'd take it any second.
If the government wants biometric, they can maintain such parametric data separately from such an ID card using side-band verification channel, but please... please, don't include the biometric data IN the ID card. Biometric parametric data is a perishable resource...Once stolen, forever stolen (and NEVER revokeable, even with hash data thrown in).
Homestead is a mere pittance and not worth mentioning here when compared to the BIGGER issues. There is a triad of taxation with regard to the housing assessments.
1. Tax rate, fixed or variable
2. Annual reassessment
3. Sales Tax during saleless owner exchange.
4. Housing Exemption
Each and every state does all above differently. Take two extreme for examples...
California does no annual reassessment thereby locking in the taxation indefinitely for as long as you own the house. Also it is at a low fixed rate of 1%. Used to be a haven for retirement communities but foreign investors discovered its low tax rate thereby to jack up the Golden State housing value to astronomical proportion. This drives out not just the retirees but the lower-middle class (fireman, police, librarians, teachers, nurses) are driven out as well (the ones that this state needs so badly the most.) No one wants to upgrade their house, in fear, of mandatory reassessments, thusly the house improvement market is very weak compared to other states.
Texas (whew) on the other hand has a high 7% state-wide plus an upward of 1.4% county tax (plus a niggling of other assortments of easements and school district taxes). However has low housing value (a function of high taxation). BUT does annual reassessment thereby keeping the value of housing even lower. Very few foreign investors can be found in this market. Because taxes are in step with current market conditions, there is HUGE incentives to improve their houses without fear of HUGE tax increases.
So... yeah, to me, the middle average Joe, a 7% tax rate is better than 1%.... Too bad California can't fix this without sending the Hosing Market into a tailspin.
Be think, the tax rate should start going up NOW, but SLOWLY, just to discourage the foreign investors, as We, the People, need a place to live and own.
No better than living in ridiculously overinflated housing market with 1% tax bracket.
I'll take living in 7% housing assessment tax bracket with low housing value ANY DAY...
At least you can write more off of state taxes than you can with mortgages. But then again, IANAA.
You cannot deny the immense benefit of having a real time instant messaging and email and voice phone all rolled in one into a nifty wireless handheld package, called Blackberry.
Due to its addictive nature of staying on top of things, this handheld is frequently known as "Crackberry" as in "Crack-head."
I strongly suggest you consider one for your long-distance enterprise as being able to stay on top of things 24/7.
Blackberry, tools of the geek gods.
What about console or text-oriented games? You guys are REALLY hooked on graphic just about as much as I'm hooked on Crack-Berry. The real staying powers are in the non-graphical ones.
Anyone remember the followings:
Empire.exe on MS-DOS (and VAX-11)
Adventure
Star Trek (multiplayer) on the DEC VAX-11?
Armada (Naval Power)
Rogue
Dungeons (or D&D)
Any BASIC games that were printed in 1980's computer magazines
Those still have considerably drawing powers to this aging gaming veteran.
Thanks to Linux and its ability to do OS emulation, these games are not forgotten. At least, by this lone breed of classical gamer.
Gee whiz... First rocket-powered Chevy Vega, then a jet-pack, then a sustained skydiver-powered flight with rockets strapped on ankles and NOW this... (flalling hands about) this ... (punching fist into open hand) this (waving explosive arms) ... zoom-cycle.
/.'r in me or all of us, when this decade is seeing a marked increase in Darwinism Awards applicants that wants to (or AT LEAST appear to) defies not only the law of gravity, aerodynamic laws, Heisenberg Principle, Fermat's Theorem, Silly-Strings but ... BUT Murphy's Law.
Is it just the
As a TOR user, that's ANOTHER thing to block off, only this time it is a critical IP protocol component: ping (aka ICMP Echo/Echo-Reply). Correct purpose of TOR end-user is not to have 'spurious emission' of javascript, UDP, ICMP and...AND Domain Name Service, DNS) during a typical TCP session (i.e., web browsing) which may reveal its own IP address.
Wait until the next revision of this Firefox feature to embed HTTP cookies (or *shudder* user, account, password, hostname ) into the very LARGE CAPACITY of an ICMP Echo payload.
Once this slippery slope of this feature's introduction occurs... Mozilla.Org and Firefox will stoop down to Microsoft's level... and it's game over (or should I say, end-of-life) for the dissidents of very hostile governments.
My recommendation is to nip this at the bud, effectively and immediately before further lives are lost.
--
"Dammit, Scott McNealy, We definitely do have some modicum of privacy worth saving."
(jolly-green giant print-ratching out yellow paper)
WP - "Msft WINDOWS MEDIA support down to last non-windows platform... Cites development and Marketing Cost."
Do I smell a monopolistic retreat, 'strategic consolidation', or what?
--
Mechanical Teletype (ALL-CAPS) is no match for Slashdot lameness filter. Dang...
What do you call 10,000 robot lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
A good [s|f]izzling start!