And the best place to get Kazaa Lite these days is... yep, Kazaa !!!
And if you're silly enough to download a binary executable off Kazaa without checking an MD5 sum or something, you might even get bonus Trojan Lite (tm) software!
Clippy, "Hi, it looks like you are trying to carry this device. Do you want to 1. lift some weights, 2. buy a backpack, or 3. sell this thing on ebay?"
As an individual who is very intrigued by scientific discoveries, my gut instinct is to say "cool! Let's try it out!"
As a Christian who believes in the sanctity of human life while not necessarily the sanctity of mouse life (please understand, I'm not trolling here), this raises concerns for me.
Let me start off by saying that I feel that there is something spiritually unique that comes with our human mind in terms of persistent experience through a long term memory, inter-generational passing of memes through language, and a higher-order basis for desire and suffering.
Once we pass this experience, some may call it a curse or a blessing, (I prefer the latter), on to animals, we are entering a new role of responsibility as a Creator. I think this sort of science is as inevitable as the nuclear bomb, and don't get me wrong -- I'd rather see it in the hands first of (aproaching-)democractic states, but we have to tread cautiously in my opinion.
Consider, where will this take us? Slave animals to fight our wars, clean our toilets, and tickle our fancy? Or a "brotherhood" (sisterhood if you prefer) of species working towards a better world? Probably both, but most likely, in my opinion, the former. As silly as it was, Planet of the Apes did raise some important concerns, as have many other works of science fiction. (Cue Charleton Heston shouting "it's a madhouse!")
I'm not saying that splicing those genes into a mouse is going to produce "human-mice" that we need to hire lawyers for to defend themselves against medical treatment, (although lawyers once again seem poised to score big bucks), but at what threshold do we create something which deserves fundamental human rights? (Cue Picard and Data in that STNG episode.)
Science is moving so fast that our understanding of the larger ethical questions is struggling to keep up. I urge you as you feel excitement about developments like this to look inside your own moral compass, whatever faith or wisdom molded your clay, and look for answers and new questions.
May the Creator guide our hands wisely, and may we please his aesthetic sense.
You are correct that ESR should probably have passed this along to IBM and others first to help preserve evidence, BUT... the real smoking gun is not really the memo, but rather the movement of the money.
If this memo gets the feds/DOJ involved in looking for/at the money trail, that's all it takes. It's pretty hard to move $86 million without leaving a trace.
Of course, I have about as much faith in the DOJ investigating this thoroughly as I have in them punishing Microsoft for any of their other infractions.
Also: remember folks, this could just be a fake memo released by Darl and co. in an effort to make us all look like chumps! I'd hesitate on blowing this up too big until further evidence is turned up.
If this is true, it illustrates the absolutely sick nature of Microsoft's upper management.
In other words, there will be an open source java implementation, but you can bet your bottom dollar there will be better tools and IDEs for the closed version initially.
What you're saying does not make sense to me. If one had an open source version of the JVM, one could run Netbeans or Eclipse, two of the best IDEs/tools for Java. (Both of which are free, open source projects.)
What it looks like Sun is thinking of doing is providing an open-source, free Java implementation, with a license that makes the open source community happy. Contrast this with Sun handing the Java platform and releasing it to an independent standards process. (That's probably very unlikely to happen!) I think this is a wise move, good for Sun shareholders and good for us.
Now, if you are saying "the closed source Java VM implementation will be better!",... of course! Just look at what Sun has down with SunOffice vs. OpenOffice, and IBM has done with Eclipse vs. Websphere Application Developer, etc. It's a good compromise. If that's not good enough for you, why not focus your time on asking Steve Jobs to open source and give away Mac OS X. You'll be as successful!
I (cynically and/or wisely) believe the real reason Microsoft is making this move is because they stand to win any way this plays out.
If the AntiVirus vendors sue and lose, Microsoft sets a precedent that would allow them to expand the empire into new ground.
If the AntiVirus vendors sue and win, Microsoft will remove or modify the expansion, Gates could probably just cut a personal check for any judgement, but imagine the PR bonanza! i.e. "We're trying to improve the security of our products, but the anti-trust laws stifle our ability to innovate and remain competitive!"
