I'm more interested in the potential abuse in the way of a DOS attack. People could unwittingly be involved in a DOS attack by simply clicking links on various public forums that allow HTML code that cause mass pings a single website.
I wonder how this works with copyrights. According to the US Copyright Office it is illegal to "to reproduce the work in copies" without the author's concent. Furthermore, it goes on to state:
"Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright."
This means that anything that has been previously saved or printed qualifies under copyright law (at least by my reading). By transmitting this to Microsoft they are inherently violating the author's copyright.
Hmm...
So if there is a system crash I can sue MS over copyright violation? Sounds like fun!:)
In reference to my own comment about their keyword search system I find it amazing that they lack Banda Aceh and yet have Srinagar from just a few days ago. I would have thought they would have had neither or both. I wonder what their keyword criteria is?
http://www.buzztracker.org/2005/04/07/Srinagar.h tm l
I understand your point, however I think it is partially based on a false premise: In reguard to Nov 3rd. The site tracks cities, not states.
After checking Dec 26, 27, 28, and 29th they do have Indonesia, but it doesn't show up until the 28th (and then under Jakarta only). I would guess this is due to them not having Sumatra or Banda Aceh in their keyword search system.
I also notice that most cities in the US other then Washington and New York seem to almost never show up - could it be that their "selection of articles" is a bit limited (refering to the above's 2nd paragraph)?
Yes, I agree - let it die (and then resurect it in 10 years after it isn't competing with itself).
As for Academy...isn't Spock a whole lot older then any of the others? I can just see it now: Braga and Cotto and Berman throwing time travel into the academy shows to get all the characters there at the same time!
Wear and tear...well...actually speed of access is the real issue. If you HD is being accessed enough for it to be a wear and tear issue you probably don't have enough ram.
Now, for speed of accces I actually split my swap file between two 2ndary drives:)
Of course my setup is also a hodpodge of addons of drive after drive after drive:) - and I do have a seperate programs and data partition...using virtual links to other drives that NTFS allows. But thats all due to running out of room and not wanting yet another drive to install stuff on!:)
Well, I have found a few freeware ICO editing programs, but really you don't need them unless you want a multi-size icon (one that looks good in both a toolbar and in a folder).
It turns out that Windows can read BMPs as ICOs. Just make a BMP of the right size (16x16, 32x32, or 64x64) and rename the extension from.bmp to.ico.
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As for my most used icons: Giving all my hard disks a icon with the drive letter on it. Makes using a tool bar (I have a "goto" toolbar that links to every drive and a few important folders) easy to locate which drive is which (I only have 6 partitions/hard drives on my windows box).
Your comment is interesting in that it brings up an important point. You don't have to be innovative with really new catchy stuff to stay on top in this market. Instead you have to create a really stable, reliable, user-freindly, and up-to-date product to stay on top.
Dell has done this. Microsoft has not.
Microsoft's products are:
Definately not stable when (a) they bluescreen regularly and (b) many people reinstall regularly to keep them running.
Definately not reliable when (a) SP2 for XP crashes half the systems out there to the point you have to reinstall and (b) security patches for major bugs come out every other week. Hey! WTF does Help need to have any netcode in it for? (and yeah, 2 patches recently adressed a netcode vunerability in HELP!)
Definately not user-freindly between (a) hated clippy, (b) annoying auto-control over functions the user should be able to override, (c) insufficient "smart" auto-control over things the user doesn't want to touch (can't interfere with B now!), (d) very annoying product registration, and (e) licences that sell your soul to them. I'm a bit surprised they haven't put a clause in their that says anything developed on MS products belongs to them.
Up to date? Well...look at Longhorn gone missing. Look at IE. Look at them saying "IE's up to date and firefox isn't a threat." Right - if that was so why have 24 million switched to Firefox already?
On top of all this look at their recent foray into virus, firewall, and anti-spyware stuff. Utter failure from everything I have read. Not that they have to be that great to be better then their competitors for home user products, but they still can't seem to keep up.
We've been belligerent against North Korea for a very long time. In fact, we would likely have had war against North Korea under Clinton had Carter not forced his hand with the nuclear disarmament accords.
However you also need to realize that North Korea never did break the agreement that was signed under Clinton. It was Bush who broke it after misinterpreting it. The rules of the agreement said no plutonium enrichment, but made no reference to uranium enrichment. For some reason Bush thought that North Korea doing uranium enrichment violated those accords, so he suspended the US end, thus causing all this mayhem we now see.
Pretty soon it will become so personal that we, the operators, won't be needed to manage our online selves. The computers will do it for us. In fact, they will soon replace us offline as well.
Perhaps if MS loses they might start lobbying with their vast sums of money to change patent law...something the rest of the world already thinks needs doing.
On the other hand it is MS...so whatever they do will probably screw the rest of us.
