Hey ! I sing along with my XM-Radio as it plays my favorite Akon music. When i start signing, the outer body of my car should be electrified like a fence, so that even if i strike somebody, he should be thrown clear of the car by electricity unhurt so that he does not even feel the impact of the car. As an American, i wanna sing when my singer sings. And let the pedestrian worry about the maker singing to him if he is unwary ! Dang mama !
My dear anonymous coward, pray tell me how "unbiased" would an employee of Microsoft or IBM be? Even if you include your NDA, "over the wall" etc., do you seriously think none of this would leak back to the company?
Now, tell me how "biased" an unemployed would be, if he is reviewing a patent by Microsoft, when he/she was laid off by Ford?
Why employ as "volunteers" from Oracle, HP, IBM, etc., which are known patent abusers? Why not employ unemployed qualified volunteers and also pay them to do a peer review. That way you solve two problems: 1. Boost employment to qualified people. 2. Prevent any bias since the people used by USPTO are unemployed anyway.
But, then like all other half-as$ed efforts by any Govt. agency, they will allow ballot stuffing by Microsoft and IBM....
What? and in the middle of the flight, do you want the Zune to become suddenly "unrecognized external drive" and the pilot hits "Format" by mistake? Jokes apart, i think the nano flash-based stuff is what they would prefer. Not the hard-disk based for flights. Certification itself would take 5 years, by which time almost all hard-disk iPods running today would be extinct.
>>When you are happy with it, install it. That install part does not work with Ubuntu 6.06 Desktop. You need to download a separate ISO Ubuntu 6.06 i386, burn it and then install it via text mode. Sorry for the nitpicking though...
All your suggestions are perfectly valid ones, which would appeal to a well-educated, knowledgeable RIAA. However we have to live with the RIAA we have, and not the RIAA we want. Our current RIAA will do the following: 1. Outlaw independent musicians by saying they undercut existing musicians by applying the "anti-dumping" law. Never mind the law was created for a different purpose. 2. Make it a crime to "review" music in your blogs etc. That way bad music doesn't get clobbered. Never mind good music does not get publicity. 3. ISP would be bound by a new law that forces them to track bit torrent users, and report the addresses of the bit torrent users. Never mind i user torrents for the new Linux Kernel. If i use torrent am a criminal, unless i prove otherwise. Much like the TSA attitude that if i have a hollow-heel show, i must be a terrorist, since only terrorists (John Reid) wear hollow-heel shoes. 4. Introduce a new bio-CD that degrades slowly over a year and after one year, all content is lost since the CD is now fertilizer. 4(a). You cannot media-shift CDs. That is prevented by Law, and by DRM rootkits. (Remember sony was NOT convicted. They just settled for two years). 5. iTunes DRM will now contain another restriction like you can't listen to the same song for more than 40 times. Your license will have to renewed (much like symantec subscription).
If the wok thing becomes more popular here, one or many of the following is bound to happen: 1. Prices of Wok will increase NOT due to increase in demand, but because sellers now think it serves a dual purpose. 2. FCC will jump in the bandwagon and demand wok makers put a minute dent to make sure it does not serve as a dish. 3. Homeland Security will jump on the FCC bandwagon and demand that woks be classifed as potentially "interesting" and "dangerous" weapons. 4. Carlyle Group will do a LBO against the largest Wok maker...Cheney will be richer. 5. Canada will impose a "musician's duty" on Woks since woks can be used to transmit pirated music...
US Laws make it very clear that any agreements amongst PEOPLE that prevent one another from filing a case with a court of law does NOT hold good. However, if arbitration is a clause in the agreement, that holds good. Arbitration gets precendence over court and ONLY if arbitration fails, can an appeal be made to court. U can't sell of your rights to sue another person. Not acceptable, just like U can't sell off yourself to another person.
I will add more for you: - Being infected with a Virus gets a new meaning - Virus cleaners need to be Dettol with a swab - Worms can't infect Bacteria. In fact Bacteria can infect worms to carry messages - The word "operating environment" takes a whole new meaning - Google will have 1.3 million cubic feet of... "bacteria" with some dying and others being grown. - Shipment of bacteria memories across borders will require truckers to have Biological warfare certificates and Bio-Suits... - My USB drive can glow in the dark...
Ok, that's all i can think of before i continue my work-:)
I think Jules Verne is right and was right when he wrote his novel. Now all that remains is, travel to iceland, find the damned volcano and see if "Arne Sakknussen"'s name is scratched near the Central Sea.
... and ears. U forgot that also. There was a news recently about a man playing such a movie too loud that a neighbour barged in with knife and assumed a crime was in progress....
