We all know that from Windows NT up, they used the BSD TCP/IP stack. And it's usually not the TCP stack that is vulnerable, it's the next layer up that doesn't/can't handle what TCP brings in. So why did they throw it out and re-write it? It was one of the only pieces that made Windows semi-stable on a network and made it server-worthy. It was also pointed out that the MS implementation of the TCP/IP stack was the slowest stack around in the late 90's (I don't know about now). OS/2, Linux and even DOS had a faster TCP/IP stack back then.
Q. What are you announcing? A. Winternals and Sysinternals have been acquired by Microsoft. Winternals is a leading provider of systems recovery tools for Windows-based enterprises worldwide and Sysinternals is one of the leading community and enthusiast sites for people interested in information about the internals of the Windows operating system.
Q. How does this acquisition affect Winternals' customers? A. Microsoft will stop and kill everything as soon as all legal, hardcopy contracts are over
Q. Will you continue selling Winternals' portfolio of products? A. No, it will get integrated halfly into Windows 2006 though.
Q. Why is it a good thing for Winternals' customers? A. It is a good thing because now they can't spend any money anymore on stupid tools and they can finally switch to Linux
Q. Will I still receive technical support and if so for how long? A. Winternals will continue to provide technical support for the current term of your Product Assurance Contract.
Q. Why is Microsoft acquiring Winternals and Sysinternals? A. Extend, embrace and extuingish.
Q. What exactly is a Technical Fellow? A. The guy that will come install Linux on your servers
Q. How many Technical Fellows are there at Microsoft? A. A lot, they are undercover penguins.
Q. My Product Assurance Contract with Winternals on Administrator's Pak (or other tool) is about to expire (or has just expired). Can I still renew it? A. No, there are no plans for renewal.
Q. What were the terms? How much did Microsoft pay for Winternals? Was it a cash or stock deal? A. Microsoft threatened with a lawsuit over some of the programs.
As you probably know and heard, a lot of those politicians are sponsored by actual gambling enterprises (that have actual buildings). The actual hard-bulding gambling business gets hurt because the people don't have to leave their home anymore to gamble, your neighbours or other people from your church can't see you go online, but they can see you outside the casino. Just like online electronic stores are hurting the electro-farmer down the road, so it is with a lot of other business.
Ever heard of netflix or similar services? These days, the movie industry doesn't need DRM, they need services like Netflix. We consumers these days, don't want or can spend a lot of money on content. There is other content available for free or semi-legal and as long as it's 50% cheaper to get content that way, people will do it.
As soon as I can buy new movies for 10$ (like the older ones) I will buy them. Currently, I do buy the older movies in stores as a legal hard copy but I had them for a while downloaded because I don't want to shill out $50 for the latest content. I also want to be able to do with my content what I want. If I have a DVD, I want to do with it what I want, I don't want some stupid DRM limiting my ability to fast forward the commercials.
I went to high school, did electronics there which included quite some datacomm, computer systems, programming. I planned on working a year, then go back to school, I never went back.
My last year of high school was so annoying, I lost all feeling for school. I learned absolutely nothing interesting except for some math nor did I learn anything new not about electronics nor computers. Then I went on one of those trips to a university where some 2nd & 3rd year students were showing of their projects. I even explained a student how to solve a particular electronics problem they were running into, they were 3 years "ahead" of me and couldn't figure out how to use an opamp as current source (they had a set amount of components and had to build a certain thing out of it within certain specifications, they had 1 opamp still available in the chip but didn't know how to get enough current for the LED... euhm, you got an opamp available there...)
Granted, I have done quite some self study, I am the typical skinny geek, too busy to eat (chips) and staying up late soldering crap or fixing everybody else's computer. I had my first "computer" when I was 8 and I grew up on Z80, Atari, Commodore and I always liked reading, tinkering and scientific stuff. The fact is, if you like what you want to do, especially in the less-precise careers, then you will just do it. You won't need to go to school for it, but you will be so interested that you will learn yourself before you graduate high school. If however you want a career with lots of money, high status, feel free, go to school and feel unhappy for the rest of your life.
