"Now you can request a NEW EXCITING address", VoxMagis@Hey.I'm.here_and_you.can.find.me.at_the_end.of_the_road.on_the_left.side.right.past_the_dog.that.always.barks.at.you_and_only.has.three.legs.unless.his.owner.has.him.chained.up.in_the_back.so.in.that.case.you'd.have.to.look.for_the_broken.tricycle.that.I.left.by_the_front.door.Oh_and_I'm.somewhere.on_the_top.of_the_map.in.a.really.heavy.population.state
"I had printouts of the management refusals to permit security updates in a locked cabinet to prevent tampering, and my goodness, was I glad I had those"
Do you mind producing the originals here, for posterity. What exactly did you warn them about. iirc The Morris Worm worked partly due to a default debug password being accidentally compiled into sendmail, an open secret at the time...
"Why in the world would they want to put a permanent link to these onto the internet where people can randomly poke holes in the security?"
To save money, cause it's cheaper than leased lines. Same with ATM machine. Put ATM machines running Windows on the Internet and you end up with this and this.
'Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials'
"There are intrusions, and they are growing.. There were a lot last year"
'Many of the intrusions were detected not by the companies in charge of the infrastructure but by U.S. intelligence agencies, officials said. Intelligence officials worry about cyber attackers taking control of electrical facilities, a nuclear power plant or financial networks via the Internet'
Given the great Northeast Blackout of Aug 14 2003 and a similar incident at a Davis-Besse nuclear power plant the previous January, why is the US still using the Internet to control the power grid? And that's assuming that any of the above is even true.
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PROTHERO: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?
DASCOMBE: It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people --
PROTHERO: "Exactly what they tell us." I Know but do you think that people will believe it?
DASCOMBE: They will if it's you that's telling it to them. Now let's try it again.
"Now millions of orphan books may get a new legal guardian"
Where in the text of the settlement is ownership transferred exclusively to Google?
"Critics say that without the orphan books, no competitor will ever be able to compile the comprehensive online library Google aims to create, giving the company more control than ever over the realm of digital information"
Where in this settlement does it forbid anyone else creating an online archive of orphan works, Project Gutenberg for instance. Would one source of this spontaneous concern be out of Redmond?
'at least one party nudging its way into the settlement is an Internet-issues oriented group from New York Law School.. But what does raise an eyebrow is the source of New York Law's funding on this matter: Microsoft. The chief investigator of the New York Law School project is James Grimmelmann. In an earlier career phase, associate law professor Grimmelmann worked as a programmer for Microsoft'
"These Terms of Service apply to the executable code version of Google Chrome. Source code for Google Chrome is available free of charge under open source software license agreements at"
"It's only going to bite us once the police report what he may have been actually doing.. My guess is there's more than they reported or know"
"Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops.. Inept, Dishonest and Just Plain Wrong! Internal Corruption within the 4th Floor of the Phoenix Police Department, under Wanna-Be (Chief) Jack Harris"
The link at the top of Badphoenixcops points to a video of cops cutting the wires to video cameras before they help themselves to the owners goods and money
"once the cameras were not functioning, police proceeded to loot almost $10,000 in cash as well as several cartons of cigarettes.. The Daily News also reported that several other shop owners went through the same experience that year from the same group of cops, only to return from jail to find their store looted"
And if you could expand to explain how Pulse Audio differs and what benefits this will have for end-users? Or even for developers of existing applications too, such as Audacity/Jokosher/Rhythmbox/$general_audio_application.
A lot of things have changed. For example, you can now change the volume of every playback stream seperately. Then, we have better hotplug support: Just plug in your USB speaker and it will appear in your mixer (as long as you use pavucontrol, of course, PA's native mixer tool; the classic gnome-volume-control which we still ship is not hotplug-capable). You can move streams during playback between output devices. With a single click in our "paprefs" tool you can aggregate all local audio devices into a virtual one, which distributes audio to all outputs, and deals with the small frequency deviations in the sound card's quartzes -- and that code even deals with hotplugging/unplugging. If that checkbox is checked, just plugin in your USB headset and you get audio through it. (This is actually pretty cool, and it might be something we enable by default in F9)..