Yup. I agree with you completely. These are the standard specs my IT guys prefer and order in thousands every year. If Apple can make a blackbox same size every year (ship Mini in black), i have no doubts at all. Unfortunately even though Apple claims to be a hardware company they seem to be pushing Mac OS X more than the hardware they produce. Reliability is a big advantage of Macs over Dells. Surprising they are not pushing hardware...
Yes, My corp wishes: 1. Mac OS X can run Lotus Notes as replacement to existing inbuilt mail. 2. I can build a custom--installation of MAC OSX complete with slip-streamed Notes, MS Office, KeyNote, and Pages 3. Have IE 6.1 for Mac FULLY implemented and as default browser. Not Safari. 4. Have ground-up ability to login to a Active Directory or NT Domain. Corporations may change desktops faster than Servers. 5. Comes with ability to enable/disable USB,FireWire, DVD drives at will. 6. Has Visio installed. No, i do NOT need any fancy replacements. 7. Comes with Apple Premium Care. 8. Contains an installation of RAD 6, or WSAD 5.1.3 and/or WAS server. No, am not satisfied with Eclipse alone however good it may be. 9. Prevents.dmg installations NOT authorised by IT. 10. Has a remote control facility 11. Has ability to have the WHOLE hard -disk to be encrypted like SafeBoot. 12. Lastly, if i (as user) type c:\temp, it should point to "Macintosh HD:temp" somehow magically.
Some of these are done. Many or not. And unless Apple gets its as* cracking to do these things and DEMONSTRATE them in next Apple World conference, IT managers would yawn and walk away.
How can poor input validation be treated as User Error? Poor input validation is the result of the software being designed in such a way as to have absolutely no tolerance for bad inputs. That is where the OS needs to step in as referree and blow the whistle and prevent further damage. However Windows as a referree is a joke, because: 1. The referee is already suffering from VD. 2. The referee is looking at 1200 games simultaneously. 3. The referee can understand only 10 scenarios of failure and freezes when he encounters a 11th unknown. 4. The referee is already wheezing from being too fat and very short sighted. 5. The referee is not strong enough to bludgeon both players to their senses.
Actually the quality drops a lot if you keep on encoding/decoding it. 128 kbps is the iTunes music quality. Burning it to an Audio CD and reimporting it as MP3 even at 256 Kbps results in loss of quality. I have burnt 5 CDs this way and reimported them. I stopped doing and shifted to allofmp3.com
There was no empire to beging with. Of course, you can count scotland & Ireland as empire conquests, then you are right. As for the Microsoft statement, i agree with you. In fact i read reports in TIME (US Edition) about soldiers in Iraq war (during the Baghdad rush) complaining that maps take a long time to load and sometimes cause a blue screen...
Let me take the opportunity to teach you a couple of things: IRAN had a democratically elected leader in 1950s who was a thorn to US interests. It is a well known and accepted truth that the Shah of Iran came up because US brought down a democratically elected government to install the Shah. After this incident, Iran became pissed-off and went with the religious-way... Iraq was the same case: saddam refused to play a House of Saddam-like role and actually preffered EU interests (that is why so many EU companies are caught...) instead of US companies. Infrastructure of Iraq was so advanced that it rivalled Israel (before the murderous iran-iraq war). However, since none of the major contracts went to US companies, they got upset and attacked Iraq. If saddam had signed a deal like Saud, we would be celebrating the "progressive state" of Iraq and using it once again to threaten Iran. Have you ever thought that US interferences worldwide have caused these issues? Congo for instance? Stop watching FOX news.
You are 150% correct. I see a more sinister motive: Iran's leaders MAY be investors in Carlyle and thus benefit from it like the House of Saud. So, actually Iran will never be attacked. Even if we had a republican congress, i doubt Iran would be actually attacked.
I agree with you on the crime he has committed and the punishment he has recieved.
But explain to me how and why corporates like Sony, BMI, etc., who distributed Root Kits, compromised thousands of computers' security, and illegally hacked into my property (my computer is my property) can be let off with just a free coupon and a "sincere" apology? Should their board, CEO, etc, not be jailed under hacking laws?
If you can explain to me why RIAA member companies can always get off, while the giga-uploader gets "bubba" in jail for SAME crimes, i can explain why slashdot thinks this way?
The RIAA can't impose a FINE. It only means that this guy settled with RIAA. Iam not condoning illegal sharing, but instead of paying 40K to RIAA, he could have hired a good lawyer and dragged RIAA to court making them drop the case.
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Hey ! I sing along with my XM-Radio as it plays my favorite Akon music.
When i start signing, the outer body of my car should be electrified like a fence, so that even if i strike somebody, he should be thrown clear of the car by electricity unhurt so that he does not even feel the impact of the car.
As an American, i wanna sing when my singer sings. And let the pedestrian worry about the maker singing to him if he is unwary !
Dang mama !
Hey, if Libby could lie and be indicted and found guilty on lying, why can't cheney be indicted, convicted and sentenced for lying?