I for one am 4 years out of high school, have a 50k income without bonusses, all possible benefits included (I just started working at this job, this is considered entry-level) as a Unix Systems Administrator implementing Sarbanes-Oxley on some of the machines AND I am happy. OK, I have to drive everyday to work for 45 min. but I am free to come and go as I please (as long as I do 40h/week), I don't have (or I don't care about) a manager that is yelling stupid stuff he doesn't know anything about because I know they can't go without me, and if they could, I could get another job in a snap. I have a great resume and people are calling me EVERY DAY for short-term projects, jobs and other with great benefits. As for the geekiness, I have a girlfriend, an ex-wife and 4 other ex-girlfriends, a kid and I have been living away from my mother for quite some time.
It's called Ubuntu. It's real easy, and internally, I share my package directory through NFS. apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and all packages are already there.
"We don't allow Win 9x to connect to AD". It's not like there is a huge security risk for having AD run authentication for Win 9x. I can agree that you don't run AD on those boxes, but I have Win NT and Mac OS boxes connecting to AD. I can't change anything in the AD, I can just read stuff everybody else can read. Or is AD broken? In my company there are still Win NT 3 boxes standing around, they are firewalled...
It's not as stupid as soon as you have to actually use the darn protocol. If you implement a VoIP phone server with all bells and whistles and all of a sudden some jerk-manager asks why you didn't implement the functionallity to Skype the company... well, because it's not open, I can't use it... but I want to call you with Skype from home, that's VoIP too isn't it... aargh.
Open source it and put it in a decent project like say, Asterisk... I hate Skype just because their protocol is closed. I can't do anything useful with it except when I use their crap.
If they can lose about 99% of the greatest victory in the Cold War, what else did they lose? Will they conveniently lose the Constitution too within a few years so we can't prove our rights anymore? Will they lose all laws on privacy, free speech,... that would be convenient now wouldn't it.
I think both have their uses and both need to be used appropriately.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia (like any other common reference) is (or should be) written by "experts" on the subject which is then peer-reviewed.
While I am an overall expert in the computer world and my preference is for Mac & Linux, I also know a lot about Windows, AIX, Unix, BSD. My view is without a doubt biassed towards the *nix world but I have a general knowledge about a lot of subjects. Thus my views might be used (either paid or unpaid) by any encyclopedia (Wiki, Britannica, Encarta) because of my general knowledge in the area but they are going to be biassed towards the *nix world. Being peer-reviewed, my comments are then going to be rewritten or slightly altered for correctness, bias in the other direction and other small things.
The good thing about wiki compared to any other source is that all my peers can review it and change it. In overall this works pretty good, the mainstream idea about Windows is bad programming and security although there are some fanboys (this is an example) who say different. Who is right? I think that being an admin at a computer is not safe, it is easier for managing though, thus at work everyone is local admin on their workstation by decision. Good or bad, I think it's bad (out of security perspective) my manager and CIO thinks it is good out of management and cost perspective. But who is going to say I am more right than them. So if I write about security in any document, I say that it's not good to do this. My peers and overlords are going to review this with another mindset and thus add/alter my comment and say that it could be better cost-wise. If I did this in a printed encyclopedia, my comments would only be reviewed by a small number of peers which might lead to a certain mindset (what if they were all security admins and not managers) but in the wiki, my boss and his peers can also add to this leading to a less biassed view on the issue.
I can use and refer to sources in either way and that is what an encyclopedia should do: have documented sources about the idea and why it is so (scientific proof for example) then I can draw my own conclusions out of it. If there are no sources and it's just ideas by somebody, then it is just another book I can buy to read late night, smile and put it away, I won't use it as a source for my science paper. And even decent encyclopedia's are biassed or use biassed sources, there is no such thing as a neutral standpoint. Multiple sources are the only solution if you really want to know something about a subject or use it in a scientific paper.