'Claim by the Queensland President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) against Whozadog.com, seeking the source of a posting claimed to be defamatory'
'We are the lawyers for Mr ******* who has been the victim of three highly defamatory anonymous postings which you have allowed on your website.. ****** *******.. demands sexual favours from female.. staff & from.. operatives that are after a boost in their political career'
Interesting enough he's also a believer im the theories of Tommy Gold which propose that there is an abundance of OIL in the earths mantle and was not produced by biological processes in ancient times. So we should all carry on our current energy policies and use OIL in the certitude that none of these activities will have a serious impact on human life on this planet. Of course if he's wrong humanity will be reduced to a pre-industrial marginalized existence.
This reminds of certain utterances by James Watson regarding the inferior intellect of the non-white races. Just because you're clever in one area don't mean you necessarily know anything in another.
'There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global'
'After it was revealed the Hocky-stick report was done with largely fictious data'
According to this the report was later endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences after a concerted effort to discredit its findings and the reputation of its authors.
Gore says. You know he actually was quoted saying "I am not going to let science get in the way"
Where did he say that and in what context. Citations ??
'it is of my opinion that the CCIF as an organization should not endorse any documents without a vote by its members'
"This document is meant to begin the conversation, not define it"
'A few key points of clarification regarding the "Open Cloud Manifesto" Although I had personally being speaking with Microsoft about http://www.elasticvapor.com/">inclusion of some of their requested alterations to the document, we are dealing with several very large companies with numerous points of contact'
So, MS tried and failed to get the document altered and then trashed it in public before it was released.
Microsoft gets wind of the 'Cloud Manifesto' gets hold of the document and preemptively trashes it in public. See here where Microsoft acted to innovate Intel out of the NetPC business.
'if we don't dive right in with something, Intel will undoubtedly be happy to dictate terms to us,-))'
'They did 2 things that amaze me: a) They kept the NC specification around despite saying they would not. b) They snuck in a server specification.. Marshall and I told him the only way for us to participate in the release is if: 1) No NC mention in any specification'
I guess the next move for Microsoft is to join the consortium and sabotage it from the inside,-)
"Windows95 had full preemptive multitasking.. mainstream MS users enjoyed preemptive multitasking from 1995 on"
'Because Microsoft built Windows 95 using the same System Virtual Machine (VM) model found in Windows 3.1, the operating system is at the mercy of legacy 16-bit applications. If a Win16 program hangs, it can tie up critical 16-bit code modules located in the System VM. All other processing is halted'
'Microsoft has chosen to rely on its existing, Windows 3.1-era USER (window management) and Graphics Device Interface (GDI) modules rather than create new, 32-bit versions. In order to utilize this older, 16-bit code in potentially preemptive (with regard to Win32 applications), 32-bit multitasking environment of Windows 95, Microsoft was forced to serialize access to USER and GDI.
As a result, only a single Win32 or Win16 program can access these critical modules at any given time. This hurts application performance on heavily loaded systems as programs are forced to "line-up" and wait for a chance to execute a USER or GDI routine. All USER calls (for both 16 and 32-bit applications) are serialized and handled by the 16-bit code, while the majority of GDI calls are similarly handled (the other 50 percent are handled by newer 32-bit routines). BOTTOM LINE: WINDOWS 95'S MULTITASKING IS BEST DESCRIBED AS PREEMPTIVELY CHALLENGED'
"Windows 95 coincided with the Internet really catching on with the public. Dial-up, and then cable, AOL (which, for all its criticisms, made the Internet available to the non-tech public), browsers, email, IRC... all of that was shiny and new back then, and Windows 95 carried it to most of the world"
Not according to Wikipedia as 'Consumer versions of Windows were originally designed for ease-of-use on a single-user PC without a network connection, and did not have security features built in from the outset'
and
'Windows NT and its successors are designed for security (including on a network) and multi-user PCs, but were not initially designed with Internet security in mind'
'The mathematicians found "a very subtle algorithm" that appeared to adjust the vote in Chavez's favor, Stigall said'
Shoulda got Diebold to do..:)
'[Diebold] is "committed to helping Ohio to deliver its electoral votes to the president next year"'
Deflect attention from the beam in your own eye and trash the democratically elected leader of Venezuela cause he won't give the OIL to the US and let it sell it back to them, like the US did in Iraq.
