Sure, Distributing the hack is likely to get you in trouble though.
Last time I was in my dad's office I noticed he had a piece of foam-board duct-taped to the top of his monitor so it could flip-down when he was web-browsing and cover the add-banners. It's the same idea, just slightly lower-tech.
Both Netscape and Explorer come with zillions of built-in advertisments!
We've got side-bars that pop open with 'helpfull' links. We've got pre-loaded (also 'helpfull') bookmarks! We've got a 'helpfull' button-bar.
I'm not going to count the pre-set home-pages, but what about desktop links to MSN? Browsers that come pre-loaded on computers often have extra buttons to bring you to the manufactuor's web-page!
This is a growing trend in comercial Software. Especialy monetarily-free software. I suppose they figure this is how they get thier money's worth. But every time I install something to my Windows box I spend at least twice the install-time just geting rid of all the obnoxious links, shortcut, start-menu items, start-menu groups, and worst of all: file reassociations!(Why would I want to open an MP3 with RealPlayer?) It makes me dread installing the latest verion of IE, WinAmp, or RealPlayer even if I think the upgrade itself is a good idea.
At least the folk doing Opera are up-front about the advertising and provide you with a way to disable it(pay money). Eudora does this too by the way.
I also hear that MacOS is capable of displaying pictures in color, Something that is not capable in any other OSs.
Can anyone confirm this? If it is true it would be an amazing and innovative advance for the MacOS. I guesse the people at Apple realy are thinking diferent[ly].
Each vote would be counted by three people. A Gore rep., A Bush rep. and a county rep.
Explain to me how you would go about convincing two strangers to commit election fraud.
Besides, Do you realy have that much faith in Punch-Card readers? Espesialy in the hands of people who have never used them (the readers) before? It's not as if a bad vote is instantly kicked-back to the voter.
Question to People who've used Punch-Card computers : Did you ever have problems with accidentaly not punching things all the way through, causing bugs?
The post you responded to was a troll. When a post is a called a "Troll" it's not a reference to a creature living under a bridge. It's a reference to draging fishing lines behind a boat because they're trying to get people to respond.
Nope, I want a computer that would always listen to it's owner.
Or failing that I want a copmuter that'll follow the Three Laws. (amended version or original I'm not picky.)
I don't want a computer that could decide it wants me dead and then be able to act on that. We have enough problems with humans who want each-other dead.
QWERTY has the advantage that it's instantly understood. Even if you had never seen a keyboard in your life, it would be instantly obvious what you had to do. (although you'd wonder about the order of the keys.)
Chording keyboards require learning curves. The people who buy these things aren't in 4th grade any more. They don't want to have to learn to write again.
Most of the situations I find myself using my Palm in I wouldn't want to be talking to myself. Either I'm trying to be quiet, or Its too noisy to speak in a normal tone. And frankly, I don't want everyone around me to have to hear my appointments and TODOs.
Also, everytime I hear this idea I get the distinct vision of a bunch of business people standing around. One of them says "Ok, So it's agreed. We'll meet at Three O'clock." Then they all whip out thier PDAs and say "New!...Apointment!...Friday!...Three!...Oclock!.. .PM!....Save!" in turn.
If the PDA was smart enough to listen in to thier previous conversation it would already know what time the meeting was. This would be extremly cool. But otherwise Voice-PDAs would be anoying for everybody but the blind. Who would love them.
Why not more advanced hand-writing recognition? It's be less proccessor-intensive and it'd work better with the current note-pad metaphore.
Or Morse Code? You could do an entire user interface with a single button!
Sorry, I may have been mistaken about Seabrook. I probably read something about one of those other plants you mentioned and remembered wrong. Seabrook is the plant nearest to me so If I get paranoid that's the one I get paranoid about.
As for my more general maintenance concern, I have a hard time trusting a for-profit entity to dedicate as much money toward saftey maintenance as they should. It seems to me that people have a natural tendency to push these things. When it comes time to cut costs, If they havn't had any problems with saftey. The tendancy is to assume they could do with 5% less cash so you can make a budget. This is what worries me.