Google/Yahoo/MSN Search are search bots. It is not (or should not be) biassed towards subjects, personal preferences or anything personal. It just counts the words and if you type a word, it searches the pages with the highest wordcount and gives me the result sorted by highest number of words appearing on the page. It is off course slightly biassed by now to prevent abuse but in general it gives the good results about a certain subject on both ends of the perspective if you can use a good search string and know how to handle them. Then I can select my sources however I want. Google gives me the original sources that an encyclopedia will use to derive it's information from. But every single source is written by someone and should be used like that: independent sources, not the highest hit taken as the only-and-true source for information. An encyclopedia adds those sources together, derives and compacts the information in it and write a little essay about it. Which sources I take and how much sources I take from either end of a perspective as an encyclopedia source will finally make the article, but neither the sources nor the derived information of the combination is to be used as 'the truth' or 'scientific proof'
The EU has just spent money on software licenses. To upgrade their Phantom consoles to Vista and Office 2007 including Duke Nukem Forever, the EU has just spent 300m Euro. 280m Euro was spent on Vista and Office licenses. A support contract for 2.5m euro / day was also included.
"1 2 3 4 5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage! Prepare Trilogy for immediate departure - and change the combination on my luggage!
but what they are actually are going to do is create a broken implementation of ODF and then point and say: see see see, while some OSS developer is going to create another plugin that does it all perfectly but breaks with every Office update. They are going to be sued for some pennies for not opening up their documentation and maintaining their monopoly. We've seen it over and over again with HTML, Java, Novell and it's going to happen again.
BTW: their current conversion tool doesn't work for certain features (manual page break) which is NOT a compatibility issue. It's obviously broken by design.
I for one am not impressed and do NOT welcome our ODF-importing overlords.
GOOG has been asked different times why they bought/need/want so much black fiber. First of all it's cheap now (and it might not always be) so buying in for later might be good. Another possibility is that they bought it for this very reason. Once they start suing telco's, some of them that are evil (like AT&T) might just disconnect them or pressure other telco's to stop giving them the connections they need/want. If they OWN the fiber, they just connect it and they are back in business.
It's also nice to know that the US didn't sign it because most of those mines are made (and invented/improved) in the USA. According to Human Rights Watch, between 1969 and 1992, the country was responsible for exporting at least 4.4 million landmines to 32 or more countries. US landmines have reportedly been used in Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia and Zambia.
The USA is also among the greatest stockpilers (4th in row) of landmines.
For the USA it would be too much of an economic problem (for some people related to both Clinton and Bush) to ban landmines. Landmines are good for nothing. They are easy to deploy and cheap but hard and expensive to clean up and it is often not done properly or at all leaving a lot of innocent casualities long after. They are mainly used in the psychology of battle. A mine is not made to kill someone, it is made to disable soldiers and dishearten the rest of them that see it happening.
BPI, the British PORNOgraphic Industry... aargh phonographic, who the hell uses/listens to phonographs these days: from wikipedia: The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. Those things have been declared death over and over again for 20 years... hmm...
Well, next to that, in Europe there is another system (GALILEO) that does the exact same thing as GPS but isn't controlled by American's, if I'm correct, the russians also have their stuff. So if you use GPS (which is downgraded for military reasons) with the hi-res GALILEO (which has a civilian resolution the same as the American Military GPS sattelite streams) and DGPS, your positioning by the sensors (developed by Philips long time ago) on the wheels to locate yourself and the European radio beacons for positioning (used by police and ambulance) you get a pretty accurate system where one system can fail. The GPS system these days can (with a good mapping system) also give a warning long before a tunnel is reached so the user can start driving manually and there might be a system installed in a tunnel to give guidance.
I wouldn't like my car automatic, I like to break the speed limits (by 2 or 3 times) and do some pretty insane tricks on the road (in a safe and controlled way) and I just love to drive and have control of the car.
[quote]cannot and will not turn off your computer[/quote]
This might be correct, but how about greatly impairing the use of your Operating System? How about refusing any software installs/updates or coming with an annoying popup that your software is pirated. Those too are an intrusion of my computer as is "just" calling home even without any action from their side.
They probably won't turn off your computer, they just will make sure you can't use it anymore or disable certain (important) functions.
You make fun of it but for some of us it is a problem that they have to deal with daily.
I for myself work at a multi-national, multi-location site with a mixed environment of mainframes, servers, terminals, windows workstations, mac workstations. I have to implement the policy according to Sarbanes-Oxley in their macintosh computers. They never got anyone to do it decently, so currently a mixed environment of G4's, G5's with all different software, licensed and unlicensed versions of Mac OS, Office, random proprietary software, cracked software, people with mp3's, m4a's, 60g of downloaded video shows and then you have those smart-asses that think that they can manually modify the NetInfo databases.
