..for the past 18 months, my biggest beef is that it does absolutely nothing to prevent any sort of catastrophe -- it just ensures that the catastrophy is logged in exquisite detail.
Flight Data Recorders and Cockpit Voice Recorders do nothing to prevent a plane crash, either. Yet both are incredibly valuable in figuring out what happened after the fact, and helping put into place awareness of the causes, fixes, etc. to mitigate against the risk in the future.
Corporate officers have operated under a bit of a shield for quite a long time. They get to take advantage of the corporation for their own benefits without getting shareholder approval or oversight (company-backed personal loans to CxO's and SVP's, for example). Executives get to game stock options for their own benefit, etc.
SOX is good to help with some of these things, just like ISO 9x/2xxx is good for other purposes, title searches and title insurance are good for real estate transactions, etc. It's hard to see the benefits, because for many of them the benefit is simply the avoidance of having to be stuck holding the bag if shit happens after the sale transaction is completed...
Well, the Java installer for Oracle 10g (10.0.2) worked just fine for me last week. On Linux (and also on Windows NT too). At least they killed the Y2K problem in the Oracle 8.0 installer.
No, better would be to create a bit of a mythology about the place, including perhaps an occaisional sacrifice of a lucky virgin by the Silver Priests, perhaps by locking the victim into a room with an open portal to the radiation, where we can collectively watch them succumb to acute radiation sickness. Or use it for capital punishment, whatever (hopefully the RIAA/MPAA/Business Software Alliance will be fed to it first).
This will also require some sort of thought-police enforcers to keep people from wondering about it, elimination of historical information about the place (except that which supports the belief system around it), etc.
Well, one needs to somehow create a mythology about the place, or develop something that will eventually turn into a mythology about it. If the content of the core texts of Judaism/Christianity existed for a couple thousand years at least as oral stories until they were finally written down, well...
I'm thinking that although modern communications equipment allows us to communicate not only near-instantaneously, but also collossal amounts of data, that our collective consciousness of information over time has also shrunk. We can't even remember the lessons or signs of quagmire wars from 30-40 years ago (neohawks who think that their new smart ways of waging war are enough to conquer a bunch of knuckle-dragging idiots...Robert McNamarra was Kennedy's Rumsfeld), and forgetting or dismissing the things that led to success just 15 years ago in the same area...
Short-term, a loss of 20% of human population will be a bad thing simply from that tragedy. But what would happen economically? What of all this industrial and chemical capacity that now won't be able to make stuff at a high enough price point for companies to make money at making things? Again, probably a one-generation problem, but it'll be one hell of a growth opportunity after that. And, it all depends on where people die.
If migratory waterfowl do spread it initially, would Africa perhaps fare better than Asia/Europe/Americas (do mallard ducks migrate down to Africa, or do they really prefer more temperate climates?), or would they really be in deep shit because now there's not enough people over hear to help move all that cheap, excess stuff from the Americas to Africa, there is no US military to potentially wave a heavy whuppass stick on whichever banana republic tinpot dictator develops due to the global power vacuum, etc.?
At least in David Gerrold's Chtorr Invasion world, most product manufacturing was highly automated throughout most of the system, and could still keep pumping out products more or less on its own, albeit at slower and slower rates (equipment breaks down and not enough people to fix it or feed raw materials to it, ground lost to pink powder and worms, etc), and it wasn't that much of a problem because so many people were killed off that it basically became a distribution problem of what was laying around in warehouses and factories.
I wonder what PeTA and their ilk are cooking up when the time comes to kill a few million chickens in Europe or North America? And what will be the ramifications afterwards?
I suppose since they haven't done anything yet in Europe that maybe they still have some sense left in their collective bag of marbles.
Oh, no different than Admiral Crowe (former Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, during the Reign of Reagan), who was on the board of that funky company that used to be the sole source provider of Anthrax vaccine but couldn't run itself to the satisfaction of the FDA and went bankrupt a couple of times, including being in bankruptcy and on the FDA's shitlist during the buildup of the First Iraqi Turkey Shoot.