I'm prety ignorant about nuclear power. I'm just observing on how the rest of the world seems to work and Assuming that the power industry must be just as bad.
That said, If they're in unpopulated areas the damage would be small even if there was a bad accident, Right?
Umm... I've got to say, I don't trust the people who would actualy run the plants. Sure Nuke plants are very safe when everything is maintained properly. But I've never been in a building over 5 years old where everything was maintained properly. And I expect that the costs of maintaining a nuke plane are rather high.
I distinctly remember reading that Seabrook got caught falsifying safty stuff. They weren't maintaining the big concrete domes properly or something. Anyone else remember this? OR am I just going mad?
Besides, What do you propose to do with the waste?
-Andy
Now if someone could help me get this hook out of my mouth...
What if America passed a law outlawing the French language? Would all French servers suddenly have to stop serving to the US? Would the ones that didn't imediatly install packet-filtering software be fined? Would they pay the fines?
What if some Americans used a proxy or other method to access those french-language sites? Would the sites be again elligible for fines?(or worse?)
You can ask all you like, but the US goverment isn't likely to be impressed. It's not as if Yahoo is purposly directing this stuff towards France. It's primarily (like it or not) a by Americans for Americans service.
People in France are ignoring the french Yahoo and going right to the American one, and requesting this stuff(which incidentaly isn't pro-nazi, it's simply nazi artifacts. Museum pieces.).
So France is going to ask the US to cut back on it's own citizens freedom of speach because the French don't like what they hear but listen anyway? Not likely.
Besides, the media would have a field day with it. This would fit into thier French stereotypes nicely.
Besides what about neo-nazi shortwave stations? You must be able to pick some of those up from where you are. What's the French Goverment going to do about them?
So what? It says that not only is Yahoo expected to filter it's packets (at it's own trouble and expence) but to pay a fine!
Yahoo is primarily a US company. The french-based Yahoo has already complied to French law. You think the American-based servers should to? What's France going to do if Yahoo simply says "No."? Stomp thier feet? What if Yahoo simply pulls up stakes and moves thier Paris office to London? Or closes it all together and handles things from thier home office?
France has no authority to demand anything from US web sites. If they want to block content from reaching thier land, well that's thier own problem not Yahoo's.
People get all upset if American polititions think they rule the Internet But it's OK if France does it?
-Andy
P.S. : If elected President I'll pass a law that says all French servers must play "The Star Spangled Banner" on thier internal speakers every time they serve a page to an American IP.
If we knew for a fact that the goverment was 100% honest, trustworthy and compitant it'd be a diferent story.
If the goverment realy was full of saints it'd be great. We could all just put camera's in our living rooms and bedrooms to ensure that we'd be safe. But it's not.
So what are you doing with your life that's so nobel and moral that you can deride others for turning a profit?
If she sucsedes she will save countless lives and make some money on the side. How many hours of your life have you devoted(for profit or otherwise) to saving countless lives?
You're too busy putting a roof over your head and paying for your computer? *shrug* It's all well and good to say after the fact what she should do with it but then it's always easy to spend other people's money. If your so concerned why don't you buy the patent(or at least a few thousand units. Depending on how much cash you can save up.) and then do whatever the hell you want to do with it?
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Why do they have to dictate anything? Why not just put in on thier web page?
Microsoft probably has had a Pentium-IV test box for ages. Months at least. Intel probably gave it to them.
If there was a Windows problem with the P4s that was this obvious it would have been fixed before the P4s hit the market.
I hate to say it but this is not a win for Open Source advocacy.
-Andy
This is isn't ment as an insult, rather an honest question :
What do you have on gopher that's so great, but can't be simply put on a web-page?
-Andy
Isn't that a sort of 'false advertising'?
Thats it! I think someone, who isn't me, should use 750 consecutive hours of AOL-UK and see if they get billed for the last 6 hours.