I come, I saw, I get everyone integrated into the Active Directory, disable all admins and admin rights, make sure everyone logs in (no automatic logins) and a screensaver has a password... next thing you know, my supervisor tells me that everyone needs to be admin on their own computer. If they screw up their environment, they will get fired, they're not allowed to do that by company policy etc. according to something said/agreed by CEO and CIO. I think by myself: wtf was I hired for then. I enable local admin rights, next thing you know everyone logs in automatically and disables screen saver passwords and even disables my Remote Desktop and SSH capabilities. NOW ARE THEY GOING TO FIRE EVERY SINGLE MAC USER AROUND (all artists, copywriters,...), nope, no-one gets fired, I have to make sure everything works and tell everyone not to do that. The best thing is that in OS X you don't need to have admin rights to function properly. In the Windows world, maybe, but in OS X you have your home directory with your Library, Preferences, Documents etc. as admin you function as your own user until you need more rights and then you're allowed to become root. So why did everyone here at/. say you don't need root rights under any circumstance? Is it justified because the manager of the artists complained that they had to create a folder in their users folder and couldn't do it in the root (/).
Well, what would you say when you are 5ft tall and someone just cut off 1ft of your legs. I think the pain and agony of the cut-off legs is what made them have trouble finding home. I think humans with 1/2 their legs being cut off would also have trouble finding home. I think it would be better to make the legs LONGER without causing them pain (nanotubes...) would validate the experiment
And then when you finally do, you will complain because users can't get anything in the project anymore.
I had to work with project management before using scrums. The management describes the scrums, the developers do it and then the user complains because the user doesn't want what management decided. And then the developers can't satisfy the users since management decides what goes in the scrums and the users don't have any influence anymore. This leads to bloated apps full of features that nobody uses and a lot of users being angry or leaving (like I did).
As long as managers or sales people decide what needs to be in an application, then nothing will work right, it will get bloated and people will get angry (like Windows). If users or senior technical persons can decide or cooperate to define what goes in an app, the application becomes more useful and will have the features everyone need (look at open source programs). The difference is that management looks at revenue and how much they can make by putting in (insert random functionality here) and selling it or rolling it out in as little time necessary largely depending on what some external analyst thinks the future is going to bring or what people are going to want. When people that work with something daily get to decide, they know what is missing or not working correctly or completely currently and thus can have some useful feedback. Of course when the latter is true, you will have stable apps but the latest buzzword is not going to be supported (Blogging, Web 2.0). If the managers decide, they integrate blog-like instant messaging and web 3.0 tied in to the CRM in their ERP which nobody will use and won't be stable until someone defines an actual standard as to what Web 3.0 looks like after which the developers will have to change their apps leaving largely edited and/or unused code.
How about using the same technique SSH uses:
If you come on a site that has the same IP but with a different key or the same key with a different IP: BIG WARNING THAT THIS SITE OR THE COMMUNICATIONS IS POSSIBLY COMPROMISED and provide a link to customer support in case that happens. SSL Certificates just check whether your communications is securely established and I won't examine that certificate everytime I connect.
When you want to do Internet banking or something similar, your bank should give you a key on a read-only USB disk or something and the possibility to boot a Damn Small Linux from that disk. My bank did that for a while, but I guess they fell back on just providing the key probably because of the support issues with DSL and xDSL, USB Modems, Winmodems and other crap like getting the VPN through the users' firewall and you had a browser but couldn't go anywhere but the bank's sites.
But I have another bank account that just requires a username and password and you're not even on the secure part by then. How dumb is that? I avoid using my Internet banking just for that. The people at the branch sometimes ask why I don't do those simple things (like transferring money) through their site. I am running only Mac and Linux but still I don't want anyone connecting because they keylogged my password - some users might have troubles putting a good password in the first place (insert oblig. spaceballs password quote here). My webmail is more secure than their site (RSA SecurID key required for that), so they could at least do SOME effort like giving me something similar to SecurID for their site.