And splitting up MS wouldn't have done jack squat about this. The OS division would have happilly put in virus and firewall protection and you know why? BECAUSE THAT KIND OF STUFF BELONGS IN THE OS! (WoW). Shoot, we can be grateful they didn't split MS up because then the OS division would be all over the place and wouldn't have to worry about bogus (don't let them improve the product!) BS like this.
The way to split Microsoft, to make the remedy work, would be to split it into identical parts, with the same starting codebase. In other words, "Microsoft 1" and "Microsoft 2", each with an OS and Office division. The government would need to monitor for collusion between the split parts.
That way, the split Microsoft pieces would need to compete across the board. Some of the pieces might get bought up by other companies, like IBM or Sun, extending the important codebase and patent licensing across the industry; this would encourage interoperability while necessarily fragmenting the fundamental monopolies.
Oh, and also as part of the settlment, public floggings of Gates and Ballmer.
It's too bad the article's editors left out the second part of that Enderle quote, which was:
"Plus, the AMD64 makes a revving noise at startup that will make everyone at your next meeting think you are really cool. Did I mention chicks dig buffer overflow protection, because they surely dig me."
That $600 video phone is a waste of money if one already owns a phone handset and a television. (Which would be, like... everyone. Even most grandmas.)
You simply assign the phone a static I.P. address, and then use the router's configuration page to open all ports, and of course plug in your subnet mask and gateway addresses.
While I agree with David Pogue that configuring a firewall/router to let in Videophone traffic is not for the average grandma, perhaps he should have thought long and hard about advising people to expose themselves to the Net like this.
Of course, a person should have a firewall on all their computers, but COME ON... "open all ports"? WTF?
> So, hey, how about taking your own advice: save the holier-than-thou stuff for when we actually know know the actual number.
That's EXACTLY my point. Your post, stating that: "You see, some of us still live in "backwards" parts of the world (e.g., Europe), which still cling to old beliefs."
"Like: that courts of law are actually there to uphold the law, not to just bend over and grab their ankles if it's a big corporation."
That's just holier-than-thou crap when:
1. no fine has been imposed
2. the speculated dollar amount is rediculous
But since I get posted as flamebait, and you're getting modded as interesting with that kind of trolling, all I can say is: enjoy you and your buddies mod points. Then go live in your euro-trash fantasy where this article somehow trumpets "Justice".
I'll say it again: 100 million fine, if imposed, is BULLOCKS. It is a complete waste of everyones time. I don't care if it is a 2.5 billion euro fine. That's worthless too. You gotta be talking 10+ billion and take a nice dent into Microsoft's hoards of cash before a fine is anything more than a waste of everyone's time.
You see, some of us still live in "backwards" parts of the world (e.g., Europe), which still cling to old beliefs.
Like: that courts of law are actually there to uphold the law, not to just bend over and grab their ankles if it's a big corporation.
Save your holier-than-thou crap until a REAL, SUBSTANTIAL fine is actually imposed. This saber-rattling (with a plastic, dull saber IMHO) is as meaningless as the huge waste of taxpayer money that was the DOJ investigation. (Thanks Boies! Hope you like your new job for SCO, you crooked S.O.B.)
It's time for fines in the 10+ billion dollar range -- something that really kicks MS in the nuts.
Actually, no -- Star Wars Galaxies isn't from Verant. It's from Sony Online Entertainment (SOE). Verant was purchased by SOE, consumed, deficated, and its stars departed.
The person who squarely deserves credit for the rediculous and pathetic starting "vision" of SWG is none other than Raph Koster.
You can thank him for taking such an amazing franchise and turning it into a huge mess.
Oh, and he got promoted by the way. You can certainly blaim SOE (and the ashes of Verant) for that.
Captain Midnight, the original sat-kill
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We're not going to see al-Qaeda or even North Korea develop a sat-killer any time soon.
I don't know about that -- Captain Midnight did a nice number on a satellite with little more than the right opportunity.
My apologies for the comparison, as Captain Midnight was certainly not a force of evil like those two entities, but the point stands to say -- you don't have to put a bullet through a satellite to kill it.
- "An anonymous reader gushes" - "These guys truly Get It" - Runs on Windows XP - (No sound samples on the web site) - (May just be a "shovel us money" prototype) Um like... this is news? I could like, hobble something like this together with a laptop and an old keyboard,... could I be on Slashdot then? Please?
and last but not least... It's all about the music for godsakes. If you need this piece of gear to sound good and can't do it on a freakin' roland juno-106 from the 1980s... or a piano... please, break your hands now and spare my ears.
