that's a very interesting point of view, however,
I don't belive that the trade-makers have such an enlightened position.
I don't see the western world pushing or even discussing political reforms in China...
What do you expect from a totalitarian government? I am surprised that they haven't done that before... what I also don't understand is why 'democratic' world has such a great trade relations with totalitarian China?... then again two party system is only one step to totalitarism
somewhat irrelevant but interesting quote from today NYTimes editorial: "we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield." That's from George Orwell's 1946 essay "In Front of Your Nose."
Geeks Put the Unsavvy on Alert: Learn or Log Off By AMY HARMON
hen Scott Granneman, a technology instructor, heard that one of his former students had clicked on a strange e-mail attachment and infected her computer with the MyDoom Internet virus last week, empathy did not figure anywhere in his immediate response.
"You actually got infected by the virus?" he wrote in an e-mail message to the former student, Robin Woltman, a university grant administrator. "You, Robin? For shame!"
As MyDoom, the fastest-spreading virus ever, continues to clog e-mail in-boxes and disrupt business, the computer-savvy are becoming openly hostile toward the not-so-savvy who unwittingly play into the hands of virus writers.
The tension over the MyDoom virus underscores a growing friction between technophiles and what they see as a breed of technophobes who want to enjoy the benefits of digital technology without making the effort to use it responsibly.
The virus spreads when Internet users ignore a basic rule of Internet life: never click on an unknown e-mail attachment. Once someone does, MyDoom begins to send itself to the names in that person's e-mail address book. If no one opened the attachment, the virus's destructive power would never be unleashed.
"It takes affirmative action on the part of the clueless user to become infected," wrote Scott Bowling, president of the World Wide Web Artists Consortium, expressing frustration on the group's discussion forum. "How to beat this into these people's heads?"
Many of the million or so people who have so far infected their computers with MyDoom say it is not their fault. The virus often comes in a message that appears to be from someone they know, with an innocuous subject line like "test" or "error." It is human nature, they say, to open the mail and attachments.
But computer sophisticates say it reflects a willful ignorance of basic computer skills that goes well beyond virus etiquette. At a time when more than two-thirds of American adults use the Internet, they say, such carelessness is no longer excusable, particularly when it messes things up for everyone else.
For years, many self-described computer geeks seemed eager to usher outsiders onto their electronic frontier. Everyone, it seemed, had a friend or family member in the geek elite who could be summoned ? often frequently ? in times of computer crisis.
But as those same friends and family members are called upon again and again to save the computer incompetents from themselves, the geeks' patience is growing thin. As it does, a new kind of digital divide is opening up between populations of computer users who must coexist in the same digital world.
"Viruses are just the tip of the iceberg," said Bill Melcher, who runs his own technical support business in San Francisco. "When it comes to computers, a lot of intelligent people and fast learners just decide that they don't know."
Many of the computationally confused say they suffer from genuine intimidation and even panic over how to handle the mysterious machines they have come to rely on for so much of daily life. Virus writers, spammers and scammers, they say, are the ones who should be held accountable for the chaos they cause.
But as the same people equip themselves with fancy computers and take advantage of the Internet for things like shopping and banking, critics say that their perpetual state of confusion has begun to get tiresome. And while the Internet's traditional villains remain elusive, those inadvertently helping them tend to be friends and neighbors.
Some in the technocamp imagine requiring a license to operate a computer, just like the one required to drive a car. Others are calling for a punishment that fits a careless crime. People who click on virus attachments, for instance, could be cut off by their Internet service providers until they proved that their machines had been disinfected.
And some, tired of being treated like free help lines, are
It's all good but I'll be more excited about either
-a holographic technology for a computer display purposes (not likely any time soon in a compact form due to power requirements)
- or to have a flexible display / touch screen in one to get read of keyboards and increase vieable area in laptops...
than again, in the words of Homer Simpson, "I am not easily excited.."
I'm not surprised that they are spying on each other... I am surprised that it get's into the press... I am dissapointed that it doesn't get into the press more often...
but there isn't much you can do when the parent company of an "independent" and "free" paper has an agenda that should not be published then it will not be published
I'm also curiouse about "behind the scenes" of this story - who own Boston Globe (all the parent and related corps.) and where the involeved senators are from, who supports them financially, and how they vote, etc.
I guess because "mussel glues present the first identified case in which transition metals are essential to the formation of a non crystalline biological material" it is interesting science... but why whoud we care?...
I hate these press releases that don't give any specifics (e.g., strength in MPa) nor do they provide larger picture of why would we care...
oh, well, good for mussels any way... they are tasty...
it's awesome... I just resently got me a wi-fi toy and tested it while traveling in Washington, DC.