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We all know that from Windows NT up, they used the BSD TCP/IP stack. And it's usually not the TCP stack that is vulnerable, it's the next layer up that doesn't/can't handle what TCP brings in. So why did they throw it out and re-write it? It was one of the only pieces that made Windows semi-stable on a network and made it server-worthy. It was also pointed out that the MS implementation of the TCP/IP stack was the slowest stack around in the late 90's (I don't know about now). OS/2, Linux and even DOS had a faster TCP/IP stack back then.
Before it gets slashdotted:
Q. What are you announcing?
A. Winternals and Sysinternals have been acquired by Microsoft. Winternals is a leading provider of systems recovery tools for Windows-based enterprises worldwide and Sysinternals is one of the leading community and enthusiast sites for people interested in information about the internals of the Windows operating system.
Q. How does this acquisition affect Winternals' customers?
A. Microsoft will stop and kill everything as soon as all legal, hardcopy contracts are over
Q. Will you continue selling Winternals' portfolio of products?
A. No, it will get integrated halfly into Windows 2006 though.
Q. Why is it a good thing for Winternals' customers?
A. It is a good thing because now they can't spend any money anymore on stupid tools and they can finally switch to Linux
Q. Will I still receive technical support and if so for how long?
A. Winternals will continue to provide technical support for the current term of your Product Assurance Contract.
Q. Why is Microsoft acquiring Winternals and Sysinternals?
A. Extend, embrace and extuingish.
Q. What exactly is a Technical Fellow?
A. The guy that will come install Linux on your servers
Q. How many Technical Fellows are there at Microsoft?
A. A lot, they are undercover penguins.
Q. My Product Assurance Contract with Winternals on Administrator's Pak (or other tool) is about to expire (or has just expired). Can I still renew it?
A. No, there are no plans for renewal.
Q. What were the terms? How much did Microsoft pay for Winternals? Was it a cash or stock deal?
A. Microsoft threatened with a lawsuit over some of the programs.
Did you mean fat tubes? We can take our internets with us.
As you probably know and heard, a lot of those politicians are sponsored by actual gambling enterprises (that have actual buildings). The actual hard-bulding gambling business gets hurt because the people don't have to leave their home anymore to gamble, your neighbours or other people from your church can't see you go online, but they can see you outside the casino. Just like online electronic stores are hurting the electro-farmer down the road, so it is with a lot of other business.
Ever heard of netflix or similar services? These days, the movie industry doesn't need DRM, they need services like Netflix. We consumers these days, don't want or can spend a lot of money on content. There is other content available for free or semi-legal and as long as it's 50% cheaper to get content that way, people will do it. As soon as I can buy new movies for 10$ (like the older ones) I will buy them. Currently, I do buy the older movies in stores as a legal hard copy but I had them for a while downloaded because I don't want to shill out $50 for the latest content. I also want to be able to do with my content what I want. If I have a DVD, I want to do with it what I want, I don't want some stupid DRM limiting my ability to fast forward the commercials.
And I can't do all that with it. I can just enlarge some bodyparts with that internet. I think I'll have to add more tubes.
I went to high school, did electronics there which included quite some datacomm, computer systems, programming. I planned on working a year, then go back to school, I never went back.
My last year of high school was so annoying, I lost all feeling for school. I learned absolutely nothing interesting except for some math nor did I learn anything new not about electronics nor computers. Then I went on one of those trips to a university where some 2nd & 3rd year students were showing of their projects. I even explained a student how to solve a particular electronics problem they were running into, they were 3 years "ahead" of me and couldn't figure out how to use an opamp as current source (they had a set amount of components and had to build a certain thing out of it within certain specifications, they had 1 opamp still available in the chip but didn't know how to get enough current for the LED... euhm, you got an opamp available there...)
Granted, I have done quite some self study, I am the typical skinny geek, too busy to eat (chips) and staying up late soldering crap or fixing everybody else's computer. I had my first "computer" when I was 8 and I grew up on Z80, Atari, Commodore and I always liked reading, tinkering and scientific stuff. The fact is, if you like what you want to do, especially in the less-precise careers, then you will just do it. You won't need to go to school for it, but you will be so interested that you will learn yourself before you graduate high school. If however you want a career with lots of money, high status, feel free, go to school and feel unhappy for the rest of your life.