Probably no faster than all the other different strains that have made there way around the world each year for quite some time now.
Yes, a potentially virulent strain against, or one more easily transmissible between, humans could spontaneously appear in the next year or two, but I'm guessing that the greatest source of evolutionary pressure on influenza virus is when it's still amongst the occupants of the pig pens and rice paddies of southeast Asia, not the respiratory tracts of migratory waterfowl.
You know, it was so hard to just do "runas/user BOFH cmd" (where BOFH, of course, is an administrator-priv'd account). Then, do this: "explorer" (which starts an admin-level Explorer window). Then just run things you need to from there.
Well, what the hell exactly is a "wega" (pronounced Vega)?
I still bought an XBR-400 a few years ago, despite the name. It's a pretty bitchin' tube TV, even though it's named after a "economy" car from the 70's.
Exactly. I haven't wrapped my brain around Blender, either. But it's not going to be any easier with any other 3D program.
RDBMS & SQL is the same. Tools like Access make certain aspects of it a bit easier to get started (drag-and-drop query designers eliminate some typing), but they eventually lose steam once one becomes more familiar with SQL, or moves up to Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, DB2, etc., or moves down to MySQL.
Parents can opt-out of MMR vaccinations for "religious" reasons in the US as well, and schools cannot resist these kids for enrolling if they refused said vaccinations because of said "religious" reasons.
If mercury thiosulphate (or whatever it is) is such a "bad" preservative for vaccines, why is it used as a preservative in eye drops, contact lens solutions and other opthalmic products?
Why not then work also to make Mexico more receptive to American individuals to own real property in Mexico, etc.?
It ALL should more or less be a two-way street, but everyone *except* the US is allowed to be as discriminatory against American citizens, but it's bad for the US to be. That's bullshit.
By stopping the rash, many vaccinated people get MUCH MORE SERIOUS diseases later on in life because they still have the virus, but because of the vaccine, the body can't get rid of it. The biggest majority of these diseases are a pain, but rarely life threatening. I would much rather have measles than lupus erythematosus, Scheurmann's diseases and chondromalacia, which are all chronic degenerative diseases...which means the doctor says, "it sucks to be you." -- Usurper_ii
The vaccine makes the body already produce the antibodies necessary to fight the disease. But this part isn't bad. Perhaps the protein package introdoced by the vaccine contains other protein chunks that the immune system also reacts to, and these protein chunks are close enough to various cell protein markers so that the body learns to react to them also.
The problem with those diseases is that somehow the body gets tricked into thinking that some of the protein markers on the cells affected by those diseases are bad, so it trys to fight them off. Condromalacia is also a condition (pain behind knee cap is the presenting symptom if you're a cyclist, in which case it's a repetitive motion disorder possibly amplified by disfunctioning knee joint action or alignment...), but I suppose if your body is fighting itself, there's nothing from stopping similar pains in other joints.
Doesn't explain how or why a high ANA or ACA titer is usually a good risk factor (but not sole) for getting a lupus diagnosis if you meet other diagnostic criteria for it... How does the body learn to react to red blood cells, free hemoglobin, or cell nuclear material or DNA fragments?
Why is it racist to note that diseases once virtually non-existent in the US are making a comeback, and that immigration is *one* of the causes?
It's not. If all immigration went through centralized locations it could possibly be dealt with as well. Most people who are getting TB these days anyways are getting drug-resistant TB. Either they're indigent (homeless/drug addicts), work with indigents, or work with patients in a hospital setting.
Anyone who says it is is trying to utliize victimization propaganda to suit their agenda.
Don't forget, that medicines like Rumicade and Humira (monoclonal antibodies for treating rheumatoid arthritis) oddly enough increase chances of getting Tb as well. I think it's becasue the action these monoclonal antibodies target, Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF), somehow makes it easier for Tb bacteria to take hold.
