I am a win2k user. But I already use firefox, and before Firefox, I grabbed each Mozilla version as it became available. So Asa's reasoning would not apply in my case. The question is how typical am I? How many people run IE on Win2k?...for them, yes, Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot.
...not only enter a password but also answer three personal questions...
This escalation of YOUR exchanged personal information as a way to authenticate YOUR access does nothing to authenticate the site you are connecting to. Whats worse, even if the site is legit, the news is full of companies, even banks, who are too sloppy with this data. Thus while I may, at first, be reducing the chance that my ID could be stolen, I am also giving out more and more information which a person bent on fraud could eventually gather and use to imitate me.
In cooperation with a few merchants [Tiger Direct e.g.] my bank has recently begun to ask for 2 or 3 extra pieces of identifying data [some of the ssn digits for example]...it got to the point they were asking more about me than I could remember and the transaction was rejected. No Sale. No money to merchant, no goods to me. And if BOA can't keep customer data under wraps, why should I trust a discount electronics mart? I think all this extra info is not really the answer.
the "news" articles i pasted together to make this post were, in part, PR for two of the better funded competitors...they WANT to pique interest and get publicity for the event. A few disclosures that a sponsored vehicle has demonstrated a capacity to do what none of the entrants did last year is sort of infomercial.
If the race were more like real racing [would NASCAR be an example?] the teams would keep mum about what they were capable of to throw off the odds makers.
I think the smartest comments I have seen so far in this or the post of Tom's hardware writeup on DARPA G. C. has been about what a huge bargain DARPA is getting for its 2 million: Real defense contracts only get a few bidders and they want money up front to produce demo's of the systems they sell.
anyway, I just think its cool toys,
I resubmitted this to get it posted at all,,,the/. eds LOVE concision and they snipped this from the post:
Robotics legend Red Whittaker heads Team Red, his former student, Sebastian Thrun, is QB for the Standford team....
Gentlemen, boot your navigation computers!
Whittaker described the start of the race as ENFORCED boredom for safety sake..they have a speed limit off the line because thats where the crowd will be...funny huh? a race with a speed limit.
saying an improved IE is goint to INCREASE the number of people abandoning IE is something only PR people can say with a straight face. For that to actually happen, IE 7 would have to fall flat on its face for for reasons such as this.
lots of good programmers don't have enough $ [who does?] or enough interesting work to keep them from reading slashdot. But they are NOT all unemployed. When you are in touch with a coder, be clear that you are NOT interested in tangling with the legal department of any other employer with whom that coder may have signed non-compete and assignment of copyrights and patents agreements. Require signed releases to this effect.
interesting...I guess I better go read the posts and follow TFA's on grease monkey. I REALLY need to, shall we say, "customize" my/.
experience if the eds [and some of the modding it nutty too] are
going to go all sloppy on me. technically, I would also investigate other filtering applied to just the post title...I actually recognized the subject from the title and expect a storm of complaints before I clicked "Read More"....not sure what kind of filter though. Your idea should work because it puts the work on the readers who, once they know the deal, will gladdly say "DUPE!". Aha here's the rub: its abusable....any body making three comments containing "dupe" can supress a post. Nah, maybe we would
need a database of past posts [we could just use/. "sid" numbers and rely on/. archives as the actuall DB. Well this is getting complicated. Too bad. You have at least 1/2 an idea here that/. readers could really use.
Excuse me? "the editor's intention"? if you want to read past/. posts there are three well know perfectly workable solutions: the editors can post a "slashback", you can subscribe to the headlines email and click on what you missed or go to "Old Stories" and search or just reel 'em in....so what dope is in need of a repeat of something that was posted waaaayyyy back on Saturday? YOU may need to explain away slashdot's version of Ground hog day but the rest of us are just not interested in leftovers.
you'd think even my oddball submissions would be more interesting than a repeat. I think we are actaually dealing with the/. editor's summer replacements here.
Thats a reasonable approach in general and in towns with the resources, like Brookline MA where driving with cell fone in use is ticketable, its helping. I bike through towns that have 2 working cops to cover 60 miles of narrow shoulderless road and tons of extra commuters who neither live nor work there [no tax base, just traffic] so I am basically on my own out here.
I noticed a few commenters are aware that video iPod and driving would mix badly...I hope thats a common attitude but one Hummer absentmindedly plowing the gutters can ruin your whole day.
my formerly computerphobic daughter had to go mobile and on a shoestring budget...she got an ancient Toshiba 8500 series laptop. By adding a bit of memory, and downloading a BIOS patch from Toshiba, she got it to run
win2k. 6 months later, its still a happy laptop. We will have to upgrade from win2k someday...
