I don't think any other western democracy allows U.S.-style class actions
I got $22,000 from the police as part of a class action in Australia (There were over 500 people in the action), so, other western democracies definately do have these suits as well.
The law on MIDI files directly draws on Piano Roll legislation. In particular the Compulsary Mechanical License.
The original composer of the music holds all rights to the music until he signs it away to a music publisher. The original composer is important because copyright lasts for the entire life of the composer plus an additional 70 years. (Thanks to Disney and Sonny Bono)
At this stage the Piano Roll maker is not allowed to transcribe it into mechanical (digital) form until he gets permission from the publisher - or - someone else performs it first.
Once the copyright owner of a musical composition records and distributes the work to the public, or allows someone else to do so, anyone
that wishes to record and distribute that same work may do so without permission (subject to certain limitations) by issuing the copyright owner a notice of intention to obtain a compulsory license. After that the only legal requirement is to pay a compulsory mechanical reproduction fee of 6.95 cents per copy to the publisher or their agent (Harry Fox - who license from 1,000 copies upwards).
So, how does this apply to MIDI? Those "free" MIDI files you can download off the internet are only legal if someone else performed them first and if the creator of the MIDI file pays 6.95 cents for every download made.
First the warning was made by a company that sells IM prection software, but more so because the whole purpose of a rootkit is to be very secretive. To not let the infected party know that they are compromised is probably foremost in the authors mind.
If the infected package also adds spyware and hijacks the homepage isn't that drawing attention to the fact the machine is compromised a little too much, and therefore isn't it likely to be a pretty short lived infection in darwinian terms?
IMHO Someone who spends effort and time to slip under the radar is not going to waste time adding 180 and its ilk to the machine and ruin their newfound method of infection.
A compromised machine is just far too valuable to only deliver advertisments.
Yes, there is merit in a redundant cluster farm for certain tasks like huge distributed databases, but these require a lot of constant work and custom kernel tweaking to get them running just right. You need a huge staff of very talented people to do all this work (keeping the farm running and the kernels patched). Realistically a government department won't be providing that much elite employment.
For a mission critical government system where millions of dollars and even political heads are at stake you need to have a supplier to blame. Someone who can provide the outsourced on-demand expertise to get a proven bit of hardware working again.
While a server farm might work for a search engine who can afford to have a whole army of laureates on board you would be committing career suicide if you tried to apply it to a government or even big business system.
Wrong, 1536 by the Portuguese (Google Dolphin Map Dieppe).
Many rightly claim Dirk Hartog from Holland in 1616 (Google Dirk Hartog Australia) was the true discoverer.
James Cook in 1770 was much later, although he was the first to lay claim on Koorie land and he is the one the schools tend to teach as discoverer simply because he's British.
The internet traffic reports indicate Level3 is having severe routing problems. As at 0300 10/21 PDT.
From whirlpool.com.au On October 21st we began receiving numerous calls from multiple location of routing issues. Upon further investigation we discovered that Level3 appears to be a common factor. We have discovered that Level3 is having major network issues nationwide. We are in the process of shutting down our Level3 peering at all our locations. We have opened ticket 184739 to track this issue. Currently Level3 does not have an ETR.
According to transport.nsw.gov.au Botany transfers 1.1 million 20' containers a year or about 3,000 containers per day. So, no, you are right it won't be a PC in a basement room. It'll be some big iron running this web based app.
The little things that get you down? Oh... date formats, validating input, units for measurement, using a communications system intended for overnight batch operations to support real-time interactive operations.
Or if you are NASA substituting kilometres for miles in some systems but not others with catastrophic results.
But you are totally right, the guverment wants more and more restrictions put in place without informing the end-users while the systems analysts have probably been forced to design a system which has to be unforgiving; enough to be punishing.
The date issue you raise is probably a big one too, after all we get lots of stuff from the yanks with their arse about date format:)
You'll have to be detained while I get fresh batteries.
Well that's a better reason than the new anti-terrorism laws will have to give.
Mind you, if you casually walk away whilst they are getting those new batteries then the Australian Federal Police will have mandated right to use fatal force.
A rating system is interesting, but it could descend into a clone of the really faulty and biased/. mod system if they didn't design it properly.
With open moderation it would be too easy for a vocal group to rig the results so their views were pushed and otherwise valid results were trivialised.
Take for example any Creation vs Evolution page! Or maybe a politically motivated page?
I think that moderation WITHIN a closed membership would probably work though.
