You know, there are outfits out there who think it's great to buy all their tech equipment from one manufacturer/company.
In some cases, maybe having everything from one company DOES improve interoperability. I wouldn't know tho.
It's just like some people here that want a world full of Linux. 'Why do you have 2 NT servers back there? We're a Linux company!'
And when you're in business, you prolly shouldn't trust anyone anyway.
Half the icons look like cartoons. The other half look like 'normal'. What happened to consistent interface to help users learn the system? Why are all the folders starting to look like web pages now? Even the shut down dialog looks like a web page now. It seems MS wants to rewrite the whole OS in HTML and JS?
Anyway, the most interesting part is the big Whistler banner on the dialup screen. Is that going to be used for banner ads now? 'Windows is now shareware. You can pay $99.99 to/register/ it and remove the ads if you like it.'
Oh wait, we all hate Rambus. Isn't this interesting. All those articles that explain Rambus is evil because it has no fabs which causes xyz to happen. Does that apply to Transmeta?
whether it covers PCs, Macs, Unix boxes?
Does it cover PCs, workstations, or servers?
Does it cover computers plugged in, or ones on batteries?
Or does it actually cover ALL electronic devices?
Will it extend to future quantum or biotech computing devices?
Anyway, not to worry, they say
"If you can do [computer-to-computer] currency
conversions, file customs electronically, or
calculate air, sea or truck freight, then you
must obtain a license from us....
So it just means you should keep the currency conversion and freight calculators separate from the "BUY IT" button? And file customs... I wonder if that affect gov't agencies that use computer systems to receive such information electronically...
"We will investigate this and other hacking claims as they arise."
Wow, so this is an example of hacking? I thought it was just an example of how unintelligent filtering software is. I wonder if their software has problems detecting say https:// urls too.
You can get Netscape as a standalone package, with no mail/news/other crap.
It's hard to find on their site of course.
And it's only about 500k smaller than the communicator package...
Red Hat-bashing pretty much came to a halt a week later, when a little
Microsoft-specific email virus named "ILOVEYOU" did a few billion dollars' worth of damage
Now we know the motive behind the iloveyou thingy. The purpose of the email was to destroy all the reporters' machines who were saying all these nasty things about Linux!
randomly generated as a variable length string of alphanumeric characters. That will force the installer to think a bit when they see a message saying their admin password has been set to 'sg083n2rs8dbixndu'. Then, perhaps they'd either set a new one or write this one on a post-it on the monitor. That solves the vulnerable idiot problem. Then, if they forget the password, they can call the pay per minute install helpline to get help = new revenue stream for the company.
it would probably be less painful than burning to death, and they would have more chance to save me anyway.
Of course, if anyone's played with dipping their hands into liquid nitrogen, you'd probably wonder whether the guy had any idea when he said you'd get flash frozen by it.
We use these same implanted chips on our pets so when they're found we can identify them and call their owners. In fact, it's mandatory here to chip your pets.
Now, when we start doing that to humans, does that mean we can have humans as pets too?
make random changes to his OS and apps and not have to do any documentation, I want to work for him! Imagine being able to sit there all day being payed for playing with bits of code and not having to justify what you are doing!!
Aren't patents supposed to be invalidated if the holder doesn't enforce them for a long time? Stuff like 1-click shopping, this tabbed thing. If everyone's been using it for so long, how come the can still come out with a patent and try to stop everyone?
That, or you could go to cjb.net and get a subdomain forwarded to your host, with no banner that takes up 1/3 of your screen, no spam, no giving your personal details.
Think about it, once you sign up with namezero, that domain you chose is THEIRS! When you win the lottery, you can't go out and buy that domain you wanted, you have to negotiate with THEM to get it!
I'd rather stick with a subdomain (so you get an extra cjb bit in your url, who cares?) then get the real thing when you want to pay for it.
Gnutella tells you to go to www.xyz.com to buy product xyz. You don't know what their IP is. How does that help the spammer if they're obviously connected to the said xyz.com selling their xyz product?
If I put a note saying that I charge say $5 + court costs for reading junk mail, would it hold as legal?
In the real world, I could stick such a note on my mailbox and anyone that puts something in is bound to see it. But in email, where would I have to put such a note such that the mailer could reasonably know that I have such a charge?
Yes, you/could/ educate the programmer, and they/could/ write a tight program in C/C++ (or even assembly).
The point is, for each programmer that does it right, there will be hundreds of non-educated programmers doing it the wrong way.
Why risk your business on your programmer knowing enough of their stuff. Why not just use a safer language?
Sure, C++ programmers are tough, don't need no bounds checking, don't need to comment/indent code, but what's the price to pay when someone didn't have enough sleep on the weekend and slips in an overflow vulnerability in there?
How would that work here? You DL 60% of an mp3, listen to it, then give them 10c and DL the rest of it? Unless this is entirely new material, the artists can't exactly/not do/ the last part if nobody donates enough for listening for the first parts.
Because, while it's difficult but possible to get my dad not to forward chain letters, it would be absolutely impossible to get him to learn to manage blocking thru his hosts file or other software.
That and you can't hack public computers (libraries, schools) to set up your blocking stuff before you use them. (not that you'd have much personal information on those anyway)
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You know, there are outfits out there who think it's great to buy all their tech equipment from one manufacturer/company. In some cases, maybe having everything from one company DOES improve interoperability. I wouldn't know tho. It's just like some people here that want a world full of Linux. 'Why do you have 2 NT servers back there? We're a Linux company!' And when you're in business, you prolly shouldn't trust anyone anyway.