Most of the people who typically get Anthrax infections (rare, but it still happens) are wool handlers, shearers, or handle sheep hides at slaughter houses. Oddly enough, at least for slaughter house workers, prior to 1991, they were the only group really required to get the existing Anthrax vaccination. So, if it so happens that most of the people who do these jobs these days are immigrants (central americans, probably undocumented, working in sheep slaughterhouses, Kiwi or Aussie shearers working on work visas), does making them get Anthrax vaccine constitute job-related racism? No.
Besides, if you're leaving your western civilization country to go to various tropical locations, you're required to get various prophylactic shots to guard against various nasty tropical diseases as a condition of getting your passport in-line as well, so it's hard to see the inverse as being "racist", too. Isn't it just as racist/colonialist/whatever to decide that every country in Africa is just a festering cesspool of malaria, sleeping sickness, etc.?, and that continuing to push this requirement creates a mindset that these countries are just inherently 4th-class to the rest of the world?
Again, because unpasteurized milk comes from cows, the biggest problem isn't with TB, it's with shit-borne contagions (E. Coli, Listeria, etc) finding their way into the raw milk, either through contamination getting into the milking equipment or being passed into the milk via the cow itself. Do aged cheeses have problems with these bacteria, or is it only soft cheeses (these two types of cheeses have far different pH levels that are probably key factors in which bacteria grow in the cheese and which don't).
Besides, it's far, FAR easier to get farm eggs that haven't been "inspected" than it is to get raw cow's milk in the US, at least. Just drive around a rural area, and someone's gonna have a shingle out trying to sell farm eggs for $1.50/dz (common around where I live) or something outrageous like that.
FDA regs for selling non-USDA chicken eggs are: 1) meet criteria for Grade B eggs: shell intact (no cracks or checks), ungraded (i.e., egg isn't candled to determine size or quality of yolk or white, check for blood spots or meat spots, etc), and sell in an unmarked, new package. They DON'T have to be cleaned, although they sure do look better in a eggcrate if they are! Farmer does *not* have to be registered with US Dept of Agriculture to sell the eggs off the farm or farmer's market, but some states (e.g., Washington) require farmer to register with state and have a permit. No one checks on off-the-farm egg sales. Is the risk any worse for contacting a nasty salmonella or e. coli infection from these eggs compared to the commercially grown eggs? WEll, the only problems from eggs I can recall hearing about involve...commercially grown eggs and undercooked product.
USDA regs require stores to sell only USDA-inpected eggs.
Don't worry, the USDA uses the best statistical and sampling methods to mechanically and optoelectronically grade and evaluate egg quality, and to ensure the safety of eggs maximizes their quality in a retail environment.
Rickets? That's just Vit-D deficiency. Hardly a cause for concern, really, for most people. It's supplimented into milk, for one. Any exposure to direct sunlight produces enough Vit-D in the skin to make up for minor dietary deficiencies, too.
How will they enforce someone who has access to a Windows computer (and can share folders) from storing all their MP3 files on it, creating a public share point, and slowly telling people "hey, there's about 50GB of MP3 files here...", running a few shoutcast servers, etc.?
Lessee...blocking this net traffic would really block out a huge portion of Windows fileserving functionality on the LAN...
Is there some kind of clever packet filtering that can discern whether SMB file-sharing packet traffic is related to people reading MP3 files or any other windows file type? Limit their traffic to SMB file reading? Good luck with that.
Funny, the RIAA has done nothing to mandate that Linux/Samba, Novell, Microsoft, Banyan, etc., or any other OS maker that supports network-reachable file systems, to implement this. Or, push come to shove, mandate that EMC put stuff into Documentum, and require same for any other high-brow document management system (LiveLink, et al).
Oh, and apps like Winamp, WMA, etc. that can access said network-reachable stores of MP3'd CDs.
