"I even know few people who never open more than one browser window, viewing all pages in tabs; I hope they do not try to glue a daily set of newspapers together before reading them..."
Ok, I am one of these people, I like to have one browser window open with all of the pages I need in tabs along the top. Why? Because I find it much more efficent functionality wise, if I had multiple windows on the bottom menu bar, it would get far too cluttered.
I am getting the feeling the author is attacking people like myself who use their browsers like this based on his view that people like their software interfaces to act like objects we encounter in real life. But why should I be limited to how objects work by the laws of physics, when there are better options available to me that aren't confined by these laws?
I don't understand the attack here, if I find it more functional to use my browser this way, who the hell is he to suggest otherwise? No I don't glue pages of a newspaper side by side, because that would be plain stupidity, but this is not the same. It would take ages to glue newspaper pages together in a different arrangement, whereas on a browser interface such as mozilla, it takes a simple: Right click > Open link in new tab.
I think this is a step in the right direction, but from my personal experience most spam I receive seems to come from hotmail / yahoo / other web based email providers.
I have also had about fifteen 419's in the last month or so, which generally come from Spain, and a myriad of W32 mail worms, again, mostly coming from hotmail / yahoo accounts, so I am not sure how effective this will be in the grand scheme of things, seems like trying to derail a freight train by spitting at it to me.
Funnily enough when I was working as an assistant manager for a cafe / bar a couple of years back, I actually got paid to sleep on the job.
The manager got called away as she had to pick her sick child up from school, and she told me that I had to keep things running as she wouldn't be back for a couple of hours. Being the responsible model employee that I am, (albeit I was pretty tired from a heavy stag do the night before) I went to go "chill out" round the back. Went into the bathroom and sat down, closed my eyes, and before I knew it I had fallen asleep. Was bloody great when I think about it, got paid to sleep for over 2 hours...
The problem was that when I woke up, the regional manager (bastard actually had a key for the bathroom! Can you believe that?) was stood there with another employee and informed me I no longer had a job. My track record in this employment didn't do me any great favours.
Joke is on them anyhow, I left a somewhat large floating present for them in the toilet.
52000 free editions of Page 3 coming our way? Excellent!
For non-UK./'ers, Page 3 is a page in one of our more popular tabloids, The Sun, that publishes a large picture of a semi-naked lady every day. In fact, Page 3 is the only reason anyone ever buys The Sun.
"Roughly 300 stations now broadcast digital signals or are in the process of setting them up, according to the FCC"
Why are the RIAA kicking up about this now? Wouldn't it have caused alot less hassle if they had mentioned their concerns to the FCC before the broadcasters spent wads of cash implementing digital radio schemes?
Seems to me like they are just trying to make enemies of everyone. But then again, this comes from the industry that has spent the last couple decades screwing over its customers, its clients,its business associates and other entities within the industry.
Wonder if Mrs Rosen went to the same business college as Bill and Daryl?;)
Agreed, taking risks are fundemental to pushing the boundaries of science and exploration, they have already said these rovers have exceeded their life expectancy, so anything they do from this point can be considered a bonus.
If we never took any risks then the rovers wouldn't even be on Mars in the first place, as the space program would have been considered too "risky" even before Armstrong performed his amazing giant leap for mankind.
"Data encryption and decryption and key management is not for the faint of heart. This is the harder part of encryption and decryption that our competitors do not do," Rizzo said. "So imagine the scenario where you want to have your data encrypted so that just in case someone breaks in, they can't pull the data out."
No doubt Microsoft have spunked a huge wad of cash and R&D time creating the next-generation soloution in Microsoft software data encryption algorithms.....
All I can see sitting here is a load of people bitching about a movie that hasn't even been made yet, and are bitching about a loose rumour published in the Sun.... THE SUN! Jeez.
Also there are alot of complaints about the latest Star Wars films being unrealistic, unplausable and overusing special effects. Star Wars is fiction, Obi Wan does not exist, you are not all jedi's and hell no you do not sense the dark side within me.
Repeat after me; "It's just a fictional movie series".
Ranting aside.... we all know everyone here is probably going to see this movie about 5 times, even if they do claim to hate it.
Ok, now go ahead, mod me to troll and everyone set me to "enemy". How dare I speak in defense of Lucas' latest work, tsk tsk.
Agreed. You can imagine the name being the linspiration of a bunch of marketing executives with their annoying buzzwords....
No doubt they were "thinking outside the box" and coming up with a "game-plan" whilst "touching-base" and "doing lunch" trying to "de-emphasise" the link between Windows and Lindows to stop the Microsoft law machine ruining their company and forcing them to "down-size" whilst their co-workers asked "has this idea got legs?" and "does it appeal to our key demographic?"
God damn I hate Marketing departments, so very very much.
This is an interesting viewpoint, but you can't honestly expect an increase in international "cyberlaw" enforcement to wipe out the problem. See: "The War on Drugs" for an example"
Perhaps another alternative view...?
Take away all these pesky attackers, and people start taking away the bars on their windows and leaving their front doors unlocked, then when another spate of worms or attackers come around the corner, you can expect systems to be raped and pillaged viking style with almost nothing to stop them.
As for the crackdown and jail time, didn't Senor Mitnick recieve quite a few years in the slammer? I think he was pretty harshly punished, especially without a soap on a rope.