'Election-Fraud Website Removed Before Tuesday Recall Vote'
"However, I don't see any real difference in performance or boot times on either OS. For that reason, I'm reticent to advise installing Linux to be a magic bullet for boot time woes"
There is a difference and you can tweak Linux to get that little more performance on old hardware. Secondly your wife won't risk having her online identity stolen in some drive-by phishing attempt. One of the fastest put-of-the-box solution I've seen is Yoper
"Its still there, along with the window_key-tab, which looks prettier..."
Whatever, I also don't want 'things' popping up telling me what the computer is doing. I know what it's doing as I just instructed it.
"despite all the 'Vista sucks!' being thrown around, it didn't slow down adoption at all"
Where can I go into a shop and buy a PC with the previous incarnation of Windows? And if Vista is such a success why is MS moving to Windows 7 already?
"Bat Signal evolved into Aero Peek in Windows 7; you can hover over an icon to get thumbnails and hover over a thumbnail to get a preview of the window"
How about ALT+TAB that pops up a viewable preview window, with a translucent thumbnail selector in the middle? Less is more...
Slashdot Mirror
How about fixing the DNS/Email system so as to defeat the virus/spam/phishing epidemic?
"Now you can request a NEW EXCITING address", VoxMagis@Hey.I'm.here_and_you.can.find.me.at_the_end.of_the_road.on_the_left.side.right.past_the_dog.that.always.barks.at.you_and_only.has.three.legs.unless.his.owner.has.him.chained.up.in_the_back.so.in.that.case.you'd.have.to.look.for_the_broken.tricycle.that.I.left.by_the_front.door.Oh_and_I'm.somewhere.on_the_top.of_the_map.in.a.really.heavy.population.state
"I had printouts of the management refusals to permit security updates in a locked cabinet to prevent tampering, and my goodness, was I glad I had those"
...
Do you mind producing the originals here, for posterity. What exactly did you warn them about. iirc The Morris Worm worked partly due to a default debug password being accidentally compiled into sendmail, an open secret at the time
"Why in the world would they want to put a permanent link to these onto the internet where people can randomly poke holes in the security?"
To save money, cause it's cheaper than leased lines. Same with ATM machine. Put ATM machines running Windows on the Internet and you end up with this and this.
' Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials'
.. There were a lot last year"
"There are intrusions, and they are growing
'Many of the intrusions were detected not by the companies in charge of the infrastructure but by U.S. intelligence agencies, officials said. Intelligence officials worry about cyber attackers taking control of electrical facilities, a nuclear power plant or financial networks via the Internet'
Given the great Northeast Blackout of Aug 14 2003 and a similar incident at a Davis-Besse nuclear power plant the previous January, why is the US still using the Internet to control the power grid? And that's assuming that any of the above is even true.
-------
PROTHERO: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?
DASCOMBE: It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people --
PROTHERO: "Exactly what they tell us." I Know but do you think that people will believe it?
DASCOMBE: They will if it's you that's telling it to them. Now let's try it again.
"Now millions of orphan books may get a new legal guardian"
.. But what does raise an eyebrow is the source of New York Law's funding on this matter: Microsoft. The chief investigator of the New York Law School project is James Grimmelmann. In an earlier career phase, associate law professor Grimmelmann worked as a programmer for Microsoft'
Where in the text of the settlement is ownership transferred exclusively to Google?
"Critics say that without the orphan books, no competitor will ever be able to compile the comprehensive online library Google aims to create, giving the company more control than ever over the realm of digital information"
Where in this settlement does it forbid anyone else creating an online archive of orphan works, Project Gutenberg for instance. Would one source of this spontaneous concern be out of Redmond?
