"The W54 is small enough to be deployed as a SADM (Special Atomic Demolition Munition) or so called "Backpack Nuke". It was the closest thing the U.S. is..."
When the US government tried to infer that Taliban and other suicide bombers were cowards, IT was the coward for failing to recall that, like the miserable failure the Japanese Kamikazes were, the US W54 program would have made suicide bombers out of the troops carrying these backpack bombs and who thought they were going to parachute in, covertly plant one on a bridge or some vital infrastructure, and then "run a few hundred yards to safety"... Hell, even the Enola Gay and other nuclear bombers were expected to be non-returns, basically on a one-way suicide mission, considering the blast effects and the attendant radiation...
and then quad-logarithmically increase the fine for companies wasting paper in a time when many companies are trying to "go green". One would think "Amazon" would consider the weight its name might carry...
(Considering the "historic" day in Califor-ni-aye, re: civil unions/marriages, etc... And considering Scandinavia and other countries were way ahead of the US... but that's another topic...)
Now that THIN is REALLY IN, Nokia users ought to be delight(ed)...
But, when they routinely rip apart (if they are dismantling or cutting into) the property of those who are deemed "clean and free to go", they should be obligated to pay for restoring the condition of the vehicle prior to letting them go. They should be required to provide food, a lounge, and proof of detainment and protection from being fired. They should obtain for them any lost money incident to the search.
Nations conducting these searches need to tone down. There are ways to deal with drugs and physical contraband by using various X and other types of ray or wave search equipment. While I am sure that not EVERY border agent is a snoop and a thief, it only takes ONE to cause hell for someone who is NOT a trafficker of illegal materials.
Do these people KNOW how many wannabe writers pen their own salacious materials, write incendiary journals/material, and conduct research of various kinds, and -- based on the mores of the agent -- could be summarily relieved of their non-crime-committing property, arrested, and tarred for life, possibly even being fired?
Another responder said FULLY encrypting one's laptop is a GOOD thing, and legitimate, as simply using public transit it is easy to have one's laptop stolen. Why, in 2006, I saw a thuggish asshole running off with the Linux laptop (I assume it was Linux-based, as this was the time of the Linux convention in 2006, at Moscone) of a convention goer who was in the Powell Street BART entrance. I am SURE that victim is hating his life if he had no HARD disc encryption and the asshole thief managed to find an adapter and keep the thing powered longer than 2 hours afterward.
But, had I been quicker-thinking, I'd have stuck out my foot and tripped that *motherfuck* and worried later about the consequences. That way, the victim of the theft would have relief that even if his laptop died and the disk crashed permanently, at LEAST that bastard who stole it wouldn't benefit from the data AND the hardware loss. I'd do this for the user of ANY OS, as long as I realized it was THEIR laptop being stolen from them. Realization only requires seeing the victim using it and then out of the blue seeing some bastard run off with it, with a menacing, victorious look, the look of buying his next drug hit, or the look of glee from tormenting someone who was careless and easy prey...
Pretty much, person privacy and the right to encrypt one's data should protect one from prying eyes of the government.
Not sure if you meant to reply to me, but personally, I feel that most of this is BAD KARMA. State Department before 1990's WARNED Congress that Belfast, London, Beirut, etc. were COMING to the USA. Not a matter of IF, but WHEN.
As long as state powers conduct expeditionary missions, set up military bases overseas, hijack oil fields, sell arms to those having no business with them, allowing it's religious organizations to "spread the word of God" to foreign lands and then not reign them in, but instead send troops to protect megaphones offending indigenous peoples... well, what the hell CAN people expect.
9/11 didn't happen out of sheer evil, or hatred for 'merkuns out of jealousy. Those terrorists were like bees in a hive that was struck. Struck through decade after decade of imperialist or nationalist or economic strike and blow. After decades of propping up illegitimate regimes, after destabilizing local elections, after selling arms to local insurgents or revolutionaries or others only to have blowback haunt the larger powers. Then, selling out or cutting loose the very instruments, leaving them to fend for themselves, only to be killed, or their families killed, too.