Those robots were a take-off of Trinnie and Suzanah's "What Not to Wear". Where they freaquently dress fat women in their horrible 1980 clothes in a room full of mirrors!
Here are a few sample letters from my harvesting mailbox (All original live letters untouched and unedited):
"Dear Sir/Madam
I am an Industrialist and exporter based in China. I established a company named--CHANGZHOU WENDI MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD in the year 1994. The company principally produces and exports raw materials such as Calcite, Barytes, Manganese Dioxide, Mica, China Clay and Ferrous (Iron) Oxide. My company's Export market is fast expanding. Owing to our determined efforts to increase the market in Europe, America and Australia, there is the need for us to scout for an Agent/Representative in these continents. Primarily, the Representative if appointed will liaise with our customers for prompt payment. If you are interested in becoming an Agent/Representative to our fast growing company, kindly send to your proposal/conditions to the CEO's private email address:- wendimanufacturers@yahoo.com.cn It is imperative to state that your phone/fax number and contact address should be included in your proposal, please.
Yours faithfully, Changzhou Wendi"
from: changzhouwendimanufacturing2@msn.com
"Dear Acquaintance,
Please permit me to introduce myself, I am John Gray, head of Mortgage department, Royal Bank of Scotland, Liverpool Commercial Banking Centre, 1st Floor 1 Exchange Flags Liverpool L2 3XN, England.
Am introducing you into a project which would need funds to execute and I have made a feasibility study on how much we need to carryout this project, I found out that it will cost about $35,000.00 U.S Dollars. Please do not panic as I have made arrangements for an investor in the United States to help us out,do kindly write back if you are still interested in my brief explanations which is as follows;
Only recently I discovered that one account belonging to Ms. Fiona Watts now DECEASED has remained dormant for the past two years, after intensive investigations, I found out that Late Ms. Fiona Watts died in a ghastly auto accident in June, 2002.
At this point I am contacting you concerning a business acquaintance that will necessitates you to act as a new beneficiary cum next of kin to the said dormant account as I hope to give you more technical details on how i think we should transfer the funds into your nominated offshore/residence account. Please I need you to help me with your personal details such as Full names, home/office address, phone and fax numbers respectively, you can also reach me on +44 703 194 4854 or mail back @ JohnGray1@HotPOP.com should you be interested.
PLEASE, YOU MAY ALSO IGNORE THIS LETTER AND RESPECT MY TRUST IN YOU BY NOT EXPOSING THIS TRANSACTION, SHOULD YOU NOT BE INTERESTED.
Sincerely, John Gray."
from: jgrayofrbs_bank@hotmail.co.uk
"From the Desk of the Head Co-Ordinator Global Sweepstakes Lottery International 1 Craven Park Harlesden London NW10 United Kingdom Tel: +447040110537 Fax: +447092865468 Ref: GSL/988/05
Dear Sir/Madam, WINNING NOTIFICATION.
Over the years the prestigious Global Sweepstakes lottery has set out and sucessfully organised Sweepstakes on a daily,weekly,and annual basis. We have equally maintained a standard unrivaled in the industry as it concerns the pay out of winnings to sucessful participants. In line with the commemorating event marking our 10th year anniversary we rolled out over £2,000.000.00(Two million British Pounds) for our 10th year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which enjoy our patronage. The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers. Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to Ticket Number 003895337498 with serial numbers GSL/9080118308/03 and drew th
I just did a trial signup (using a mailinator email address of course) and note that if you are born before 1920 you can't participate. I know my granny is older than that and as her husband died not long ago she could be in the market.:-)
"In other words I'd much rather have an iPod with phone than a phone with iPod."
A very valid argument. I had never considered this paradigm before, but now as I look at my use of a mobile phone I see it is 98% incoming calls with 1.5% outgoing to voice dialled numbers like my wife and work (for which I use voice dialling with voice synthesis feedback [DIAL-WORK {do you want to call work?} YES]) and maybe 0.5% of calls to first-time numbers. (And I usually say these numbers into my Bluetooth headset anyway with the same Recognition and Synthesis interface [DIAL-NUMBER-FOUR-ONE-ONE {do you want to dial four one one} YES].)
Thinking about it in depth I have never actually tapped numbers into my phone unless I was doing telephone banking in an emergency, therefore for me the argument that using a rotary dial on an iPod like phone is a bit redundant.
To all the neigh-sayers who read this... Make the interface voice based (Numbers 1-9, Letters A-Z for SMS, a few user defined custom phrases like Wife & Work plus Yes/No), add a little synthesised feedback, put a "recognise this phrase switch" on the device and microphone/headphone lead so I can easily dial. Basically make it an iPod primarily. Just add some phone-like functions.