Yeah, its a tough call. Big telecom has pretty effective lobbying and we have a federal govt and some state gov'ts that have shown themselves highly susceptible to lobbying: in particular, a lot of major metropolises [philly was one of the first to hit the rocks on this] got their plans for municiple wifi scuttled by legal threats from the major carriers.
I'd go with the local responsiblity...I think you still have a better chance of overturning invasive or corrupt administration of a utility if it didn't have deep pockets and armies of lawyers.
I for one do not welcome portable video viewing devices...people in motion should damn well pay attention to where they are going. period. Its bad enough that idiot drivers fidget with their cell phones and a few complete morons watch porn on their laptop while cruising around. Now what'll it be instead of white earbuds and wires? sunglasses with one eyepiece playing $2 movies? I'm committed to getting around by bike where I can and this is not a comforting development. Do people have such shitty lives that they have to be distracted 100% of the time?
Just because you CAN do something, Mr. Jobs, doesn't mean you SHOULD, even if it is profitable, even if it gives Kim Jong Bill another marketing migraine.
[i.e. DHS and its UK equivalent want phone co.s to reatain billing records and ISPs to retain net access records far beyond the billing period ] would you rather the phone company held them or your local town govt?
I used to rename all the executables for my playthings to the application names for editing, compiling, archiving and so on. [Its good to have privs.]
If they sniffed my processes, I look like I'm bustin my hump for 'em
you gotta change a loosing game so I expect them to try things out.
But nothing they'e tried has panned out yet. They got a lot of mind share with Java but did they get any cash?
My SUNW has been so low for so long I half expected to hear the company has put one-digit stock tickers on every executive's desk.
but they sure made it visible. I was working for my second internet startup [for peanuts and equity] when Netscape's IPO broke into the news.
The founder had begged for a year to get enough venture money to open our doors...and the delay cost us a precious first-mover advantage.
But after Netscape, it was raining VC money, more money than good ideas.
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I am a win2k user. But I already use firefox, and before Firefox, I grabbed each Mozilla version as it became available. So Asa's reasoning would not apply in my case. The question is how typical am I? How many people run IE on Win2k? ...for them, yes, Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot.
I humbly beg forgiveness...my spelling has always been atroshous. /. eds let through and what they snip off.
Its interesting what
...not only enter a password but also answer three personal questions...
This escalation of YOUR exchanged personal information as a way to authenticate YOUR access does nothing to authenticate the site you are connecting to. Whats worse, even if the site is legit, the news is full of companies, even banks, who are too sloppy with this data. Thus while I may, at first, be reducing the chance that my ID could be stolen, I am also giving out more and more information which a person bent on fraud could eventually gather and use to imitate me.
In cooperation with a few merchants [Tiger Direct e.g.] my bank has recently begun to ask for 2 or 3 extra pieces of identifying data [some of the ssn digits for example]...it got to the point they were asking more about me than I could remember and the transaction was rejected. No Sale. No money to merchant, no goods to me. And if BOA can't keep customer data under wraps, why should I trust a discount electronics mart?
I think all this extra info is not really the answer.
the "news" articles i pasted together to make this post were, in part, PR for two of the better funded competitors...they WANT to pique interest and get publicity for the event. A few disclosures that a sponsored vehicle has demonstrated a capacity to do what none of the entrants did last year is sort of infomercial. If the race were more like real racing [would NASCAR be an example?] the teams would keep mum about what they were capable of to throw off the odds makers. I think the smartest comments I have seen so far in this or the post of Tom's hardware writeup on DARPA G. C. has been about what a huge bargain DARPA is getting for its 2 million: Real defense contracts only get a few bidders and they want money up front to produce demo's of the systems they sell. anyway, I just think its cool toys,
Whittaker described the start of the race as ENFORCED boredom for safety sake..they have a speed limit off the line because thats where the crowd will be...funny huh? a race with a speed limit.
