"Desktop search has always been a feature of the Windows operating system, even before Google existed
You're not seriously comparing Google Desktop Search to this:
Click Start, Search, For Files or Folders, on The Internet, Using Microsoft Outlook, For People, MORE, Look for Files or Folders Named, Containing Text", Look In, My Documents, Desktop, My Computer, Local Hard Drives , Browse !!!!!
It's just a repeat of what they did with Internet Explorer/Netscape and Real Player/Media Player. There's no technical reason Google Search and MS search can co-exist on the desktop, but that ain't the way it's going to be. Makes itself the default search engine that can't be turned off?
"The FSF troll army.. water torture.. chipping away.. cultists.. pressure.. cave.. minion.. drones..
How can you post without once referencing what 'Linus' actually said, instead of a gratuitous personal and down right offencive on Alan Cox, Stallman and the FSF.
"dirty practices like sending incorrect data to a particular client connection to trigger a trade"
This *is* interesting. Do you have anymore detailed information as to how this is done. What technology is the data connection run on? How is it possible to fool.
Because he first has to get other people money to trade with. Else he is what is known as a day trader, a mug who bets his own money on the stock market. To see how the stock market is really run, take a look at Liars Poker.
"Would some of those.. PLEASE comment on whether they think this will be a good thing or a bad thing"
It'll be good for MS and bad for the Linux Foundation. It's like when the Nuclear industry used to hire on as consultants top people in the anti-nuclear lobby. The opposition is diluted and you get a potential vocal critic silenced.
"You should also consider that ODF's license is written by SUN"
Actually OpenDocument was developed by OASIS and published as an ISO standard. As such Sun, or any other single company don't own it. Microsofts covenant only promises not to sue for certain parts of the covered specification that are convienently not defined in the license. Why it's split up into chunks like this is curious.
"So basically it seems that the licensing issues surrounding ODF and OpenXML are pretty much equivalent"
Essencially what it means is that if you create a completely independent working specification, the do_not_sue covenant don't apply. On the other hand anyone can create their own implementation of ODF from the published specs and the do_not_sue covenant from SUN still applys.
Both yours an Microsofts definition of open standard seems to be different that everyone elses. According to Bruce Perens MS open standards would fail the test.
"A pritable data terminal includes at least two communication transeivers having different operating charactrtistics, one for conducting data communications on a wired sub-network and one for conducting data communications on a wireless subnetwork"
So basically they patented all wired and wireless networks. Isn't just a case of a US company using legislation to impede competitors entry into the market. The whole TRIPS thing being designed so any future non-US telecom company will have to pay a tithe to Washington just to sell their own technology. Pax Americana rules everywhere.
When someone introduces a piece using the words 'hilarious rant' you can assume he don't want you to take seriously the arguments presented therein. But lets see what the rest of it has to say.
"DRM is.. an added restriction on what can be done with something they've paid for"
A clear and concice description of exactly what DRM is designed to do, if there ever was one. The hilarious bit is where DRM proponents sell it as secure, to either the media vendors or the enduser, for as Allison points the end-user posesses all the necessary information to break DRM. The recent release of the DVD keys being a case in point. No, the hilarious people are the ones who believe in DRMlithium keys.
MR. SMITH CONTINUING. Q. on October 19th, 2004, did you hear on that date, hear anything of interest happening in the school specifically concerning Ms. Amero? A. I did not on the 19th, no.
Q. Did anybody, specifically Ms. Amero, come to speak to you about anything going on in her classroom? A. I don't believe she came to me on the 19th, no.
Q. So you specifically didn't talk to her about anything? A. I don't believe so, no.
Q. Subsequent to that, meaning after the 19th, obviously, did you learn that somethting of interest had happened while she was substituting in that class? A. Yes.
Q. Okay, Without telling us what you specifically learned, the communication, how did you learn about this? A. I got an e-mail, recieved an e-mail, electronic mail from the teacher, Mr. Napp.
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Q. The day after the incident? A. Yes. Q. But prior to that you never heard anything about it, correct? A. Yes, That's correct, I believe...
A. Yes. Approximatly two to three weeks, maybe a month before I had some concerns from some of the teachers sharing that, you know, not activly teaching class...
A. I think yes, I would have said to her something along the lines that she needed to be up teaching a class and not using the computer to great excess...
Q. I understand that. You had a conversation with her prior specifically about accessing the Internet excessively as you put it? A. Yes.
