1. It would be tough to enforce, but if there was a certification in place that would allow the differentiation of types of mail, it might help. Again, I said it was a theory, but not necessarily a possibility.
2. I get some spam in the snail mail too. However it is of noticibly less quantity, and the contents usually match the envelope. I've never opened up my Bank of America Envelope and had a "Get your w@ng enlarged" insert fall out.
I bet they can do it. Why? Simple. People that have a PS2, GC, or regular XBox right now want to see the entire playing field before they move to the next level. It has been impossible to tell what system will be the best, until all systems are available.
(Might be harder knowing that most people will have already ruled out the PS3 due to the rediculous price tag)
As impractical as it might be, I, being a software developer think the best way to go about removing this crap isn't on the receiving end. It won't be fixed by filters. It won't be fixed by blockers. The way to fix it is through putting some sort of tax, fee, whatever you might have it, on email getting sent.
Before you flip out and throw the "OMGOOSES MY FREEDOM" argument around, answer me this:
If you were being sent text messages to your cellphone, and being charged ten cents per text message, how long would you tolerate that?
The reason nothing is being done to combat this is due to the fact that when people spend hours cleaning off spam, they aren't even thinkinga bout the "Time = Money" equation. If they were, I think they'd be pretty hot about getting the senders punished.
Three, evidence of a supernova could reach us anywhere in the next 100,000 years, which is about how long it takes light to reach us from the other side of the galaxy.
So if it happens tomorrow, we may not know about it for another 100,000 years. If it happened 50,000 years ago, we might see it tomorrow, or 50,000 years from now.
The article is long on grand imagery, but it's missing the information that would be important to know whether it already happened.
Uh....Maybe I missed the entire point of your post but...
This "Evidence" has already been shifted back 100,000 years, since the only thing we can perceive of this event is what we see, which is in fact already 100,000 years old. There is no way to tell when it had happened, or even if it had. That said, if they see info on which they base the claim "Is on the brink" then I'd be inclined to believe it had already happened.
Price???
When I bought my copy of Windows XP Professional at Office Max, I got a free printer, a free scanner, a crappy Digital camera, paper, ink and a buttload of ink.
I sold that all on Ebay and made back 50% more than I paid, and I had a legit OS for once.
Last year my wife's phone was stolen. We reported it immediately (that same day) to Sprint, and had the phone number shut off so no calls could be made to or from the phone.
About a month later, we finally found a phone on Ebay, and bought it and had the number turned back on and all was well. Later that night, we got a little text message from a random number with a silly joke on it. Thinking it might have been one of her friends just sending random jokes, we just ignored it. The jokes continued about one a day, sometimes two a day for the next two weeks.
When I got the bill, I was astounded that it was almost $50 more than normal. I immediately called Sprint and asked what these "Premium Text Message" charges were for. They told me "Oh thats normal text messaging fees". I called BS. Normal text message fees are 10 cents per, not 99 cents per message.
After talking about about 5 people that night, and wasting an hour of my time, I found out the text messages from one of those Joke-a-Day services, which had been subscribed to on my wife's phone. Looking at the date of the text messages and charges, it was obvious that they started right in the middle of when we didn't have the phone. The phone was stolen and "shut Off" At the end of August, and reactivated at the beginning of October. The text messages started showing up on the bill in September.
I politely told the person to credit off the fraudulent charges, and stop the messages coming to my phone. The CSR told me that they can't do that. They said that they're not the one charging me, its the Joke-a-day service. I told them that I don't buy that, since when I make my check out, it says "Sprint", not "Sprint/JokeCrap". I told them to do the leg work, since it was their issue, not mine.
After two more calls and about 4 hours wasted talking to 10 people, I was told to send the word "STOP" to their joke service, and that would stop the text messages. I was also told I'd finally get a credit for the previous month, and that if any more text messages showed up, I'd be responsible for them. I said "Well, if your directions work, then fine, thats ok with me"
Needless to say, I got more messages the next day than I had previously. I called back to Sprint and told them the issue. I asked what the hell do I need to do. They said they would then block all text messages at the tower, so my wife wouldn't be able to get any more. I said ok, thats fine.
The next day, no text messages! I was thrilled and thought I had seen the end of this. Not so. I followed up the next and checked if there were any fees on the account from the previous week. Sure enough they were there. Sprint had managed to block the Messages from getting to her phone, but we were still getting billed for them being sent!
It came down to having to change her phone number in order to get the messages to stop. (In that process they accidentally changed mine, and I nearly lost my phone number).
