Well, as the parent said, the Internet is not now and never was setup as a means of revenue generation.
so why do that when they can coerce a revenue stream with lawsuits and/or petitions?
It's up to to companies seeking to profit from the Internet to figure out how to use the Internet as it exists to make money. It's not up the rest of the Internet to contort itself to somehow produce a revenue stream for a given company or industry.
Well, exactly. However, the FAA and the airlines have claimed for years that running personal electronic devices in the passenger compartment causes instrument failure in the cockpit.
Myself, I've always counterclaimed right back that they were full of sh**.:-D
Doesn't seem to matter to my cats. Somehow they are able unwind the roll no matter which way you put it. My male cat, for instance, can stand and balance on his hind legs with no trouble at all for relatively long periods of time.
Which should not be a surprise to anyone. Obviously aerospace/aviation technology has improved quite a bit in the last 40-50 years. More recently-built planes were obviously designed by engineers who said/thought something on the order of "What if passengers were using cellphones or other types of radio broadcast equipment? What if the plane were flying into a bunch of radio interference from the ground? We wouldn't want this thing to come down. Hey, I know, we could provide really good shielding from RF interference!"
The bottom line is that the entire passenger compartment could be filled with cellphones, wifi, and personal microwave ovens running off of hydrogen fuel cells and it probably wouldn't make one bit of difference in the cockpit these days.
Not exactly. Generally, all of the airspace over a territory is within the jurisdiction of that terrority. However, at least in the United States, the federal government has sole jurisdiction over the navigable airways; state jurisdiction does not apply. There's a very interesting blog article about airspace jurisdiction, written about 1 year and half ago on a college legal blog.
I believe the airspace over international waters, is treated exactly like the international waters themselves.
Current Unixes (Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Darwin, Solaris, etc.) are also a derivative of 1960s technology. And if we were talking about that, the Unix and most of tne Linux guys, at least, would all be saying "yeah, but it's stable because it's so mature."
what's the difference then, with a 1960s Apollo-derived capsule, then?
That's true. And the main reason is that most displays are simply not high-quality to enough to offer you the reading experience that paper gives you. However, that's changing: high-quality displays that are thin enough to roll up are in the works and some are even available now, albeit for a high cost.
I suspect that one day we will do most of our reading online.
this ridiculously high standard of living that makes companies outsource
Oh? And what are you willing to do without? Because let me tell you something: to be on par with the standards of living in India and China, you can say 'bye-bye' to having your own place to live. Instead, you and three generations of your clan will be living in a studio apartment. You won't be able to afford a car, you won't be able to afford decent clothes, and you won't be able to afford to eat anything not obtained from a frickin' soup kitchen.
If that's how you want to live, fine. But don't impose your ideals on the rest of us, thanks.
It's an ironic intervention against an America that's forgotten its defenders.
Yes. It's similar in vein to lots of other songs that have been misunderstood:
This Land is Your Land, Woodie Guthrie. The song is really a direct rebuttal of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".
Little Pink Houses, John "Cougar" Mellencamp. Song about how the poor and disadvantaged. People hear the refrain: "Oh, but that ain't America, You and Me. Ain't that America, Somethin' to see, Baby, Ain't that America, home of the free, yeah..." and think Mellencamp is being patriotic. Hardly.
Every Breath You Take, The Police. Not a love song. It's a song about obsession.
Yes. Definitely. I felt a "disturbance" in the Web... as if a million people saw "big red box" with the lines of code in it and went "I don't know what that says, so I'll just click 'Ok.' and their machines were suddenly p0wned!
On some computers there is, and on some other computers there is not, a flashy green thing on the top right that has the text "green" in it. What is this?
A browser bug? Firefox extension? I don't see these.
Articles get tags. What decides which of the *many* tags that people probably give to it, appear on the front page below the article?
Seems to be the most popular n tags. I have no idea what the value of n is.
Sometimes there are tags that are so strange that I can't imagine multiple people would by chance pick that same tag, how comes it that those get picked by so many people anyway?
Tag spamming. Watch for comments that say "tag this article mrsuffleuffogus". Sometimes others will comply. In addition, some people, like this guy have sock puppet accounts. Also, I've seen/.ers collaborating on IRC/Twitter/etc. to get articles tagged a certain way or to attack a particular user.
Noone said that network security isn't "bolted on" in UNIX.
