A sample Chinese joke: A boy is reading his homework assignment for class, which was to write a journal article. "When I left my home this morning, I saw a pile of dog shit near the stairs, and I was startled." (the words for to be startled are identical in sound to the words for to eat a pound of something). "You ate dog shit?" "Ha ha ha ha!"
Well sure, if by people you mean a fourteen-year-old and his army of Win-zombies, and by fight back you mean trying to settle a grudge over being modded down.
Or the alternative, pay nothing but the salaries of your tech guys, and roll out OOo.
Why do so many people think that expensive and thin beats FREE, especially when you've already got a whole raft of desktop PCs that'll run the 'thick' client?
Expensive, proprietary office software is dead. D-E-A-D, dead!
Well, you could've bought a subscription. I hear there's a link when stories are in the mysterious future, that would let you report bad links, story dupes, etc.
They'll only hit the back button if they can tell the page is obviously borked. If the webmister has done his/her/its work properly, the page will degrade to a level that IE can handle, without becoming craptastic. Ex: Implement SVG as a bandwidth savings measure, then keep static PNG/GIF images around for when IE shows up. That's why the webserver is told which browser is visiting, IIRC.
...will eventually be widely adopted, but it will be only hours before a spammer uses it to block spam filters--random graphical elements, scattered in the middle of words?
Namely, to start other services, which will be required to use the system. If the system is trying to start Firefox and sshd and samba and crond, at the same time as it's loading all 500MB of X into memory, you're going to experience a bit of churning, to put it mildly.
Depends on the use...typical filesystem access wouldn't be sustained read-write over a large portion of the disk. In that case, caching would be much less useful.
I don't use SAMBA. I use NFS. Fuck Windows shares. NFS: One.ko and a few (tiny) utilities, brain-dead-easy to compile/install/configure. SMB: Multiple.ko, several large programs, larger daemons, quite difficult to build/install, near impossible to configure.
Obviously, the true Linux zealot would use a SAMBA share.
A think to remember is, sure Microsoft doesn't allow patches et. al. with XBox games, but they don't have as much leverage on the PC. PC games aren't signed. If ${foo} developer wants to make a patchable/mod-able PC game, MS won't be able to stop him(without buying the company).
They had the server run on one of those vapochill rigs...and it must have froze solid.
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A hacker in New York uploads new firmware to his 40GB harddrive, and all of the sudden, it's a 400GB!
The quality of the media is what limits the tape, not a pin. A pin just tells the recorder what quality the media is, so it doesn't try to write more complicated data than the medium can store.
Salon.com requires a soul-sucking registration link. Here's CNET News.com's version of the story:
Adware maker joins federal privacy board Published: February 23, 2005, 5:19 PM PST By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack
An executive from Claria, formerly called Gator, will be one of 20 members of the committee, the department said Wednesday.
"This committee will provide the department with important recommendations on how to further the department's mission while protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information of citizens and visitors of the United States," Nuala O'Connor Kelly, the department's chief privacy officer, said in a statement.
Claria bundles its pop-up advertising software with ad-supported networks such as Kazaa. Recently, the privately held company has been trying to seek credibility by following stricter privacy guidelines and offering behavioral profiling services to its partners. In an e-mail message to CNET News.com, Kelly defended the inclusion of a Claria representative on the committee. "I am proud of, supportive of and grateful for those individuals in the public and private sector who are willing to take on the hard tasks, fight the good fight, and who surprise us with creative, fresh and unconventional thinking, and who make change where change is needed through their hard work and personal dedication," Kelly said.
In the past, Claria's pop-up ad software has riled some users who claimed it was annoying, installed without permission, and not easy to delete. Publishers also were irked about pop-up ads for a rival's product appearing next to their own Web sites. Catalog retailer L.L. Bean sued Gator for alleged trademark infringement.
Claria's representative on the Homeland Security privacy board is company Vice President D. Reed Freeman, a former Federal Trade Commission staff attorney. Other members include executives from Intel, Computer Associates International, IBM, Oracle and the Cato Institute. Kelly said Freeman will "bring his courage and conviction to the board, and will contribute productively--and constructively--to the board's and the public's dialogue on privacy and homeland security."
The committee is tasked with providing "external expert advice to the secretary and the chief privacy officer on programmatic, policy, operational and technological issues that affect privacy, data integrity and data interoperability."
In February 2003, Gator settled a high-profile case brought by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Dow Jones and other media companies. Terms of that deal were quiet, but Claria appears to have stopped delivering pop-ups to those publishers' sites. Claria did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
CNET News.com's Stefanie Olsen contributed to this report.
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A sample Chinese joke:
A boy is reading his homework assignment for class, which was to write a journal article.
"When I left my home this morning, I saw a pile of dog shit near the stairs, and I was startled."
(the words for to be startled are identical in sound to the words for to eat a pound of something).
"You ate dog shit?"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Well sure, if by people you mean a fourteen-year-old and his army of Win-zombies, and by fight back you mean trying to settle a grudge over being modded down.
And yeah, you forgot "terrists!"
Or the alternative, pay nothing but the salaries of your tech guys, and roll out OOo.
Why do so many people think that expensive and thin beats FREE, especially when you've already got a whole raft of desktop PCs that'll run the 'thick' client?
Expensive, proprietary office software is dead. D-E-A-D, dead!
