in fusion research about that material that was originated in and declassified by the Soviet Union, sent with some of their scientists to the USA to give a talk to some of our scientists, and then promptly declared classified here and a blanket literally placed over the roll-away chalkboard.
In the future, anything published online after the government releases it should be promptly uploaded to file sharing sites and p2p/torrent networks to make sure it is preserved in the open. It is NOT the job of the people to retcon info when the government makes mistakes, but the government's job to double and triple check what they clear for public consumption before it goes public from them.
I blame the usual functionary bureaucrats for closing yet another barn door after the horses have already entered themselves in the Kentucky Derby.
If presently the standard is minimum 8, and it is 25 times better, then the simple math abilities of the managers who think 80% of every Computerworld article is tl;dr will mean a minimum of 200 characters. AND it will require grammatical rules as well such as mixing Hebrew, Cyrillic, and English to make nothing make any sense whatsoever.
Also, the average size of deployed Post-It pads will quadruple and keyboards will get larger.
Palladiate is entirely right. It's not the cable companies' or the equipment manufacturers' faults. It DOES have much to do with the content originators' over-abundant fears of piracy.
Their fears translate to increased pressure on the security department between disconnects, audits of same, audits of the system at large, as well as on the executive management to be very careful what equipment they deploy or allow deployment of.
Want to get independent STBs that take a cable card and give you choices? Go bang on the doors of the content originators. THEY are the biggest influence.
Simple as that. I have XP Pro, a gig of memory and a real nice nVidia card and still the eye candy bogs the machine down and I really strip unneeded crap from my runtime. I don't need Vista. It's like KDE with all the candy. Buggy and sluggish, but I EXPECT THAT with KDE on Linux because I didn't pay for it and it is community supported on the same schedule people mow their lawns and clean their rooms on, when they get to it. When I pay a multibillion dollar company like MS for an OS that took them several years to come up with, I expect it to run a little better and a little more stable.
I really do feel bad for Balmer having to take the position he does. What a suck job that is. Oh wait, I work customer support and hardly agree with the morality of the positions I have to espouse as it is... Yeah, I really feel for Balmer now. Dude, big difference here. You are an exec and can take some other tack here. I strongly suggest you do it and quick Steve. I have yet to hear from or meet anyone who likes Vista. Stop being so damn 1995 all-bugs-are-features-or-customer-imagination and make your subordinated fix it.
Many times your cell is useless in the home. At least one other cell company has already fielded a product where when you put the phone on the cradle, all extensions go through that cell. Next could instead be a system where when you put the cell down on the dock, the extensions go through it AND the calls then go from the cell to the IP-based system to save you battery use on the wireless transmissions, or if the base had a stand-by charger in it as well, at least offload their cell systems from calls taking place at home.
Then, I get to use my Sprint phone over Vonage at home, and over Sprint cellular when I take it with me. Put multiple docks in and have them have a nice little menu system to choose the phone to go through (in case three family members are home and have docked their phones). I can call out through my wife's if mine is already being used by something else dialing out.
Vonage could be a foot in the door to VoIP linkage to Sprint's system. Might seem a longshot, but there's been longer shots before...
Let's ditch social security numbers too. Once we purge everything, we can come up with a new, unique, impervious to fraud, uncrackable new id for each person and their various accounts.
They call it a "fleshlight" or some such. I wouldn't know being married, but maybe she'd stop smacking the top of her head on the underside of the desk if I cut down pugging with those total noobs all the time.
there is a very interesting project running through the Office of Naval Research using Navy Seals and a tongue prosthetic designed to impart sonar information to the tongue using electrical stimulii.
"Next time Jones, swim at least ten meters to my port or starboard. I swear this stupid thing let me taste your ass from five meters and really, that's the last thing I need before a mission."
Of course it could- after all, the whole idea behind the Everett-Wheeler model of quantum physics is that everything that could possibly happen, happens. And any time travel would absolutely include a degree of sideways as well as past travel, because the time traveler himself would cause a disturbance that would propagate into new universes in the multiverse (or superverse as Titor called it). Thus a mark of a real time traveler under those rules would be predictions that would start out somewhat accurate, but become increasingly wrong.