(Not flamebait, and/or troll... just a musician that is sick of crap like this. It is the opposite of inspiring.)
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And the best place to get Kazaa Lite these days is... yep, Kazaa !!! And if you're silly enough to download a binary executable off Kazaa without checking an MD5 sum or something, you might even get bonus Trojan Lite (tm) software!
Clippy, "Hi, it looks like you are trying to carry this device. Do you want to 1. lift some weights, 2. buy a backpack, or 3. sell this thing on ebay?"
Mod parent up please; excellent response :)
Word is, they've spliced human brain capacity into snakes, 800-pound gorillas, and dinosaurs.
What if we give ourselves hooves? Wings? Erase the capacity for language? At what point do "human rights" cease to apply?
If we splice the genes of a human into an animal, would we call the result a human?
What if we give it human-like limbs, a human heart, or a human mind? At what point do "human rights" begin to apply?
Interesting times are ahead of us my friends, and that can be considered a curse.
(By animal, I'm thinking non-human, and I realize that is a rather debatable definition.)
As a Christian who believes in the sanctity of human life while not necessarily the sanctity of mouse life (please understand, I'm not trolling here), this raises concerns for me.
Let me start off by saying that I feel that there is something spiritually unique that comes with our human mind in terms of persistent experience through a long term memory, inter-generational passing of memes through language, and a higher-order basis for desire and suffering.
Once we pass this experience, some may call it a curse or a blessing, (I prefer the latter), on to animals, we are entering a new role of responsibility as a Creator. I think this sort of science is as inevitable as the nuclear bomb, and don't get me wrong -- I'd rather see it in the hands first of (aproaching-)democractic states, but we have to tread cautiously in my opinion.
Consider, where will this take us? Slave animals to fight our wars, clean our toilets, and tickle our fancy? Or a "brotherhood" (sisterhood if you prefer) of species working towards a better world? Probably both, but most likely, in my opinion, the former. As silly as it was, Planet of the Apes did raise some important concerns, as have many other works of science fiction. (Cue Charleton Heston shouting "it's a madhouse!")
I'm not saying that splicing those genes into a mouse is going to produce "human-mice" that we need to hire lawyers for to defend themselves against medical treatment, (although lawyers once again seem poised to score big bucks), but at what threshold do we create something which deserves fundamental human rights? (Cue Picard and Data in that STNG episode.)
Science is moving so fast that our understanding of the larger ethical questions is struggling to keep up. I urge you as you feel excitement about developments like this to look inside your own moral compass, whatever faith or wisdom molded your clay, and look for answers and new questions.
May the Creator guide our hands wisely, and may we please his aesthetic sense.
No.
If this memo gets the feds/DOJ involved in looking for/at the money trail, that's all it takes. It's pretty hard to move $86 million without leaving a trace.
Of course, I have about as much faith in the DOJ investigating this thoroughly as I have in them punishing Microsoft for any of their other infractions.
Also: remember folks, this could just be a fake memo released by Darl and co. in an effort to make us all look like chumps! I'd hesitate on blowing this up too big until further evidence is turned up.
If this is true, it illustrates the absolutely sick nature of Microsoft's upper management.
What you're saying does not make sense to me. If one had an open source version of the JVM, one could run Netbeans or Eclipse, two of the best IDEs/tools for Java. (Both of which are free, open source projects.)
What it looks like Sun is thinking of doing is providing an open-source, free Java implementation, with a license that makes the open source community happy. Contrast this with Sun handing the Java platform and releasing it to an independent standards process. (That's probably very unlikely to happen!) I think this is a wise move, good for Sun shareholders and good for us.
Now, if you are saying "the closed source Java VM implementation will be better!", ... of course! Just look at what Sun has down with SunOffice vs. OpenOffice, and IBM has done with Eclipse vs. Websphere Application Developer, etc. It's a good compromise. If that's not good enough for you, why not focus your time on asking Steve Jobs to open source and give away Mac OS X. You'll be as successful!
Perhaps the name should be:
"Bank Account: Reloaded"
Oh wait -- I guess they already have $20 billion sitting around. How about:
"Analyst Estimates: Reloaded"
If the AntiVirus vendors sue and lose, Microsoft sets a precedent that would allow them to expand the empire into new ground.
