2) Employ teams of people to respond to SPAM (at a government level). SPAM works because they get a low return rate, but the people who do respond actually buy stuff. Thats what keeps it all going. If we made it so that a decent percentage of the replies were time wasters, the average company would suddenly have to employ lots of resources to deal with false responses. In effect, it would spam them. Suddenly its no longer as cheap to advertise this way.
What is happening/will happen with trusted computing:
1- It's already being silently and slowly pushed towards us, in current hardware and software products. 2- It'll get advertised as a good security measure for everyone's computers. 3- The consumers who don't know about it (95% or more) will gladly buy those PC's 4- Companies and governments will use it 5- The other 5% (or less - us) will be forced to use it if they want to do almost anything with their computers 6-... 7- Profit!
The worse is, there is not much we can do to stop this...
a) Why not? They make a product, which is their channel's news and content...
b) So what? That doesn't mean the channel is associated with them, it just means that the terrorists (rightly) think they will get the most muslim public exposure if they send the tapes to them.
I don't need to bookmark any search engines since I almost only use google, and I have it set as my home page. So I only have to click the little house button when I want to do a search:)
I still remember the time when Altavista and Yahoo were the kings. Then google came and dominated in a few years. I don't think it would be impossible for the same to happen again, but as long as google remains focused on improving their engine I think it's very difficult for this to happen.
I checked out the "Top 10 reasons" to change to a Mac, because I was really curious. After I read it I just thought "Was this the best they could do?".
Let's see:
"1. The Mac...It Just Works"
Thanks, my computer works too.
"2. It Doesn't Crash"
This might have been an argument against PC's with Windows a few years ago, but not so much now. I won't even mention Linux, of course.
"3. It's a Digital Jukebox"
Wou grate!!!11!!!
"4. Delivers The Promise Of Digital Photography"
This one really turns me on too...
"5. Best Solution, In Fact, For All Things Digital"
Maybe they could stop repeating themselves... BTW, the best programs to produce music and multimedia content exist for PC too, and the quantity of plugins is much greater on the PC.
"6. Built To Go Everywhere -- Because That's Where You'll Want It"
On this section they say: Consider this: Can your PC laptop go coast to coast with just one battery? Can you put the system to sleep just by closing the lid? Does it wake up instantly? Can your PC laptop automatically switch between Ethernet, dial-up and wireless connections on the fly? Without a restart? Ours can.
Yep, my PC can do all that too...
"7. The Internet Is Integrated"
Fact is, most of our customers are up-and-surfing within 15 minutes.
I can do that easily too. So maybe this would only be valid for people who know nothing about computers. Even then, I doubt it's much easier to configure an internet connection than in a PC in most cases. Prove me wrong.
"8. Office is Office and then Some"
OK, so this section tells me that some of the programs I use on the PC are also available for the MAC. This is hardly a reason for me to switch.
Well, assuming his explanation is correct, the answer to your question is "yes", IF you have a way to execute code on the device, and of course, if you also know how to write code for it (which includes knowing how to output the information in some way, which was by making different sounds in this case...).
Microprocessors, the central chip in computers, are among the most complex products ever produced by humankind, composed of hundreds of millions of microscopic switches that check e-mail and play video games. Wow, so there are switches reading my e-mail and playing games when they should be processing?:(
All the main search engines (I tried google, altavista and yahoo), seem to be listed there... I wonder how they are supposed to find anything in the internet then!
And, according to the FAQ, their results are always up to date...
+3 Insightful? Have you really READ the post? Or did it only sound good when you "read" it diagonally without thinking? Other replies to the parent (obviously an AC troll) have already pointed out his BS...
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OK, forget what I said :D
That does wonders against scammers. Against spammers I guess it would be hard in most cases...
Eheh.
Well, that would just have to be solved using some brake system such as rocket-boosters I guess. I don't know the details, of course...
Read what he said again ;) "preserving for", not "preventing from" :)
Well, maybe it's possible that you don't mind a one way trip into space. For example, you could be a martian probe.
What is happening/will happen with trusted computing:
...
1- It's already being silently and slowly pushed towards us, in current hardware and software products.
2- It'll get advertised as a good security measure for everyone's computers.
3- The consumers who don't know about it (95% or more) will gladly buy those PC's
4- Companies and governments will use it
5- The other 5% (or less - us) will be forced to use it if they want to do almost anything with their computers
6-
7- Profit!
The worse is, there is not much we can do to stop this...
MOD PARENT UP
analyzing Steve Ballmer's monkey style dance? I bet the conclusions are a lot easier in that case :)
The "struggling to concentrate" part probably just means that Blair's conference was being really boring, I guess...
a) Why not? They make a product, which is their channel's news and content...
b) So what? That doesn't mean the channel is associated with them, it just means that the terrorists (rightly) think they will get the most muslim public exposure if they send the tapes to them.
I don't need to bookmark any search engines since I almost only use google, and I have it set as my home page. So I only have to click the little house button when I want to do a search :)
I still remember the time when Altavista and Yahoo were the kings. Then google came and dominated in a few years. I don't think it would be impossible for the same to happen again, but as long as google remains focused on improving their engine I think it's very difficult for this to happen.
Does the "everything else" include the motherboard?
It's slashdot, we should not expect any quality in the news which appear here... There are dupes, irrelevant stuff, even spam
On the other hand, there are lots of interesting stories too.
Are those 2 really hostile forks?
What a lame sig...
YARPS - Yet Another Roland Piquepaille Story
Let's see:
Thanks, my computer works too.
This might have been an argument against PC's with Windows a few years ago, but not so much now. I won't even mention Linux, of course.
Wou grate!!!11!!!
This one really turns me on too...
Maybe they could stop repeating themselves... BTW, the best programs to produce music and multimedia content exist for PC too, and the quantity of plugins is much greater on the PC.
On this section they say:
Consider this: Can your PC laptop go coast to coast with just one battery? Can you put the system to sleep just by closing the lid? Does it wake up instantly? Can your PC laptop automatically switch between Ethernet, dial-up and wireless connections on the fly? Without a restart? Ours can.
Yep, my PC can do all that too...
Fact is, most of our customers are up-and-surfing within 15 minutes.
I can do that easily too. So maybe this would only be valid for people who know nothing about computers. Even then, I doubt it's much easier to configure an internet connection than in a PC in most cases. Prove me wrong.
OK, so this section tells me that some of the programs I use on the PC are also available for the MAC. This is hardly a reason for me to switch.
See previous answer.
11- Fuck That.
Well, assuming his explanation is correct, the answer to your question is "yes", IF you have a way to execute code on the device, and of course, if you also know how to write code for it (which includes knowing how to output the information in some way, which was by making different sounds in this case...).
Small biopsy? Do it on yourself first then
According to "whois gbrowser.com", the domain was created almost a year ago (2004-Apr-26), so, being true, this is a long time plan...
The moderation of your original post just shows how great the moderators are :D
All the main search engines (I tried google, altavista and yahoo), seem to be listed there... I wonder how they are supposed to find anything in the internet then!
And, according to the FAQ, their results are always up to date...
+3 Insightful? Have you really READ the post? Or did it only sound good when you "read" it diagonally without thinking? Other replies to the parent (obviously an AC troll) have already pointed out his BS...