I suspect there is some shoddy reporting going on here with the reporter thinking 'hmmm, immunisation, this must be a childhood thing.
You could perhaps posit reasons why it would be most effective during childhood - blocking developmental pathways etc., but there is no real suggestion in the few reported facts that this is the case... the rats tested weren't day-old rats as far as we know, and the affects were seen in a few days.
Sadly then, there is not enough to go on in the report, to know for sure whether it would have to be a childhood immunisation.
"Was Microsoft *ever* the low price solution?" Oh yes. You have to cast your mind back to when they were the guerilla under-dog with an 'open OS' on an open PC platform up against big iron mainframes with proprietary architectures and closed, obstruse OSs. Plucky MS users fought against monolithic controlling IT policies to introduce machines that *they* could control.
I hadn't thought until I read the article just how good the parallels were, and how Microsoft's role has been recast since those days.
Oh, I don't know. You could offer to pay twice the amount if they tell you who took the contract out on you.
Could get amusing.
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I don't think he would deny it, in fact I'm sure he wouldn't. I heard him speaking many years ago (must be 10) and he made it very clear then that hypertext certainly wasn't novel and neither was networking,
He said he believed that his main contribution (from my rusty memory) was implementing it in a mark-up language that was so simple that any layman could sling something together quickly (an attribute that has, perhaps been lost over the years) and also providing a simple way for a document on one machine to reference a document on a machine anywhere in the world - again simply.
Of course, Sir Isaac Newton was also knighted for clambering up on tall people.
Actually, I'd mod you down for not apparently reading the article - the system as envisaged won't be going anywhere near the critical systems you list (well, intentionally anyway). And your iPod won't plug into it.
You look at the story, and think 'wireless telematics? (a) why? (b) eek, scary.'
But in fact it appears this doesn't really have a lot to do with conventional auto telemetrics:
From the arcticle:
The Microsoft/Fiat system, expected to be available in vehicles next year, will be based on standard hardware and operate with Microsoft Windows Automotive software. Using the short-range digital wireless communications standard known as Bluetooth, it will allow motorists to integrate their cell phones and personal digital assistants with the onboard system.
Drivers also will be able to access digital music stored in personal electronic devices through a USB connection in the dashboard, as well as other information."
So what we have here is a way of ensuring that (presumably MS-based) music players and (presumably MS-based) PDAs will be able to link in.
It's notable that they are planning to use USB for music (so no iPods).
So in reality, not really as scary, or indeed as interesting/innovative as it could have been.
Or they could just be smoke-and-mirroring some of the new features, knowing that there is some difficult coding ahead that may slow some things down in order to get them working properly.
As the man said above, developers release, assuming nothing.
It would be an interesting exercise to see whether the DMCA could be used against the very process of law making; that might make legislators sit up and take notice.
I'm blue sky handwaving here, but I wonder if a sufficiently evil legal genious could show that any attempt to amend a law was in some way inimicable to the DMCA.
Hmmmm. Probably not, but it's an intriguing thought.
Try reading my post again. I was giving two examples of popular misconceptions that the Wikipedia debunks.
So it's not surprising that the article in question debunks a popular misconception about the coriolis effect.
Hope that helps.
Just because I can buy a premium rate number from a phone company and use it to collect a share of revenue (and I can) does not mean that the phone company is actively promoting auto-dialer scams.
More likely it means the phone company has inadequate controls over the type of people who rent the premium rate numbers, or at most turn a blind eye to abuse.
Do you have any actual evidence that it is the national carriers in these countries that are actively encouraging this?
Yours is an interesting post, but then again, you assertion that "the malware writer leases lines close to the point of entry so that the carrier doesn't have to do much work once the call enters their system" suggests you don; have a clue how the PSTN works.
which is why I said smal/medium business with 100 employees. There's a lot of them about, and yes at that size the boss quite often still will want to know where his marketing letters are.
And no, there probably won't be a formal 'we only use Microsoft' policy in an organization of that size - They'll need Office, but in the face of a serious, non-fixable threat, where a free alternative exists, yes I believe many will be quite serious about swapping browsers.
I wasn't trying to be funny, you Mods:-)
I know people are skeptical about a mass swap, but actually I think this is just the kind of issue that could cause small/medium sized) business (say a 100-200 users) to actually switch the default browser on their machines.
If the scenario is as reported, and IE is currently unpatchable, then the conversation is likely to go like this:
IT Manager: An problem has been identified in IE, it leaves the organization open to virus infection, we need to change the browser we use to something else.
CEO: Haven't you got more important things to do, where's my mail merge. I'm not having you spending a week changing every machine.
IT Manager: OK, the deal is, here is a threat that can't currently be solved, it presents the possibility that many of our machines could slow down, crash or be otherwise infected. To be honest, the details aren't clear, but it appears to be very easy for the infection to spread.
Are you formally telling me that you don't want me to take any action? and that you are happy with the situation.
CEO: How much does a new browser cost?
IT Manager - it's free.
CEO: quit hanging about in my office and get those new browsers installed.
Trust me, you don't *really* want to see the TV series. Badly let down by production values. Though the book's animated graphics were quite nice (hand animated)
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I suspect there is some shoddy reporting going on here with the reporter thinking 'hmmm, immunisation, this must be a childhood thing.
You could perhaps posit reasons why it would be most effective during childhood - blocking developmental pathways etc., but there is no real suggestion in the few reported facts that this is the case... the rats tested weren't day-old rats as far as we know, and the affects were seen in a few days.
Sadly then, there is not enough to go on in the report, to know for sure whether it would have to be a childhood immunisation.