A shorter way of agreeing is to simply state the obvious and that these weapons would be developed for deployment against the civilian citizenry simply because it's the government. They can't even put the right number of post offices in a given town or explain how a wrench costs $20K on an appropriations bill.
...Vanderbilt University reported a work-related injury to the OSHA wherein an employee who is as yet unidentified was seriously injured in his groin. Confidential sources say there was a lot of blood and a violently ripped off body part involved. We await further news on this development.
Here's an interesting thought. Marx made extensive use of Kantian dialectics, in which you have the thesis battling the antithesis until the synthesis arose.
I've always wondered if Marx really thought that communism was the synthesis to the decadence of the bourgeoisie and the plight of the proletariat, or really recognized that it was a antithesis to capitalism and was merely promoting it to spur the development of a more amenable synthesis.
Does it matter? No matter which side wins, you're still someone else's amanuensis at best.
You're also talking about a LOT of storage and absolutely no way to sensibly organize the volume of data collected. That's the problem with data saturation - there are no database or data processing techniques capable of handling it. I was talking to one of the top Ingres software/network gurus at OSCON yesterday - apparently even just the total information awareness project is staggering under the sheer weight of information that no system yet designed can handle. If the data is unsearchable, unsortable and unprocessable, then to all practical intents and purposes, it doesn't exist.
This is also true of proving yourself innocent before the IRS and the usual excuse for mail getting lost as well as FOIA requests for federal documents.
and that stupid thinking is that we must rely on the oxidation of combustible fuels and expulsion of hot gases to propel things. Rather than looking at different types of energy transfer, storage, and propulsion.
You'd swear our iconic idea of the future was the rocket ship world of the old Flash Gordon comic strip and not Star Trek.
In the end, this obsession with keeping people from "pirating" is costing them bigtime- and in reality, it's nothing to do with infringements and more to do with control of what people do, what people listen to and watch, etc. It's beginning to cost them because people aren't interested in buying what they're offering.
Exactly.
The whole point of this is control of what other people do. And it is a growing problem of all political stripes. More and more, people believe democracy is not getting their one vote, but getting their way. More and more people believe that what other people do bears on them in some intolerable way. More and more people will not stand for anything less than having the whole world their way and all must bow to it or they cry foul that they've ever been denied anything of their way. All political parties embody this, and all politicians seek to exploit it. Business is no different than any other piece of society as the same individuals make those businesses up as make up society. There's no middle and only my way.
I think you guys are all getting the wrong idea. Microsoft isn't likely to be so much as implementing, as much as being in the patent license business. IOW, the plan is to sue adware producers for patent infringement, driving them away from producing the adware that plagues their operating system products. They might license it to a select few companies who do adware that doesn't screw up someone's entire OS, but I think the general goal is to get rid of adware through brute force rather than fixing the technological problems that allow it to proliferate.
It would be a great thing if this is true and really, I want to believe it. No one loses more than Microsoft every time someone else screws up something that happens to run on their OS. On an irregular basis Turbine's Dungeons and Dragons Online client crashes my PC's sound system drivers so badly that my machine blue screens. MOST Slashdot people would reflexively blame Microsoft for that, but neither the client nor the drivers were written by Microsoft. Do I or anyone else blame Red Hat when I have trouble getting third party screen savers to build and work right on the newest iteration of Fedora Core? No.
If anything, using the IP-infringement cudgel against the miscreants would be priceless. It's like designing bioweapons before your enemy gets them done so you can get a headstart on the process of designing blocking agents and cures for them, negating them before they can be deployed, but (mostly) without the messy prospect of them being deployed by your side. That being said, Microsoft might use this to their advantage with IP-mismanagement vis a vis multimedia and the ongoing war over fair use, but then again, Microsoft WROTE Windows so if they wanted to root kit their own OS, they could do it a dozen times over on multiple levels to the point that the OS was one large trojan dedicated to monitoring everything you did and really, would they get far with that given that if a third party fouls up their bugtesting, no one blames that third party and instead just whines that Microsoft sucks?