I give a flying monkey what people think...
Well, it runs on toasters.
Concrete is just the next logical step.
Well, you could've bought a subscription. I hear there's a link when stories are in the mysterious future, that would let you report bad links, story dupes, etc.
I don't think it works, though.
Waitamin...
pseudo-random = God?
Wow.
They'll only hit the back button if they can tell the page is obviously borked. If the webmister has done his/her/its work properly, the page will degrade to a level that IE can handle, without becoming craptastic.
Ex: Implement SVG as a bandwidth savings measure, then keep static PNG/GIF images around for when IE shows up. That's why the webserver is told which browser is visiting, IIRC.
...will eventually be widely adopted, but it will be only hours before a spammer uses it to block spam filters--random graphical elements, scattered in the middle of words?
And you thought cyrillic characters were bad.
Yep, and they only need to run three programs at once.
And wmv movies embedded in word documents require you to upgrade to Windows XP Profiler, now with built-in spyware^Wblackbox, for your protection.
That five minutes is already being used!
Namely, to start other services, which will be required to use the system. If the system is trying to start Firefox and sshd and samba and crond, at the same time as it's loading all 500MB of X into memory, you're going to experience a bit of churning, to put it mildly.
It's not like SysV runs at nice -19 or anything.
Hex is for weenies. Real men program in binary, with a toggle switch. ... while walking 20 miles uphill both ways in the snow.
Ahh, just like LaserDiscs! God, I loved those things.
Yes.
Now what are you doing to serve the Fatherl^WHomeland?
Depends on the use...typical filesystem access wouldn't be sustained read-write over a large portion of the disk. In that case, caching would be much less useful.
I don't use SAMBA. I use NFS. Fuck Windows shares. .ko and a few (tiny) utilities, brain-dead-easy to compile/install/configure. .ko, several large programs, larger daemons, quite difficult to build/install, near impossible to configure.
NFS:
One
SMB:
Multiple
Obviously, the true Linux zealot would use a SAMBA share.
I have a better idea for stopping spam:
Arm the geeks.
Get some buddies together, take paypal donations to buy some BFGs, and do some vigilante justice.
Seriously, what jury would convict the guy that shot up a spammer?
So...
Subtract GPL, and you then have?
Company A has 20 years of IP
Company B has nothing at all.
B either has to build from scratch(much more expensive than reusing GPL), or buy/license from A(quite pricey, too)
How would adding the GPL to this situation make it worse?
No, I'm pretty sure WMP would qualify as a WMD...
A think to remember is, sure Microsoft doesn't allow patches et. al. with XBox games, but they don't have as much leverage on the PC.
PC games aren't signed. If ${foo} developer wants to make a patchable/mod-able PC game, MS won't be able to stop him(without buying the company).
Damn.
Now I have to earn Gil to get my organ transplants?
I just finished my Evercrack detox program!
Only if you haven't lined your pockets with tin-foil. ...
What, you mean everybody doesn't do that?
They had the server run on one of those vapochill rigs...and it must have froze solid.
A hacker in New York uploads new firmware to his 40GB harddrive, and all of the sudden, it's a 400GB!
The quality of the media is what limits the tape, not a pin. A pin just tells the recorder what quality the media is, so it doesn't try to write more complicated data than the medium can store.
Salon.com requires a soul-sucking registration link.
Here's CNET News.com's version of the story:
Adware maker joins federal privacy board
Published: February 23, 2005, 5:19 PM PST
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack
An executive from Claria, formerly called Gator, will be one of 20 members of the committee, the department said Wednesday.
"This committee will provide the department with important recommendations on how to further the department's mission while protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information of citizens and visitors of the United States," Nuala O'Connor Kelly, the department's chief privacy officer, said in a statement.
Claria bundles its pop-up advertising software with ad-supported networks such as Kazaa. Recently, the privately held company has been trying to seek credibility by following stricter privacy guidelines and offering behavioral profiling services to its partners.
In an e-mail message to CNET News.com, Kelly defended the inclusion of a Claria representative on the committee. "I am proud of, supportive of and grateful for those individuals in the public and private sector who are willing to take on the hard tasks, fight the good fight, and who surprise us with creative, fresh and unconventional thinking, and who make change where change is needed through their hard work and personal dedication," Kelly said.
In the past, Claria's pop-up ad software has riled some users who claimed it was annoying, installed without permission, and not easy to delete. Publishers also were irked about pop-up ads for a rival's product appearing next to their own Web sites. Catalog retailer L.L. Bean sued Gator for alleged trademark infringement.
Claria's representative on the Homeland Security privacy board is company Vice President D. Reed Freeman, a former Federal Trade Commission staff attorney. Other members include executives from Intel, Computer Associates International, IBM, Oracle and the Cato Institute.
Kelly said Freeman will "bring his courage and conviction to the board, and will contribute productively--and constructively--to the board's and the public's dialogue on privacy and homeland security."
The committee is tasked with providing "external expert advice to the secretary and the chief privacy officer on programmatic, policy, operational and technological issues that affect privacy, data integrity and data interoperability."
In February 2003, Gator settled a high-profile case brought by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Dow Jones and other media companies. Terms of that deal were quiet, but Claria appears to have stopped delivering pop-ups to those publishers' sites.
Claria did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
CNET News.com's Stefanie Olsen contributed to this report.