Correct. Parent is reading something I never said.
What we really need are machines which can prevent viruses and/or worms BY DESIGN and IN ADVANCE, instead of reacting by means of virus scanners, patches and removal tools AFTER something went wrong.
Exactly. And we don't need anything nearly as complicated, baroque, or elitist as 'TPM' or 'Trusted Computing'. Simply designing-in protection from buffer overlows and code injection from the get-go will help a lot. In addition, desktop operating systems should not ever be designed in such a way that the person using the thing is always administrator. Vista almost, but not quite, solves this problem. *nix almost has this right, and is closer, but sudo is too baroque. And on any system, there should be no avenues for processes to ever escalate themselves to 'root'. That should just be designed-in from day one.
By "delightfully overkill" do you mean something like installing a fully-populated IBM Z10 Enterprise Class E64 for reading e-mail, surfing the web and playing a game or two of solitaire?
Right. But Microsoft did an Apple a while back, sort of. The Windows NT-line (Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista) broke backward compatibility with the Windows 3.x/9x/ME line, but only to a degree. Some hardware and software work, but others do not.
GNOME did a similar break with the GNOME 1.x and GNOME 2.x lines, again sort of. The difference here, though, is that all you need to run a GNOME (1.x or 2.x) application is to have the appropraite GNOME libraries installed. The OS and X server are agnostic as far as the desktop environment is concerned.
On Windows, this separation doesn't exist (*) for the most part. The kernel is aware of the "GUI" (GDI, KERNEL and USER), which is aware of the "desktop" (SHELL, Explorer, etc.)
(*) Technically, Windows NT 3.x was designed to have this separation, and starting with Windows NT 4.x, Microsoft gradually began re-integrating everything, but since Server 2K3/2K7 has begun separating them back out again, but more in the server space than in the client space.
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Well, as the parent said, the Internet is not now and never was setup as a means of revenue generation.
so why do that when they can coerce a revenue stream with lawsuits and/or petitions?
It's up to to companies seeking to profit from the Internet to figure out how to use the Internet as it exists to make money. It's not up the rest of the Internet to contort itself to somehow produce a revenue stream for a given company or industry.
I don't know. Personally, I haven't paid attention to such things because, in general, I don't drink much alcohol.
Well, exactly. However, the FAA and the airlines have claimed for years that running personal electronic devices in the passenger compartment causes instrument failure in the cockpit.
Myself, I've always counterclaimed right back that they were full of sh**. :-D
Doesn't seem to matter to my cats. Somehow they are able unwind the roll no matter which way you put it. My male cat, for instance, can stand and balance on his hind legs with no trouble at all for relatively long periods of time.
Which should not be a surprise to anyone. Obviously aerospace/aviation technology has improved quite a bit in the last 40-50 years. More recently-built planes were obviously designed by engineers who said/thought something on the order of "What if passengers were using cellphones or other types of radio broadcast equipment? What if the plane were flying into a bunch of radio interference from the ground? We wouldn't want this thing to come down. Hey, I know, we could provide really good shielding from RF interference!"
The bottom line is that the entire passenger compartment could be filled with cellphones, wifi, and personal microwave ovens running off of hydrogen fuel cells and it probably wouldn't make one bit of difference in the cockpit these days.
Not exactly. Generally, all of the airspace over a territory is within the jurisdiction of that terrority. However, at least in the United States, the federal government has sole jurisdiction over the navigable airways; state jurisdiction does not apply. There's a very interesting blog article about airspace jurisdiction, written about 1 year and half ago on a college legal blog.
I believe the airspace over international waters, is treated exactly like the international waters themselves.
IANAL, TINLA, etc.
Additionally, there seem to be squabbling about the 'under/over' controversy with the toilet paper roll.
Current Unixes (Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Darwin, Solaris, etc.) are also a derivative of 1960s technology. And if we were talking about that, the Unix and most of tne Linux guys, at least, would all be saying "yeah, but it's stable because it's so mature."
what's the difference then, with a 1960s Apollo-derived capsule, then?
That's true. And the main reason is that most displays are simply not high-quality to enough to offer you the reading experience that paper gives you. However, that's changing: high-quality displays that are thin enough to roll up are in the works and some are even available now, albeit for a high cost.
I suspect that one day we will do most of our reading online.