No, this is all about bad karma coming home to roost. Nothing more, nothing less. And that make part of the problem ANY citizen who fails to vote, votes badly, or votes for tyrannical assholes who thing only THEIR god is THE one, and who run amok, pissing off others who create stateless, ad-hoc, hard-to-track, assymetrical fighters, and then have the nerve to call cowards people who don't have nukes, don't have bunker busters, don't have satellites, no Masters-of-the-Universe intel agencies, no vast, deep arsenals of troops and weapons...
Well, we can sum this up by saying, "It's complicated. We're talking about reckless, destructive, greedy, myopic, selfish, jealous, petty, vindictive, shameless humans jockeying for power, unwilling to compromise, unwilling to assent to a higher cause over the long run..."
"While I agree with the privacy infringements, I really wish it wasn't someone suspected on child porn complaining about it. It certainly won't garner much support from the general public, informed or not."
Then, what the public needs is to see some high-profile people having their laptops seized. Well, even Johnny-Q and Jane-Q, too. The thing is, though, maybe they need to be secretly contracted to travel and carry disposable laptops with sensitive, planted information, but with dirty caches that won't forensically add up to evidence of wrong-doing or illegal-porn possession or trafficking. The point is to cause SOOOOO many laptops to be taken that it creates an EXCRUCIATING FUCKING FIRESTORM, either in the courts OR in the streets./now, begin rant
It's bullshit of the highest magnitude for the so-called ministers of our rights to expect us to believe they're seeking pornographers and terrists. They are simply trying to blunt our expectations of and rights to privacy, supposedly guaranteed until WE (or some journalist) compromises us, or we compromise ourselves to the point that a REAL wiretap or warrant exposes us for dirty-dealing.
But, anyway, some of those laptops need to have on them trackable, planted information that can help punish any agents who decide to profit from dubiously-seized content. The hardware should be trackable, too. That'll put them in the painful position of having to buy and maintain extra "evidence" security, meaning more labor. OR, they'll have to destroy-on-seizure any equipment, again meaning more oversight, more labor. And, with EFF and EFF in play, MAYBE these fuckers will back down somewhat and return to looking for PHYSICAL, not ephemeral or digital, data. Nail people who DEAL in illegitimate trading. NAIL them if you raid their domicile or business. But, transporting a laptop is NOT the same as driving a car full of cocaine or stolen bonds or the like. Any reasonable person can rummage a car and quickly assess most of the content. A reasonable person OUGHT to have receipts or proof of permission to transport high-value goods.
A laptop can harbor illegal information, such as stolen plans or data. But, there are artists and authors, inventors and attorneys who generate or compile information, and suddenly, the average person, and even law enforcement officials not privvy to specific content, will not know what is real or illegitimate content subject to seizure.
Writing fiction that is too close to real could land someone in jail or subject them to until-end-of-life observation, or subject them to loss of personal property just because some overzealous or self-enterprising but corrupt official or enforcer decides to take control of information or lives not theirs to take or control.
Yep, we need the EFF to create an Egregious Fucking FIRESTORM, and they need our help to thwart the pricks trying to subject us to bullshit invasive inspections when the people they're trying to curtail have already circumvented the system checks.
Problem is, the CBP and various agencies and courts and officials probably are acting like an ordinary business: "Oh, hell. We obtained funding for/spent money on this project that is a major rotten egg. We can't let ourselves look stupid. So, we're going to fight to the end, just to look legit. Keep ranting hard and long enough, and the populace will fold-- if we hint at them that well ruin their lives if they dare to cross our authority or will.// end of rant
"LAX"ative, as in digital Feen-a-mint and digital Ex-Lax....
Big dirty mess at the end, butt no.body wants to clean up the mess...
Now, IT are looking at "data retention" policies to wipe up the mess before it sticks around too long..., and avoiding legal anu-tubal ligat... umm, litigation...
And let people ask WHY vista requires soooo much RAM and CPU power to do what Linux/FOSS/Compiz-Beryl can on semi-modest hardware. I got 3D effects out of Mandriva on a 700 MHz, 256 MB RAM, but new (64MB, I think) ATI vid card in *Nov 2006*.
