> SiteFinder broke DNS for the purpose of making money.
Broke DNS? You're kidding, right? DNS works exactly how it is supposed to. The application simply handles NXDOMAIN responses from DNS how they want to. You can disable the behavior. This may be another reason to not use IE, but it is not even in the same league as what Verisign did - which changed how DNS worked.
I was a student of TJ's in 85, and worked at the symposium. The symposiums and workshops run by TJ were amazing events. I don't know where else in the world you would gather such a fascinating collection of scientists and artists. There was a ton of both left and right brain power present.
You are right about the chemicals... some nasty stuff (ever use bromine gas as a bleach? Yeehah!)
Last I checked, OSS ran on non-OSS systems. The OS being open or not is unrelated to developed applications. That's my point. Last I checked, Firefox runs well on Windows.....
"Use of open software makes the platform versatile, so it shouldn't be that much of a challenge for individual schools to build additional software for it that meets their needs."
Right.... we're talking K-12 right? If we are talking about from the ground up application development, I don't see how the machine being open source helps. If we are talking modifying what it comes with, if you really think K-12 schools have access to that kind of programming talent I want some of what you're smoking...
Maybe the FTC needs to step in. Throw the "Beta" tag into the "New and Improved" bin somehow. Just as companies can only advertise something as "New and Improved" for so long, software can only carry the "Beta" label for so long..
Of course, OSS is one of the worst offenders. There is an implied "Beta" for software with a version 1.0 IMHO. How much OSS that has been around forever (openSSL anyone?) still has a version 1.0?
But hardware/driver issues aside,I don't believe Windows can be more stable than linux.
This is exactly the sort of stupid statement that gives Linux and OSS a bad name. My properly maintained Windows notebooks do not crash. They are completely stable and go for weeks without reboots, only going to standby and hibernate. Sounds stable to me.
You cannot just eliminate "driver issues" from the equation. If Linux has an issue with drivers (which is does) than that has to be included in the equation, unless you can run your system without drivers. Blaim vendors all you want, but as an IT manager I don't really give a damn whose fault it is that the system is unstable.
I'm sorry, thats quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard. We want to copy music for free, so we should be allowed to? Musicians and their chosen distribution agents (the recording industry) should all find another way to make a living, but they should still provide us with the product...
Right....
I'm not sure if you noticed, but when you don't reward people for their efforts, they stop trying (see U.S.S.R.)
I'm guessing you should still get paid for whatever you do however?
After the US pledge of $350M for Tsunami relief had been topped by Japan and Australia, my first thought was that we should go all in.....
Is that a bad sign?
"Even data entered on secure websites -- such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers, information that is supposed to be viewable only by the sender and the intended recipient -- is accessible to Marketscore, since the company has developed a method that allows it to view encrypted information."
Any ideas what they might be doing? Or is it just BS?
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I call FUD!
> SiteFinder broke DNS for the purpose of making money.
Broke DNS? You're kidding, right? DNS works exactly how it is supposed to. The application simply handles NXDOMAIN responses from DNS how they want to. You can disable the behavior. This may be another reason to not use IE, but it is not even in the same league as what Verisign did - which changed how DNS worked.
I for one welcome our new automobile overlords!
The fact that as I read this you are modded: (Score:2, Informative) is even funnier.
I was a student of TJ's in 85, and worked at the symposium. The symposiums and workshops run by TJ were amazing events. I don't know where else in the world you would gather such a fascinating collection of scientists and artists. There was a ton of both left and right brain power present.
You are right about the chemicals... some nasty stuff (ever use bromine gas as a bleach? Yeehah!)
Ok, let's get picky....
Leith created a hologram, not a hologrpah.
holograph - A document written wholly in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears.
Last I checked, OSS ran on non-OSS systems. The OS being open or not is unrelated to developed applications. That's my point. Last I checked, Firefox runs well on Windows.....
One advantage cited for the $100 notebook:
"Use of open software makes the platform versatile, so it shouldn't be that much of a challenge for individual schools to build additional software for it that meets their needs."
Right.... we're talking K-12 right? If we are talking about from the ground up application development, I don't see how the machine being open source helps. If we are talking modifying what it comes with, if you really think K-12 schools have access to that kind of programming talent I want some of what you're smoking...
Maybe the FTC needs to step in. Throw the "Beta" tag into the "New and Improved" bin somehow. Just as companies can only advertise something as "New and Improved" for so long, software can only carry the "Beta" label for so long..
Of course, OSS is one of the worst offenders. There is an implied "Beta" for software with a version 1.0 IMHO. How much OSS that has been around forever (openSSL anyone?) still has a version 1.0?
Just my $0.02
But hardware/driver issues aside,I don't believe Windows can be more stable than linux.
This is exactly the sort of stupid statement that gives Linux and OSS a bad name. My properly maintained Windows notebooks do not crash. They are completely stable and go for weeks without reboots, only going to standby and hibernate. Sounds stable to me.
You cannot just eliminate "driver issues" from the equation. If Linux has an issue with drivers (which is does) than that has to be included in the equation, unless you can run your system without drivers. Blaim vendors all you want, but as an IT manager I don't really give a damn whose fault it is that the system is unstable.
Somehow I doubt that you were rubbing your hands....
Right....
I'm not sure if you noticed, but when you don't reward people for their efforts, they stop trying (see U.S.S.R.)
I'm guessing you should still get paid for whatever you do however?
After the US pledge of $350M for Tsunami relief had been topped by Japan and Australia, my first thought was that we should go all in..... Is that a bad sign?
"Even data entered on secure websites -- such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers, information that is supposed to be viewable only by the sender and the intended recipient -- is accessible to Marketscore, since the company has developed a method that allows it to view encrypted information."
Any ideas what they might be doing? Or is it just BS?