Myself and a friend run tlm-project.org where we use BitTorrent to distribute Linux ISO's. We don't have any comparitive statistics vs standard FTP transfer, but obviously, as soon as we have seeded out an ISO to one or two people, our bandwidth constraints are halved. Then, when those seeders dish out the files to a few others, our server pretty much gets to kick back and relax, or devote bandwidth to our other torrents.
All in all, I love the BitTorrent protocol, I think its a great implementation for something like we are doing, although, as another user said, it is a shame about the "illegal" reputation it seems to have gained.
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Ok, I am one of these people, I like to have one browser window open with all of the pages I need in tabs along the top. Why? Because I find it much more efficent functionality wise, if I had multiple windows on the bottom menu bar, it would get far too cluttered.
I am getting the feeling the author is attacking people like myself who use their browsers like this based on his view that people like their software interfaces to act like objects we encounter in real life. But why should I be limited to how objects work by the laws of physics, when there are better options available to me that aren't confined by these laws?
I don't understand the attack here, if I find it more functional to use my browser this way, who the hell is he to suggest otherwise? No I don't glue pages of a newspaper side by side, because that would be plain stupidity, but this is not the same. It would take ages to glue newspaper pages together in a different arrangement, whereas on a browser interface such as mozilla, it takes a simple: Right click > Open link in new tab.
Worst analogy ever.
The common canine really is more intelligent than George Dubya.
Rico 4 Prez!
I have also had about fifteen 419's in the last month or so, which generally come from Spain, and a myriad of W32 mail worms, again, mostly coming from hotmail / yahoo accounts, so I am not sure how effective this will be in the grand scheme of things, seems like trying to derail a freight train by spitting at it to me.
The manager got called away as she had to pick her sick child up from school, and she told me that I had to keep things running as she wouldn't be back for a couple of hours. Being the responsible model employee that I am, (albeit I was pretty tired from a heavy stag do the night before) I went to go "chill out" round the back. Went into the bathroom and sat down, closed my eyes, and before I knew it I had fallen asleep. Was bloody great when I think about it, got paid to sleep for over 2 hours...
The problem was that when I woke up, the regional manager (bastard actually had a key for the bathroom! Can you believe that?) was stood there with another employee and informed me I no longer had a job. My track record in this employment didn't do me any great favours.
Joke is on them anyhow, I left a somewhat large floating present for them in the toilet.
For non-UK ./'ers, Page 3 is a page in one of our more popular tabloids, The Sun, that publishes a large picture of a semi-naked lady every day. In fact, Page 3 is the only reason anyone ever buys The Sun.
Why are the RIAA kicking up about this now? Wouldn't it have caused alot less hassle if they had mentioned their concerns to the FCC before the broadcasters spent wads of cash implementing digital radio schemes?
Seems to me like they are just trying to make enemies of everyone. But then again, this comes from the industry that has spent the last couple decades screwing over its customers, its clients,its business associates and other entities within the industry.
Wonder if Mrs Rosen went to the same business college as Bill and Daryl? ;)
Many people still call it "Susie".
Same as alot of people still call Linux "Line-ucks" and people still pronounce GNU as "Gee En Yu".
Not that it really matters....
Agreed, taking risks are fundemental to pushing the boundaries of science and exploration, they have already said these rovers have exceeded their life expectancy, so anything they do from this point can be considered a bonus. If we never took any risks then the rovers wouldn't even be on Mars in the first place, as the space program would have been considered too "risky" even before Armstrong performed his amazing giant leap for mankind.
Have the best of both worlds! www.booble.com :)
No doubt Microsoft have spunked a huge wad of cash and R&D time creating the next-generation soloution in Microsoft software data encryption algorithms.....
"Microsoft ROT26"! (c)
All I can see sitting here is a load of people bitching about a movie that hasn't even been made yet, and are bitching about a loose rumour published in the Sun.... THE SUN! Jeez.
Also there are alot of complaints about the latest Star Wars films being unrealistic, unplausable and overusing special effects. Star Wars is fiction, Obi Wan does not exist, you are not all jedi's and hell no you do not sense the dark side within me.
Repeat after me; "It's just a fictional movie series".
Ranting aside.... we all know everyone here is probably going to see this movie about 5 times, even if they do claim to hate it.
Ok, now go ahead, mod me to troll and everyone set me to "enemy". How dare I speak in defense of Lucas' latest work, tsk tsk.
Didn't South Park do something like this but with a Towel? All I remember is that the Towel decided to get high one day and just sort wondered off...
Upgrade your mission critical systems. Morons. ;)
No doubt they were "thinking outside the box" and coming up with a "game-plan" whilst "touching-base" and "doing lunch" trying to "de-emphasise" the link between Windows and Lindows to stop the Microsoft law machine ruining their company and forcing them to "down-size" whilst their co-workers asked "has this idea got legs?" and "does it appeal to our key demographic?"
God damn I hate Marketing departments, so very very much.
Perhaps another alternative view...?
Take away all these pesky attackers, and people start taking away the bars on their windows and leaving their front doors unlocked, then when another spate of worms or attackers come around the corner, you can expect systems to be raped and pillaged viking style with almost nothing to stop them.
As for the crackdown and jail time, didn't Senor Mitnick recieve quite a few years in the slammer? I think he was pretty harshly punished, especially without a soap on a rope.
All in all, I love the BitTorrent protocol, I think its a great implementation for something like we are doing, although, as another user said, it is a shame about the "illegal" reputation it seems to have gained.
/gline +*!April@Fools.day.com * 99999999999999999999999999999: This kind of "news" is starting to tick me off today