But, to get THAT much eye-candy out of vista, what would users have to pay? Not with vista home, that's for sure. And what with stores back then re-imaging underpowered laptops and desktops on display with vista, and barely or reasonably doing ok with XP...
"You sound like the whiney "DON'T PICK ON BRITNEY, LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!" bitch. Perhaps you should make a YouTube video and give us all a good laugh. Otherwise, STFU yourself."
Double-bitch on YOU!
I don't even HAVE nor LISTEN to any Britney, and rarely knowingly dance to her. SO, quaDRUPAL DOUBLE-BITCH on you, you spent nuclear rod.
It's like cyphercell said:
"wait. google was there from the beginning of the msft talks and if the board can keep their company the way they want it, make more money in the long run and avoid being butchered by Icahn or Ballmer, then what is wrong with calling it the way it is?"
You must be a ballmer or icaan kiss-up. If you're a nerd who cares about software freedom, you would pull your head out and voice up for Yahoo! not being butchered. You see, I've NEVER been and NEVER WILL be an mshaft-fan-boy. Don't know that you ARE, but your attitude would probably let them off the hook.
Google's not perfect, but they're a damned welcome sight better than msoft. Haven't you stopped to consider that if corporate negative Karma exists that microsoft would have a HELL of a lot to answer for? Open your damned mind!
People like YOU are the insecure among us who slam-dunk me with - scores hoping to dissuade others from reading our rants and opinions. Yeh, much of what I write here is way off-beat humor, expression of outrage, and the occasional informative URL, but you, you are not making a convincing argument for why microsoft DESERVES to get its grubby mitts on Yahoo!
If mshaft is sooooooo innovative, the fuckers would never NEED to bid to buy Yahoo! Obviously, whether or NOT Google "won", Yahoo! is mshaft's admission that it sucks very much at trying to do what Google and Yahoo and MySpace, Facebook, and others DO do. So, mshaft needs to stick with core business and stop being omni-bit-vacious.
Besides, if mshaft gets a hold of Yahoo!, there will be some more thousands added to the rolls of the unemployed (even tho they stand to get generous anti-take-over severance packages...)...
"Mirror Mirror," in the rehabilitation chamber alternate Spock's orders put him into? That was one of them most eery, unnerving, realistic performances of pain in ST:TOS...
They'd just ass-immolate it and run it into the ground, like so much else they've rubbished.
Any other mouthpieces trying to slay Yahoo!'s board for not selling out to mshaft needs to STFU, however big their name. Just STFU and back off. Leave Yahoo! ALONE. Besides, mshaft has too damned big a war chest and they need to be reigned in. PERIOD.
Moreover it seems that as Virtualization might have to still cope with OS-agnosticism, then maybe it's better that Google has Yahoo! than to watch mshaft take hold of Yahoo!, plain and simple.
"Whenever we're asked "when is Firefox going to be released" we endeavor to answer to the best of our abilities, but the truth of the matter is that we'll only ever ship "when it's ready". We have a lot of indicators that help us understand when the product is ready for release: feedback from our pre-release milestones, excitement in the community and the press, availability of compatible Add-Ons, and a large active beta community helping us ensure that the release is compatible with all the various sites on the Internet."
C'mon. We have a new admin who is of the steadfast belief that NO beta-ware should be on machines except for compatibility testing. Anyone else should not be using beta-ware. That bugs me, as we ALL know that marketing deadlines make profit-drive/investor-backed companies release SHITWARE under a 1.0 or 1.1 or some moniker of "READY".
Mozilla, if you want to avert CIOs and IT admins who GENERALLY WOULD accept or permit use of FF in the office, you NEED to release more frequently and in batches that cover he easy bug kills. Making 3.x wait for SOOOOO long after 2.xx is crippling to those of us who want a blessed, ready incremental release we can feel safe (and be permitted) using. The diffs tween 2.x and 3.x are too tempting to ignore. If FF were to be non-released for, say 6 more months, it would be QUITE demoralizing to me to be denied using it at work.
Please, please consider modifying your release definition and make FF release more palatable as far as security and IT policies go.
