A simple search for "linux" and I have to scroll down just about a full page at 1024x768 to get to the actual results set below the "Encyclopedia Entry" (from wikipedia), 3 "Sponsored Results" (first being from Microsoft, of course), and "Latest News" (first being from ZDnet).
I just don't find a sponsored link from Microsoft or Linux "news" from friggen ZDnet to be particularly relevant to a search for "linux". The Wikipedia entry is at least a bit interesting... but it's not part of the 'search results'.
When I go to a search engine, I want results, not extraneous bullshit. I'll take google's sole "Sponsored Link" at the top any day.
Everything the government does should be held to public scrutiny...
You're not taking into account the neo-con ideology... Women who willingly, even enthusiastically give the president blow jobs should be part of the public record, because the people have the right to know, but security matters and powerful industrial representatives who meet with the administration in secret should have the meetings, the attendees, the topics and effects of those meetings kept secret, because that would interfer with the ability to the government to conduct the people's business without public scrutiny.
I'd rather they wait and get it right before releasing Vista rather than going through the excruciating process of installing security updates/service packs/second editions on a hastily released product.
"hastily released"?
Isn't this puppy already about 2 years late?
If that's "hastily released", Debian should start avoiding coyotes.
Consumer confusion will be nothing compared to external support confusion.
Just wait until users call up a techie asking for help and not knowing wtf version they're running and not knowing how to tell. Imagine a huge corporate workforce that bought laptops from a couple of different vendors a year or 3 apart and have different versions, with different issues, different patching schemes, yada yada.
I'll take the Windows Vista "Half Way Decent Security Out of the Box" Edition please....
We're sorry, that version won't be available until March of 2010^H^HJune of 2012^H^HDecember of 2015. "If you don't know where you want to go, we'll make sure you get taken."
"Lisa: What happens when we're overrun by toads? Skinner: We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the frogs Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse? Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat. Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas! Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
Or worst case: google et al shut down and start running from other countries exclusively, taking their lucrative tax revenue and shareholder profits with them.
Google willl probably get hits with umpteen bazillion searches for 'janet jackson tits' or 'destroying the moral fabric of america' or whatever debacle will occur this time...
From TFA: "The tapes and disks were taken home by the employee as part of a backup protocol that sent them off-site to protect them against loss from fires or other disasters. That practice, which was only used by the home health care division of the hospital system, has since been stopped, said health system spokesman Gary Walker."
This was part of the company's protocol? An employee taking the shit home and leaving it in his car? Personal/medical/financial data for umpteen hundreds of thousands of people? What happened to HIPAA?
Whomever came up with this "protocol, as well as the empoyee, should be fired and prosecuted.
Perhaps if this finally happens to a children's hospital someone in this "WON"T SOMEONE THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!??!?!?11!!~~!!tilde!!!OMGWTFBBQ!!!" culture we've got will actually do something about it.
Cripes... people were fired up over Janet Jackson's tits, but not over this?
Kids to today are LESS educated than they were before _forced_ schooling.
Take a look at the popular/best sellering literature from 100-125 years ago. Mark Twain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle come to mind immediately. Most kids today could barely handle the abridged versions of those now _classics_, yet the everyone from the "country mice" to the "city mice" were reading the unabridged versions as their favorite literature.
Google for "The Six Lesson School Teacher" sometime. re subject change, see also: 'zappa +"The Blue Light"'
And no, unlike the comments in the page topic, I'm not trying to be snarky...
Since Win2k/XP was supposed to be a complete, from the ground up, re-write after Win3.0/NT/9x, and Long^H^H^HVista is supposed to be a complete, from the ground up, re-write after Win2k/XP... why was code from 1990 included in these later releases? Just what is going on with this latest security debacle? Are these supposed to be re-writes or recycles?
Slashdot Mirror
... they were able to show everyone the way out during the fire.
All I can say is blech.
A simple search for "linux" and I have to scroll down just about a full page at 1024x768 to get to the actual results set below the "Encyclopedia Entry" (from wikipedia), 3 "Sponsored Results" (first being from Microsoft, of course), and "Latest News" (first being from ZDnet).
I just don't find a sponsored link from Microsoft or Linux "news" from friggen ZDnet to be particularly relevant to a search for "linux". The Wikipedia entry is at least a bit interesting... but it's not part of the 'search results'.
When I go to a search engine, I want results, not extraneous bullshit.
I'll take google's sole "Sponsored Link" at the top any day.
Everything the government does should be held to public scrutiny...