My current phone is a HTC magician if you were wondering how this was possible now.
Everyone is very entitled to want to watch Serenity or Manga. Everyone, including you, are allowed to post they love Serenity. But... Shouldn't the reverse be the truth as well? Shouldn't someone be able to post that all the hype about Serenity is Overrated? Must all views on/. be in the positive? Must all dissenting views be modded to -1 Troll?
Yes, the moderation system makes it so. Look at it for a while and I hope you see what I mean. When you get mod status you get 5 points to use how you will. Because these points are a prize to be used wisely you tend to use them on things you *really* like or *really* believe in and on making your point in a different way to just posting. Because only very few people who find Serenity of interest, the moderation will be in one direction.
If this argument was about a situation three months ago when Google got all that press and there was a lot of dissent about it aren't I entitled to express the same opinion about Serenity? Just like that flood of Google news was classed by a large number of people I stand alone in classing Serenity as Overrated.
I hated Buffy, I hated Firefly, I don't like Joss Weedon movies (just like I don't like Woody Allen movies or Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant) Even so, I still looked at all the trailers and the teaser this article publisises and came to the opinion I also wouldn't like this show either. Why is it - say in the poll or a previous article - when I say it's overrated and there are better shows out there am I labelled as a -1 troll? While I expected it with this whole thread I didn't expect it on a rational and very valid opinion expressed previously
Here's a link for you to examine, and the whole premise of my original argument. It is mostly irrelevent but it contains one word you must get the definition for.
I still consider my point valid - I know you will still say "I can choose just not read articles I don't like" but I wonder, if you only wanted to see positive comments or only read about things that you liked would you have a very wide and diverse view of the world? Would your opinions and beliefs ever grow and evolve?
If my original intention was really just to troll and not to actually try to point out this whole/. GroupThink phenonenom I would have posted as an AC and not risked my Karma.
My point about GroupThink is valid and deserves to be heard.
I said this dissent would be modded down and it was./. viewers don't like to think they are narrow minded sheep, but the Mod system makes it easy to be so. There are +1 to +5 for agreeing views but only -1 for dissenting views. One Mod can make a comment +5 and it then takes alot of moderating effort to drown that comment. One mod can make a dissenting view -1 and the comment is gone - into the world of "n replies beneath your current threshold.". Only people who read with a -1 filter will see it. Sometimes an inflamitory subject that will be modded +5 in a Re: is the only way to bring attention to your a post you know will be made -1.
My goal was achieved. I knew I would be rated -1, I also knew a GroupThinker would get +5 Interesting to bring my subject to the fore and cause some people to go digging, the fact you read my post and I am able to eventually make this counter-post has achieved my aims. You may not admit to GroupThink, You might still say "Just don't read it" but my point is made. It's now in Google. One day it will be found.
As I said "Mod Me Down" and yes it happened. I got -1 Troll and you got +5 Insightful.
I expected this, I'm not hurt
I knew my comment will be rarely read once it was made -1 Troll, but if people can bitch about Dupe's or Cmdr Taco's Editing Skills and get a +5 Interesting I have just as much right to publicise the/. group-think effect in the aim of getting a -1 troll and proving my point.
If you don't say "Fuck the **AA" and "Prosecute all OSS License Violations" when prompted your karma will drop.
Slashdot Mods should not enforce the same line all the time, sometimes a little dissention is a "good thing", I know whenever I am a Mod I go out of my way to look for dissenting views and promote them.
A day in the world of/. & your handy guide to being "+5 Informative"
Microsoft suxxors
Linux Rules
Abolish Patents
OSS is the bomb
Fuck the **AA
Soviet Russia# chown -R./ us
And here comes yet another bloody Serenity post. Stop the free advertising already.
Not all "Nerds" want to hear about Manga or Serenity every other day for the last month
Get rid of that poll too, it's tired and doesn't have a "Serenity, WTF is that?" option!
Proceed to MOD me down! My views don't agree with/. groupspeak on this one!
This is already out with over 211,800,000 users. It's called StumbleUpon, a social extension for Firefox and IE.
Visit a web page, rate it as good or bad, read other peoples comments Here's/.'s entry as an example and if you want to add your own blog entry/comment you can.
Right clicking a web image adds it to your blog along with your comment.
Over time the ratings you give sites allows StumbleUpon to suggest sites and even other people that might interest you.