I for one am 4 years out of high school, have a 50k income without bonusses, all possible benefits included (I just started working at this job, this is considered entry-level) as a Unix Systems Administrator implementing Sarbanes-Oxley on some of the machines AND I am happy. OK, I have to drive everyday to work for 45 min. but I am free to come and go as I please (as long as I do 40h/week), I don't have (or I don't care about) a manager that is yelling stupid stuff he doesn't know anything about because I know they can't go without me, and if they could, I could get another job in a snap. I have a great resume and people are calling me EVERY DAY for short-term projects, jobs and other with great benefits. As for the geekiness, I have a girlfriend, an ex-wife and 4 other ex-girlfriends, a kid and I have been living away from my mother for quite some time.
It's called Ubuntu. It's real easy, and internally, I share my package directory through NFS. apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and all packages are already there.
"We don't allow Win 9x to connect to AD". It's not like there is a huge security risk for having AD run authentication for Win 9x. I can agree that you don't run AD on those boxes, but I have Win NT and Mac OS boxes connecting to AD. I can't change anything in the AD, I can just read stuff everybody else can read. Or is AD broken? In my company there are still Win NT 3 boxes standing around, they are firewalled...
It's not as stupid as soon as you have to actually use the darn protocol. If you implement a VoIP phone server with all bells and whistles and all of a sudden some jerk-manager asks why you didn't implement the functionallity to Skype the company... well, because it's not open, I can't use it... but I want to call you with Skype from home, that's VoIP too isn't it... aargh.
Open source it and put it in a decent project like say, Asterisk... I hate Skype just because their protocol is closed. I can't do anything useful with it except when I use their crap.
If they can lose about 99% of the greatest victory in the Cold War, what else did they lose? Will they conveniently lose the Constitution too within a few years so we can't prove our rights anymore? Will they lose all laws on privacy, free speech, ... that would be convenient now wouldn't it.
I think both have their uses and both need to be used appropriately. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia (like any other common reference) is (or should be) written by "experts" on the subject which is then peer-reviewed. While I am an overall expert in the computer world and my preference is for Mac & Linux, I also know a lot about Windows, AIX, Unix, BSD. My view is without a doubt biassed towards the *nix world but I have a general knowledge about a lot of subjects. Thus my views might be used (either paid or unpaid) by any encyclopedia (Wiki, Britannica, Encarta) because of my general knowledge in the area but they are going to be biassed towards the *nix world. Being peer-reviewed, my comments are then going to be rewritten or slightly altered for correctness, bias in the other direction and other small things. The good thing about wiki compared to any other source is that all my peers can review it and change it. In overall this works pretty good, the mainstream idea about Windows is bad programming and security although there are some fanboys (this is an example) who say different. Who is right? I think that being an admin at a computer is not safe, it is easier for managing though, thus at work everyone is local admin on their workstation by decision. Good or bad, I think it's bad (out of security perspective) my manager and CIO thinks it is good out of management and cost perspective. But who is going to say I am more right than them. So if I write about security in any document, I say that it's not good to do this. My peers and overlords are going to review this with another mindset and thus add/alter my comment and say that it could be better cost-wise. If I did this in a printed encyclopedia, my comments would only be reviewed by a small number of peers which might lead to a certain mindset (what if they were all security admins and not managers) but in the wiki, my boss and his peers can also add to this leading to a less biassed view on the issue. I can use and refer to sources in either way and that is what an encyclopedia should do: have documented sources about the idea and why it is so (scientific proof for example) then I can draw my own conclusions out of it. If there are no sources and it's just ideas by somebody, then it is just another book I can buy to read late night, smile and put it away, I won't use it as a source for my science paper. And even decent encyclopedia's are biassed or use biassed sources, there is no such thing as a neutral standpoint. Multiple sources are the only solution if you really want to know something about a subject or use it in a scientific paper. Google/Yahoo/MSN Search are search bots. It is not (or should not be) biassed towards subjects, personal preferences or anything personal. It just counts the words and if you type a word, it searches the pages with the highest wordcount and gives me the result sorted by highest number of words appearing on the page. It is off course slightly biassed by now to prevent abuse but in general it gives the good results about a certain subject on both ends of the perspective if you can use a good search string and know how to handle them. Then I can select my sources however I want. Google gives me the original sources that an encyclopedia will use to derive it's information from. But every single source is written by someone and should be used like that: independent sources, not the highest hit taken as the only-and-true source for information. An encyclopedia adds those sources together, derives and compacts the information in it and write a little essay about it. Which sources I take and how much sources I take from either end of a perspective as an encyclopedia source will finally make the article, but neither the sources nor the derived information of the combination is to be used as 'the truth' or 'scientific proof'
The EU has just spent money on software licenses. To upgrade their Phantom consoles to Vista and Office 2007 including Duke Nukem Forever, the EU has just spent 300m Euro. 280m Euro was spent on Vista and Office licenses. A support contract for 2.5m euro / day was also included.