Q. And she was informed of what the computer is supposed to be used for in school? A. yes. I would believe so, yes.
Q. Let me jump back to -- and that was before the 19th, correct?
A. Yes. It would have been probably some time in early October, maybe late September.. I told her that I had gone up and looked into the computer's history and that there was pornographic images on the computer...
Q. Did she ever come to you on the 19th to tell you that was happening? A. She did not. To my recollection, she did not.
CROSS EXAMINATION BY mr. cocheo:
Q. Good morning, Mr Fain A. Good morning
Q. Did you hear Ms. Amero state that she was having any problems in her classroom on the computer on October 19th?
A. On October 19th, did she approach me is your question? Q. Yes. A. I can't recall that....
MR. COCHEO CONTINUING Q. Has any student or staff member complained about pop-ups? MR. SMITH Objection, irrelevant.
THE COURT: Well, I think if the question were framed about the classroom, in that classroom, I would overrule the objection.
MR. COCHEO CONTINUING Q. In that specific clasroom? A. Specifically over pop-ups? Q. Yes. A. No..
'Sounds like the regular classroom teacher had a lot of time on her hands to go surfing around'
You do realize that spyware is designed to act without the users knowledge or intervention. How long do you think a Windows 98 PC with out of date anti-virus and no firewall would last on the Internet before getting infected. If you read the rest of the article you would have read that hair-styles.org directed to new-hairstyles.com that had pornographic links that initiated pop-ups.
"Mr. Napp, the class' regular teacher logged on to the PC because Julie Amero being a substitute teacher did not have her own id and password">
"Herb Horner.. exhaustive independent forensic analysis of Amero's hard drive showed that the machine had been infected with multiple pieces of malicious software beforeshe arrived at the school">
They should offer the farmers a do_not_sue covenant. The farmers can produce seeds as long as the farmers agree that their seeds violate CFIA intelluctual property, agree to not materially benefit from growing crops from their own seeds, agree to fold back future improvements into CFIA and agree to not work on the seeds in their employers time. The covenant only extends to the farmers and is not passed on..
It's obvious who the missiles are intended to intimidate, the Russians, just in case they try and steal our oil. It's straight out of the NeoCons plan for Pax Americana
The plan is for the Core to be safe while us here in the Gap will take the brunt of the war on whoever. Of course one of the unintended ironies of this 'war' is that in the course of defending 'democracy' at home, America is destroy it abroad.
Plotted to steal an election through a rigged electronic voting machine, targeting ethnecally unsound voters. Eg blacks and Hispanics and overseas members of the armed forces who were also black or Hispanic.
I think Chavez is right, the backers of RCTV and a number of others were behind a CIA led plot to overthrow the democratically elected of an independent country. This station failed to report the coup and played music instead. You see Chavezs chief crime is he won't hand over the oil and buy it back from the Americans like compliant client states of the US empire are supposed to.
Here in GB every other weeek, there is a story about the nasty Chavez. I figure we are being primed for a regime change. Basically Big Oil is concerned about the outward flow of revenue so they are talking up a plot to overthrow Chavez and install a puppet pres who will then 'sell' them the oil fields.
Fascism is the union of big business and goverment and that's where the US is at the moment. When are the US going to impliment regime change in Washington. That is where the real threat lies.
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"Desktop search has always been a feature of the Windows operating system, even before Google existed
You're not seriously comparing Google Desktop Search to this:
Click Start, Search, For Files or Folders, on The Internet, Using Microsoft Outlook, For People, MORE, Look for Files or Folders Named, Containing Text", Look In, My Documents, Desktop, My Computer, Local Hard Drives , Browse !!!!!
It's just a repeat of what they did with Internet Explorer/Netscape and Real Player/Media Player. There's no technical reason Google Search and MS search can co-exist on the desktop, but that ain't the way it's going to be. Makes itself the default search engine that can't be turned off?
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"says emacsuser@linuxmail.org"
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"The FSF troll army .. water torture .. chipping away .. cultists .. pressure .. cave .. minion .. drones ..
How can you post without once referencing what 'Linus' actually said, instead of a gratuitous personal and down right offencive on Alan Cox, Stallman and the FSF.
Re:Linus will fall into line
"dirty practices like sending incorrect data to a particular client connection to trigger a trade"
This *is* interesting. Do you have anymore detailed information as to how this is done. What technology is the data connection run on? How is it possible to fool.
Because he first has to get other people money to trade with. Else he is what is known as a day trader, a mug who bets his own money on the stock market. To see how the stock market is really run, take a look at Liars Poker.
was Re:Fantasy stock markets.