The billing part gets better, too. After the first credit I got, they told me no more credits. I explained to them that since they didn't know how to operate their own system, and it caused me to get billed incorrectly, I'd be damned if I'm paying for it. AFter another 3 calls and getting myself escalated up to a region support manager, I finally said, "If you don't resolve this on this call, I'm going to the FCC and going to explain the whole thing out". That got her attention, and she credited off the remaining charges.
I would have dropped them faster, but it would have cost me $150 per phone to drop out of the contract:(
I'm confused. As a developer, versioning software is an important issue. I've always held that if you're redoing a whole system, or changing a significant portion of it, then it is appropriate to increment a major release number. (1.1 - 2.0)
However, if you are fixing bugs, rounding out features or something that will not break previous versions, then you increment a minor release number (1.0 -> 1.1)
This seems to be neither. If this really is.NET 2.0 + WinFx, it should be labeled as such. It should be called "WinFx for the.NET 2.0 Framework", or something along those lines. It is not grounds for a new version, as the actual framework per se is not changing, but rather just getting an addition.
Not that its a valid defense, but Windows was the first real *mainstream* OS that was exposed to the internet as we know it. It is much easier to say "This is whats out there now, how can we do it better" than "Uh, lets build from the ground up and see what happens".
As far as all the linked services go, I don't ever seem to have your typical "beta problems" like crashing every 10 minutes.
There are a few subtle differences between an OS and a search engine:
-The amount of parameters input for a Search Engine, vs the number of hardware configurations available for a OS.
-Search Engines don't have to support running other applications
-Search Engines provide output in a uniform fashion, as HTML/Javascript. OS output has to vary by printing device, by display device, by NIC, by you name it. And as far as Browswer compatibility, its not even a noteworthy issue here. The subtleties in IE vs FF are well documented.
Those are just 3 off the top of my head. So before you spout off that Beta should mean "It works fine", realize that the scope of the comparision should be in similar fields. Show me MS Search beta not working, and google's beta search working. Or, show me Google's OS in beta working, but MS's Beta OS not working.
I have, but I don't feel comfortable yet, implementing a new MS technology. MS sometimes adopts, and then extinquishes new thing. AJAX, being universal, wouldn't succum to this, imo.
Whether its a good thing, or a bad thing isn't my point, but a hell of a lot of development out there is done in.NET..NET and AJAX really don't play nicely. The fact that AJAX moves much of the processing to the client, and away from the server means you have to do nasty things to keep some semblance of a session state, regarless of whether the server receives a postback or not.
Conceptually, I love the idea of AJAX. In implementation however, I've found it to be a royal PITA.
I honestly hope they do a good job with this. Hollywood has lost nearly all of my faith, when trying to make movies from games. It really is a hard sell. Those people who play games, and would best appreciate a movie, are the types of people who won't appreciate a movie, because they play games.
When you play a game, your creative side gets involved, and you make your own story up as you go along, no matter how sound a plot the game might have. That just isn't possible in a movie, especially when Hollywood shoves a precanned experience down your throat.
" Will Wal-Mart shoppers migrate to Linux in order to save a hundred bucks or more, or will they even have the chance?"
I see this as totally irrelevant, based on the type of people I see at Wal-Mart. I don't think you'll get a whole lot of hits on a open source OS at the same place that has a gun counter and offers hunting licenses.
Some talking points:
Page 3: "In so doing, the Court of Review recognized that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, "as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information."
More Page 3: ""perhaps most crucially, the executive branch not only has superior expertise in the area of foreign intelligence, it is also constitutionally designated as the pre-eminent authority in foreign affairs. The President and his deputies are charged by the constitution with the conduct of the foreign policy of the United States"
Page 4: In addition, substantial authority indicates that the President has inherent constitutional authority over the gathering of foreign intelligence--authority that Congress may not circumscribe. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review suggested that, even after FISA, the President possesses inherent constitutional Authority that FISA could not limit.
The list of quotes goes on
So, for all you people wondering why the hell nobody has got any legal dirt on all these 'illegal activities', you need to read your history book. Its come up before, FISA court shot the president down, FISA court of review shot FISA court down, and the Supreme Court Won't even hear the case because its been settled already. This is all democratic dragging through the mud.
Microsoft should fix their operating system to ask for a password any time a program is installed, registry settings are changed, key files are modified, etc.
You obviously have no idea Windows works.
First, you are prompted before running any program from the net. It even prompts you twice, once to confirm to run, a second to confirm publisher info.
