Yeah, what toogreen said -- I'm sitting in a school in Shandong at the moment and could access both "blocked" sites without a problem. I've had nary a problem with accessing sites, except for the frequently-down local DNS.
"Spymac.com today is reporting that an e-mail sent to prior customers of BuyMusic.com, informing them that BuyMusic.com is being merged into the parent site, Buy.com."
Oh, dear. How I long for the days of complete sentences.
You mean like the right- and left-handed variants of the Dvorak keyboard layout? OSes these days come with many keyboard mappings installed, and many (Win, Linux, Mac at the least) include the most-used Dvorak layout, ANSI Dvorak, and both one-handed layouts. I use Dvorak in WinXP, Linux CLI and X-Windows.
Here's the image on the one page I could access. Below it was the text:
"Here is r50r without the protective bonnet plate. I was a bit hesitant to post this because you can see some of the details of my mechanics. But I don't think it gives away too many secrets."
I glanced at one Microsoft page about this latest patch, and under the heading "affected packages" (or something), the only entries were variants of the Office XP SP2, so if you don't have SP2 you may not have to worry about this.
Imagine an opt-in system for letting drivers contribute to a GPS-drawn map. New car purchasers have an option of getting a GPS system installed, which would be used only for this map-drawing system (no need to break out the tinfoil hats...). A centralized system keeps track of each car's position (anonymously; it only needs to know where cars are, and not who is in the cars) and continuously updates a map of everywhere a car has been.
After a somewhat short period of time, you'd get a digital, very accurate map of anywhere you can drive a car. If this constantly-growing map could be combined with something like the technology behind the best roadmap system around (Mapquest? Microsoft's "Streets and Maps"? I don't know), we'd end up with a pretty powerful way of getting around. As it'd be continuously updated, I think the best way to access it would be online you could print out a map of wherever you're going, or watch your car forge new trails on a PDA/cellphone.
(Well...it's mildly off-topic, but I think it's a neat idea anyway.)
What about the money for all this? I suppose the opt-in GPS in the car could be free, but using the maps themselves would require a small fee? Funded by car companies? A dot-com startup? I dunno.
"Sweden, where it is mandatory to have the lights turned on"
My 2001 Toyota always has its lights on. You start the car, your lights go on and stay that way 'til you turn the car off.
Now, either Ford hasn't done any research whatsoever, or no Ford has this nifty little car-on-lights-on thing my Toyota has. I don't know which one it is, but I'm willing to bet that this system of Ford's will go through some changes before it catches on (if at all).
"if Microsoft were to disappear tomorrow it would throw the entire world into chaos"
I have a feeling this isn't really the case, especially with the attention span the American public has these days. (Sure, it'd affect all countries, but I think America would be the hardest hit, and what the American media says, goes...) I think the media would be in a frenzy for two days, talk about it for a week, and have largely forgotten about it after a month. As for everyone who currently uses Microsoft software well, they'd just continue using Microsoft software. Organizations that are dependent upon Microsoft software would definitely start looking into viable currently-maintained operating systems and software, which would certainly be a big leg up for...well, everyone else but Microsoft.
But there wouldn't be chaos. IT pros would have a few sleepless nights hunched over computers, but most people would rest easy.
"These things need to happen gradually through normal market forces."
I don't think that's necessary, but I do think that's the only way things are actually gonna happen. Of course we can talk about what would happen if Microsoft disappeared off the face of the earth, but let's be real it's just not gonna.
What about KartOO, which visually maps out relationships between sites? At the moment it's a meta search engine (the beauty's in the visuals, not the out-of-date results it gets from AllTheWeb and Lycos), but if it became the new way of looking at Google's results I think it'd be the Next Big Thang.
I seem to remember reading that Microsoft gave China access to the entire source code, after the country mentioned that it was leaning more towards using Linux for government-related things, because the entire source code was open for inspection.
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I'm glad at least one person recognizes the simplicity of the matter...
News sources are saying it's an indication that the writer of the virus knows what s/he is doing and is not planning on stopping releasing new versions soon.
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Yeah, what toogreen said -- I'm sitting in a school in Shandong at the moment and could access both "blocked" sites without a problem. I've had nary a problem with accessing sites, except for the frequently-down local DNS.
It should actually be...
"Spymac.com today is reporting that an e-mail sent to prior customers of BuyMusic.com, informing them that BuyMusic.com is being merged into the parent site, Buy.com."