The IT groups and CompSci/EE/any other group that's computer-literate and has some autonomy over parts of its computing infrastructure will work around whatever draconian policy might be put in place as well, to where the community that has access to their collections of files is relatively limited, compared to all the students, for example (but all the staff isn't any better, either, but the staff, which would probably include faculty members at some point, is definitely a hornets nest the administration just doesn't start kicking at wildly). The student body at most universities might as well just be wearing gimp suits in the eyes of the administration and legislatures.
Who's to say someone doesn't just documentumize the filenames and store the real descriptive info in the.m3u playlist file or some other database (i.e., change the physical filename into some hexified serial number, and map this to the original file name somewhere else)?
No, having 3rd-party langs run on the JVM could be nice, and would prove how tied to Java (the lang) it is. Oh, but that would make it slightly more feature-equivalent with.Net. Can't have that now...
Hmm... Crippled is probably more apt than you think. Will there be a UI to turn on outbound control? Probably not, unless you count RegEdit. Will the Registry keys to turn it on actually be IN the Registry, or will they need to be manually entered via RegEdit in order to override the essentially hidden default values? Even better, what if MS locks down that particular part of the Registry that deals with these keys, accessible by a Microsoft app that uses that security profile, but that Microsoft won't release?
Simple enough for companies to deal with it, at least big enough companies that set up their own images to clone on new computers, set up policies, and configure stuff through SMS anyways.
Me thinks the technical reasons are more related to 3rd-party companies (read: RIAA leaches) wanting to do some of the tricks that MS is starting to do, and that having a full firewall that could block all traffic if desired, or be user-configurable, interferes with those plans. The next step will be MS "suggesting" that Vista firewalls conform with a secret security profile that it only releases to companies that agree to play by those rules.
BS, Unix was using them extensively already. Get your facts straight, MS said they did that to avoid being accused of copying Unix technology. The other reason is the one you cited. But directories existed already.
Funny, somewhere along the DOS 3.0 line they added ">","",and "|", which kind of work like they do in Unix, redirecting streams, etc.
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..for the past 18 months, my biggest beef is that it does absolutely nothing to prevent any sort of catastrophe -- it just ensures that the catastrophy is logged in exquisite detail.
Flight Data Recorders and Cockpit Voice Recorders do nothing to prevent a plane crash, either. Yet both are incredibly valuable in figuring out what happened after the fact, and helping put into place awareness of the causes, fixes, etc. to mitigate against the risk in the future.
Corporate officers have operated under a bit of a shield for quite a long time. They get to take advantage of the corporation for their own benefits without getting shareholder approval or oversight (company-backed personal loans to CxO's and SVP's, for example). Executives get to game stock options for their own benefit, etc.
SOX is good to help with some of these things, just like ISO 9x/2xxx is good for other purposes, title searches and title insurance are good for real estate transactions, etc. It's hard to see the benefits, because for many of them the benefit is simply the avoidance of having to be stuck holding the bag if shit happens after the sale transaction is completed...
Well, the Java installer for Oracle 10g (10.0.2) worked just fine for me last week. On Linux (and also on Windows NT too). At least they killed the Y2K problem in the Oracle 8.0 installer.
The web-based OEM is pretty nice as well.
No, better would be to create a bit of a mythology about the place, including perhaps an occaisional sacrifice of a lucky virgin by the Silver Priests, perhaps by locking the victim into a room with an open portal to the radiation, where we can collectively watch them succumb to acute radiation sickness. Or use it for capital punishment, whatever (hopefully the RIAA/MPAA/Business Software Alliance will be fed to it first).
This will also require some sort of thought-police enforcers to keep people from wondering about it, elimination of historical information about the place (except that which supports the belief system around it), etc.
Look, native Hawaiians *still* respect Pele...
Well, one needs to somehow create a mythology about the place, or develop something that will eventually turn into a mythology about it. If the content of the core texts of Judaism/Christianity existed for a couple thousand years at least as oral stories until they were finally written down, well...