If anything, the paranoia towards Microsoft works towards making this patent and sue the miscreants thing a big win for us and Microsoft as we get the biggest dog on the PC block throwing its legal weight against the schmucks who write malware and we get to see Microsoft taking these threats seriously and instead of being reactionary and patching, actually being proactive and offensive, taking out the people who write these things. Sure, it could go wrong, but then, it always could.
...as a certain amount of fear response is needed to tell creatures when high risk of danger is at hand. Without fear, people tend to do stupid self destructive things and get into situations that result in some risk to others. This seems tailor made to open up a whole new world of dangers that will go unheeded. What's next? A drug to eradicate conscience? Another to make you feel like superman? We really don't want to go down the supersoldier path if we care about the outcome of warfare. Conscience, fear, etc. are all things we desperately need to be able to end the conflict at some point and control the amount of bloodshed during the conflict. We don't need this, really.
I hope that it is kept strictly as a psych treatment for irrational people under professional care only.
and all you need to use it is another computer to plug it into.
(insert giant rolling eyes emoticon here)
The Linux world still isn't getting it... Here's your chance to start working on the other stuff like the projection keyboard, 3D sensor for hand movements and gestures, voice recognition, and heads-up displays. Wait, that's all hardware techie stuff and works with Windows as well as Linux. Which means in the next ten years we'll be getting/. stories about how Windows (Whatever) based pocket computers with all of the above are now being made to run Linux.
The software market was not stagnant because of any tactics or positions of Microsoft's. It was stagnant due to the colossal incompetence and utter stupidity of their competition and the good judgment of their customers with regard to what they wanted and what fit them best. OS/2 failed to compete versus Windows for two reasons: it blew chunks and the PC using public knew it when they experienced it, AND the purveyor, IBM, was hopelessly moronic and deluded, acting as though serious technical criticisms of it never happened or were inspired by competitors jealous of its superiority.
Microsoft gave superior performance, usability, and cost as a overall conglomerate picture according to the PC using public. All the other ideas to the contrary are pure delusional sour grapes poppycock who cannot fathom that the general public would disagree with the primacy of their ideas on technology, software, and business. Much like Amiga geeks who still to this day believe their ancient boxes to be superior in many ways to todays Windows desktops, the anti-MS crowd cannot separate fact from fiction and accept reality.
Microsoft's single biggest offense is selling insufficiently bug-tested and fixed code as finished product using the user base as testers, essentially getting testers to pay them instead of the other way around. However, the majority of their other business practices are nothing that a hundred thousand other companies have done in the past, most of them summarily ignored or excused by the anti-MS people.
It was the World Wide Web which rejuvenated the industry, NOT Netscape. It was the people finally seeing an opening to a world where they could say whatever and not be marginalized to constricted outlets controlled by a small few, and going for it. It was this increasing use of PCs to get to the Internet which made PCs an unavoidable feature of life and gave a new wider audience to software publishers, however crappy, to sell their wares.
But to have the kind of market share that Word Perfect, Quattro, and so many other properties had and fritter it away the way they did through inane design, purposeful ignorance of customer wants and uses, estrangement from market realities and human nature, that is NOT Microsoft's fault. So please please please think a minute before going right for the "Microsoft crushes competition through unfair practices" gambit.
People always ask these questions about leaving planets alone if they have so much as microbes, then go on to gargle anti-bacterial mouthwash, wash their hands with anti-bacterial soap, swim in germicidal filtered pools, and even wear protection against microbial transmission during sex.
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in fusion research about that material that was originated in and declassified by the Soviet Union, sent with some of their scientists to the USA to give a talk to some of our scientists, and then promptly declared classified here and a blanket literally placed over the roll-away chalkboard.