Second, if you've ever seen a program like RegMon, you know that registry keys are being changed all the time. I watched the closing of one window and there were 77 writes to the registry. Tell me how willing you are to type in your ultra secure password 77 times.
Mod me down as flamebait here, but blatently igonrant "OMG FIXX0RZ UR OS!!!" posts are flamebait too, imo.
That said, I'd be stoked to have a way to lock the kernel from editing once I got my system setup.
I always come to slashdot with the broad, and sometimes naive assumption that the articles provided will be neutral. Whether or not the responses to these articles are neutral is another story, and any biased there towards OSS, away from MS, agaisnt Apple, or whatever, is just fine in my book. Thats what makes the internet great.
That said, I strongly detest the wording of this headline and the tagline below it. Especially from CmdrTaco.
When I read the topic in RSS, I thought that some features would be removed from the exisitng firewall, or that some key features would require a paid subscription to be activated. When I read the summary, however, I realized that was not the case. The attitude on slashdot towards Microsoft (as well as any other non-OSS business model that seems to work) is jaded and negative enough without being given a predisposition via headlines like this.
The summary in 1.5: Negative, misleading headlines need to go.
So, mod me down for offtopic, mod me down for Troll, mod me down for Redundant. My Karma can take it. Or, if you agree, mod the other way;)
I went to college as a CS major, but then dropped it when I saw I had to take a crapload of irrelevant classes such as Calc 2, Calc-based physics, and the likes. I wanted to program, not be a rocket scientist.
4 months before I graduated I found a great CS job, doing programming in.NET.
Go ahead and mod me down now, for being a MS fanboi.;)
My point is, I didn't graduate as a CS major, but rather with a BA in "Interdisciplinary Studies". My employer didn't care. I can churn out clean, reliable fast code <Insert 'omg you cant do that with M$' joke here> in a resonable amount of time, which is exactly what CS people do.
While it might not be done yet, you can't ignore some of the already established code. Yes, that's right. When us coders write code, we actually finish portions of it before others. This helps us you know, test the application. >
What disappoints me is their continued support of legacy applications. I'm not against them, I just don't use them enough to warrant upgrading to a new OS that has the same dragging-feet syndrome that NT, 98, ME (no I didn't buy it), 2k and XP has.
Compel me to upgrade by promising the lack of legacy support. Let me sandbox those apps in a VM or something, if I really want to.
Give me more before establishing a de-facto standard.
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1. It would be tough to enforce, but if there was a certification in place that would allow the differentiation of types of mail, it might help. Again, I said it was a theory, but not necessarily a possibility.
2. I get some spam in the snail mail too. However it is of noticibly less quantity, and the contents usually match the envelope. I've never opened up my Bank of America Envelope and had a "Get your w@ng enlarged" insert fall out.
I bet they can do it. Why? Simple. People that have a PS2, GC, or regular XBox right now want to see the entire playing field before they move to the next level. It has been impossible to tell what system will be the best, until all systems are available.
(Might be harder knowing that most people will have already ruled out the PS3 due to the rediculous price tag)
As impractical as it might be, I, being a software developer think the best way to go about removing this crap isn't on the receiving end. It won't be fixed by filters. It won't be fixed by blockers. The way to fix it is through putting some sort of tax, fee, whatever you might have it, on email getting sent.
Before you flip out and throw the "OMGOOSES MY FREEDOM" argument around, answer me this:
If you were being sent text messages to your cellphone, and being charged ten cents per text message, how long would you tolerate that?
The reason nothing is being done to combat this is due to the fact that when people spend hours cleaning off spam, they aren't even thinkinga bout the "Time = Money" equation. If they were, I think they'd be pretty hot about getting the senders punished.
Three, evidence of a supernova could reach us anywhere in the next 100,000 years, which is about how long it takes light to reach us from the other side of the galaxy.
So if it happens tomorrow, we may not know about it for another 100,000 years. If it happened 50,000 years ago, we might see it tomorrow, or 50,000 years from now.
The article is long on grand imagery, but it's missing the information that would be important to know whether it already happened.
Uh....Maybe I missed the entire point of your post but...
This "Evidence" has already been shifted back 100,000 years, since the only thing we can perceive of this event is what we see, which is in fact already 100,000 years old. There is no way to tell when it had happened, or even if it had. That said, if they see info on which they base the claim "Is on the brink" then I'd be inclined to believe it had already happened.
Sensationalism at its best. Now, I find it more significat that 65% of /. users use FF.