THEN WE CAN SUE THEM FOR EVERYTHING THEY'RE WORTH! HAHAHAHA! ...sorry. got carried away there. It'd be an interesting experiment though.
-Andy
Last time I was in my dad's office I noticed he had a piece of foam-board duct-taped to the top of his monitor so it could flip-down when he was web-browsing and cover the add-banners. It's the same idea, just slightly lower-tech.
-Andy
Both Netscape and Explorer come with zillions of built-in advertisments!
We've got side-bars that pop open with 'helpfull' links. We've got pre-loaded (also 'helpfull') bookmarks! We've got a 'helpfull' button-bar.
I'm not going to count the pre-set home-pages, but what about desktop links to MSN? Browsers that come pre-loaded on computers often have extra buttons to bring you to the manufactuor's web-page!
This is a growing trend in comercial Software. Especialy monetarily-free software. I suppose they figure this is how they get thier money's worth. But every time I install something to my Windows box I spend at least twice the install-time just geting rid of all the obnoxious links, shortcut, start-menu items, start-menu groups, and worst of all: file reassociations!(Why would I want to open an MP3 with RealPlayer?) It makes me dread installing the latest verion of IE, WinAmp, or RealPlayer even if I think the upgrade itself is a good idea.
At least the folk doing Opera are up-front about the advertising and provide you with a way to disable it(pay money). Eudora does this too by the way.
-Andy
I also hear that MacOS is capable of displaying pictures in color, Something that is not capable in any other OSs.
Can anyone confirm this? If it is true it would be an amazing and innovative advance for the MacOS. I guesse the people at Apple realy are thinking diferent[ly].
-Andy
Each vote would be counted by three people. A Gore rep., A Bush rep. and a county rep.
Explain to me how you would go about convincing two strangers to commit election fraud.
Besides, Do you realy have that much faith in Punch-Card readers? Espesialy in the hands of people who have never used them (the readers) before? It's not as if a bad vote is instantly kicked-back to the voter.
Question to People who've used Punch-Card computers : Did you ever have problems with accidentaly not punching things all the way through, causing bugs?
-Andy
-Andy
Yes, but "blue" does not rhyme with "hues".
The post you responded to was a troll. When a post is a called a "Troll" it's not a reference to a creature living under a bridge. It's a reference to draging fishing lines behind a boat because they're trying to get people to respond.
-Andy
Nope, I want a computer that would always listen to it's owner.
Or failing that I want a copmuter that'll follow the Three Laws. (amended version or original I'm not picky.)
I don't want a computer that could decide it wants me dead and then be able to act on that. We have enough problems with humans who want each-other dead.
-Andy
Chording keyboards require learning curves. The people who buy these things aren't in 4th grade any more. They don't want to have to learn to write again.
-Andy
Voice input on a PDA would be anoying at best.
Most of the situations I find myself using my Palm in I wouldn't want to be talking to myself. Either I'm trying to be quiet, or Its too noisy to speak in a normal tone. And frankly, I don't want everyone around me to have to hear my appointments and TODOs.
Also, everytime I hear this idea I get the distinct vision of a bunch of business people standing around. One of them says "Ok, So it's agreed. We'll meet at Three O'clock." Then they all whip out thier PDAs and say "New!...Apointment!...Friday!...Three!...Oclock!.. .PM!....Save!" in turn.
If the PDA was smart enough to listen in to thier previous conversation it would already know what time the meeting was. This would be extremly cool. But otherwise Voice-PDAs would be anoying for everybody but the blind. Who would love them.
Why not more advanced hand-writing recognition? It's be less proccessor-intensive and it'd work better with the current note-pad metaphore.
Or Morse Code? You could do an entire user interface with a single button!
-Andy
Sorry, I may have been mistaken about Seabrook. I probably read something about one of those other plants you mentioned and remembered wrong. Seabrook is the plant nearest to me so If I get paranoid that's the one I get paranoid about.