"Sony is dying because of the way they've been treating their customers lately"
"By attacking one of the few companies more hated than them, they're trying to re-direct some of their bad karma"
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SNE&t=6m
was: Re:Its all marketing...
"How often does MS sue smaller companies for petent infringement, compared to how often Microsoft is sued?"
How many companies apart from Microsoft make allegations that Linux violates their patents.
every Linux customer has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability
was Re:who's suing who?
"Now, type this command in"
'c:/windows/ehome/ehribjob.exe \OCURNregister'
"MSG2: I can't send this to the customer! This is Microsoft-proprietary information. Don't you have an email account?"
"Would some of those .. PLEASE comment on whether they think this will be a good thing or a bad thing"
It'll be good for MS and bad for the Linux Foundation. It's like when the Nuclear industry used to hire on as consultants top people in the anti-nuclear lobby. The opposition is diluted and you get a potential vocal critic silenced.
Re:Forgive my ignorance but...
"We recognize that not all applications and drivers were up to date by launch and that there have been some compatibility issues as a result,"
"But we also know that Windows Vista is the highest-quality, most secure and most broadly supported operating system we've ever released."
Hameroff adds that Microsoft is running an IPv6 network and "to my knowledge has not experienced these types of issues"
"my patent will be on any system or method that can predict what the next patch will be required by any given software product"
..
I patent a method for writing a patent on a method that can predict what the next patch will be required by any given software product
"You should also consider that ODF's license is written by SUN"
Actually OpenDocument was developed by OASIS and published as an ISO standard. As such Sun, or any other single company don't own it. Microsofts covenant only promises not to sue for certain parts of the covered specification that are convienently not defined in the license. Why it's split up into chunks like this is curious.
"So basically it seems that the licensing issues surrounding ODF and OpenXML are pretty much equivalent"
Essencially what it means is that if you create a completely independent working specification, the do_not_sue covenant don't apply. On the other hand anyone can create their own implementation of ODF from the published specs and the do_not_sue covenant from SUN still applys.
Both yours an Microsofts definition of open standard seems to be different that everyone elses. According to Bruce Perens MS open standards would fail the test.
Fair Enough? (Score:5, Interesting)
"I for one do not understand Microsoft's motive in crushing open formats"
"The battle we are fighting is over who controls the next generation applications and system architecture, APIs and services"
"A pritable data terminal includes at least two communication transeivers having different operating charactrtistics, one for conducting data communications on a wired sub-network and one for conducting data communications on a wireless subnetwork"
So basically they patented all wired and wireless networks. Isn't just a case of a US company using legislation to impede competitors entry into the market. The whole TRIPS thing being designed so any future non-US telecom company will have to pay a tithe to Washington just to sell their own technology. Pax Americana rules everywhere.
was Re:ITC press release
When someone introduces a piece using the words 'hilarious rant' you can assume he don't want you to take seriously the arguments presented therein. But lets see what the rest of it has to say.
.. an added restriction on what can be done with something they've paid for"
"DRM is
A clear and concice description of exactly what DRM is designed to do, if there ever was one. The hilarious bit is where DRM proponents sell it as secure, to either the media vendors or the enduser, for as Allison points the end-user posesses all the necessary information to break DRM. The recent release of the DVD keys being a case in point. No, the hilarious people are the ones who believe in DRMlithium keys.
MR. SMITH CONTINUING. Q. on October 19th, 2004, did you hear on that date, hear anything of interest happening in the school specifically concerning Ms. Amero? A. I did not on the 19th, no.
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Q. Did anybody, specifically Ms. Amero, come to speak to you about anything going on in her classroom? A. I don't believe she came to me on the 19th, no.
Q. So you specifically didn't talk to her about anything? A. I don't believe so, no.
Q. Subsequent to that, meaning after the 19th, obviously, did you learn that somethting of interest had happened while she was substituting in that class? A. Yes.
Q. Okay, Without telling us what you specifically learned, the communication, how did you learn about this? A. I got an e-mail, recieved an e-mail, electronic mail from the teacher, Mr. Napp.
--
Q. The day after the incident? A. Yes. Q. But prior to that you never heard anything about it, correct? A. Yes, That's correct, I believe.
A. Yes. Approximatly two to three weeks, maybe a month before I had some concerns from some of the teachers sharing that, you know, not activly teaching class.
A. I think yes, I would have said to her something along the lines that she needed to be up teaching a class and not using the computer to great excess.
Q. I understand that. You had a conversation with her prior specifically about accessing the Internet excessively as you put it? A. Yes.
