We don't need to build more intelligence into the cars. We need to build more intelligence into the drivers. Stiffer driving tests and more rigorous enforcement of existing traffic laws would also help.
(Almost complete) BS! I use Firefox as my default browser and have not have a problem with using it to correctly render the sites I visit. For those pages that are written to only be accessible using IE simply install the extension for Firefox that allows you to view the page in IE. If you get a page that absolutely insists on IE simply go to Tools in Firecfox and select View Page in IE. Simple and painless.
No! The thing that users keep doing wrong is running Windows. If the IE holes aren't the fault of MS than who the hells fault is it? MS wrote IE and left the holes there that allow your machine to be infected/compromised. If they wrote secure code there wouldn't be holes to exploit.
That has to be one of the dumbest statements I have ever read, even on/.
There have always been child abusers and there always will be. Sad fact but true, there have been sickos like this since time immemorial and whether people look at it or not these sickos will continue with their perversions. What it may stop, thought I doubt it, is the scum who make money from child abuse and exploitation.
Yeah, great. How would you feel if this was extended to snail mail? Think it couldn't happen....think again. How soon before the FBI etc. decides that terrorists are communicating by snail mail and seek powers to intercept and read mail from people they *think* could be, might be sending/receiving mail to or from suspected terrorists or terrorist orgnizations.
Wow, that's real service (tongue firmly in cheek). You could have saved a call and just talked to a friend or someone in your family and you would probably have had a better conversation and be no worse off than you are now.
All this discussion about the failings, past & present, of Microsoft are relevant but fail to miss one big issue...the users. You can lock down a system as much as you like and make it harder to get into than Fort Knox but if there is a way, any way, for clueless users to screw things up they will find it. Writing secure code, issuing patches and updates etc will help alleviate the problem but until we can educate users to take security seriously we will still have problems. Despite all the reports about viruses, malware, trojans and other nasties there are still too many users running insecure systems. The best we can hope for is that closing the security holes as they become known is that it will stop these infected machines from infecting other systems. Sure, developers have a duty to write secure code and not leave holes that can be exploited but they cannot program for every act of user stupidity. Just when you think you have an 'idiot proof' OS or application a bigger idiot comes along and proves you wrong.
I don't think that wiretap laws come into this at all. Let's just remember the recent case where a provider of an email service opened and read email messages sent by users of his service. If I remember correctly, the judge found in favor of this creep. His reasoning was that wiretapping laws covered messages being 'transmitted'. As the emails were on the server and read from what was stored, not what was being transmitted, there was no breach of the wiretap laws.
Think the same thing would apply in this case.
If you read the reports fully you will see that their approval is dependant on the government agreeing to implement protections for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the retention of local content rules. The government has agreed to the retention of local content rules but has stated they will not agree to the requested provisions to protect the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from abuses by the pharmaceutical industry.
There is still hope that the FTA will not pass the Senate.
Unfortunately what the USA is lacking is an EFFECTIVE patent system. The current patent system is nothing but a joke, a bad joke, that is stifling innovation and is only benefitting the big corporations with deep pockets.
Pity about the truly innovative 'little guy', he doesn't stand a chance in the current environment and we all lose out.
Couldn't agree more. A phone is a phone is a phone. Just give me a call phone that makes and receives call without interference, dropped calls etc. If I want to take a picture I will use a camera..not my phone. If I want to make a call I will use my phone.... not my camera. This penchant for cramming every possible device, feature and function into cell phones just results in a device that does all these wonderful things but does none of them well.
Sorry, you've got the headline wrong..it should read 'Copyright Bill Will Stifle Innovation'. Anyone who thinks that passage of this bill 'could' stifle innovation needs to take a reality pill. Give the MPAA, RIAA etc the power that this bill appears to give them and you can be sure that the only innovation that will be allowed is that which will directly benefit these interest groups and their duly bought and paid for politicians.
As much as that may be true, the fault doesn't lay with Microsoft, it's the USPTO and the ludicrous US patent system. Next thing you know they will be patenting a method for converting air (composed primarily of oxygen) to carbon dioxide. You and I know this process as breathing but if it's not patented don't be surprised if some corporation comes up with a novel way of describing it the USPTO will grant them a patent.
Why should we be factual and stick to real evidence? M$ has been very successful using hype, FUD and all sorts of advertising gimmicks and tricks. Don't confuse the masses with facts, givem the nice pretty pictures and simple words.
'Super Computer' and Windows should not be mentioned in the same sentence. As soon as you put Windows on a computer, of any type, it becomes an insecure, unstable piece of junk.
First thing to do is stop using IE as your browser. Use Firefox or Netscape 7.1 and set it to block unrequested pop ups. Perfect? No but it kills about 99% of those damm pop-ups. Download and install Spybot and AdAware and run them on start up and that will prevent most of the scum sucking adware from infecting your PC. Also check out Pest Patrol from ZoneLabs.
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We don't need to build more intelligence into the cars. We need to build more intelligence into the drivers. Stiffer driving tests and more rigorous enforcement of existing traffic laws would also help.