That patent is just plain fucking stupid, and should have been refused on the grounds of obviousness. People should be policed by social or public mores, not by some awarded, dubious patent. I suspect that in Asia, this patent will be ignored because in general, if you talk like a loud-ass westerner, people WILL stare you down, and the "manners police" in the Tokyo and other Japanese subways WILL dress you down.
Not to say the patent won't affect bad-mannered media device users, but somebody needs to reign in the USPO and deprive them of taking corporate money that fast-tracks patents of dubious nature.
WHERE are the FOSS tools that SHOULD be pervasive? Geeks need to get more proactive and create prior art to prevent this kind of bullshit from taking hold when user-feedback and social observations could have preempted the patent from being deemed valid or worthy of issuance.
"Au contraire! Before 9/11 the hijackers simply would have said "unlock the door or we'll start killing hostages," and they would have unlocked the door."
No, that's why they (those in the government spook and anti-terrist organizations) need to watch "Mirror Mirror", an old Trek episode. They need to come up with a "Tantalus Field" shown to him by that babe Marlena... for use by PILOTS.
ANY body, and I mean ANY BODY who/that gets out of line gets its ass ZAPPED. If you make a scene cuz the heads (lavatories) are all full and cuz you have to PEE, TOUGH SHIT. SIT and GRIN. Or, try to dump in the barf bag.
But, if the bags are too small, then the airlines might start installing race-car-like vacuum hoses and cups to alleviate the need for people to get out of their seats. Attach some pressure pants and a water-washdown system... and off we go. To hell with pesky passengers and their milling about the cabin...
"CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?"
That's why divers who want closure for their families and friends need to NEVER dive without first attaching to their swim/scuba suits:
-- 1/4 sticks of dynamite that blow on chew/crunch
-- 5-15 vials of cyanide strategically attached to their suit's limbs and head mask
-- wear beacons on their limbs to find the fucker that ate them or snatched limb so it can be tracked and the shark hunted down and dealt with
-- erupting hemisphere-ripping spheres that internally eviscerate the shark, in unceremoniously or dramatically fast or slow fashion, (maybe a vial of anti-matter-like substance will be conclusive proof of the diver's transition to a new realm of existence...)
-- inflatable spheres that block there digestive path, or force them to the surface (like the submarine Seaview) at about 15 to 25 miles per hours (might be bad for any diver still attached, but at least they can see the sky before coming back plunging down)... but at least the shark will have unresolvable indigestion....
Oh, but, back to the real world... maybe divers should go ask the USN SEALs for some shark-repelling radio gear (that might exist) to avoid the chomp-n-release routine...
But, if you're existentialist or philosophical, you can accept being eaten by just asking and answering this question:
"Who was there FIRST?" (it's THEIR realm, not that of humans, except those who like to take chances...)...
Slashdot Mirror
"The W54 is small enough to be deployed as a SADM (Special Atomic Demolition Munition) or so called "Backpack Nuke". It was the closest thing the U.S. is ..."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/w54.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/w56.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_bomb
http://www.sftt.org/dw07102002.html
When the US government tried to infer that Taliban and other suicide bombers were cowards, IT was the coward for failing to recall that, like the miserable failure the Japanese Kamikazes were, the US W54 program would have made suicide bombers out of the troops carrying these backpack bombs and who thought they were going to parachute in, covertly plant one on a bridge or some vital infrastructure, and then "run a few hundred yards to safety"... Hell, even the Enola Gay and other nuclear bombers were expected to be non-returns, basically on a one-way suicide mission, considering the blast effects and the attendant radiation...
that MADE GE GE, they now can resume the old commercial from the 80's:
GEE- EEE, WEE BRING good things to LIVING, we BRING good theengs toooo LYFFFEE!"
I suppose they'll have to pay big-time to redo those commercials...
and then quad-logarithmically increase the fine for companies wasting paper in a time when many companies are trying to "go green". One would think "Amazon" would consider the weight its name might carry...
to REALly impress Jack the Ripper by going a "Rack the Jipper" campaign..