If the AntiVirus vendors sue and win, Microsoft will remove or modify the expansion, Gates could probably just cut a personal check for any judgement, but imagine the PR bonanza! i.e. "We're trying to improve the security of our products, but the anti-trust laws stifle our ability to innovate and remain competitive!"
The way to split Microsoft, to make the remedy work, would be to split it into identical parts, with the same starting codebase. In other words, "Microsoft 1" and "Microsoft 2", each with an OS and Office division. The government would need to monitor for collusion between the split parts.
That way, the split Microsoft pieces would need to compete across the board. Some of the pieces might get bought up by other companies, like IBM or Sun, extending the important codebase and patent licensing across the industry; this would encourage interoperability while necessarily fragmenting the fundamental monopolies.
Oh, and also as part of the settlment, public floggings of Gates and Ballmer.
"Plus, the AMD64 makes a revving noise at startup that will make everyone at your next meeting think you are really cool. Did I mention chicks dig buffer overflow protection, because they surely dig me."
Check out the DVC-1000, or its wireless sibling DVC-1100.
I think Best Buy has the "wired" version for roughly $200, and Newegg has it for a bit less.
While I agree with David Pogue that configuring a firewall/router to let in Videophone traffic is not for the average grandma, perhaps he should have thought long and hard about advising people to expose themselves to the Net like this. Of course, a person should have a firewall on all their computers, but COME ON... "open all ports"? WTF?
So they outsourced the musicians eh? Well, at least the drummers are safe.
See subject.
> So, hey, how about taking your own advice: save the holier-than-thou stuff for when we actually know know the actual number.
That's EXACTLY my point. Your post, stating that:
"You see, some of us still live in "backwards" parts of the world (e.g., Europe), which still cling to old beliefs."
"Like: that courts of law are actually there to uphold the law, not to just bend over and grab their ankles if it's a big corporation."
That's just holier-than-thou crap when:
1. no fine has been imposed
2. the speculated dollar amount is rediculous
But since I get posted as flamebait, and you're getting modded as interesting with that kind of trolling, all I can say is: enjoy you and your buddies mod points. Then go live in your euro-trash fantasy where this article somehow trumpets "Justice".
I'll say it again: 100 million fine, if imposed, is BULLOCKS. It is a complete waste of everyones time. I don't care if it is a 2.5 billion euro fine. That's worthless too. You gotta be talking 10+ billion and take a nice dent into Microsoft's hoards of cash before a fine is anything more than a waste of everyone's time.
Have a super day!
Malto Mario fines Microsoft "kickin it up a notch". BAM!
Save your holier-than-thou crap until a REAL, SUBSTANTIAL fine is actually imposed. This saber-rattling (with a plastic, dull saber IMHO) is as meaningless as the huge waste of taxpayer money that was the DOJ investigation. (Thanks Boies! Hope you like your new job for SCO, you crooked S.O.B.)
It's time for fines in the 10+ billion dollar range -- something that really kicks MS in the nuts.
I sense a patent suit! Who patented "silly disk care warning icons"? .... hmm... no one eh ... be right back ...
The person who squarely deserves credit for the rediculous and pathetic starting "vision" of SWG is none other than Raph Koster.
You can thank him for taking such an amazing franchise and turning it into a huge mess.
Oh, and he got promoted by the way. You can certainly blaim SOE (and the ashes of Verant) for that.
I don't know about that -- Captain Midnight did a nice number on a satellite with little more than the right opportunity. My apologies for the comparison, as Captain Midnight was certainly not a force of evil like those two entities, but the point stands to say -- you don't have to put a bullet through a satellite to kill it.
- "An anonymous reader gushes" ... this is news? I could like, hobble something like this together with a laptop and an old keyboard, ... could I be on Slashdot then? Please?
... please, break your hands now and spare my ears.
- "These guys truly Get It"
- Runs on Windows XP
- (No sound samples on the web site)
- (May just be a "shovel us money" prototype)
Um like
and last but not least...
It's all about the music for godsakes. If you need this piece of gear to sound good and can't do it on a freakin' roland juno-106 from the 1980s... or a piano
(Not flamebait, and/or troll... just a musician that is sick of crap like this. It is the opposite of inspiring.)
I might add that the "preview" button ownz me, apparently.