In the future, anything published online after the government releases it should be promptly uploaded to file sharing sites and p2p/torrent networks to make sure it is preserved in the open. It is NOT the job of the people to retcon info when the government makes mistakes, but the government's job to double and triple check what they clear for public consumption before it goes public from them.
I blame the usual functionary bureaucrats for closing yet another barn door after the horses have already entered themselves in the Kentucky Derby.
If presently the standard is minimum 8, and it is 25 times better, then the simple math abilities of the managers who think 80% of every Computerworld article is tl;dr will mean a minimum of 200 characters. AND it will require grammatical rules as well such as mixing Hebrew, Cyrillic, and English to make nothing make any sense whatsoever.
Also, the average size of deployed Post-It pads will quadruple and keyboards will get larger.
Palladiate is entirely right. It's not the cable companies' or the equipment manufacturers' faults. It DOES have much to do with the content originators' over-abundant fears of piracy.
Their fears translate to increased pressure on the security department between disconnects, audits of same, audits of the system at large, as well as on the executive management to be very careful what equipment they deploy or allow deployment of.
Want to get independent STBs that take a cable card and give you choices? Go bang on the doors of the content originators. THEY are the biggest influence.
Simple as that. I have XP Pro, a gig of memory and a real nice nVidia card and still the eye candy bogs the machine down and I really strip unneeded crap from my runtime. I don't need Vista. It's like KDE with all the candy. Buggy and sluggish, but I EXPECT THAT with KDE on Linux because I didn't pay for it and it is community supported on the same schedule people mow their lawns and clean their rooms on, when they get to it. When I pay a multibillion dollar company like MS for an OS that took them several years to come up with, I expect it to run a little better and a little more stable.
I really do feel bad for Balmer having to take the position he does. What a suck job that is. Oh wait, I work customer support and hardly agree with the morality of the positions I have to espouse as it is... Yeah, I really feel for Balmer now. Dude, big difference here. You are an exec and can take some other tack here. I strongly suggest you do it and quick Steve. I have yet to hear from or meet anyone who likes Vista. Stop being so damn 1995 all-bugs-are-features-or-customer-imagination and make your subordinated fix it.
Dude, wait... what???
Many times your cell is useless in the home. At least one other cell company has already fielded a product where when you put the phone on the cradle, all extensions go through that cell. Next could instead be a system where when you put the cell down on the dock, the extensions go through it AND the calls then go from the cell to the IP-based system to save you battery use on the wireless transmissions, or if the base had a stand-by charger in it as well, at least offload their cell systems from calls taking place at home.
Then, I get to use my Sprint phone over Vonage at home, and over Sprint cellular when I take it with me. Put multiple docks in and have them have a nice little menu system to choose the phone to go through (in case three family members are home and have docked their phones). I can call out through my wife's if mine is already being used by something else dialing out.
Vonage could be a foot in the door to VoIP linkage to Sprint's system. Might seem a longshot, but there's been longer shots before...
Let's ditch social security numbers too. Once we purge everything, we can come up with a new, unique, impervious to fraud, uncrackable new id for each person and their various accounts.
You mean like DNA?
Feel free to go back to The Meaning of Life and try to re-parse that sermon bit if you would.
They call it a "fleshlight" or some such. I wouldn't know being married, but maybe she'd stop smacking the top of her head on the underside of the desk if I cut down pugging with those total noobs all the time.
...towards older men. "Mozilla Firefox. The only browser with more leaks than you with that bad prostate."
there is a very interesting project running through the Office of Naval Research using Navy Seals and a tongue prosthetic designed to impart sonar information to the tongue using electrical stimulii.
"Next time Jones, swim at least ten meters to my port or starboard. I swear this stupid thing let me taste your ass from five meters and really, that's the last thing I need before a mission."
Of course it could- after all, the whole idea behind the Everett-Wheeler model of quantum physics is that everything that could possibly happen, happens. And any time travel would absolutely include a degree of sideways as well as past travel, because the time traveler himself would cause a disturbance that would propagate into new universes in the multiverse (or superverse as Titor called it). Thus a mark of a real time traveler under those rules would be predictions that would start out somewhat accurate, but become increasingly wrong.