Well, this is news that is long awaited. It looks like this may be a follow-on to the Crusade spin-off series since it is dealing with leftover Shadow technology. Plus Galen, being present in Crusade, draws a link between those two. There have been rumors that Lando might show up in it...and where he goes G'Kar goes too. JMS also made some comments a while back about having to rewrite the script some after Richard Biggs died (Dr. Franklin) so clearly it looks like some B5 crew from the original show might show up beyond the ambassadors.
Can't wait to hear more news.
*Waiting for JMS to release some info directly still
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I'm more interested in the potential abuse in the way of a DOS attack. People could unwittingly be involved in a DOS attack by simply clicking links on various public forums that allow HTML code that cause mass pings a single website.
In reference to my own comment about their keyword search system I find it amazing that they lack Banda Aceh and yet have Srinagar from just a few days ago. I would have thought they would have had neither or both. I wonder what their keyword criteria is?
h tm l
http://www.buzztracker.org/2005/04/07/Srinagar.
I understand your point, however I think it is partially based on a false premise: In reguard to Nov 3rd. The site tracks cities, not states.
After checking Dec 26, 27, 28, and 29th they do have Indonesia, but it doesn't show up until the 28th (and then under Jakarta only). I would guess this is due to them not having Sumatra or Banda Aceh in their keyword search system.
I also notice that most cities in the US other then Washington and New York seem to almost never show up - could it be that their "selection of articles" is a bit limited (refering to the above's 2nd paragraph)?
Another example of Government In-action
Why would Pocket Books need another academy novel? They already have Kobyoshi Maru (or however you spell that) - and it was written by a good author!
Yes, I agree - let it die (and then resurect it in 10 years after it isn't competing with itself).
As for Academy...isn't Spock a whole lot older then any of the others? I can just see it now: Braga and Cotto and Berman throwing time travel into the academy shows to get all the characters there at the same time!
Wear and tear...well...actually speed of access is the real issue. If you HD is being accessed enough for it to be a wear and tear issue you probably don't have enough ram.
:)
:) - and I do have a seperate programs and data partition...using virtual links to other drives that NTFS allows. But thats all due to running out of room and not wanting yet another drive to install stuff on! :)
Now, for speed of accces I actually split my swap file between two 2ndary drives
Of course my setup is also a hodpodge of addons of drive after drive after drive
Well, I have found a few freeware ICO editing programs, but really you don't need them unless you want a multi-size icon (one that looks good in both a toolbar and in a folder).
.bmp to .ico.
It turns out that Windows can read BMPs as ICOs. Just make a BMP of the right size (16x16, 32x32, or 64x64) and rename the extension from
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As for my most used icons: Giving all my hard disks a icon with the drive letter on it. Makes using a tool bar (I have a "goto" toolbar that links to every drive and a few important folders) easy to locate which drive is which (I only have 6 partitions/hard drives on my windows box).
Wha? Huh? In-co-her-ent? Whad dat mean?
:)
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Oh great. Leave the phone in your pocket where it will damage the DNA you pass on to your children.
Bravo - great idea!
Well...Slashdot has fully hit:
Temporary fundraising site: "This account has exceeded it's bandwidth quota and has been temporarily disabled."
Dell has done this. Microsoft has not.
Microsoft's products are:
On top of all this look at their recent foray into virus, firewall, and anti-spyware stuff. Utter failure from everything I have read. Not that they have to be that great to be better then their competitors for home user products, but they still can't seem to keep up.
We've been belligerent against North Korea for a very long time. In fact, we would likely have had war against North Korea under Clinton had Carter not forced his hand with the nuclear disarmament accords.
However you also need to realize that North Korea never did break the agreement that was signed under Clinton. It was Bush who broke it after misinterpreting it. The rules of the agreement said no plutonium enrichment, but made no reference to uranium enrichment. For some reason Bush thought that North Korea doing uranium enrichment violated those accords, so he suspended the US end, thus causing all this mayhem we now see.
Pretty soon it will become so personal that we, the operators, won't be needed to manage our online selves. The computers will do it for us. In fact, they will soon replace us offline as well.
Truely active...until the first pebble is kicked up from the car in front of yours!
People who use flash like this should be shot.
Perhaps now we will get a space shuttle mission to service Hubble...O'Keefe seemed to be the biggest blocker of this.
Perhaps if MS loses they might start lobbying with their vast sums of money to change patent law...something the rest of the world already thinks needs doing.
On the other hand it is MS...so whatever they do will probably screw the rest of us.
Well, this is news that is long awaited. It looks like this may be a follow-on to the Crusade spin-off series since it is dealing with leftover Shadow technology. Plus Galen, being present in Crusade, draws a link between those two. There have been rumors that Lando might show up in it...and where he goes G'Kar goes too. JMS also made some comments a while back about having to rewrite the script some after Richard Biggs died (Dr. Franklin) so clearly it looks like some B5 crew from the original show might show up beyond the ambassadors.
Can't wait to hear more news.
*Waiting for JMS to release some info directly still