"Standards Independant The Obje platform works with all standards, including those that have not yet been defined. It requires no central coordination, pre-configuring, or special set-up, and can be easily used by people with no technical expertise." ... "Instead of working out all agreements in advance, The Obje platform specifies a few very general agreements in the form of domain-independent programmatic "meta-interfaces". These meta-interfaces use mobile code to allow new agreements to be put in place at run-time, enabling devices and services to dynamically extend the capabilities of their clients."
If this is "standards independant," what exactly is "modible code?" Wouldn't there have to be some sort of standard for that?
I glanced at the article briefly, and it seems to me that this seal serves the same purpose as say MSFT's certificate of authenticity. It's only there to say it's an original and not a counterfeit, from an organized piracy ring. You need to realize that an organized piracy ring is *NOT* a little warez group that uploads pirated releases to the internet; a piracy ring is organized crime, where the software is pirated, packaged, and put on store shelves.
IMO This is a great idea. Could it be that the feds finally realize that even though joel user downloads every pirated game he can find, he wouldn't necessarily buy the games if he couldn't download them? Do they finally realize that the only loss of revenue is due to organized crime and not high school "hackers?"
I sure hope this is the case; the less money that goes to organized crime, the more money stays in circulation, and the more that gets into the hands of the hard working developers.
I spent the summer in India; you aren't too far off the mark.
While I was in Pune, there were workers on every major road, installing fiber optic cable.
As far as DNS goes, they haven't got a clue what they're doing. If I traceroute an ip, my packets fly to Australia, California, New York, California, Norway, and finally the uk site i'm looking for.
I think you mean "assuming a false identity," and not "getting your name changed."
It would be quite difficult for a wanted criminal (whose photo was on the fbi's website) to just go out and get their name changed.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, it probably wouldn't be too difficult for them to obtain counterfeit documents and simply become a new person...or would that be the 0.001% of criminals that are smart?
I'm not really sure -- It seems obvious for a criminal to use a name other than their own, after comitting a crime.
That's a good point actually - I often overlook the elderly. Although, my elderly grandmother HATES computers with a passion. She almost definitely will outlive my grandfather, but I don't think she will ever bring herself to use a computer.
Even so, the elderly, more than anyone else, should realize that there is little, or no correlation between an email address and a bank account. The internet most likely didn't even exist when they got their bank accounts.
I realize that with all of the electronic banking that happens now, people could be duped by such a scam, however, any well informed individual would know that email is NOT a secure communication method and would NEVER transmit such sensitive information over an insecure protocol.
So I believe my point still stands. Get an education.
People that actually fall for this bullshit don't deserve to have a bank account in the first place.
Do you honestly think the feds are gonna contact you via email to tell you that you're violating the patriot act? Go get an education.
Why would NASA want information on airlines' passengers? I can understand the Government, in general would, but NASA? NASA does space exploration, not national defense. What gives?
A first year computer science professor of mine was mildly offended when I explained to him that my final project (as assigned by him) was available online and that I all I needed to do was partially rewrite existing code and my project was done. He couldn't argue with what I did though - I just told him "hey, what's the sense in rewriting code that already exists?" I scored a 95 on the midterm and a 100 on the final =p
Will this test kernel have better support for acpi on my hp ze4430us?
Somehow I doubt it. test9 and 10 both freeze when I try to monitor my battery charge...now how useful is a laptop if you don't know how long it will stay on?
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The question is: Are they using MS Word on Windows, or are they emulating it on unix?
Well, honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't use their own products; nobody else does...
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Isn't it Ron Jeremy that comes on the woman???
FTA:
"Standards Independant
The Obje platform works with all standards, including those that have not yet been defined. It requires no central coordination, pre-configuring, or special set-up, and can be easily used by people with no technical expertise."
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"Instead of working out all agreements in advance, The Obje platform specifies a few very general agreements in the form of domain-independent programmatic "meta-interfaces". These meta-interfaces use mobile code to allow new agreements to be put in place at run-time, enabling devices and services to dynamically extend the capabilities of their clients."
If this is "standards independant," what exactly is "modible code?" Wouldn't there have to be some sort of standard for that?
Could they have found a long lost SCO lawsuit?
Maybe even a lawsuit against NASA...they have deep pockets...who cares if they use vxworks?
As far as SCO is concerned, if it isn't Unixware, it isn't legal.
Or did they find darl's mind? he's obviously lost it...
I glanced at the article briefly, and it seems to me that this seal serves the same purpose as say MSFT's certificate of authenticity. It's only there to say it's an original and not a counterfeit, from an organized piracy ring. You need to realize that an organized piracy ring is *NOT* a little warez group that uploads pirated releases to the internet; a piracy ring is organized crime, where the software is pirated, packaged, and put on store shelves.
IMO This is a great idea. Could it be that the feds finally realize that even though joel user downloads every pirated game he can find, he wouldn't necessarily buy the games if he couldn't download them? Do they finally realize that the only loss of revenue is due to organized crime and not high school "hackers?"
I sure hope this is the case; the less money that goes to organized crime, the more money stays in circulation, and the more that gets into the hands of the hard working developers.
That's firefox now, not firebird. Version 0.8 has been released recently, as well...
.phoenix directory, everything worked out beautifully...
The new version didn't play nice with my old settings, but once I deleted my old
Oh, and on behalf of us coders, you're welcome.
It definitely does rock that all of this software is rolling as strong as a steamengine =)
I spent the summer in India; you aren't too far off the mark.
While I was in Pune, there were workers on every major road, installing fiber optic cable.
As far as DNS goes, they haven't got a clue what they're doing. If I traceroute an ip, my packets fly to Australia, California, New York, California, Norway, and finally the uk site i'm looking for.
I think you mean "assuming a false identity," and not "getting your name changed."
It would be quite difficult for a wanted criminal (whose photo was on the fbi's website) to just go out and get their name changed.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, it probably wouldn't be too difficult for them to obtain counterfeit documents and simply become a new person...or would that be the 0.001% of criminals that are smart?
I'm not really sure -- It seems obvious for a criminal to use a name other than their own, after comitting a crime.
That's a good point actually - I often overlook the elderly. Although, my elderly grandmother HATES computers with a passion. She almost definitely will outlive my grandfather, but I don't think she will ever bring herself to use a computer. Even so, the elderly, more than anyone else, should realize that there is little, or no correlation between an email address and a bank account. The internet most likely didn't even exist when they got their bank accounts. I realize that with all of the electronic banking that happens now, people could be duped by such a scam, however, any well informed individual would know that email is NOT a secure communication method and would NEVER transmit such sensitive information over an insecure protocol. So I believe my point still stands. Get an education.
People that actually fall for this bullshit don't deserve to have a bank account in the first place. Do you honestly think the feds are gonna contact you via email to tell you that you're violating the patriot act? Go get an education.
Why would NASA want information on airlines' passengers? I can understand the Government, in general would, but NASA? NASA does space exploration, not national defense. What gives?
A first year computer science professor of mine was mildly offended when I explained to him that my final project (as assigned by him) was available online and that I all I needed to do was partially rewrite existing code and my project was done. He couldn't argue with what I did though - I just told him "hey, what's the sense in rewriting code that already exists?" I scored a 95 on the midterm and a 100 on the final =p
Will this test kernel have better support for acpi on my hp ze4430us? Somehow I doubt it. test9 and 10 both freeze when I try to monitor my battery charge...now how useful is a laptop if you don't know how long it will stay on?