"1 2 3 4 5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage! Prepare Trilogy for immediate departure - and change the combination on my luggage!
but what they are actually are going to do is create a broken implementation of ODF and then point and say: see see see, while some OSS developer is going to create another plugin that does it all perfectly but breaks with every Office update. They are going to be sued for some pennies for not opening up their documentation and maintaining their monopoly. We've seen it over and over again with HTML, Java, Novell and it's going to happen again.
BTW: their current conversion tool doesn't work for certain features (manual page break) which is NOT a compatibility issue. It's obviously broken by design.
I for one am not impressed and do NOT welcome our ODF-importing overlords.
GOOG has been asked different times why they bought/need/want so much black fiber. First of all it's cheap now (and it might not always be) so buying in for later might be good. Another possibility is that they bought it for this very reason. Once they start suing telco's, some of them that are evil (like AT&T) might just disconnect them or pressure other telco's to stop giving them the connections they need/want. If they OWN the fiber, they just connect it and they are back in business.
It's also nice to know that the US didn't sign it because most of those mines are made (and invented/improved) in the USA. According to Human Rights Watch, between 1969 and 1992, the country was responsible for exporting at least 4.4 million landmines to 32 or more countries. US landmines have reportedly been used in Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia and Zambia.
d mines-usat_x.htm => quote: The Pentagon is preparing to use anti-personnel land mines in a war with Iraq
The USA is also among the greatest stockpilers (4th in row) of landmines.
For those who say/think that the US doesn't use landmines: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-12-10-lan
For the USA it would be too much of an economic problem (for some people related to both Clinton and Bush) to ban landmines. Landmines are good for nothing. They are easy to deploy and cheap but hard and expensive to clean up and it is often not done properly or at all leaving a lot of innocent casualities long after. They are mainly used in the psychology of battle. A mine is not made to kill someone, it is made to disable soldiers and dishearten the rest of them that see it happening.
BPI, the British PORNOgraphic Industry... aargh phonographic, who the hell uses/listens to phonographs these days: from wikipedia: The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. Those things have been declared death over and over again for 20 years... hmm...
Well, next to that, in Europe there is another system (GALILEO) that does the exact same thing as GPS but isn't controlled by American's, if I'm correct, the russians also have their stuff. So if you use GPS (which is downgraded for military reasons) with the hi-res GALILEO (which has a civilian resolution the same as the American Military GPS sattelite streams) and DGPS, your positioning by the sensors (developed by Philips long time ago) on the wheels to locate yourself and the European radio beacons for positioning (used by police and ambulance) you get a pretty accurate system where one system can fail. The GPS system these days can (with a good mapping system) also give a warning long before a tunnel is reached so the user can start driving manually and there might be a system installed in a tunnel to give guidance.
I wouldn't like my car automatic, I like to break the speed limits (by 2 or 3 times) and do some pretty insane tricks on the road (in a safe and controlled way) and I just love to drive and have control of the car.
[quote]cannot and will not turn off your computer[/quote]
This might be correct, but how about greatly impairing the use of your Operating System? How about refusing any software installs/updates or coming with an annoying popup that your software is pirated. Those too are an intrusion of my computer as is "just" calling home even without any action from their side.
They probably won't turn off your computer, they just will make sure you can't use it anymore or disable certain (important) functions.
You make fun of it but for some of us it is a problem that they have to deal with daily.