A shorter way of agreeing is to simply state the obvious and that these weapons would be developed for deployment against the civilian citizenry simply because it's the government. They can't even put the right number of post offices in a given town or explain how a wrench costs $20K on an appropriations bill.
Invite Keith Richards, the Mars rovers, and the Energizer Bunny to the Party!
Fixed it for you.
...Vanderbilt University reported a work-related injury to the OSHA wherein an employee who is as yet unidentified was seriously injured in his groin. Confidential sources say there was a lot of blood and a violently ripped off body part involved. We await further news on this development.
...the Internet is turning computer mice into bacteria factories.
Here's an interesting thought. Marx made extensive use of Kantian dialectics, in which you have the thesis battling the antithesis until the synthesis arose.
I've always wondered if Marx really thought that communism was the synthesis to the decadence of the bourgeoisie and the plight of the proletariat, or really recognized that it was a antithesis to capitalism and was merely promoting it to spur the development of a more amenable synthesis.
Does it matter? No matter which side wins, you're still someone else's amanuensis at best.
You're also talking about a LOT of storage and absolutely no way to sensibly organize the volume of data collected. That's the problem with data saturation - there are no database or data processing techniques capable of handling it. I was talking to one of the top Ingres software/network gurus at OSCON yesterday - apparently even just the total information awareness project is staggering under the sheer weight of information that no system yet designed can handle. If the data is unsearchable, unsortable and unprocessable, then to all practical intents and purposes, it doesn't exist.
This is also true of proving yourself innocent before the IRS and the usual excuse for mail getting lost as well as FOIA requests for federal documents.
...now the **AA can subpoena my cell phone company.
and that stupid thinking is that we must rely on the oxidation of combustible fuels and expulsion of hot gases to propel things. Rather than looking at different types of energy transfer, storage, and propulsion.
You'd swear our iconic idea of the future was the rocket ship world of the old Flash Gordon comic strip and not Star Trek.
In the end, this obsession with keeping people from "pirating" is costing them bigtime- and in reality, it's nothing to do with infringements and more to do with control of what people do, what people listen to and watch, etc. It's beginning to cost them because people aren't interested in buying what they're offering.
Exactly.
The whole point of this is control of what other people do. And it is a growing problem of all political stripes. More and more, people believe democracy is not getting their one vote, but getting their way. More and more people believe that what other people do bears on them in some intolerable way. More and more people will not stand for anything less than having the whole world their way and all must bow to it or they cry foul that they've ever been denied anything of their way. All political parties embody this, and all politicians seek to exploit it. Business is no different than any other piece of society as the same individuals make those businesses up as make up society. There's no middle and only my way.
Why am I hearing Goldwater in my head?
I think you guys are all getting the wrong idea. Microsoft isn't likely to be so much as implementing, as much as being in the patent license business. IOW, the plan is to sue adware producers for patent infringement, driving them away from producing the adware that plagues their operating system products. They might license it to a select few companies who do adware that doesn't screw up someone's entire OS, but I think the general goal is to get rid of adware through brute force rather than fixing the technological problems that allow it to proliferate.
It would be a great thing if this is true and really, I want to believe it. No one loses more than Microsoft every time someone else screws up something that happens to run on their OS. On an irregular basis Turbine's Dungeons and Dragons Online client crashes my PC's sound system drivers so badly that my machine blue screens. MOST Slashdot people would reflexively blame Microsoft for that, but neither the client nor the drivers were written by Microsoft. Do I or anyone else blame Red Hat when I have trouble getting third party screen savers to build and work right on the newest iteration of Fedora Core? No.