Q. And she was informed of what the computer is supposed to be used for in school? A. yes. I would believe so, yes.
Q. Let me jump back to -- and that was before the 19th, correct?
A. Yes. It would have been probably some time in early October, maybe late September
Q. Did she ever come to you on the 19th to tell you that was happening? A. She did not. To my recollection, she did not.
CROSS EXAMINATION BY mr. cocheo:
Q. Good morning, Mr Fain A. Good morning
Q. Did you hear Ms. Amero state that she was having any problems in her classroom on the computer on October 19th?
A. On October 19th, did she approach me is your question? Q. Yes. A. I can't recall that
MR. COCHEO CONTINUING Q. Has any student or staff member complained about pop-ups? MR. SMITH Objection, irrelevant.
THE COURT: Well, I think if the question were framed about the classroom, in that classroom, I would overrule the objection.
MR. COCHEO CONTINUING Q. In that specific clasroom? A. Specifically over pop-ups? Q. Yes. A. No
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'Sounds like the regular classroom teacher had a lot of time on her hands to go surfing around'
.. exhaustive independent forensic analysis of Amero's hard drive showed that the machine had been infected with multiple pieces of malicious software before she arrived at the school ">
You do realize that spyware is designed to act without the users knowledge or intervention. How long do you think a Windows 98 PC with out of date anti-virus and no firewall would last on the Internet before getting infected. If you read the rest of the article you would have read that hair-styles.org directed to new-hairstyles.com that had pornographic links that initiated pop-ups.
"Mr. Napp, the class' regular teacher logged on to the PC because Julie Amero being a substitute teacher did not have her own id and password">
"We also noted that there was no firewall and there was an outdated antivirus program on the PC. The PCwas being tracked before October 19, 2004 by adware and spyware"
"Herb Horner
was Re:Analysis of her system
'did the substitute teacher circumvent the network? how was she able to surf pr0n in the first place?
.. admitted under cross-examination that the
prosecution never even checked the computer for malware"
"Detective Mark Lounsbury
"Amero was working on a very old Gateway PC running Windows 98, an extremely vulnerable setup"
They should offer the farmers a do_not_sue covenant. The farmers can produce seeds as long as the farmers agree that their seeds violate CFIA intelluctual property, agree to not materially benefit from growing crops from their own seeds, agree to fold back future improvements into CFIA and agree to not work on the seeds in their employers time. The covenant only extends to the farmers and is not passed on ..
It's obvious who the missiles are intended to intimidate, the Russians, just in case they try and steal our oil. It's straight out of the NeoCons plan for Pax Americana
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The plan is for the Core to be safe while us here in the Gap will take the brunt of the war on whoever. Of course one of the unintended ironies of this 'war' is that in the course of defending 'democracy' at home, America is destroy it abroad.
http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-ne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_
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Who did the following George Dubya or Chavez.
Pass a law giving him total authority over the entire federal government.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/2
Plotted to steal an election through a rigged electronic voting machine, targeting ethnecally unsound voters. Eg blacks and Hispanics and overseas members of the armed forces who were also black or Hispanic.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/172560
Invaded a country and steal the oil and sell it back to them.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052607Z.shtml
Revoke the US commitment to the Geneva Conventions, something that was implimented by the US in the aftermath of the nazi excesses of WW2.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheney_criticizes_G
Dispense with the right to a fair trial
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
Announce you are planning to cancel the nuclear arms reduction treaty with the Russian Federation and put missiles in Bulgaria, Romania and Poland.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6708459.s
Enthuse the police to shoot anti globalization protestors
http://youtube.com/watch?v=G63FEamhpA0&mode=relat
I think Chavez is right, the backers of RCTV and a number of others were behind a CIA led plot to overthrow the democratically elected of an independent country. This station failed to report the coup and played music instead. You see Chavezs chief crime is he won't hand over the oil and buy it back from the Americans like compliant client states of the US empire are supposed to.
9 40/rctv_and_the_cia_plot_chavez_demise
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Here in GB every other weeek, there is a story about the nasty Chavez. I figure we are being primed for a regime change. Basically Big Oil is concerned about the outward flow of revenue so they are talking up a plot to overthrow Chavez and install a puppet pres who will then 'sell' them the oil fields.
Fascism is the union of big business and goverment and that's where the US is at the moment. When are the US going to impliment regime change in Washington. That is where the real threat lies.
http://internetchatradio.com/breaking_news_/view/
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follow the money
"I'm not Bezroukov, but thanks for that link. Interesting thoughts"
:)
You shouldn't be surprised if you get a bit of a reaction when you call Open Source people an anarchist cult now should you