It is really fun (and convinient) when you can pull out yahoo directions standing in the middle of the street...
But it's really anoying in the airport where the only connection awailable is from a pay-for-subscribtion privider (ripper-offer?...)
the more citywide initiative, the better....
and where is Ceritos anyway? is it Orange Co.?
I was waiting for someone to mention autoban...
the problem is culture of driving and living for that matter... Germans are organized: slow drivers drive in the right lane leaving the left lane to 'no limit' drivers...
Americans don't give a f@ck... How often do you see an assh@le driving 55 in the fast lane on a stretch with 65 limit?...
I like the idea of tougher driving test but changes to more courteous culture would go a long way....
well if not FCC than IEEE or whoever aproved the protocol with holes should/may want to work towards a better protocol before every housewife will be Wi-Fi-able...
Excelent news but what about developing Wi-Fi protocol that does not have inherent security flaws?.. or is it realm of consumer education how to turn on encription and password on the wireless routers?..
it's not a credibility case - it's infringement case. Which means the sorce code has to be compared with proof of timeline that is who developed what when... Plus, they may have to show/proof how the code was leaked to the linux comunity...
so in a nut shell: fuck the strutegy, show me the proof!
well, may be the current board sees that they will eventually loose the market share and are seeking exit strategy with the most personal benefit... go public, collect ungodly amount of $$$$, then when the things go bad leave the company to eager MBA graduates.... sounds like a good idea... for the board members that is...
my guess is the internet is somewhere on top of the list... that includes multiuser games and, ofcourse , pr0n! the target demografic, i.e. males 18-24, are more interested in unlimited pr0n than sitcomes.... now ratings would WNBA get if they'd played without panties?....
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i tend to agree with you.. making profit and humanitarian missions are "not in the same ball park. They are not even the same f$&*ing sport."
that's a very interesting point of view, however, I don't belive that the trade-makers have such an enlightened position.
I don't see the western world pushing or even discussing political reforms in China...
What do you expect from a totalitarian government?
I am surprised that they haven't done that before...
what I also don't understand is why 'democratic' world has such a great trade relations with totalitarian China?...
then again two party system is only one step to totalitarism
somewhat irrelevant but interesting quote from today NYTimes editorial: "we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield." That's from George Orwell's 1946 essay "In Front of Your Nose."
he-he... data entry will beoutsoursed to India.. he-he.. using federal $$$.. he-he.. I just can't wait for the scandal to develop... he-he...
what settings in Opera are you talking about?
Geeks Put the Unsavvy on Alert: Learn or Log Off
By AMY HARMON
hen Scott Granneman, a technology instructor, heard that one of his former students had clicked on a strange e-mail attachment and infected her computer with the MyDoom Internet virus last week, empathy did not figure anywhere in his immediate response.
"You actually got infected by the virus?" he wrote in an e-mail message to the former student, Robin Woltman, a university grant administrator. "You, Robin? For shame!"
As MyDoom, the fastest-spreading virus ever, continues to clog e-mail in-boxes and disrupt business, the computer-savvy are becoming openly hostile toward the not-so-savvy who unwittingly play into the hands of virus writers.
The tension over the MyDoom virus underscores a growing friction between technophiles and what they see as a breed of technophobes who want to enjoy the benefits of digital technology without making the effort to use it responsibly.
The virus spreads when Internet users ignore a basic rule of Internet life: never click on an unknown e-mail attachment. Once someone does, MyDoom begins to send itself to the names in that person's e-mail address book. If no one opened the attachment, the virus's destructive power would never be unleashed.
"It takes affirmative action on the part of the clueless user to become infected," wrote Scott Bowling, president of the World Wide Web Artists Consortium, expressing frustration on the group's discussion forum. "How to beat this into these people's heads?"
Many of the million or so people who have so far infected their computers with MyDoom say it is not their fault. The virus often comes in a message that appears to be from someone they know, with an innocuous subject line like "test" or "error." It is human nature, they say, to open the mail and attachments.
But computer sophisticates say it reflects a willful ignorance of basic computer skills that goes well beyond virus etiquette. At a time when more than two-thirds of American adults use the Internet, they say, such carelessness is no longer excusable, particularly when it messes things up for everyone else.
For years, many self-described computer geeks seemed eager to usher outsiders onto their electronic frontier. Everyone, it seemed, had a friend or family member in the geek elite who could be summoned ? often frequently ? in times of computer crisis.
But as those same friends and family members are called upon again and again to save the computer incompetents from themselves, the geeks' patience is growing thin. As it does, a new kind of digital divide is opening up between populations of computer users who must coexist in the same digital world.