Economics comes a 2nd. How else do we explain trillion-dollar deficits, $200 hammers and toilet covers, and Hedge fund losses like LTCM and the rest?
If our students have a good grasp of maths and economics, they can get this economy under control in no time.
History should be 3rd to make sure they don't do a Bernie Ebbers or Jack Grubman.
OK... Now i get your point. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
It looks similar to a jury selection...
Am Sorry for my previous post.
My dear anonymous coward, pray tell me how "unbiased" would an employee of Microsoft or IBM be? Even if you include your NDA, "over the wall" etc., do you seriously think none of this would leak back to the company?
Now, tell me how "biased" an unemployed would be, if he is reviewing a patent by Microsoft, when he/she was laid off by Ford?
Oh, BTW, iam employed.
Why employ as "volunteers" from Oracle, HP, IBM, etc., which are known patent abusers?
Why not employ unemployed qualified volunteers and also pay them to do a peer review.
That way you solve two problems:
1. Boost employment to qualified people.
2. Prevent any bias since the people used by USPTO are unemployed anyway.
But, then like all other half-as$ed efforts by any Govt. agency, they will allow ballot stuffing by Microsoft and IBM....
What? and in the middle of the flight, do you want the Zune to become suddenly "unrecognized external drive" and the pilot hits "Format" by mistake?
Jokes apart, i think the nano flash-based stuff is what they would prefer. Not the hard-disk based for flights.
Certification itself would take 5 years, by which time almost all hard-disk iPods running today would be extinct.
>>When you are happy with it, install it.
That install part does not work with Ubuntu 6.06 Desktop. You need to download a separate ISO Ubuntu 6.06 i386, burn it and then install it via text mode.
Sorry for the nitpicking though...
All your suggestions are perfectly valid ones, which would appeal to a well-educated, knowledgeable RIAA.
However we have to live with the RIAA we have, and not the RIAA we want.
Our current RIAA will do the following:
1. Outlaw independent musicians by saying they undercut existing musicians by applying the "anti-dumping" law. Never mind the law was created for a different purpose.
2. Make it a crime to "review" music in your blogs etc. That way bad music doesn't get clobbered. Never mind good music does not get publicity.
3. ISP would be bound by a new law that forces them to track bit torrent users, and report the addresses of the bit torrent users. Never mind i user torrents for the new Linux Kernel.
If i use torrent am a criminal, unless i prove otherwise. Much like the TSA attitude that if i have a hollow-heel show, i must be a terrorist, since only terrorists (John Reid) wear hollow-heel shoes.
4. Introduce a new bio-CD that degrades slowly over a year and after one year, all content is lost since the CD is now fertilizer.
4(a). You cannot media-shift CDs. That is prevented by Law, and by DRM rootkits. (Remember sony was NOT convicted. They just settled for two years).
5. iTunes DRM will now contain another restriction like you can't listen to the same song for more than 40 times. Your license will have to renewed (much like symantec subscription).
If the wok thing becomes more popular here, one or many of the following is bound to happen:
1. Prices of Wok will increase NOT due to increase in demand, but because sellers now think it serves a dual purpose.
2. FCC will jump in the bandwagon and demand wok makers put a minute dent to make sure it does not serve as a dish.
3. Homeland Security will jump on the FCC bandwagon and demand that woks be classifed as potentially "interesting" and "dangerous" weapons.
4. Carlyle Group will do a LBO against the largest Wok maker...Cheney will be richer.
5. Canada will impose a "musician's duty" on Woks since woks can be used to transmit pirated music...
that's all i can think of now.
>>They call it "PMS" because "Mad Cow Disease" was already taken.
....welcome to the club.
You must be really pissed off by your S.O.,
US Laws make it very clear that any agreements amongst PEOPLE that prevent one another from filing a case with a court of law does NOT hold good.
However, if arbitration is a clause in the agreement, that holds good. Arbitration gets precendence over court and ONLY if arbitration fails, can an appeal be made to court.
U can't sell of your rights to sue another person. Not acceptable, just like U can't sell off yourself to another person.
I will add more for you:
- Being infected with a Virus gets a new meaning
- Virus cleaners need to be Dettol with a swab
- Worms can't infect Bacteria. In fact Bacteria can infect worms to carry messages
- The word "operating environment" takes a whole new meaning
- Google will have 1.3 million cubic feet of... "bacteria" with some dying and others being grown.
- Shipment of bacteria memories across borders will require truckers to have Biological warfare certificates and Bio-Suits...
- My USB drive can glow in the dark...
Ok, that's all i can think of before i continue my work-:)
I think Jules Verne is right and was right when he wrote his novel.
Now all that remains is, travel to iceland, find the damned volcano and see if "Arne Sakknussen"'s name is scratched near the Central Sea.