As for my more general maintenance concern, I have a hard time trusting a for-profit entity to dedicate as much money toward saftey maintenance as they should. It seems to me that people have a natural tendency to push these things. When it comes time to cut costs, If they havn't had any problems with saftey. The tendancy is to assume they could do with 5% less cash so you can make a budget. This is what worries me.
I'm prety ignorant about nuclear power. I'm just observing on how the rest of the world seems to work and Assuming that the power industry must be just as bad.
That said, If they're in unpopulated areas the damage would be small even if there was a bad accident, Right?
-Andy
Umm... I've got to say, I don't trust the people who would actualy run the plants. Sure Nuke plants are very safe when everything is maintained properly. But I've never been in a building over 5 years old where everything was maintained properly. And I expect that the costs of maintaining a nuke plane are rather high.
I distinctly remember reading that Seabrook got caught falsifying safty stuff. They weren't maintaining the big concrete domes properly or something. Anyone else remember this? OR am I just going mad?
Besides, What do you propose to do with the waste?
-Andy
Now if someone could help me get this hook out of my mouth...
What if America passed a law outlawing the French language? Would all French servers suddenly have to stop serving to the US? Would the ones that didn't imediatly install packet-filtering software be fined? Would they pay the fines?
What if some Americans used a proxy or other method to access those french-language sites? Would the sites be again elligible for fines?(or worse?)
-Andy
You can ask all you like, but the US goverment isn't likely to be impressed. It's not as if Yahoo is purposly directing this stuff towards France. It's primarily (like it or not) a by Americans for Americans service.
People in France are ignoring the french Yahoo and going right to the American one, and requesting this stuff(which incidentaly isn't pro-nazi, it's simply nazi artifacts. Museum pieces.).
So France is going to ask the US to cut back on it's own citizens freedom of speach because the French don't like what they hear but listen anyway? Not likely.
Besides, the media would have a field day with it. This would fit into thier French stereotypes nicely.
Besides what about neo-nazi shortwave stations? You must be able to pick some of those up from where you are. What's the French Goverment going to do about them?
-Andy
So what? It says that not only is Yahoo expected to filter it's packets (at it's own trouble and expence) but to pay a fine!
Yahoo is primarily a US company. The french-based Yahoo has already complied to French law. You think the American-based servers should to? What's France going to do if Yahoo simply says "No."? Stomp thier feet? What if Yahoo simply pulls up stakes and moves thier Paris office to London? Or closes it all together and handles things from thier home office?
France has no authority to demand anything from US web sites. If they want to block content from reaching thier land, well that's thier own problem not Yahoo's.
People get all upset if American polititions think they rule the Internet But it's OK if France does it?
-Andy
P.S. : If elected President I'll pass a law that says all French servers must play "The Star Spangled Banner" on thier internal speakers every time they serve a page to an American IP.
If we knew for a fact that the goverment was 100% honest, trustworthy and compitant it'd be a diferent story.
If the goverment realy was full of saints it'd be great. We could all just put camera's in our living rooms and bedrooms to ensure that we'd be safe. But it's not.
-Andy
No! That's the last thing we need! There's crys of foul-play as it is. Imagine how long this would drag out if a space-station hit a polling place?
No, it survives the same way the astronauts do; It stays inside the station.
So what are you doing with your life that's so nobel and moral that you can deride others for turning a profit?
If she sucsedes she will save countless lives and make some money on the side. How many hours of your life have you devoted(for profit or otherwise) to saving countless lives?
You're too busy putting a roof over your head and paying for your computer? *shrug* It's all well and good to say after the fact what she should do with it but then it's always easy to spend other people's money. If your so concerned why don't you buy the patent(or at least a few thousand units. Depending on how much cash you can save up.) and then do whatever the hell you want to do with it?
-Andy
You don't have coasts where you are?
So where are you living? Sealand? The ISS? A Zeplin? Where?
-Andy
I think Casio makes a watch.