"Viruses are just the tip of the iceberg," said Bill Melcher, who runs his own technical support business in San Francisco. "When it comes to computers, a lot of intelligent people and fast learners just decide that they don't know."
Many of the computationally confused say they suffer from genuine intimidation and even panic over how to handle the mysterious machines they have come to rely on for so much of daily life. Virus writers, spammers and scammers, they say, are the ones who should be held accountable for the chaos they cause.
But as the same people equip themselves with fancy computers and take advantage of the Internet for things like shopping and banking, critics say that their perpetual state of confusion has begun to get tiresome. And while the Internet's traditional villains remain elusive, those inadvertently helping them tend to be friends and neighbors.
Some in the technocamp imagine requiring a license to operate a computer, just like the one required to drive a car. Others are calling for a punishment that fits a careless crime. People who click on virus attachments, for instance, could be cut off by their Internet service providers until they proved that their machines had been disinfected.
And some, tired of being treated like free help lines, are
It's all good but I'll be more excited about either
-a holographic technology for a computer display purposes (not likely any time soon in a compact form due to power requirements) - or to have a flexible display / touch screen in one to get read of keyboards and increase vieable area in laptops...
than again, in the words of Homer Simpson, "I am not easily excited.."
zdorevn'ki buly... privet so L'vova... Is your city more poluted than Chernobyl'?...
I'm not surprised that they are spying on each other...
I am surprised that it get's into the press...
I am dissapointed that it doesn't get into the press more often...
but there isn't much you can do when the parent company of an "independent" and "free" paper has an agenda that should not be published then it will not be published
I'm also curiouse about "behind the scenes" of this story - who own Boston Globe (all the parent and related corps.) and where the involeved senators are from, who supports them financially, and how they vote, etc.
"he claims that...." I'll belive him as soon as he'll predict the next big one in Cali...
I guess because "mussel glues present the first identified case in which transition metals are essential to the formation of a non crystalline biological material" it is interesting science... but why whoud we care?...
I hate these press releases that don't give any specifics (e.g., strength in MPa) nor do they provide larger picture of why would we care...
oh, well, good for mussels any way... they are tasty...
The most important improvement is that CDDB is now accessible through http which means easy access through http-proxy for those behind firewalls.
I could care less for the cosmetic changes...
it's awesome... I just resently got me a wi-fi toy and tested it while traveling in Washington, DC.
It is really fun (and convinient) when you can pull out yahoo directions standing in the middle of the street...
But it's really anoying in the airport where the only connection awailable is from a pay-for-subscribtion privider (ripper-offer?...)
the more citywide initiative, the better....
and where is Ceritos anyway? is it Orange Co.?
I was waiting for someone to mention autoban... the problem is culture of driving and living for that matter... Germans are organized: slow drivers drive in the right lane leaving the left lane to 'no limit' drivers... Americans don't give a f@ck... How often do you see an assh@le driving 55 in the fast lane on a stretch with 65 limit?... I like the idea of tougher driving test but changes to more courteous culture would go a long way....
well if not FCC than IEEE or whoever aproved the protocol with holes should/may want to work towards a better protocol before every housewife will be Wi-Fi-able...
wait a minute.. corporations can influence government againcies?!??
how unexpected....
"This is a bad thing (tm)"
SCO will come after you for violating the trademark!! or will it be Fox news?...
Excelent news but what about developing Wi-Fi protocol that does not have inherent security flaws?.. or is it realm of consumer education how to turn on encription and password on the wireless routers?..
it's not a credibility case - it's infringement case. Which means the sorce code has to be compared with proof of timeline that is who developed what when... Plus, they may have to show/proof how the code was leaked to the linux comunity...
so in a nut shell: fuck the strutegy, show me the proof!
hmm... with the following that he has, he can afford Johny Cohran!!! so can even kill a couple of people and get out trouble...
Aren't they setting themselves for a big upset by subpena Linus who has little to do with individual distributions?...
And if their claims are even remotely hold grounds, how difficult is it to rewrite the parts they claim to be infringed upon....
and while we are at it, what are they claiming?...
moderrators are on crack... :)
well, may be the current board sees that they will eventually loose the market share and are seeking exit strategy with the most personal benefit... go public, collect ungodly amount of $$$$, then when the things go bad leave the company to eager MBA graduates.... sounds like a good idea... for the board members that is...
my guess is the internet is somewhere on top of the list... that includes multiuser games and, ofcourse , pr0n! the target demografic, i.e. males 18-24, are more interested in unlimited pr0n than sitcomes....
now ratings would WNBA get if they'd played without panties?....
ok, fine... serch engine + Usenet + Blogs... blogging is a new market that will grow into a cake of its own...