I though I saw "Nokia Unveils "World's Thinnest" QWEER Smartphone" instead of
"Nokia Unveils "World's Thinnest" QWERTY Smartphone"
(Considering the "historic" day in Califor-ni-aye, re: civil unions/marriages, etc... And considering Scandinavia and other countries were way ahead of the US... but that's another topic...)
Now that THIN is REALLY IN, Nokia users ought to be delight(ed)...
"Have you tried installing IE 6 in Wine?"
The Legend of Monkey Boy's Drunken Master....
Jackie Chan would be impress....
But, when they routinely rip apart (if they are dismantling or cutting into) the property of those who are deemed "clean and free to go", they should be obligated to pay for restoring the condition of the vehicle prior to letting them go. They should be required to provide food, a lounge, and proof of detainment and protection from being fired. They should obtain for them any lost money incident to the search.
Nations conducting these searches need to tone down. There are ways to deal with drugs and physical contraband by using various X and other types of ray or wave search equipment. While I am sure that not EVERY border agent is a snoop and a thief, it only takes ONE to cause hell for someone who is NOT a trafficker of illegal materials.
Do these people KNOW how many wannabe writers pen their own salacious materials, write incendiary journals/material, and conduct research of various kinds, and -- based on the mores of the agent -- could be summarily relieved of their non-crime-committing property, arrested, and tarred for life, possibly even being fired?
Another responder said FULLY encrypting one's laptop is a GOOD thing, and legitimate, as simply using public transit it is easy to have one's laptop stolen. Why, in 2006, I saw a thuggish asshole running off with the Linux laptop (I assume it was Linux-based, as this was the time of the Linux convention in 2006, at Moscone) of a convention goer who was in the Powell Street BART entrance. I am SURE that victim is hating his life if he had no HARD disc encryption and the asshole thief managed to find an adapter and keep the thing powered longer than 2 hours afterward.
But, had I been quicker-thinking, I'd have stuck out my foot and tripped that *motherfuck* and worried later about the consequences. That way, the victim of the theft would have relief that even if his laptop died and the disk crashed permanently, at LEAST that bastard who stole it wouldn't benefit from the data AND the hardware loss. I'd do this for the user of ANY OS, as long as I realized it was THEIR laptop being stolen from them. Realization only requires seeing the victim using it and then out of the blue seeing some bastard run off with it, with a menacing, victorious look, the look of buying his next drug hit, or the look of glee from tormenting someone who was careless and easy prey...
Pretty much, person privacy and the right to encrypt one's data should protect one from prying eyes of the government.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=582901&cid=23785323
Not sure if you meant to reply to me, but personally, I feel that most of this is BAD KARMA. State Department before 1990's WARNED Congress that Belfast, London, Beirut, etc. were COMING to the USA. Not a matter of IF, but WHEN.
As long as state powers conduct expeditionary missions, set up military bases overseas, hijack oil fields, sell arms to those having no business with them, allowing it's religious organizations to "spread the word of God" to foreign lands and then not reign them in, but instead send troops to protect megaphones offending indigenous peoples... well, what the hell CAN people expect.
9/11 didn't happen out of sheer evil, or hatred for 'merkuns out of jealousy. Those terrorists were like bees in a hive that was struck. Struck through decade after decade of imperialist or nationalist or economic strike and blow. After decades of propping up illegitimate regimes, after destabilizing local elections, after selling arms to local insurgents or revolutionaries or others only to have blowback haunt the larger powers. Then, selling out or cutting loose the very instruments, leaving them to fend for themselves, only to be killed, or their families killed, too.
No, this is all about bad karma coming home to roost. Nothing more, nothing less. And that make part of the problem ANY citizen who fails to vote, votes badly, or votes for tyrannical assholes who thing only THEIR god is THE one, and who run amok, pissing off others who create stateless, ad-hoc, hard-to-track, assymetrical fighters, and then have the nerve to call cowards people who don't have nukes, don't have bunker busters, don't have satellites, no Masters-of-the-Universe intel agencies, no vast, deep arsenals of troops and weapons...
Well, we can sum this up by saying, "It's complicated. We're talking about reckless, destructive, greedy, myopic, selfish, jealous, petty, vindictive, shameless humans jockeying for power, unwilling to compromise, unwilling to assent to a higher cause over the long run..."