If anything, using the IP-infringement cudgel against the miscreants would be priceless. It's like designing bioweapons before your enemy gets them done so you can get a headstart on the process of designing blocking agents and cures for them, negating them before they can be deployed, but (mostly) without the messy prospect of them being deployed by your side. That being said, Microsoft might use this to their advantage with IP-mismanagement vis a vis multimedia and the ongoing war over fair use, but then again, Microsoft WROTE Windows so if they wanted to root kit their own OS, they could do it a dozen times over on multiple levels to the point that the OS was one large trojan dedicated to monitoring everything you did and really, would they get far with that given that if a third party fouls up their bugtesting, no one blames that third party and instead just whines that Microsoft sucks?
If anything, the paranoia towards Microsoft works towards making this patent and sue the miscreants thing a big win for us and Microsoft as we get the biggest dog on the PC block throwing its legal weight against the schmucks who write malware and we get to see Microsoft taking these threats seriously and instead of being reactionary and patching, actually being proactive and offensive, taking out the people who write these things. Sure, it could go wrong, but then, it always could.
...as a certain amount of fear response is needed to tell creatures when high risk of danger is at hand. Without fear, people tend to do stupid self destructive things and get into situations that result in some risk to others. This seems tailor made to open up a whole new world of dangers that will go unheeded. What's next? A drug to eradicate conscience? Another to make you feel like superman? We really don't want to go down the supersoldier path if we care about the outcome of warfare. Conscience, fear, etc. are all things we desperately need to be able to end the conflict at some point and control the amount of bloodshed during the conflict. We don't need this, really.
I hope that it is kept strictly as a psych treatment for irrational people under professional care only.
and all you need to use it is another computer to plug it into. (insert giant rolling eyes emoticon here) The Linux world still isn't getting it... Here's your chance to start working on the other stuff like the projection keyboard, 3D sensor for hand movements and gestures, voice recognition, and heads-up displays. Wait, that's all hardware techie stuff and works with Windows as well as Linux. Which means in the next ten years we'll be getting /. stories about how Windows (Whatever) based pocket computers with all of the above are now being made to run Linux.
The software market was not stagnant because of any tactics or positions of Microsoft's. It was stagnant due to the colossal incompetence and utter stupidity of their competition and the good judgment of their customers with regard to what they wanted and what fit them best. OS/2 failed to compete versus Windows for two reasons: it blew chunks and the PC using public knew it when they experienced it, AND the purveyor, IBM, was hopelessly moronic and deluded, acting as though serious technical criticisms of it never happened or were inspired by competitors jealous of its superiority.
Microsoft gave superior performance, usability, and cost as a overall conglomerate picture according to the PC using public. All the other ideas to the contrary are pure delusional sour grapes poppycock who cannot fathom that the general public would disagree with the primacy of their ideas on technology, software, and business. Much like Amiga geeks who still to this day believe their ancient boxes to be superior in many ways to todays Windows desktops, the anti-MS crowd cannot separate fact from fiction and accept reality.
Microsoft's single biggest offense is selling insufficiently bug-tested and fixed code as finished product using the user base as testers, essentially getting testers to pay them instead of the other way around. However, the majority of their other business practices are nothing that a hundred thousand other companies have done in the past, most of them summarily ignored or excused by the anti-MS people.
It was the World Wide Web which rejuvenated the industry, NOT Netscape. It was the people finally seeing an opening to a world where they could say whatever and not be marginalized to constricted outlets controlled by a small few, and going for it. It was this increasing use of PCs to get to the Internet which made PCs an unavoidable feature of life and gave a new wider audience to software publishers, however crappy, to sell their wares.
But to have the kind of market share that Word Perfect, Quattro, and so many other properties had and fritter it away the way they did through inane design, purposeful ignorance of customer wants and uses, estrangement from market realities and human nature, that is NOT Microsoft's fault. So please please please think a minute before going right for the "Microsoft crushes competition through unfair practices" gambit.
People always ask these questions about leaving planets alone if they have so much as microbes, then go on to gargle anti-bacterial mouthwash, wash their hands with anti-bacterial soap, swim in germicidal filtered pools, and even wear protection against microbial transmission during sex.
/. regulars, but people...
Well, people other than