I used to drive an '89 Honda CRX up until about 3 months ago... At 148,000 miles I was getting like 35 mpg, and its puny little 4-cylinder, 1.6 liter 98hp engine had better acceleration than my brand new spanking 3.1L V6 pontiac grand prix.
Even if miraclously the sharing of mp3 files will be made impossible one day, I'll just steal music the old fashioned way, shoplifting... (But only CD's that I think aren't worth the full price or some new unknown artist -- think of it as "sampling")
The Chinese government announced today that the Great Wall's unused communications wires will be used for the internet. It will be the only internet connection visible from space, and the only one in the world with a human back-up capability. (If the cables fail, messengers will be sent on top of the wall)
News flash!
The world's deadliest internet connection went online today when the unused wires of the Los Angeles subway system were converted for data transmission. AOL, the owner of the new link, says it is not responsible for muggings and shootings.
News flash!
Scientists at MIT have succeeded today in turning a poodle into a 10Mbps data link. While the technology is still in its infancy, analysts speculate that in the future the internet will no longer rely on wires or satellites. Instead, roads will be artificially sprayed with water to form large puddles.
If you put 4 monkeys in a room, they will write Windows 2000 in two hours...
But seriously.. if you take an infinite number of monkeys and let them type for an infinite amount of time they will eventually retype this whole web site letter-for-letter, including the binary data in the images.
They'll also write all the world's operating systems in pure binary, as well as design an infinite number of new computer chips and technologies.
Question: how many bananas does it take to feed an infinite number of monkeys?
Q: You own a multi-million-dollar company and your product is about to become free to the public. What do you do?
A: Fight for it.
Don't worry, the Big Guys (tm) will not let people take their flagship product for free. The only way for RSA (or Microsoft for that matter) to let the public have its products for free is when conventional laws of logic and Common Sense (tm) stop working.
By the way, many companies are a little behind in the Common Sense(tm) technology.:)
The biggest mass murderers of all time were Atheists during the 20th century-- Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.
Yes, but how many religious genocides have occurred during the 30 (40? 50?) centuries prior to that! With all due respect, your logic is flawed. You can't just look at our century; you have to consider what happened before. And even if the biggest mass murderers of our century were atheists then they still often murdered because of people's religious beliefs.
The biggest mass murderers of all time were Atheists during the 20th century-- Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. Yes, but how many religious genocides have occurred during the 30 (40? 50?) centuries prior to that! With all due respect, your logic is flawed. You can't just look at our century; you have to consider what happened before. And even if the biggest mass murderers of our century were atheists then they still often murdered because of people's religious beliefs.
I have had the pleasure of using Windows 95 and 98 for several large CGI projects & web sites. I've also had the pleasure of seeing the system go down on me anywhere from 1 to 5+ times a day, not to mention the countless times I had to restart b/c the system would slow down to the point where the mouse was lagged and it took 5 seconds to redraw the screen.
I guess the consequences of computers crashing are not as much as mangled or lost documents but rather frustration resulting from the person having to boot back up, wait a minute for scandisk to check for errors, open up all the folders, editors, and apps again, open the last saved version of the document, etc. The frustration makes it hard to get into the "working mood" again and makes you feel like quitting. Trust me, I know.
Even worse, if you work on your document non-linearly (ie. not typing an essay but jumping around a program's source code, making changes here and there), trying to figure out what you've already done and what you need to do to the document after you load it from an old saved version can be a bitch.
Microsoft has taken security to a whole new level!
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The best way to keep a box secure is to have as much downtime as possible!
This is the invention of the century! Just imagine how many DoS and cracker attacks your site could avoid by being down 80-90% of the time!! I think that Microsoft has realized this important security concept a long time ago and integrated it into their products long before it gained wide acceptance.
In the past, the instability of Microsoft products was the laughing stock of all but the poor computer illiterate masses ("my computer's cupholder broke"). But Bill Gates had a vision.
Now I can see that Microsoft boxes are more secure than any non-MS OS, even OpenBSD or LinuxPPC! I mean, if I, a legitimate user can't even connect to the box then how can a cracker break into it? The amazing potential of this technology staggers the imagination.
And OS technology is advancing all the time. See, in the beginning, MS Windows 1.0 had pretty low downtime. But as Microsoft gained more experience in the fields of Bloatware (trademark of Microsoft) and Instability, its newer products featured more and more security. (By the way, Bloatware is a security concept that uses large amounts of bogus data to hide the few relevant files so a possible intruder can't find them and it also makes a product look like it has a ton more features since it comes on 48 CD's instead of a floppy:).)