VW is also supplying some electronics design talent from their Silicon Valley lab...guess that gives the right to name it anything they like.
saying an improved IE is goint to INCREASE the number of people abandoning IE is something only PR people can say with a straight face. For that to actually happen, IE 7 would have to fall flat on its face for for reasons such as this.
lots of good programmers don't have enough $ [who does?] or enough interesting work to keep them from reading slashdot. But they are NOT all unemployed. When you are in touch with a coder, be clear that you are NOT interested in tangling with the legal department of any other employer with whom that coder may have signed non-compete and assignment of copyrights and patents agreements. Require signed releases to this effect.
interesting...I guess I better go read the posts and follow TFA's on grease monkey. I REALLY need to, shall we say, "customize" my /.
experience if the eds [and some of the modding it nutty too] are
going to go all sloppy on me. /. "sid" numbers and rely on /. archives as the actuall DB. Well this is getting complicated. Too bad. You have at least 1/2 an idea here that /. readers could really use.
technically, I would also investigate other filtering applied to just the post title...I actually recognized the subject from the title and expect a storm of complaints before I clicked "Read More"....not sure what kind of filter though. Your idea should work because it puts the work on the readers who, once they know the deal, will gladdly say "DUPE!". Aha here's the rub: its abusable....any body making three comments containing "dupe" can supress a post. Nah, maybe we would need a database of past posts [we could just use
Excuse me? "the editor's intention"? if you want to read past /. posts there are three well know perfectly workable solutions: the editors can post a "slashback", you can subscribe to the headlines email and click on what you missed or go to "Old Stories" and search or just reel 'em in....so what dope is in need of a repeat of something that was posted waaaayyyy back on Saturday? YOU may need to explain away slashdot's version of Ground hog day but the rest of us are just not interested in leftovers.
you'd think even my oddball submissions would be more interesting than a repeat. I think we are actaually dealing with the /. editor's summer replacements here.
Thats a reasonable approach in general and in towns with the resources, like Brookline MA where driving with cell fone in use is ticketable, its helping. I bike through towns that have 2 working cops to cover 60 miles of narrow shoulderless road and tons of extra commuters who neither live nor work there [no tax base, just traffic] so I am basically on my own out here.
I noticed a few commenters are aware that video iPod and driving would mix badly...I hope thats a common attitude but one Hummer absentmindedly plowing the gutters can ruin your whole day.
I just hope more people have that thought!
If only it were just light poles, if only it were just joggers.
read my comment man! It not ME thats gonna buy these things, its the poopheads that nearly run me over every other day or two.
my formerly computerphobic daughter had to go mobile and on a shoestring budget...she got an ancient Toshiba 8500 series laptop. By adding a bit of memory, and downloading a BIOS patch from Toshiba, she got it to run win2k. 6 months later, its still a happy laptop. We will have to upgrade from win2k someday...
...to Linux.
Yeah, its a tough call. Big telecom has pretty effective lobbying and we have a federal govt and some state gov'ts that have shown themselves highly susceptible to lobbying: in particular, a lot of major metropolises [philly was one of the first to hit the rocks on this] got their plans for municiple wifi scuttled by legal threats from the major carriers.
I'd go with the local responsiblity...I think you still have a better chance of overturning invasive or corrupt administration of a utility if it didn't have deep pockets and armies of lawyers.
I just hope y'all don't take me with you.
I for one do not welcome portable video viewing devices...people in motion should damn well pay attention to where they are going. period. Its bad enough that idiot drivers fidget with their cell phones and a few complete morons watch porn on their laptop while cruising around. Now what'll it be instead of white earbuds and wires? sunglasses with one eyepiece playing $2 movies? I'm committed to getting around by bike where I can and this is not a comforting development. Do people have such shitty lives that they have to be distracted 100% of the time?
Just because you CAN do something, Mr. Jobs, doesn't mean you SHOULD, even if it is profitable, even if it gives Kim Jong Bill another marketing migraine.
would make a good Dilbert episode. Sounds like something straight out of Office Space.
[i.e. DHS and its UK equivalent want phone co.s to reatain billing records and ISPs to retain net access records far beyond the billing period ] would you rather the phone company held them or your local town govt?
I used to rename all the executables for my playthings to the application names for editing, compiling, archiving and so on. [Its good to have privs.] If they sniffed my processes, I look like I'm bustin my hump for 'em
I have had many a strained discussion of a TV show that I just watched with my wife...we obviously were watching two different shows on the same set.
you gotta change a loosing game so I expect them to try things out. But nothing they'e tried has panned out yet. They got a lot of mind share with Java but did they get any cash?
My SUNW has been so low for so long I half expected to hear the company has put one-digit stock tickers on every executive's desk.
but they sure made it visible. I was working for my second internet startup [for peanuts and equity] when Netscape's IPO broke into the news. The founder had begged for a year to get enough venture money to open our doors...and the delay cost us a precious first-mover advantage.
But after Netscape, it was raining VC money, more money than good ideas.