(needs a valium or something...)
"Schema-phrenic"???
"Schema-phrenia"??? LOL!
"While I agree with the privacy infringements, I really wish it wasn't someone suspected on child porn complaining about it. It certainly won't garner much support from the general public, informed or not."
/now, begin rant
// end of rant
Then, what the public needs is to see some high-profile people having their laptops seized. Well, even Johnny-Q and Jane-Q, too. The thing is, though, maybe they need to be secretly contracted to travel and carry disposable laptops with sensitive, planted information, but with dirty caches that won't forensically add up to evidence of wrong-doing or illegal-porn possession or trafficking. The point is to cause SOOOOO many laptops to be taken that it creates an EXCRUCIATING FUCKING FIRESTORM, either in the courts OR in the streets.
It's bullshit of the highest magnitude for the so-called ministers of our rights to expect us to believe they're seeking pornographers and terrists. They are simply trying to blunt our expectations of and rights to privacy, supposedly guaranteed until WE (or some journalist) compromises us, or we compromise ourselves to the point that a REAL wiretap or warrant exposes us for dirty-dealing.
But, anyway, some of those laptops need to have on them trackable, planted information that can help punish any agents who decide to profit from dubiously-seized content. The hardware should be trackable, too. That'll put them in the painful position of having to buy and maintain extra "evidence" security, meaning more labor. OR, they'll have to destroy-on-seizure any equipment, again meaning more oversight, more labor. And, with EFF and EFF in play, MAYBE these fuckers will back down somewhat and return to looking for PHYSICAL, not ephemeral or digital, data. Nail people who DEAL in illegitimate trading. NAIL them if you raid their domicile or business. But, transporting a laptop is NOT the same as driving a car full of cocaine or stolen bonds or the like. Any reasonable person can rummage a car and quickly assess most of the content. A reasonable person OUGHT to have receipts or proof of permission to transport high-value goods.
A laptop can harbor illegal information, such as stolen plans or data. But, there are artists and authors, inventors and attorneys who generate or compile information, and suddenly, the average person, and even law enforcement officials not privvy to specific content, will not know what is real or illegitimate content subject to seizure.
Writing fiction that is too close to real could land someone in jail or subject them to
until-end-of-life observation, or subject them to loss of personal property just because some overzealous or self-enterprising but corrupt official or enforcer decides to take control of information or lives not theirs to take or control.
Yep, we need the EFF to create an Egregious Fucking FIRESTORM, and they need our help to thwart the pricks trying to subject us to bullshit invasive inspections when the people they're trying to curtail have already circumvented the system checks.
Problem is, the CBP and various agencies and courts and officials probably are acting like an ordinary business: "Oh, hell. We obtained funding for/spent money on this project that is a major rotten egg. We can't let ourselves look stupid. So, we're going to fight to the end, just to look legit. Keep ranting hard and long enough, and the populace will fold-- if we hint at them that well ruin their lives if they dare to cross our authority or will.
"LAX"ative, as in digital Feen-a-mint and digital Ex-Lax....
Big dirty mess at the end, butt no.body wants to clean up the mess...
Now, IT are looking at "data retention" policies to wipe up the mess before it sticks around too long..., and avoiding legal anu-tubal ligat... umm, litigation...
(see InformationWeek June 9, 2008, p 27...)
"Now THAT'S ITALIAN!"?
A butt-pirate being butt-pirated.... On the high seize....
It could get pretty nautically nauseating when you take account of maritime/ship construction terms:
butt
butt weld
seam
bosom
bottom
stern
buttocks
inner bottom
reinforcing ring
stern bossing
shaft
stiffener
girder
horizontal stiffener
bulk head (bulkhead, hehehe)
pulsating thrust
thrust bearing
packing gland
shaft seal
shaft alley
breasthook
headlog
screw aperture
built-up section
rounded slot
Better get your sea legs maytee...
and oh yeh, you better carry lots of IR gear and flares and flare guns to ward off those pirates... after reading "High Seas Security"
Wow, such news and revelations... Wonder if there'll be more glasnost.. Nyet Nyet, comrade...