Right now the latest and most secure MS product is Windows 98. From firsthand experience I can tell you that it does a marvelous job of keeping intruders out, although i have to save my work more often and I've become partially color blind -- my eyes have stopped seeing the color blue because I used to see it all the time.
Windows 2000, the upcoming Microsoft product will have even more amazing security. So far I've tried going to the w2k test page and the security measures there boggle the mind. I was unable to connect 90% of the time! Now logic will dictate that if I can't connect then some mean coke-drinking disk-slinging PERL-addicted maniac cracker won't be able to break in and do nasty things to the box and the $200+ OS on it.
Now isn't that better than some free OS that is always up? Microsoft, thank you for making your OS so secure!
PS. I think that by year 2002 Microsoft will bring us an OS so advanced that it will have a 100% downtime. Now that's what I call cutting-edge technology.
Want your box to be secure? Switch to an MS OS. Get faulty routers & switches. Move to a rainy area. That's the Microsoft way.
For the humor deprived: this was a joke. I think that if Microsoft wants to survive the next couple years it needs to get its act together and strive for quality instead of releasing a new version asap to bring in quick cash.
Any normal (read: NOT micros~1 window~1) operating system shouldn't let a messed-up app take down another prog or the whole system with it. It doesn't matter if you have 2 apps installed or 2,000. Windows is notorious for letting one app trash the entire system. That's why I try to stick to Linux.
On a side note.. I just want to make a comment about linux's (still) inadequate hardware support... I have a beautiful P3-500 box sitting at home but I can't really run linux on it b/c it won't support my pci sound card and my NIC.. I could change out the sound card but its a big expense for me (i'm looking for QUALITY hardware, ya know?:) and i'll probably change the nic in a couple days.. I got some RealTek piece of crap when the guys came in to install my cable modem. Haha funny thing is that I ended up configuring and setting up my 2 boxes because it would take the loser installation guy hours to do it:)
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I used to drive an '89 Honda CRX up until about 3 months ago... At 148,000 miles I was getting like 35 mpg, and its puny little 4-cylinder, 1.6 liter 98hp engine had better acceleration than my brand new spanking 3.1L V6 pontiac grand prix.
Even if miraclously the sharing of mp3 files will be made impossible one day, I'll just steal music the old fashioned way, shoplifting... (But only CD's that I think aren't worth the full price or some new unknown artist -- think of it as "sampling")
:)
Canine telecommunications? Hmmmmmmmmmm.... *LIGHT BULB*
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Sorry about that, I typed it in a hurry
News flash!
The Chinese government announced today that the Great Wall's unused communications wires will be used for the internet. It will be the only internet connection visible from space, and the only one in the world with a human back-up capability. (If the cables fail, messengers will be sent on top of the wall)
News flash!
The world's deadliest internet connection went online today when the unused wires of the Los Angeles subway system were converted for data transmission. AOL, the owner of the new link, says it is not responsible for muggings and shootings.
News flash!
Scientists at MIT have succeeded today in turning a poodle into a 10Mbps data link. While the technology is still in its infancy, analysts speculate that in the future the internet will no longer rely on wires or satellites. Instead, roads will be artificially sprayed with water to form large puddles.
"This is a UNIX system! I know this!"
*click* *click* *click* *tap* *tap*
*wait* *redial over and over*
"Welcome!"
*click* *click*
"You've got mail!"
If you put 4 monkeys in a room, they will write Windows 2000 in two hours...
But seriously.. if you take an infinite number of monkeys and let them type for an infinite amount of time they will eventually retype this whole web site letter-for-letter, including the binary data in the images.
They'll also write all the world's operating systems in pure binary, as well as design an infinite number of new computer chips and technologies.
Question: how many bananas does it take to feed an infinite number of monkeys?
Q: You own a multi-million-dollar company and your product is about to become free to the public. What do you do?
:)
A: Fight for it.
Don't worry, the Big Guys (tm) will not let people take their flagship product for free. The only way for RSA (or Microsoft for that matter) to let the public have its products for free is when conventional laws of logic and Common Sense (tm) stop working.
By the way, many companies are a little behind in the Common Sense(tm) technology.
The biggest mass murderers of all time were Atheists during the 20th century-- Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.