Oh, and it also keeps a history of sites you have visited - but more importantly allows you to see those sites you rated good.
So, meh, it's been done - properly - as an extension to Firefox/IE and not as a completely new browser with all the maintenance issues that entails.
I agree, I run five Windows 2K3 servers and 2 Gentoo boxen (CLI only) none of them crash.
Windows 2K3 has actually proven to be quite stable (I get up to 3 months uptime before a service pack forces me to reboot) *if* you don't use it for anything but file and SQL work. If you want to use a 2K3 server as a print server or an IIS server then you should expect crashes a little more often.
That's why I run the Gentoo boxen. One for Apache and one for email. Of course GLSA's for Apache are fairly rare.
In terms of TFA though, I think they hired cheap engineers, they tried to use a distro with a budled GUI and they chose SAP (which was not designed for Linux). I think the CTO/CIO should have been shot for not choosing the right tools for the job. Something like HP/UX for example.
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According to an email that Brad sent me this is stage one of the process, released for proof-of-concept validation.
Phase two with WGA integration will occur in December.
Me, I'm very happy. This exe makes it through my corporate firewalls, allows me to disable IE and it'd DLL's and use firefox exclusively.
I also note that if you right-click the setup program it's digitally signed to prove authticity too.
I don't think any other western democracy allows U.S.-style class actions I got $22,000 from the police as part of a class action in Australia (There were over 500 people in the action), so, other western democracies definately do have these suits as well.
The law on MIDI files directly draws on Piano Roll legislation. In particular the Compulsary Mechanical License.
The original composer of the music holds all rights to the music until he signs it away to a music publisher. The original composer is important because copyright lasts for the entire life of the composer plus an additional 70 years. (Thanks to Disney and Sonny Bono)
At this stage the Piano Roll maker is not allowed to transcribe it into mechanical (digital) form until he gets permission from the publisher - or - someone else performs it first.
Once the copyright owner of a musical composition records and distributes the work to the public, or allows someone else to do so, anyone that wishes to record and distribute that same work may do so without permission (subject to certain limitations) by issuing the copyright owner a notice of intention to obtain a compulsory license. After that the only legal requirement is to pay a compulsory mechanical reproduction fee of 6.95 cents per copy to the publisher or their agent (Harry Fox - who license from 1,000 copies upwards).
So, how does this apply to MIDI? Those "free" MIDI files you can download off the internet are only legal if someone else performed them first and if the creator of the MIDI file pays 6.95 cents for every download made.
while fighting off dingos
We don't have to. They are too busy hunting babies.
And... you forgot to say "dodging Drop Bears".
First the warning was made by a company that sells IM prection software, but more so because the whole purpose of a rootkit is to be very secretive. To not let the infected party know that they are compromised is probably foremost in the authors mind.
If the infected package also adds spyware and hijacks the homepage isn't that drawing attention to the fact the machine is compromised a little too much, and therefore isn't it likely to be a pretty short lived infection in darwinian terms?
IMHO Someone who spends effort and time to slip under the radar is not going to waste time adding 180 and its ilk to the machine and ruin their newfound method of infection.
A compromised machine is just far too valuable to only deliver advertisments.
And it's about bloody time too.
We have been struggling with the pathetic excuse for a music service MSN offers for far too long.
Time for some real choice in music, not that Bob the Builder vs. Eminem crap Micro$oft offer us.
Yes, there is merit in a redundant cluster farm for certain tasks like huge distributed databases, but these require a lot of constant work and custom kernel tweaking to get them running just right. You need a huge staff of very talented people to do all this work (keeping the farm running and the kernels patched). Realistically a government department won't be providing that much elite employment.
For a mission critical government system where millions of dollars and even political heads are at stake you need to have a supplier to blame. Someone who can provide the outsourced on-demand expertise to get a proven bit of hardware working again.
While a server farm might work for a search engine who can afford to have a whole army of laureates on board you would be committing career suicide if you tried to apply it to a government or even big business system.
Wrong, 1536 by the Portuguese (Google Dolphin Map Dieppe).
Many rightly claim Dirk Hartog from Holland in 1616 (Google Dirk Hartog Australia) was the true discoverer.
James Cook in 1770 was much later, although he was the first to lay claim on Koorie land and he is the one the schools tend to teach as discoverer simply because he's British.
The internet traffic reports indicate Level3 is having severe routing problems. As at 0300 10/21 PDT.