Maybe there will be some... Paris Troika,umm perestroika in space...
Admittedly, I read that line out of context...
"Provide Vista free, unencumbered. Let it spread naturally."
which prompted me to quickly remind people of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w
and
http://www.google.com/search?q=compiz+linux+youtube&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
And let people ask WHY vista requires soooo much RAM and CPU power to do what Linux/FOSS/Compiz-Beryl can on semi-modest hardware. I got 3D effects out of Mandriva on a 700 MHz, 256 MB RAM, but new (64MB, I think) ATI vid card in *Nov 2006*.
But, to get THAT much eye-candy out of vista, what would users have to pay? Not with vista home, that's for sure. And what with stores back then re-imaging underpowered laptops and desktops on display with vista, and barely or reasonably doing ok with XP...
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/apheadline_detail.php?story_id=D918P08G2&group=ap.online.headlines.business
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-thu_anheuser-busch-inbevjun12,0,2035555.story
Yahoo shares slip on reports of search deal with Google
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/yahoo-reaches-search-deal-google/story.aspx?guid=%7B4FA6F062-5DB7-4705-8AD7-E179C777FA84%7D&dist=morenews
Wall Street may scramble to unwind bad bet on Yahoo
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/wall-street-may-scramble-unwind/story.aspx?guid=%7BA9AD455E-239C-4809-8E60-E1B004A91A10%7D&dist=hplatest
"You sound like the whiney "DON'T PICK ON BRITNEY, LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!" bitch. Perhaps you should make a YouTube video and give us all a good laugh. Otherwise, STFU yourself."
Double-bitch on YOU!
I don't even HAVE nor LISTEN to any Britney, and rarely knowingly dance to her. SO, quaDRUPAL DOUBLE-BITCH on you, you spent nuclear rod.
It's like cyphercell said:
"wait. google was there from the beginning of the msft talks and if the board can keep their company the way they want it, make more money in the long run and avoid being butchered by Icahn or Ballmer, then what is wrong with calling it the way it is?"
You must be a ballmer or icaan kiss-up. If you're a nerd who cares about software freedom, you would pull your head out and voice up for Yahoo! not being butchered. You see, I've NEVER been and NEVER WILL be an mshaft-fan-boy. Don't know that you ARE, but your attitude would probably let them off the hook.
Google's not perfect, but they're a damned welcome sight better than msoft. Haven't you stopped to consider that if corporate negative Karma exists that microsoft would have a HELL of a lot to answer for? Open your damned mind!
People like YOU are the insecure among us who slam-dunk me with - scores hoping to dissuade others from reading our rants and opinions. Yeh, much of what I write here is way off-beat humor, expression of outrage, and the occasional informative URL, but you, you are not making a convincing argument for why microsoft DESERVES to get its grubby mitts on Yahoo!
If mshaft is sooooooo innovative, the fuckers would never NEED to bid to buy Yahoo! Obviously, whether or NOT Google "won", Yahoo! is mshaft's admission that it sucks very much at trying to do what Google and Yahoo and MySpace, Facebook, and others DO do. So, mshaft needs to stick with core business and stop being omni-bit-vacious.
Besides, if mshaft gets a hold of Yahoo!, there will be some more thousands added to the rolls of the unemployed (even tho they stand to get generous anti-take-over severance packages...)...
"Mirror Mirror," in the rehabilitation chamber alternate Spock's orders put him into? That was one of them most eery, unnerving, realistic performances of pain in ST:TOS...
Does not DESERVE to take Yahoo!!
They'd just ass-immolate it and run it into the ground, like so much else they've rubbished.
Any other mouthpieces trying to slay Yahoo!'s board for not selling out to mshaft needs to STFU, however big their name. Just STFU and back off. Leave Yahoo! ALONE. Besides, mshaft has too damned big a war chest and they need to be reigned in. PERIOD.
Moreover it seems that as Virtualization might have to still cope with OS-agnosticism, then maybe it's better that Google has Yahoo! than to watch mshaft take hold of Yahoo!, plain and simple.