You're not taking into account the neo-con ideology...
Women who willingly, even enthusiastically give the president blow jobs should be part of the public record, because the people have the right to know, but security matters and powerful industrial representatives who meet with the administration in secret should have the meetings, the attendees, the topics and effects of those meetings kept secret, because that would interfer with the ability to the government to conduct the people's business without public scrutiny.
Take that, Osama!
I'd rather they wait and get it right before releasing Vista rather than going through the excruciating process of installing security updates/service packs/second editions on a hastily released product.
"hastily released"?
Isn't this puppy already about 2 years late?
If that's "hastily released", Debian should start avoiding coyotes.
If they've ever worked during the holiday season, then they're used to it... with the same xmas music looped over and over and over and over...
...And, to be on the safe side, also Norton?
You'd hope that the sysadmin would be competent enough to do that.
6 months! That's nothing compared to their virus/trojan detection updates!
Religion is really about defining for us what the purpose and meaning of our lives is, or should be.
You're talking about spirituality... not religion.
[Organized] Religion is, plain and simple, about control... nothing less, nothing more.
religion != spirituality
Consumer confusion will be nothing compared to external support confusion.
Just wait until users call up a techie asking for help and not knowing wtf version they're running and not knowing how to tell.
Imagine a huge corporate workforce that bought laptops from a couple of different vendors a year or 3 apart and have different versions, with different issues, different patching schemes, yada yada.
It could wind up a support nightmare.
I'll take the Windows Vista "Half Way Decent Security Out of the Box" Edition please....
We're sorry, that version won't be available until March of 2010^H^HJune of 2012^H^HDecember of 2015.
"If you don't know where you want to go, we'll make sure you get taken."
"Microsoft Office Communicator"?
Such innovation!
What's next, "MicrosoftOffice.org"? "Microsoftazureus"? "MicrosoftPhotoshop"?
"Lisa: What happens when we're overrun by toads?
Skinner: We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the frogs
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
This is slashdot... what is this "woman" you speak of?
Or worst case: google et al shut down and start running from other countries exclusively, taking their lucrative tax revenue and shareholder profits with them.
Yes, because Christianity and it's extremists are so tolerant of what it may consider blasphemy and heresy.
Every religion has it's assholes that do damage to the entirety of it, and they're usually the loudest.
Yes, but celebs also usually take dumps on golden toilet seats...
Well, except for Dave Matthews...
Google willl probably get hits with umpteen bazillion searches for 'janet jackson tits' or 'destroying the moral fabric of america' or whatever debacle will occur this time...
... they want their lawsuit back.
Wasn't the same thing done over the Sony Walkman?
From TFA:
"The tapes and disks were taken home by the employee as part of a backup protocol that sent them off-site to protect them against loss from fires or other disasters. That practice, which was only used by the home health care division of the hospital system, has since been stopped, said health system spokesman Gary Walker."
This was part of the company's protocol? An employee taking the shit home and leaving it in his car? Personal/medical/financial data for umpteen hundreds of thousands of people? What happened to HIPAA?
Whomever came up with this "protocol, as well as the empoyee, should be fired and prosecuted.
Perhaps if this finally happens to a children's hospital someone in this "WON"T SOMEONE THINK OF TEH CHILDREN!??!?!?11!!~~!!tilde!!!OMGWTFBBQ!!!" culture we've got will actually do something about it.
Cripes... people were fired up over Janet Jackson's tits, but not over this?
Bears?
godless killing machines without a soul
Oh wait, this is Oracle...
We believe in it.
Kids to today are LESS educated than they were before _forced_ schooling.
Take a look at the popular/best sellering literature from 100-125 years ago. Mark Twain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle come to mind immediately.
Most kids today could barely handle the abridged versions of those now _classics_, yet the everyone from the "country mice" to the "city mice" were reading the unabridged versions as their favorite literature.
Google for "The Six Lesson School Teacher" sometime.
re subject change, see also: 'zappa +"The Blue Light"'
Browse through this, it's well worth the read.
After I RTFA, I was very sad.
I was soooooooo hoping that this was in Orrin Hatch's office or something...
And no, unlike the comments in the page topic, I'm not trying to be snarky...
Since Win2k/XP was supposed to be a complete, from the ground up, re-write after Win3.0/NT/9x, and Long^H^H^HVista is supposed to be a complete, from the ground up, re-write after Win2k/XP... why was code from 1990 included in these later releases?
Just what is going on with this latest security debacle? Are these supposed to be re-writes or recycles?