Didn't you get the memo? IBM hires the Nazgul to be their lawyers. A little company in Utah found this out the hard way.
this ridiculously high standard of living that makes companies outsource
Oh? And what are you willing to do without? Because let me tell you something: to be on par with the standards of living in India and China, you can say 'bye-bye' to having your own place to live. Instead, you and three generations of your clan will be living in a studio apartment. You won't be able to afford a car, you won't be able to afford decent clothes, and you won't be able to afford to eat anything not obtained from a frickin' soup kitchen.
If that's how you want to live, fine. But don't impose your ideals on the rest of us, thanks.
I got three better words: In re Bilski.
They are now so openly helping themselves in a huge feeding frenzy they are saying is all for our good. Yeah right.
Yeah, but any idea what happened to Marie Antoinette after she adopted this very attitude?
Let's just say she may have lost her head ...
140 Characters? You can copyright 140 characters? Maybe. Can you copy this post?
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It's an ironic intervention against an America that's forgotten its defenders.
Yes. It's similar in vein to lots of other songs that have been misunderstood:
Yes. Definitely. I felt a "disturbance" in the Web... as if a million people saw "big red box" with the lines of code in it and went "I don't know what that says, so I'll just click 'Ok.' and their machines were suddenly p0wned!
What's next?
an e-mail client, html editor, news reader, file manager, shell, AI psychologist, automatic carnivore/echelon crapflooder, a name change FirEmacs.....
Yes, that's exactly right. Firefox is written in XUL (read: XML+JavaScript+CSS+DOM). Hey, where I have heard of that before....
sudo torch! sudo torch!
dammit, it's not worki
You have been eaten by a grue. Game over.
On some computers there is, and on some other computers there is not, a flashy green thing on the top right that has the text "green" in it. What is this?
A browser bug? Firefox extension? I don't see these.
Articles get tags. What decides which of the *many* tags that people probably give to it, appear on the front page below the article?
Seems to be the most popular n tags. I have no idea what the value of n is.
Sometimes there are tags that are so strange that I can't imagine multiple people would by chance pick that same tag, how comes it that those get picked by so many people anyway?
Tag spamming. Watch for comments that say "tag this article mrsuffleuffogus". Sometimes others will comply. In addition, some people, like this guy have sock puppet accounts. Also, I've seen /.ers collaborating on IRC/Twitter/etc. to get articles tagged a certain way or to attack a particular user.
Well, *I* for one, welcome our new obtuse and irrelevant opinion-writing overlord!
Noone said that network security isn't "bolted on" in UNIX.
Correct. Parent is reading something I never said.
What we really need are machines which can prevent viruses and/or worms BY DESIGN and IN ADVANCE, instead of reacting by means of virus scanners, patches and removal tools AFTER something went wrong.
Exactly. And we don't need anything nearly as complicated, baroque, or elitist as 'TPM' or 'Trusted Computing'. Simply designing-in protection from buffer overlows and code injection from the get-go will help a lot. In addition, desktop operating systems should not ever be designed in such a way that the person using the thing is always administrator. Vista almost, but not quite, solves this problem. *nix almost has this right, and is closer, but sudo is too baroque. And on any system, there should be no avenues for processes to ever escalate themselves to 'root'. That should just be designed-in from day one.
delightfully overkill
By "delightfully overkill" do you mean something like installing a fully-populated IBM Z10 Enterprise Class E64 for reading e-mail, surfing the web and playing a game or two of solitaire?
You took my post seriously, so how lame am I?
Guess my punchline wasn't snappy enough... :(
Right. But Microsoft did an Apple a while back, sort of. The Windows NT-line (Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista) broke backward compatibility with the Windows 3.x/9x/ME line, but only to a degree. Some hardware and software work, but others do not.
GNOME did a similar break with the GNOME 1.x and GNOME 2.x lines, again sort of. The difference here, though, is that all you need to run a GNOME (1.x or 2.x) application is to have the appropraite GNOME libraries installed. The OS and X server are agnostic as far as the desktop environment is concerned.
On Windows, this separation doesn't exist (*) for the most part. The kernel is aware of the "GUI" (GDI, KERNEL and USER), which is aware of the "desktop" (SHELL, Explorer, etc.)
(*) Technically, Windows NT 3.x was designed to have this separation, and starting with Windows NT 4.x, Microsoft gradually began re-integrating everything, but since Server 2K3/2K7 has begun separating them back out again, but more in the server space than in the client space.