I'm thinking that although modern communications equipment allows us to communicate not only near-instantaneously, but also collossal amounts of data, that our collective consciousness of information over time has also shrunk. We can't even remember the lessons or signs of quagmire wars from 30-40 years ago (neohawks who think that their new smart ways of waging war are enough to conquer a bunch of knuckle-dragging idiots...Robert McNamarra was Kennedy's Rumsfeld), and forgetting or dismissing the things that led to success just 15 years ago in the same area...
Short-term, a loss of 20% of human population will be a bad thing simply from that tragedy. But what would happen economically? What of all this industrial and chemical capacity that now won't be able to make stuff at a high enough price point for companies to make money at making things? Again, probably a one-generation problem, but it'll be one hell of a growth opportunity after that. And, it all depends on where people die.
If migratory waterfowl do spread it initially, would Africa perhaps fare better than Asia/Europe/Americas (do mallard ducks migrate down to Africa, or do they really prefer more temperate climates?), or would they really be in deep shit because now there's not enough people over hear to help move all that cheap, excess stuff from the Americas to Africa, there is no US military to potentially wave a heavy whuppass stick on whichever banana republic tinpot dictator develops due to the global power vacuum, etc.?
At least in David Gerrold's Chtorr Invasion world, most product manufacturing was highly automated throughout most of the system, and could still keep pumping out products more or less on its own, albeit at slower and slower rates (equipment breaks down and not enough people to fix it or feed raw materials to it, ground lost to pink powder and worms, etc), and it wasn't that much of a problem because so many people were killed off that it basically became a distribution problem of what was laying around in warehouses and factories.
I wonder what PeTA and their ilk are cooking up when the time comes to kill a few million chickens in Europe or North America? And what will be the ramifications afterwards?
I suppose since they haven't done anything yet in Europe that maybe they still have some sense left in their collective bag of marbles.
Who will build the first macerator that can take humans?
(read up on chicken maceraters)
Oh, no different than Admiral Crowe (former Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, during the Reign of Reagan), who was on the board of that funky company that used to be the sole source provider of Anthrax vaccine but couldn't run itself to the satisfaction of the FDA and went bankrupt a couple of times, including being in bankruptcy and on the FDA's shitlist during the buildup of the First Iraqi Turkey Shoot.
Probably no faster than all the other different strains that have made there way around the world each year for quite some time now.
Yes, a potentially virulent strain against, or one more easily transmissible between, humans could spontaneously appear in the next year or two, but I'm guessing that the greatest source of evolutionary pressure on influenza virus is when it's still amongst the occupants of the pig pens and rice paddies of southeast Asia, not the respiratory tracts of migratory waterfowl.
Nah, we'll just go back to extracting them from coal tar.
You know, it was so hard to just do "runas /user BOFH cmd" (where BOFH, of course, is an administrator-priv'd account). Then, do this: "explorer" (which starts an admin-level Explorer window). Then just run things you need to from there.
Oh well.
NAIS (National Animal ID System).
Just have a "666" tattooed over the implant.
Well, what the hell exactly is a "wega" (pronounced Vega)?
I still bought an XBR-400 a few years ago, despite the name. It's a pretty bitchin' tube TV, even though it's named after a "economy" car from the 70's.
Exactly. I haven't wrapped my brain around Blender, either. But it's not going to be any easier with any other 3D program.
RDBMS & SQL is the same. Tools like Access make certain aspects of it a bit easier to get started (drag-and-drop query designers eliminate some typing), but they eventually lose steam once one becomes more familiar with SQL, or moves up to Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, DB2, etc., or moves down to MySQL.
Parents can opt-out of MMR vaccinations for "religious" reasons in the US as well, and schools cannot resist these kids for enrolling if they refused said vaccinations because of said "religious" reasons.
If mercury thiosulphate (or whatever it is) is such a "bad" preservative for vaccines, why is it used as a preservative in eye drops, contact lens solutions and other opthalmic products?
Why not then work also to make Mexico more receptive to American individuals to own real property in Mexico, etc.?
It ALL should more or less be a two-way street, but everyone *except* the US is allowed to be as discriminatory against American citizens, but it's bad for the US to be. That's bullshit.