...), nope, no-one gets fired, I have to make sure everything works and tell everyone not to do that. The best thing is that in OS X you don't need to have admin rights to function properly. In the Windows world, maybe, but in OS X you have your home directory with your Library, Preferences, Documents etc. as admin you function as your own user until you need more rights and then you're allowed to become root. So why did everyone here at /. say you don't need root rights under any circumstance? Is it justified because the manager of the artists complained that they had to create a folder in their users folder and couldn't do it in the root (/).
I for myself work at a multi-national, multi-location site with a mixed environment of mainframes, servers, terminals, windows workstations, mac workstations.
I have to implement the policy according to Sarbanes-Oxley in their macintosh computers. They never got anyone to do it decently, so currently a mixed environment of G4's, G5's with all different software, licensed and unlicensed versions of Mac OS, Office, random proprietary software, cracked software, people with mp3's, m4a's, 60g of downloaded video shows and then you have those smart-asses that think that they can manually modify the NetInfo databases.
I come, I saw, I get everyone integrated into the Active Directory, disable all admins and admin rights, make sure everyone logs in (no automatic logins) and a screensaver has a password... next thing you know, my supervisor tells me that everyone needs to be admin on their own computer. If they screw up their environment, they will get fired, they're not allowed to do that by company policy etc. according to something said/agreed by CEO and CIO. I think by myself: wtf was I hired for then. I enable local admin rights, next thing you know everyone logs in automatically and disables screen saver passwords and even disables my Remote Desktop and SSH capabilities. NOW ARE THEY GOING TO FIRE EVERY SINGLE MAC USER AROUND (all artists, copywriters,
Well, what would you say when you are 5ft tall and someone just cut off 1ft of your legs. I think the pain and agony of the cut-off legs is what made them have trouble finding home. I think humans with 1/2 their legs being cut off would also have trouble finding home. I think it would be better to make the legs LONGER without causing them pain (nanotubes...) would validate the experiment
And then when you finally do, you will complain because users can't get anything in the project anymore.
I had to work with project management before using scrums. The management describes the scrums, the developers do it and then the user complains because the user doesn't want what management decided. And then the developers can't satisfy the users since management decides what goes in the scrums and the users don't have any influence anymore. This leads to bloated apps full of features that nobody uses and a lot of users being angry or leaving (like I did).
As long as managers or sales people decide what needs to be in an application, then nothing will work right, it will get bloated and people will get angry (like Windows). If users or senior technical persons can decide or cooperate to define what goes in an app, the application becomes more useful and will have the features everyone need (look at open source programs). The difference is that management looks at revenue and how much they can make by putting in (insert random functionality here) and selling it or rolling it out in as little time necessary largely depending on what some external analyst thinks the future is going to bring or what people are going to want. When people that work with something daily get to decide, they know what is missing or not working correctly or completely currently and thus can have some useful feedback. Of course when the latter is true, you will have stable apps but the latest buzzword is not going to be supported (Blogging, Web 2.0). If the managers decide, they integrate blog-like instant messaging and web 3.0 tied in to the CRM in their ERP which nobody will use and won't be stable until someone defines an actual standard as to what Web 3.0 looks like after which the developers will have to change their apps leaving largely edited and/or unused code.
How about using the same technique SSH uses: If you come on a site that has the same IP but with a different key or the same key with a different IP: BIG WARNING THAT THIS SITE OR THE COMMUNICATIONS IS POSSIBLY COMPROMISED and provide a link to customer support in case that happens. SSL Certificates just check whether your communications is securely established and I won't examine that certificate everytime I connect. When you want to do Internet banking or something similar, your bank should give you a key on a read-only USB disk or something and the possibility to boot a Damn Small Linux from that disk. My bank did that for a while, but I guess they fell back on just providing the key probably because of the support issues with DSL and xDSL, USB Modems, Winmodems and other crap like getting the VPN through the users' firewall and you had a browser but couldn't go anywhere but the bank's sites. But I have another bank account that just requires a username and password and you're not even on the secure part by then. How dumb is that? I avoid using my Internet banking just for that. The people at the branch sometimes ask why I don't do those simple things (like transferring money) through their site. I am running only Mac and Linux but still I don't want anyone connecting because they keylogged my password - some users might have troubles putting a good password in the first place (insert oblig. spaceballs password quote here). My webmail is more secure than their site (RSA SecurID key required for that), so they could at least do SOME effort like giving me something similar to SecurID for their site.