Oh, dear. How I long for the days of complete sentences.
You could probably just tell your browser to pretend it's IE, if it'll let you (Opera and Firefox do; don't know about other ones).
From the fine gentlemen who brought you "Sealab 2021" and "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast", FLYING SHARK v. FLYING CROCODILE! What more could you want?
You mean like the right- and left-handed variants of the Dvorak keyboard layout? OSes these days come with many keyboard mappings installed, and many (Win, Linux, Mac at the least) include the most-used Dvorak layout, ANSI Dvorak, and both one-handed layouts. I use Dvorak in WinXP, Linux CLI and X-Windows.
I think you're right -- see how there's a circle where January 19th would be?
I was lucky enough to get the actual article a second later, too -- link
Here's the image on the one page I could access. Below it was the text:
I glanced at one Microsoft page about this latest patch, and under the heading "affected packages" (or something), the only entries were variants of the Office XP SP2, so if you don't have SP2 you may not have to worry about this.
Since the "oke" in "karaoke" is an abbreviation of the Japanese word for "orchestra", shouldn't this thing be called "karaeiga"?
Imagine an opt-in system for letting drivers contribute to a GPS-drawn map. New car purchasers have an option of getting a GPS system installed, which would be used only for this map-drawing system (no need to break out the tinfoil hats...). A centralized system keeps track of each car's position (anonymously; it only needs to know where cars are, and not who is in the cars) and continuously updates a map of everywhere a car has been.
After a somewhat short period of time, you'd get a digital, very accurate map of anywhere you can drive a car. If this constantly-growing map could be combined with something like the technology behind the best roadmap system around (Mapquest? Microsoft's "Streets and Maps"? I don't know), we'd end up with a pretty powerful way of getting around. As it'd be continuously updated, I think the best way to access it would be online you could print out a map of wherever you're going, or watch your car forge new trails on a PDA/cellphone.
(Well...it's mildly off-topic, but I think it's a neat idea anyway.)
What about the money for all this? I suppose the opt-in GPS in the car could be free, but using the maps themselves would require a small fee? Funded by car companies? A dot-com startup? I dunno.
My 2001 Toyota always has its lights on. You start the car, your lights go on and stay that way 'til you turn the car off.
Now, either Ford hasn't done any research whatsoever, or no Ford has this nifty little car-on-lights-on thing my Toyota has. I don't know which one it is, but I'm willing to bet that this system of Ford's will go through some changes before it catches on (if at all).
Yeah, I set my Windows boxen on fire too... Quite an improvement, don't you think?
I have a feeling this isn't really the case, especially with the attention span the American public has these days. (Sure, it'd affect all countries, but I think America would be the hardest hit, and what the American media says, goes...) I think the media would be in a frenzy for two days, talk about it for a week, and have largely forgotten about it after a month. As for everyone who currently uses Microsoft software well, they'd just continue using Microsoft software. Organizations that are dependent upon Microsoft software would definitely start looking into viable currently-maintained operating systems and software, which would certainly be a big leg up for...well, everyone else but Microsoft.
But there wouldn't be chaos. IT pros would have a few sleepless nights hunched over computers, but most people would rest easy.
I don't think that's necessary, but I do think that's the only way things are actually gonna happen. Of course we can talk about what would happen if Microsoft disappeared off the face of the earth, but let's be real it's just not gonna.
What about KartOO, which visually maps out relationships between sites? At the moment it's a meta search engine (the beauty's in the visuals, not the out-of-date results it gets from AllTheWeb and Lycos), but if it became the new way of looking at Google's results I think it'd be the Next Big Thang.
I seem to remember reading that Microsoft gave China access to the entire source code, after the country mentioned that it was leaning more towards using Linux for government-related things, because the entire source code was open for inspection.
I'm glad at least one person recognizes the simplicity of the matter...
No, Tocatta's proably in the public domain by now...
Supply/demand: if we find a lot of He3 somewhere, or a good way to make it out of common materials, it will not be worth $6 mil any more.
plural of "genus" = "genera" plural of "opus" = "opera" so, plural of "virus" could be "virera"? ...walrera? penera? cactera? octopera? geniera?
"I've gotten a few dozen spammvertised websites removed" Wow, that's impressive. My dad's been trying to do that for years, how'd you go about it?
News sources are saying it's an indication that the writer of the virus knows what s/he is doing and is not planning on stopping releasing new versions soon.
USB sextoys could bring a whole new dimension to cybersex...