From whirlpool.com.au
On October 21st we began receiving numerous calls from multiple location of routing issues. Upon further investigation we discovered that Level3 appears to be a common factor. We have discovered that Level3 is having major network issues nationwide. We are in the process of shutting down our Level3 peering at all our locations. We have opened ticket 184739 to track this issue. Currently Level3 does not have an ETR.
According to transport.nsw.gov.au Botany transfers 1.1 million 20' containers a year or about 3,000 containers per day. So, no, you are right it won't be a PC in a basement room. It'll be some big iron running this web based app.
The little things that get you down? Oh... date formats, validating input, units for measurement, using a communications system intended for overnight batch operations to support real-time interactive operations.
:)
Or if you are NASA substituting kilometres for miles in some systems but not others with catastrophic results.
But you are totally right, the guverment wants more and more restrictions put in place without informing the end-users while the systems analysts have probably been forced to design a system which has to be unforgiving; enough to be punishing.
The date issue you raise is probably a big one too, after all we get lots of stuff from the yanks with their arse about date format
You'll have to be detained while I get fresh batteries.
Well that's a better reason than the new anti-terrorism laws will have to give.
Mind you, if you casually walk away whilst they are getting those new batteries then the Australian Federal Police will have mandated right to use fatal force.
Bah, Little Johnny Howard suxx0rs.
You stole my sig!
A rating system is interesting, but it could descend into a clone of the really faulty and biased /. mod system if they didn't design it properly.
With open moderation it would be too easy for a vocal group to rig the results so their views were pushed and otherwise valid results were trivialised.
Take for example any Creation vs Evolution page! Or maybe a politically motivated page?
I think that moderation WITHIN a closed membership would probably work though.
Those robots were a take-off of Trinnie and Suzanah's "What Not to Wear". Where they freaquently dress fat women in their horrible 1980 clothes in a room full of mirrors!
Ummm,
The Doctor - Romana and K9
The Doctor - Adric and Nyssa
The Doctor - Adric, Tegan and Nyssa
The Doctor - Tegan, Nyssa and Turlow
All contiguous and the list goes on.
There are many cases when it is more than one-on-one. The doctor frequently has more than one companion.
from: changzhouwendimanufacturing2@msn.com
from: jgrayofrbs_bank@hotmail.co.uk
Won't somebody please think of the grandparents!
:-)
I just did a trial signup (using a mailinator email address of course) and note that if you are born before 1920 you can't participate. I know my granny is older than that and as her husband died not long ago she could be in the market.
"In other words I'd much rather have an iPod with phone than a phone with iPod."
A very valid argument. I had never considered this paradigm before, but now as I look at my use of a mobile phone I see it is 98% incoming calls with 1.5% outgoing to voice dialled numbers like my wife and work (for which I use voice dialling with voice synthesis feedback [DIAL-WORK {do you want to call work?} YES]) and maybe 0.5% of calls to first-time numbers. (And I usually say these numbers into my Bluetooth headset anyway with the same Recognition and Synthesis interface [DIAL-NUMBER-FOUR-ONE-ONE {do you want to dial four one one} YES].)
Thinking about it in depth I have never actually tapped numbers into my phone unless I was doing telephone banking in an emergency, therefore for me the argument that using a rotary dial on an iPod like phone is a bit redundant.
To all the neigh-sayers who read this... Make the interface voice based (Numbers 1-9, Letters A-Z for SMS, a few user defined custom phrases like Wife & Work plus Yes/No), add a little synthesised feedback, put a "recognise this phrase switch" on the device and microphone/headphone lead so I can easily dial. Basically make it an iPod primarily. Just add some phone-like functions.
My current phone is a HTC magician if you were wondering how this was possible now.
Everyone is very entitled to want to watch Serenity or Manga. Everyone, including you, are allowed to post they love Serenity. But... Shouldn't the reverse be the truth as well? Shouldn't someone be able to post that all the hype about Serenity is Overrated? Must all views on /. be in the positive? Must all dissenting views be modded to -1 Troll?
/. GroupThink phenonenom I would have posted as an AC and not risked my Karma.
/. viewers don't like to think they are narrow minded sheep, but the Mod system makes it easy to be so. There are +1 to +5 for agreeing views but only -1 for dissenting views. One Mod can make a comment +5 and it then takes alot of moderating effort to drown that comment. One mod can make a dissenting view -1 and the comment is gone - into the world of "n replies beneath your current threshold.". Only people who read with a -1 filter will see it. Sometimes an inflamitory subject that will be modded +5 in a Re: is the only way to bring attention to your a post you know will be made -1.