Sad.
I'm more worried that MS may decide to circumvent the patent by removing the menu from Software Update.
i.e. - all patches are automatically installed.
"Was Microsoft *ever* the low price solution?" Oh yes. You have to cast your mind back to when they were the guerilla under-dog with an 'open OS' on an open PC platform up against big iron mainframes with proprietary architectures and closed, obstruse OSs. Plucky MS users fought against monolithic controlling IT policies to introduce machines that *they* could control.
I hadn't thought until I read the article just how good the parallels were, and how Microsoft's role has been recast since those days.
Oh, I don't know. You could offer to pay twice the amount if they tell you who took the contract out on you.
Could get amusing.
I don't think he would deny it, in fact I'm sure he wouldn't. I heard him speaking many years ago (must be 10) and he made it very clear then that hypertext certainly wasn't novel and neither was networking,
He said he believed that his main contribution (from my rusty memory) was implementing it in a mark-up language that was so simple that any layman could sling something together quickly (an attribute that has, perhaps been lost over the years) and also providing a simple way for a document on one machine to reference a document on a machine anywhere in the world - again simply.
Of course, Sir Isaac Newton was also knighted for clambering up on tall people.
...and then she pulls back the curtain, and there you ARE.
Actually, I'd mod you down for not apparently reading the article - the system as envisaged won't be going anywhere near the critical systems you list (well, intentionally anyway). And your iPod won't plug into it.
You look at the story, and think 'wireless telematics? (a) why? (b) eek, scary.'
But in fact it appears this doesn't really have a lot to do with conventional auto telemetrics:
From the arcticle:
The Microsoft/Fiat system, expected to be available in vehicles next year, will be based on standard hardware and operate with Microsoft Windows Automotive software. Using the short-range digital wireless communications standard known as Bluetooth, it will allow motorists to integrate their cell phones and personal digital assistants with the onboard system.
Drivers also will be able to access digital music stored in personal electronic devices through a USB connection in the dashboard, as well as other information."
So what we have here is a way of ensuring that (presumably MS-based) music players and (presumably MS-based) PDAs will be able to link in.
It's notable that they are planning to use USB for music (so no iPods).
So in reality, not really as scary, or indeed as interesting/innovative as it could have been.
Zone cooling is in the G5 Towers, we're talking cute widdle consumer iMacs here.
Ah yes, Dell's CPU fabs certainly are renowned.
Or they could just be smoke-and-mirroring some of the new features, knowing that there is some difficult coding ahead that may slow some things down in order to get them working properly.
As the man said above, developers release, assuming nothing.
That this posted by someone masquerading under the pseudonym 'Pudge'. Clearly he is deeply deeply embarrassed by this post. ... or somehing.
I'm blue sky handwaving here, but I wonder if a sufficiently evil legal genious could show that any attempt to amend a law was in some way inimicable to the DMCA.
Hmmmm. Probably not, but it's an intriguing thought.
Try reading my post again. I was giving two examples of popular misconceptions that the Wikipedia debunks. So it's not surprising that the article in question debunks a popular misconception about the coriolis effect. Hope that helps.
That's a popular myth. Pick a favourite misconception and check for yourself.
How about the belief that spinach is high in iron? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinach
or that water goes down the plug-hole in different directions in the north and south hemispheres:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect
Is that a general rule of yours? In which case, how long have you owned the Slashdot Web server?
What we have here is a card index file.
Seriously. Copy that all out by hand probably would 'crash the system' which in this vase would equate to a bad case of writer's cramp.
Just because I can buy a premium rate number from a phone company and use it to collect a share of revenue (and I can) does not mean that the phone company is actively promoting auto-dialer scams.
More likely it means the phone company has inadequate controls over the type of people who rent the premium rate numbers, or at most turn a blind eye to abuse.
Do you have any actual evidence that it is the national carriers in these countries that are actively encouraging this? Yours is an interesting post, but then again, you assertion that "the malware writer leases lines close to the point of entry so that the carrier doesn't have to do much work once the call enters their system" suggests you don; have a clue how the PSTN works.
Thanks to the specious reliance on a .Mac account.
And if the IT manager hadn't checked that, (s)he should have been fired.
which is why I said smal/medium business with 100 employees. There's a lot of them about, and yes at that size the boss quite often still will want to know where his marketing letters are. And no, there probably won't be a formal 'we only use Microsoft' policy in an organization of that size - They'll need Office, but in the face of a serious, non-fixable threat, where a free alternative exists, yes I believe many will be quite serious about swapping browsers. I wasn't trying to be funny, you Mods :-)
I know people are skeptical about a mass swap, but actually I think this is just the kind of issue that could cause small/medium sized) business (say a 100-200 users) to actually switch the default browser on their machines.
If the scenario is as reported, and IE is currently unpatchable, then the conversation is likely to go like this:
IT Manager: An problem has been identified in IE, it leaves the organization open to virus infection, we need to change the browser we use to something else.
CEO: Haven't you got more important things to do, where's my mail merge. I'm not having you spending a week changing every machine.
IT Manager: OK, the deal is, here is a threat that can't currently be solved, it presents the possibility that many of our machines could slow down, crash or be otherwise infected. To be honest, the details aren't clear, but it appears to be very easy for the infection to spread.
Are you formally telling me that you don't want me to take any action? and that you are happy with the situation.
CEO: How much does a new browser cost?
IT Manager - it's free.
CEO: quit hanging about in my office and get those new browsers installed.
Trust me, you don't *really* want to see the TV series. Badly let down by production values. Though the book's animated graphics were quite nice (hand animated)