By stopping the rash, many vaccinated people get MUCH MORE SERIOUS diseases later on in life because they still have the virus, but because of the vaccine, the body can't get rid of it. The biggest majority of these diseases are a pain, but rarely life threatening. I would much rather have measles than lupus erythematosus, Scheurmann's diseases and chondromalacia, which are all chronic degenerative diseases...which means the doctor says, "it sucks to be you." -- Usurper_ii
The vaccine makes the body already produce the antibodies necessary to fight the disease. But this part isn't bad. Perhaps the protein package introdoced by the vaccine contains other protein chunks that the immune system also reacts to, and these protein chunks are close enough to various cell protein markers so that the body learns to react to them also.
The problem with those diseases is that somehow the body gets tricked into thinking that some of the protein markers on the cells affected by those diseases are bad, so it trys to fight them off. Condromalacia is also a condition (pain behind knee cap is the presenting symptom if you're a cyclist, in which case it's a repetitive motion disorder possibly amplified by disfunctioning knee joint action or alignment...), but I suppose if your body is fighting itself, there's nothing from stopping similar pains in other joints.
Doesn't explain how or why a high ANA or ACA titer is usually a good risk factor (but not sole) for getting a lupus diagnosis if you meet other diagnostic criteria for it... How does the body learn to react to red blood cells, free hemoglobin, or cell nuclear material or DNA fragments?
Why is it racist to note that diseases once virtually non-existent in the US are making a comeback, and that immigration is *one* of the causes?
It's not. If all immigration went through centralized locations it could possibly be dealt with as well.
Most people who are getting TB these days anyways are getting drug-resistant TB. Either they're indigent (homeless/drug addicts), work with indigents, or work with patients in a hospital setting.
Anyone who says it is is trying to utliize victimization propaganda to suit their agenda.
Don't forget, that medicines like Rumicade and Humira (monoclonal antibodies for treating rheumatoid arthritis) oddly enough increase chances of getting Tb as well. I think it's becasue the action these monoclonal antibodies target, Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF), somehow makes it easier for Tb bacteria to take hold.
Most of the people who typically get Anthrax infections (rare, but it still happens) are wool handlers, shearers, or handle sheep hides at slaughter houses. Oddly enough, at least for slaughter house workers, prior to 1991, they were the only group really required to get the existing Anthrax vaccination. So, if it so happens that most of the people who do these jobs these days are immigrants (central americans, probably undocumented, working in sheep slaughterhouses, Kiwi or Aussie shearers working on work visas), does making them get Anthrax vaccine constitute job-related racism? No.
Besides, if you're leaving your western civilization country to go to various tropical locations, you're required to get various prophylactic shots to guard against various nasty tropical diseases as a condition of getting your passport in-line as well, so it's hard to see the inverse as being "racist", too. Isn't it just as racist/colonialist/whatever to decide that every country in Africa is just a festering cesspool of malaria, sleeping sickness, etc.?, and that continuing to push this requirement creates a mindset that these countries are just inherently 4th-class to the rest of the world?
Again, because unpasteurized milk comes from cows, the biggest problem isn't with TB, it's with shit-borne contagions (E. Coli, Listeria, etc) finding their way into the raw milk, either through contamination getting into the milking equipment or being passed into the milk via the cow itself. Do aged cheeses have problems with these bacteria, or is it only soft cheeses (these two types of cheeses have far different pH levels that are probably key factors in which bacteria grow in the cheese and which don't).
Besides, it's far, FAR easier to get farm eggs that haven't been "inspected" than it is to get raw cow's milk in the US, at least. Just drive around a rural area, and someone's gonna have a shingle out trying to sell farm eggs for $1.50/dz (common around where I live) or something outrageous like that.