... and ears. U forgot that also. There was a news recently about a man playing such a movie too loud that a neighbour barged in with knife and assumed a crime was in progress....
Yup. I agree with you completely.
These are the standard specs my IT guys prefer and order in thousands every year.
If Apple can make a blackbox same size every year (ship Mini in black), i have no doubts at all.
Unfortunately even though Apple claims to be a hardware company they seem to be pushing Mac OS X more than the hardware they produce.
Reliability is a big advantage of Macs over Dells.
Surprising they are not pushing hardware...
Yes, My corp wishes: .dmg installations NOT authorised by IT.
1. Mac OS X can run Lotus Notes as replacement to existing inbuilt mail.
2. I can build a custom--installation of MAC OSX complete with slip-streamed Notes, MS Office, KeyNote, and Pages
3. Have IE 6.1 for Mac FULLY implemented and as default browser. Not Safari.
4. Have ground-up ability to login to a Active Directory or NT Domain. Corporations may change desktops faster than Servers.
5. Comes with ability to enable/disable USB,FireWire, DVD drives at will.
6. Has Visio installed. No, i do NOT need any fancy replacements.
7. Comes with Apple Premium Care.
8. Contains an installation of RAD 6, or WSAD 5.1.3 and/or WAS server. No, am not satisfied with Eclipse alone however good it may be.
9. Prevents
10. Has a remote control facility
11. Has ability to have the WHOLE hard -disk to be encrypted like SafeBoot.
12. Lastly, if i (as user) type c:\temp, it should point to "Macintosh HD:temp" somehow magically.
Some of these are done. Many or not. And unless Apple gets its as* cracking to do these things and DEMONSTRATE them in next Apple World conference, IT managers would yawn and walk away.
How can poor input validation be treated as User Error? Poor input validation is the result of the software being designed in such a way as to have absolutely no tolerance for bad inputs.
That is where the OS needs to step in as referree and blow the whistle and prevent further damage.
However Windows as a referree is a joke, because:
1. The referee is already suffering from VD.
2. The referee is looking at 1200 games simultaneously.
3. The referee can understand only 10 scenarios of failure and freezes when he encounters a 11th unknown.
4. The referee is already wheezing from being too fat and very short sighted.
5. The referee is not strong enough to bludgeon both players to their senses.
Actually the quality drops a lot if you keep on encoding /decoding it. 128 kbps is the iTunes music quality. Burning it to an Audio CD and reimporting it as MP3 even at 256 Kbps results in loss of quality.
I have burnt 5 CDs this way and reimported them. I stopped doing and shifted to allofmp3.com
There was no empire to beging with. Of course, you can count scotland & Ireland as empire conquests, then you are right.
As for the Microsoft statement, i agree with you. In fact i read reports in TIME (US Edition) about soldiers in Iraq war (during the Baghdad rush) complaining that maps take a long time to load and sometimes cause a blue screen...
Let me take the opportunity to teach you a couple of things: IRAN had a democratically elected leader in 1950s who was a thorn to US interests. It is a well known and accepted truth that the Shah of Iran came up because US brought down a democratically elected government to install the Shah.
After this incident, Iran became pissed-off and went with the religious-way...
Iraq was the same case: saddam refused to play a House of Saddam-like role and actually preffered EU interests (that is why so many EU companies are caught...) instead of US companies. Infrastructure of Iraq was so advanced that it rivalled Israel (before the murderous iran-iraq war). However, since none of the major contracts went to US companies, they got upset and attacked Iraq.
If saddam had signed a deal like Saud, we would be celebrating the "progressive state" of Iraq and using it once again to threaten Iran.
Have you ever thought that US interferences worldwide have caused these issues?
Congo for instance?
Stop watching FOX news.
You are 150% correct. I see a more sinister motive: Iran's leaders MAY be investors in Carlyle and thus benefit from it like the House of Saud.
So, actually Iran will never be attacked.
Even if we had a republican congress, i doubt Iran would be actually attacked.
I agree with you on the crime he has committed and the punishment he has recieved.
But explain to me how and why corporates like Sony, BMI, etc., who distributed Root Kits, compromised thousands of computers' security, and illegally hacked into my property (my computer is my property) can be let off with just a free coupon and a "sincere" apology?
Should their board, CEO, etc, not be jailed under hacking laws?
If you can explain to me why RIAA member companies can always get off, while the giga-uploader gets "bubba" in jail for SAME crimes, i can explain why slashdot thinks this way?
Until then, Ciao
The RIAA can't impose a FINE. It only means that this guy settled with RIAA.
Iam not condoning illegal sharing, but instead of paying 40K to RIAA, he could have hired a good lawyer and dragged RIAA to court making them drop the case.
In this case the victim's innocence has been proven beyond guilt.
Hence no upper court will overturn attorneys fees as RIAA has been proven wrong.