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Half the icons look like cartoons. The other half look like 'normal'. What happened to consistent interface to help users learn the system? Why are all the folders starting to look like web pages now? Even the shut down dialog looks like a web page now. It seems MS wants to rewrite the whole OS in HTML and JS?
/register/ it and remove the ads if you like it.'
Anyway, the most interesting part is the big Whistler banner on the dialup screen. Is that going to be used for banner ads now? 'Windows is now shareware. You can pay $99.99 to
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How stable is it NOW compared to the Mac just released. What limitations do each of the systems have, if any.
First is not always best.
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Transmeta will be. Just like Rambus.
Oh wait, we all hate Rambus. Isn't this interesting. All those articles that explain Rambus is evil because it has no fabs which causes xyz to happen. Does that apply to Transmeta?
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I hope it doesn't crash my browser any more than normal. It crashes enought with multilangualge sites and in JS sites.
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but you would still lose sleep at night woryying half your patrons are going to eds-diner.com by mistake.
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whether it covers PCs, Macs, Unix boxes?
...
Does it cover PCs, workstations, or servers?
Does it cover computers plugged in, or ones on batteries?
Or does it actually cover ALL electronic devices?
Will it extend to future quantum or biotech computing devices?
Anyway, not to worry, they say "If you can do [computer-to-computer] currency conversions, file customs electronically, or calculate air, sea or truck freight, then you must obtain a license from us.
So it just means you should keep the currency conversion and freight calculators separate from the "BUY IT" button? And file customs... I wonder if that affect gov't agencies that use computer systems to receive such information electronically...
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Wow, so this is an example of hacking? I thought it was just an example of how unintelligent filtering software is. I wonder if their software has problems detecting say https:// urls too.
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a type of spider?
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You can get Netscape as a standalone package, with no mail/news/other crap.
It's hard to find on their site of course.
And it's only about 500k smaller than the communicator package...
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Now we know the motive behind the iloveyou thingy. The purpose of the email was to destroy all the reporters' machines who were saying all these nasty things about Linux!
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randomly generated as a variable length string of alphanumeric characters. That will force the installer to think a bit when they see a message saying their admin password has been set to 'sg083n2rs8dbixndu'. Then, perhaps they'd either set a new one or write this one on a post-it on the monitor. That solves the vulnerable idiot problem. Then, if they forget the password, they can call the pay per minute install helpline to get help = new revenue stream for the company.
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it would probably be less painful than burning to death, and they would have more chance to save me anyway.
Of course, if anyone's played with dipping their hands into liquid nitrogen, you'd probably wonder whether the guy had any idea when he said you'd get flash frozen by it.
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They said about twice as much color, so if the SNES was 16bit, does that mean this thingy is 17bit?
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We use these same implanted chips on our pets so when they're found we can identify them and call their owners. In fact, it's mandatory here to chip your pets.
Now, when we start doing that to humans, does that mean we can have humans as pets too?
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make random changes to his OS and apps and not have to do any documentation, I want to work for him! Imagine being able to sit there all day being payed for playing with bits of code and not having to justify what you are doing!!
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Aren't patents supposed to be invalidated if the holder doesn't enforce them for a long time? Stuff like 1-click shopping, this tabbed thing. If everyone's been using it for so long, how come the can still come out with a patent and try to stop everyone?
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That, or you could go to cjb.net and get a subdomain forwarded to your host, with no banner that takes up 1/3 of your screen, no spam, no giving your personal details.
Think about it, once you sign up with namezero, that domain you chose is THEIRS! When you win the lottery, you can't go out and buy that domain you wanted, you have to negotiate with THEM to get it!
I'd rather stick with a subdomain (so you get an extra cjb bit in your url, who cares?) then get the real thing when you want to pay for it.
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Gnutella tells you to go to www.xyz.com to buy product xyz. You don't know what their IP is. How does that help the spammer if they're obviously connected to the said xyz.com selling their xyz product?
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If I put a note saying that I charge say $5 + court costs for reading junk mail, would it hold as legal?
In the real world, I could stick such a note on my mailbox and anyone that puts something in is bound to see it. But in email, where would I have to put such a note such that the mailer could reasonably know that I have such a charge?
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This is a serious question:
Am I the only person here who doesn't know how to appreciate all these 'haiku' posts?
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How do they account for IPs not evenly distributed? Say some countries have used more of their IPs than others.
What about many computers with the same IP, or many IPs pointing to the same computer?
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Yes, you /could/ educate the programmer, and they /could/ write a tight program in C/C++ (or even assembly).
The point is, for each programmer that does it right, there will be hundreds of non-educated programmers doing it the wrong way.
Why risk your business on your programmer knowing enough of their stuff. Why not just use a safer language?
Sure, C++ programmers are tough, don't need no bounds checking, don't need to comment/indent code, but what's the price to pay when someone didn't have enough sleep on the weekend and slips in an overflow vulnerability in there?
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How would that work here? You DL 60% of an mp3, listen to it, then give them 10c and DL the rest of it? Unless this is entirely new material, the artists can't exactly /not do/ the last part if nobody donates enough for listening for the first parts.
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Because, while it's difficult but possible to get my dad not to forward chain letters, it would be absolutely impossible to get him to learn to manage blocking thru his hosts file or other software.
That and you can't hack public computers (libraries, schools) to set up your blocking stuff before you use them. (not that you'd have much personal information on those anyway)
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