'at least one party nudging its way into the settlement is an Internet-issues oriented group from New York Law School
Sorry, it's here
"These Terms of Service apply to the executable code version of Google Chrome. Source code for Google Chrome is available free of charge under open source software license agreements at"
"It's only going to bite us once the police report what he may have been actually doing .. My guess is there's more than they reported or know"
.. Inept, Dishonest and Just Plain Wrong! Internal Corruption within the 4th Floor of the Phoenix Police Department, under Wanna-Be (Chief) Jack Harris"
.. The Daily News also reported that several other shop owners went through the same experience that year from the same group of cops, only to return from jail to find their store looted"
"Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops
The link at the top of Badphoenixcops points to a video of cops cutting the wires to video cameras before they help themselves to the owners goods and money
"once the cameras were not functioning, police proceeded to loot almost $10,000 in cash as well as several cartons of cigarettes
No as it would be a mirror image, an easier way would be to rotate the table .. :)
.. Police are also examining how one man died in the clashes"
"Police have arrested 122 people and detained scores more following violent clashes
In English: cops riot and provoke protesters, scores injured and one dead. The deceased is charged with grievous bodily suicide.
And if you could expand to explain how Pulse Audio differs and what benefits this will have for end-users? Or even for developers of existing applications too, such as Audacity/Jokosher/Rhythmbox/$general_audio_application.
A lot of things have changed. For example, you can now change the volume of every playback stream seperately. Then, we have better hotplug support: Just plug in your USB speaker and it will appear in your mixer (as long as you use pavucontrol, of course, PA's native mixer tool; the classic gnome-volume-control which we still ship is not hotplug-capable). You can move streams during playback between output devices. With a single click in our "paprefs" tool you can aggregate all local audio devices into a virtual one, which distributes audio to all outputs, and deals with the small frequency deviations in the sound card's quartzes -- and that code even deals with hotplugging/unplugging. If that checkbox is checked, just plugin in your USB headset and you get audio through it. (This is actually pretty cool, and it might be something we enable by default in F9)..
'Claim by the Queensland President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) against Whozadog.com, seeking the source of a posting claimed to be defamatory'
.. ****** ******* .. demands sexual favours from female .. staff & from .. operatives that are after a boost in their political career'
'We are the lawyers for Mr ******* who has been the victim of three highly defamatory anonymous postings which you have allowed on your website
Interesting enough he's also a believer im the theories of Tommy Gold which propose that there is an abundance of OIL in the earths mantle and was not produced by biological processes in ancient times. So we should all carry on our current energy policies and use OIL in the certitude that none of these activities will have a serious impact on human life on this planet. Of course if he's wrong humanity will be reduced to a pre-industrial marginalized existence.
This reminds of certain utterances by James Watson regarding the inferior intellect of the non-white races. Just because you're clever in one area don't mean you necessarily know anything in another.
'There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global'
Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'
Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years
In the past 60 years or so human activity has contributed to the deterioration of the ozone layer
'After it was revealed the Hocky-stick report was done with largely fictious data'
According to this the report was later endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences after a concerted effort to discredit its findings and the reputation of its authors.
Gore says. You know he actually was quoted saying "I am not going to let science get in the way"
Where did he say that and in what context. Citations ??
'Actually the IE8 exploit used during Pwn2Own contest wouldn't work on the final release of IE8 published one day later on the 19th of March'
.NET controls have been disabled
According to this only when
'it is of my opinion that the CCIF as an organization should not endorse any documents without a vote by its members'
"This document is meant to begin the conversation, not define it"
'A few key points of clarification regarding the "Open Cloud Manifesto" Although I had personally being speaking with Microsoft about http://www.elasticvapor.com/">inclusion of some of their requested alterations to the document, we are dealing with several very large companies with numerous points of contact'
So, MS tried and failed to get the document altered and then trashed it in public before it was released.