Yes, but how many religious genocides have occurred during the 30 (40? 50?) centuries prior to that! With all due respect, your logic is flawed. You can't just look at our century; you have to consider what happened before. And even if the biggest mass murderers of our century were atheists then they still often murdered because of people's religious beliefs.
The biggest mass murderers of all time were Atheists during the 20th century-- Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. Yes, but how many religious genocides have occurred during the 30 (40? 50?) centuries prior to that! With all due respect, your logic is flawed. You can't just look at our century; you have to consider what happened before. And even if the biggest mass murderers of our century were atheists then they still often murdered because of people's religious beliefs.
I have had the pleasure of using Windows 95 and 98 for several large CGI projects & web sites. I've also had the pleasure of seeing the system go down on me anywhere from 1 to 5+ times a day, not to mention the countless times I had to restart b/c the system would slow down to the point where the mouse was lagged and it took 5 seconds to redraw the screen.
I guess the consequences of computers crashing are not as much as mangled or lost documents but rather frustration resulting from the person having to boot back up, wait a minute for scandisk to check for errors, open up all the folders, editors, and apps again, open the last saved version of the document, etc. The frustration makes it hard to get into the "working mood" again and makes you feel like quitting. Trust me, I know.
Even worse, if you work on your document non-linearly (ie. not typing an essay but jumping around a program's source code, making changes here and there), trying to figure out what you've already done and what you need to do to the document after you load it from an old saved version can be a bitch.
The best way to keep a box secure is to have as much downtime as possible!
This is the invention of the century! Just imagine how many DoS and cracker attacks your site could avoid by being down 80-90% of the time!! I think that Microsoft has realized this important security concept a long time ago and integrated it into their products long before it gained wide acceptance.
In the past, the instability of Microsoft products was the laughing stock of all but the poor computer illiterate masses ("my computer's cupholder broke"). But Bill Gates had a vision.
Now I can see that Microsoft boxes are more secure than any non-MS OS, even OpenBSD or LinuxPPC! I mean, if I, a legitimate user can't even connect to the box then how can a cracker break into it? The amazing potential of this technology staggers the imagination.
And OS technology is advancing all the time. See, in the beginning, MS Windows 1.0 had pretty low downtime. But as Microsoft gained more experience in the fields of Bloatware (trademark of Microsoft) and Instability, its newer products featured more and more security. (By the way, Bloatware is a security concept that uses large amounts of bogus data to hide the few relevant files so a possible intruder can't find them and it also makes a product look like it has a ton more features since it comes on 48 CD's instead of a floppy
Right now the latest and most secure MS product is Windows 98. From firsthand experience I can tell you that it does a marvelous job of keeping intruders out, although i have to save my work more often and I've become partially color blind -- my eyes have stopped seeing the color blue because I used to see it all the time.
Windows 2000, the upcoming Microsoft product will have even more amazing security. So far I've tried going to the w2k test page and the security measures there boggle the mind. I was unable to connect 90% of the time! Now logic will dictate that if I can't connect then some mean coke-drinking disk-slinging PERL-addicted maniac cracker won't be able to break in and do nasty things to the box and the $200+ OS on it.
Now isn't that better than some free OS that is always up? Microsoft, thank you for making your OS so secure!
PS. I think that by year 2002 Microsoft will bring us an OS so advanced that it will have a 100% downtime. Now that's what I call cutting-edge technology.
Want your box to be secure? Switch to an MS OS. Get faulty routers & switches. Move to a rainy area. That's the Microsoft way.
For the humor deprived: this was a joke. I think that if Microsoft wants to survive the next couple years it needs to get its act together and strive for quality instead of releasing a new version asap to bring in quick cash.
--diarrhea
Any normal (read: NOT micros~1 window~1) operating system shouldn't let a messed-up app take down another prog or the whole system with it. It doesn't matter if you have 2 apps installed or 2,000. Windows is notorious for letting one app trash the entire system. That's why I try to stick to Linux.
:) and i'll probably change the nic in a couple days.. I got some RealTek piece of crap when the guys came in to install my cable modem. Haha funny thing is that I ended up configuring and setting up my 2 boxes because it would take the loser installation guy hours to do it :)
On a side note.. I just want to make a comment about linux's (still) inadequate hardware support... I have a beautiful P3-500 box sitting at home but I can't really run linux on it b/c it won't support my pci sound card and my NIC.. I could change out the sound card but its a big expense for me (i'm looking for QUALITY hardware, ya know?