(Almost complete) BS! I use Firefox as my default browser and have not have a problem with using it to correctly render the sites I visit. For those pages that are written to only be accessible using IE simply install the extension for Firefox that allows you to view the page in IE. If you get a page that absolutely insists on IE simply go to Tools in Firecfox and select View Page in IE. Simple and painless.
That's not being cynical, it's being realistic.
No! The thing that users keep doing wrong is running Windows. If the IE holes aren't the fault of MS than who the hells fault is it? MS wrote IE and left the holes there that allow your machine to be infected/compromised. If they wrote secure code there wouldn't be holes to exploit.
Ok, so we know what the booby prize is. What's first prize?
That has to be one of the dumbest statements I have ever read, even on /.
There have always been child abusers and there always will be. Sad fact but true, there have been sickos like this since time immemorial and whether people look at it or not these sickos will continue with their perversions. What it may stop, thought I doubt it, is the scum who make money from child abuse and exploitation.
Yeah, great. How would you feel if this was extended to snail mail? Think it couldn't happen....think again. How soon before the FBI etc. decides that terrorists are communicating by snail mail and seek powers to intercept and read mail from people they *think* could be, might be sending/receiving mail to or from suspected terrorists or terrorist orgnizations.
Wow, that's real service (tongue firmly in cheek). You could have saved a call and just talked to a friend or someone in your family and you would probably have had a better conversation and be no worse off than you are now.
All this discussion about the failings, past & present, of Microsoft are relevant but fail to miss one big issue...the users. You can lock down a system as much as you like and make it harder to get into than Fort Knox but if there is a way, any way, for clueless users to screw things up they will find it. Writing secure code, issuing patches and updates etc will help alleviate the problem but until we can educate users to take security seriously we will still have problems. Despite all the reports about viruses, malware, trojans and other nasties there are still too many users running insecure systems. The best we can hope for is that closing the security holes as they become known is that it will stop these infected machines from infecting other systems. Sure, developers have a duty to write secure code and not leave holes that can be exploited but they cannot program for every act of user stupidity. Just when you think you have an 'idiot proof' OS or application a bigger idiot comes along and proves you wrong.
I don't think that wiretap laws come into this at all. Let's just remember the recent case where a provider of an email service opened and read email messages sent by users of his service. If I remember correctly, the judge found in favor of this creep. His reasoning was that wiretapping laws covered messages being 'transmitted'. As the emails were on the server and read from what was stored, not what was being transmitted, there was no breach of the wiretap laws. Think the same thing would apply in this case.
Corporations don't care about people and neither do politicians. All politicians care about is: 1. Getting elected, and 2. Getting re-elected.
No, I think he/she pulled those figures out of their ass
Funny, but it's also a little bit scary because, underneath the humor and sarcasm, there is a big dollop (Pat. Pending) of truth.
If you read the reports fully you will see that their approval is dependant on the government agreeing to implement protections for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the retention of local content rules. The government has agreed to the retention of local content rules but has stated they will not agree to the requested provisions to protect the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from abuses by the pharmaceutical industry. There is still hope that the FTA will not pass the Senate.
Unfortunately what the USA is lacking is an EFFECTIVE patent system. The current patent system is nothing but a joke, a bad joke, that is stifling innovation and is only benefitting the big corporations with deep pockets. Pity about the truly innovative 'little guy', he doesn't stand a chance in the current environment and we all lose out.
Couldn't agree more. A phone is a phone is a phone. Just give me a call phone that makes and receives call without interference, dropped calls etc. If I want to take a picture I will use a camera..not my phone. If I want to make a call I will use my phone .... not my camera. This penchant for cramming every possible device, feature and function into cell phones just results in a device that does all these wonderful things but does none of them well.
Sorry, you've got the headline wrong..it should read 'Copyright Bill Will Stifle Innovation'. Anyone who thinks that passage of this bill 'could' stifle innovation needs to take a reality pill. Give the MPAA, RIAA etc the power that this bill appears to give them and you can be sure that the only innovation that will be allowed is that which will directly benefit these interest groups and their duly bought and paid for politicians.
As much as that may be true, the fault doesn't lay with Microsoft, it's the USPTO and the ludicrous US patent system. Next thing you know they will be patenting a method for converting air (composed primarily of oxygen) to carbon dioxide. You and I know this process as breathing but if it's not patented don't be surprised if some corporation comes up with a novel way of describing it the USPTO will grant them a patent.
Why should we be factual and stick to real evidence? M$ has been very successful using hype, FUD and all sorts of advertising gimmicks and tricks. Don't confuse the masses with facts, givem the nice pretty pictures and simple words.
Why not? America, and American companies, are running everything else over there.
'Super Computer' and Windows should not be mentioned in the same sentence. As soon as you put Windows on a computer, of any type, it becomes an insecure, unstable piece of junk.
Now I know what I don't like about "Charbux" -- it's 'French' roast.
First thing to do is stop using IE as your browser. Use Firefox or Netscape 7.1 and set it to block unrequested pop ups. Perfect? No but it kills about 99% of those damm pop-ups. Download and install Spybot and AdAware and run them on start up and that will prevent most of the scum sucking adware from infecting your PC. Also check out Pest Patrol from ZoneLabs.
And the problem with communicating through hot sex is??
Yes, but the USA isn't a signatory to it.