THE CLOUD COMPUTING INTEROPERABILITY FORUM
Microsoft gets wind of the 'Cloud Manifesto' gets hold of the document and preemptively trashes it in public. See here where Microsoft acted to innovate Intel out of the NetPC business.
,-))'
.. Marshall and I told him the only way for us to participate in the release is if: 1) No NC mention in any specification '
,-)
'if we don't dive right in with something, Intel will undoubtedly be happy to dictate terms to us
'They did 2 things that amaze me: a) They kept the NC specification around despite saying they would not. b) They snuck in a server specification
I guess the next move for Microsoft is to join the consortium and sabotage it from the inside
"Windows95 had full preemptive multitasking .. mainstream MS users enjoyed preemptive multitasking from 1995 on"
'Because Microsoft built Windows 95 using the same System Virtual Machine (VM) model found in Windows 3.1, the operating system is at the mercy of legacy 16-bit applications. If a Win16 program hangs, it can tie up critical 16-bit code modules located in the System VM. All other processing is halted'
'Microsoft has chosen to rely on its existing, Windows 3.1-era USER (window management) and Graphics Device Interface (GDI) modules rather than create new, 32-bit versions. In order to utilize this older, 16-bit code in potentially preemptive (with regard to Win32 applications), 32-bit multitasking environment of Windows 95, Microsoft was forced to serialize access to USER and GDI.
As a result, only a single Win32 or Win16 program can access these critical modules at any given time. This hurts application performance on heavily loaded systems as programs are forced to "line-up" and wait for a chance to execute a USER or GDI routine. All USER calls (for both 16 and 32-bit applications) are serialized and handled by the 16-bit code, while the majority of GDI calls are similarly handled (the other 50 percent are handled by newer 32-bit routines). BOTTOM LINE: WINDOWS 95'S MULTITASKING IS BEST DESCRIBED AS PREEMPTIVELY CHALLENGED'
"Windows 95 coincided with the Internet really catching on with the public. Dial-up, and then cable, AOL (which, for all its criticisms, made the Internet available to the non-tech public), browsers, email, IRC... all of that was shiny and new back then, and Windows 95 carried it to most of the world"
Not according to Wikipedia as 'Consumer versions of Windows were originally designed for ease-of-use on a single-user PC without a network connection, and did not have security features built in from the outset'
and
'Windows NT and its successors are designed for security (including on a network) and multi-user PCs, but were not initially designed with Internet security in mind'
'The mathematicians found "a very subtle algorithm" that appeared to adjust the vote in Chavez's favor, Stigall said'
.. :)
Shoulda got Diebold to do
'[Diebold] is "committed to helping Ohio to deliver its electoral votes to the president next year"'
Deflect attention from the beam in your own eye and trash the democratically elected leader of Venezuela cause he won't give the OIL to the US and let it sell it back to them, like the US did in Iraq.
'Election-Fraud Website Removed Before Tuesday Recall Vote'
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/10/01/1225227.shtml?tid=123&tid=103&tid=1
"However, I don't see any real difference in performance or boot times on either OS. For that reason, I'm reticent to advise installing Linux to be a magic bullet for boot time woes"
There is a difference and you can tweak Linux to get that little more performance on old hardware. Secondly your wife won't risk having her online identity stolen in some drive-by phishing attempt. One of the fastest put-of-the-box solution I've seen is Yoper
"Its still there, along with the window_key-tab, which looks prettier..." Whatever, I also don't want 'things' popping up telling me what the computer is doing. I know what it's doing as I just instructed it.
"Why do you run such bloatware when you can have RatPoison? ;-)"
A couple of bash screens and some macros does for me...
"despite all the 'Vista sucks!' being thrown around, it didn't slow down adoption at all"
Where can I go into a shop and buy a PC with the previous incarnation of Windows? And if Vista is such a success why is MS moving to Windows 7 already?
"Bat Signal evolved into Aero Peek in Windows 7; you can hover over an icon to get thumbnails and hover over a thumbnail to get a preview of the window"
...
How about ALT+TAB that pops up a viewable preview window, with a translucent thumbnail selector in the middle? Less is more