Yes, the moderation system makes it so. Look at it for a while and I hope you see what I mean. When you get mod status you get 5 points to use how you will. Because these points are a prize to be used wisely you tend to use them on things you *really* like or *really* believe in and on making your point in a different way to just posting. Because only very few people who find Serenity of interest, the moderation will be in one direction.
If this argument was about a situation three months ago when Google got all that press and there was a lot of dissent about it aren't I entitled to express the same opinion about Serenity? Just like that flood of Google news was classed by a large number of people I stand alone in classing Serenity as Overrated.
I hated Buffy, I hated Firefly, I don't like Joss Weedon movies (just like I don't like Woody Allen movies or Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant) Even so, I still looked at all the trailers and the teaser this article publisises and came to the opinion I also wouldn't like this show either. Why is it - say in the poll or a previous article - when I say it's overrated and there are better shows out there am I labelled as a -1 troll? While I expected it with this whole thread I didn't expect it on a rational and very valid opinion expressed previously
Here's a link for you to examine, and the whole premise of my original argument. It is mostly irrelevent but it contains one word you must get the definition for.
Please go to this forensic definition site scroll down to G and look at the word GroupThink.
I still consider my point valid - I know you will still say "I can choose just not read articles I don't like" but I wonder, if you only wanted to see positive comments or only read about things that you liked would you have a very wide and diverse view of the world? Would your opinions and beliefs ever grow and evolve?
If my original intention was really just to troll and not to actually try to point out this whole
My point about GroupThink is valid and deserves to be heard.
I said this dissent would be modded down and it was.
My goal was achieved. I knew I would be rated -1, I also knew a GroupThinker would get +5 Interesting to bring my subject to the fore and cause some people to go digging, the fact you read my post and I am able to eventually make this counter-post has achieved my aims. You may not admit to GroupThink, You might still say "Just don't read it" but my point is made. It's now in Google. One day it will be found.
Have a nice day.
Got to love group-think!
/. group-think effect in the aim of getting a -1 troll and proving my point.
As I said "Mod Me Down" and yes it happened. I got -1 Troll and you got +5 Insightful.
I expected this, I'm not hurt
I knew my comment will be rarely read once it was made -1 Troll, but if people can bitch about Dupe's or Cmdr Taco's Editing Skills and get a +5 Interesting I have just as much right to publicise the
If you don't say "Fuck the **AA" and "Prosecute all OSS License Violations" when prompted your karma will drop.
Slashdot Mods should not enforce the same line all the time, sometimes a little dissention is a "good thing", I know whenever I am a Mod I go out of my way to look for dissenting views and promote them.
Don't be a sheep!
And here comes yet another bloody Serenity post. Stop the free advertising already.
Not all "Nerds" want to hear about Manga or Serenity every other day for the last month
Get rid of that poll too, it's tired and doesn't have a "Serenity, WTF is that?" option!
Proceed to MOD me down! My views don't agree with
This is already out with over 211,800,000 users. It's called StumbleUpon, a social extension for Firefox and IE.
/.'s entry as an example and if you want to add your own blog entry/comment you can.
Visit a web page, rate it as good or bad, read other peoples comments Here's
Right clicking a web image adds it to your blog along with your comment.
Over time the ratings you give sites allows StumbleUpon to suggest sites and even other people that might interest you.
Oh, and it also keeps a history of sites you have visited - but more importantly allows you to see those sites you rated good.
So, meh, it's been done - properly - as an extension to Firefox/IE and not as a completely new browser with all the maintenance issues that entails.
Hmmm if that were the case the average 8 stone British female would weigh 1,254,400 pounds (this is about 627 ton mind you) or almost 569,000KG
That is one bloody hefty woman!
And just think of how much an American woman would weigh (the whole supersize me culture and all that)
I agree, I run five Windows 2K3 servers and 2 Gentoo boxen (CLI only) none of them crash. Windows 2K3 has actually proven to be quite stable (I get up to 3 months uptime before a service pack forces me to reboot) *if* you don't use it for anything but file and SQL work. If you want to use a 2K3 server as a print server or an IIS server then you should expect crashes a little more often. That's why I run the Gentoo boxen. One for Apache and one for email. Of course GLSA's for Apache are fairly rare. In terms of TFA though, I think they hired cheap engineers, they tried to use a distro with a budled GUI and they chose SAP (which was not designed for Linux). I think the CTO/CIO should have been shot for not choosing the right tools for the job. Something like HP/UX for example.