"Whenever we're asked "when is Firefox going to be released" we endeavor to answer to the best of our abilities, but the truth of the matter is that we'll only ever ship "when it's ready". We have a lot of indicators that help us understand when the product is ready for release: feedback from our pre-release milestones, excitement in the community and the press, availability of compatible Add-Ons, and a large active beta community helping us ensure that the release is compatible with all the various sites on the Internet."
C'mon. We have a new admin who is of the steadfast belief that NO beta-ware should be on machines except for compatibility testing. Anyone else should not be using beta-ware. That bugs me, as we ALL know that marketing deadlines make profit-drive/investor-backed companies release SHITWARE under a 1.0 or 1.1 or some moniker of "READY".
Mozilla, if you want to avert CIOs and IT admins who GENERALLY WOULD accept or permit use of FF in the office, you NEED to release more frequently and in batches that cover he easy bug kills. Making 3.x wait for SOOOOO long after 2.xx is crippling to those of us who want a blessed, ready incremental release we can feel safe (and be permitted) using. The diffs tween 2.x and 3.x are too tempting to ignore. If FF were to be non-released for, say 6 more months, it would be QUITE demoralizing to me to be denied using it at work.
Please, please consider modifying your release definition and make FF release more palatable as far as security and IT policies go.
Thanks!
nice. Or, considerate.
That patent is just plain fucking stupid, and should have been refused on the grounds of obviousness. People should be policed by social or public mores, not by some awarded, dubious patent. I suspect that in Asia, this patent will be ignored because in general, if you talk like a loud-ass westerner, people WILL stare you down, and the "manners police" in the Tokyo and other Japanese subways WILL dress you down.
Not to say the patent won't affect bad-mannered media device users, but somebody needs to reign in the USPO and deprive them of taking corporate money that fast-tracks patents of dubious nature.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7312672.stm
WHERE are the FOSS tools that SHOULD be pervasive? Geeks need to get more proactive and create prior art to prevent this kind of bullshit from taking hold when user-feedback and social observations could have preempted the patent from being deemed valid or worthy of issuance.
"Au contraire! Before 9/11 the hijackers simply would have said "unlock the door or we'll start killing hostages," and they would have unlocked the door."
No, that's why they (those in the government spook and anti-terrist organizations) need to watch "Mirror Mirror", an old Trek episode. They need to come up with a "Tantalus Field" shown to him by that babe Marlena... for use by PILOTS.
ANY body, and I mean ANY BODY who/that gets out of line gets its ass ZAPPED. If you make a scene cuz the heads (lavatories) are all full and cuz you have to PEE, TOUGH SHIT. SIT and GRIN. Or, try to dump in the barf bag.
But, if the bags are too small, then the airlines might start installing race-car-like vacuum hoses and cups to alleviate the need for people to get out of their seats. Attach some pressure pants and a water-washdown system... and off we go. To hell with pesky passengers and their milling about the cabin...
"CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?"
That's why divers who want closure for their families and friends need to NEVER dive without first attaching to their swim/scuba suits:
-- 1/4 sticks of dynamite that blow on chew/crunch
-- 5-15 vials of cyanide strategically attached to their suit's limbs and head mask
-- wear beacons on their limbs to find the fucker that ate them or snatched limb so it can be tracked and the shark hunted down and dealt with
-- erupting hemisphere-ripping spheres that internally eviscerate the shark, in unceremoniously or dramatically fast or slow fashion, (maybe a vial of anti-matter-like substance will be conclusive proof of the diver's transition to a new realm of existence...)
-- inflatable spheres that block there digestive path, or force them to the surface (like the submarine Seaview) at about 15 to 25 miles per hours (might be bad for any diver still attached, but at least they can see the sky before coming back plunging down)... but at least the shark will have unresolvable indigestion....
Oh, but, back to the real world... maybe divers should go ask the USN SEALs for some shark-repelling radio gear (that might exist) to avoid the chomp-n-release routine...
But, if you're existentialist or philosophical, you can accept being eaten by just asking and answering this question:
"Who was there FIRST?" (it's THEIR realm, not that of humans, except those who like to take chances...)...