FDA regs for selling non-USDA chicken eggs are:
1) meet criteria for Grade B eggs: shell intact (no cracks or checks), ungraded (i.e., egg isn't candled to determine size or quality of yolk or white, check for blood spots or meat spots, etc), and sell in an unmarked, new package. They DON'T have to be cleaned, although they sure do look better in a eggcrate if they are! Farmer does *not* have to be registered with US Dept of Agriculture to sell the eggs off the farm or farmer's market, but some states (e.g., Washington) require farmer to register with state and have a permit. No one checks on off-the-farm egg sales. Is the risk any worse for contacting a nasty salmonella or e. coli infection from these eggs compared to the commercially grown eggs? WEll, the only problems from eggs I can recall hearing about involve...commercially grown eggs and undercooked product.
USDA regs require stores to sell only USDA-inpected eggs.
Don't worry, the USDA uses the best statistical and sampling methods to mechanically and optoelectronically grade and evaluate egg quality, and to ensure the safety of eggs maximizes their quality in a retail environment.
Rickets? That's just Vit-D deficiency. Hardly a cause for concern, really, for most people. It's supplimented into milk, for one. Any exposure to direct sunlight produces enough Vit-D in the skin to make up for minor dietary deficiencies, too.
Did you mean Rubella?
How will they enforce someone who has access to a Windows computer (and can share folders) from storing all their MP3 files on it, creating a public share point, and slowly telling people "hey, there's about 50GB of MP3 files here...", running a few shoutcast servers, etc.?
Lessee...blocking this net traffic would really block out a huge portion of Windows fileserving functionality on the LAN...
Is there some kind of clever packet filtering that can discern whether SMB file-sharing packet traffic is related to people reading MP3 files or any other windows file type? Limit their traffic to SMB file reading? Good luck with that.
Funny, the RIAA has done nothing to mandate that Linux/Samba, Novell, Microsoft, Banyan, etc., or any other OS maker that supports network-reachable file systems, to implement this. Or, push come to shove, mandate that EMC put stuff into Documentum, and require same for any other high-brow document management system (LiveLink, et al).
.m3u playlist file or some other database (i.e., change the physical filename into some hexified serial number, and map this to the original file name somewhere else)?
Oh, and apps like Winamp, WMA, etc. that can access said network-reachable stores of MP3'd CDs.
The IT groups and CompSci/EE/any other group that's computer-literate and has some autonomy over parts of its computing infrastructure will work around whatever draconian policy might be put in place as well, to where the community that has access to their collections of files is relatively limited, compared to all the students, for example (but all the staff isn't any better, either, but the staff, which would probably include faculty members at some point, is definitely a hornets nest the administration just doesn't start kicking at wildly). The student body at most universities might as well just be wearing gimp suits in the eyes of the administration and legislatures.
Who's to say someone doesn't just documentumize the filenames and store the real descriptive info in the
No, having 3rd-party langs run on the JVM could be nice, and would prove how tied to Java (the lang) it is. Oh, but that would make it slightly more feature-equivalent with .Net. Can't have that now...
Hmm... Crippled is probably more apt than you think. Will there be a UI to turn on outbound control? Probably not, unless you count RegEdit. Will the Registry keys to turn it on actually be IN the Registry, or will they need to be manually entered via RegEdit in order to override the essentially hidden default values? Even better, what if MS locks down that particular part of the Registry that deals with these keys, accessible by a Microsoft app that uses that security profile, but that Microsoft won't release?
Simple enough for companies to deal with it, at least big enough companies that set up their own images to clone on new computers, set up policies, and configure stuff through SMS anyways.
Me thinks the technical reasons are more related to 3rd-party companies (read: RIAA leaches) wanting to do some of the tricks that MS is starting to do, and that having a full firewall that could block all traffic if desired, or be user-configurable, interferes with those plans. The next step will be MS "suggesting" that Vista firewalls conform with a secret security profile that it only releases to companies that agree to play by those rules.
BS, Unix was using them extensively already. Get your facts straight, MS said they did that to avoid being accused of copying Unix technology. The other reason is the one you cited. But directories existed already.
Funny, somewhere along the DOS 3.0 line they added ">","",and "|", which kind of work like they do in Unix, redirecting streams, etc.