That of course means I have a 65% chance of takin' a Karma hit by posting this. I'd rather the 13%, thanks.
There would be about 40 "Why the hell was this greenlit".
That aside, isn't Slashdot "News for Nerds" ????
How about posting more info about why WinFS was scrapped, rather than how windows/linux/mac has been for the past X years.
Bring on the modding, my karma can take it.
Price??? When I bought my copy of Windows XP Professional at Office Max, I got a free printer, a free scanner, a crappy Digital camera, paper, ink and a buttload of ink. I sold that all on Ebay and made back 50% more than I paid, and I had a legit OS for once.
Last year my wife's phone was stolen. We reported it immediately (that same day) to Sprint, and had the phone number shut off so no calls could be made to or from the phone.
:(
About a month later, we finally found a phone on Ebay, and bought it and had the number turned back on and all was well. Later that night, we got a little text message from a random number with a silly joke on it. Thinking it might have been one of her friends just sending random jokes, we just ignored it. The jokes continued about one a day, sometimes two a day for the next two weeks.
When I got the bill, I was astounded that it was almost $50 more than normal. I immediately called Sprint and asked what these "Premium Text Message" charges were for. They told me "Oh thats normal text messaging fees". I called BS. Normal text message fees are 10 cents per, not 99 cents per message.
After talking about about 5 people that night, and wasting an hour of my time, I found out the text messages from one of those Joke-a-Day services, which had been subscribed to on my wife's phone. Looking at the date of the text messages and charges, it was obvious that they started right in the middle of when we didn't have the phone. The phone was stolen and "shut Off" At the end of August, and reactivated at the beginning of October. The text messages started showing up on the bill in September.
I politely told the person to credit off the fraudulent charges, and stop the messages coming to my phone. The CSR told me that they can't do that. They said that they're not the one charging me, its the Joke-a-day service. I told them that I don't buy that, since when I make my check out, it says "Sprint", not "Sprint/JokeCrap". I told them to do the leg work, since it was their issue, not mine.
After two more calls and about 4 hours wasted talking to 10 people, I was told to send the word "STOP" to their joke service, and that would stop the text messages. I was also told I'd finally get a credit for the previous month, and that if any more text messages showed up, I'd be responsible for them. I said "Well, if your directions work, then fine, thats ok with me"
Needless to say, I got more messages the next day than I had previously. I called back to Sprint and told them the issue. I asked what the hell do I need to do. They said they would then block all text messages at the tower, so my wife wouldn't be able to get any more. I said ok, thats fine.
The next day, no text messages! I was thrilled and thought I had seen the end of this. Not so. I followed up the next and checked if there were any fees on the account from the previous week. Sure enough they were there. Sprint had managed to block the Messages from getting to her phone, but we were still getting billed for them being sent!
It came down to having to change her phone number in order to get the messages to stop. (In that process they accidentally changed mine, and I nearly lost my phone number).
The billing part gets better, too. After the first credit I got, they told me no more credits. I explained to them that since they didn't know how to operate their own system, and it caused me to get billed incorrectly, I'd be damned if I'm paying for it. AFter another 3 calls and getting myself escalated up to a region support manager, I finally said, "If you don't resolve this on this call, I'm going to the FCC and going to explain the whole thing out". That got her attention, and she credited off the remaining charges.
I would have dropped them faster, but it would have cost me $150 per phone to drop out of the contract
If you did, you'd see why I haven't been sick in 15 years.
I'm confused. As a developer, versioning software is an important issue. I've always held that if you're redoing a whole system, or changing a significant portion of it, then it is appropriate to increment a major release number. (1.1 - 2.0)
.NET 2.0 + WinFx, it should be labeled as such. It should be called "WinFx for the .NET 2.0 Framework", or something along those lines. It is not grounds for a new version, as the actual framework per se is not changing, but rather just getting an addition.
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However, if you are fixing bugs, rounding out features or something that will not break previous versions, then you increment a minor release number (1.0 -> 1.1)
This seems to be neither. If this really is
My
Not that its a valid defense, but Windows was the first real *mainstream* OS that was exposed to the internet as we know it. It is much easier to say "This is whats out there now, how can we do it better" than "Uh, lets build from the ground up and see what happens".
As far as all the linked services go, I don't ever seem to have your typical "beta problems" like crashing every 10 minutes.
There are a few subtle differences between an OS and a search engine:
-The amount of parameters input for a Search Engine, vs the number of hardware configurations available for a OS.
-Search Engines don't have to support running other applications
-Search Engines provide output in a uniform fashion, as HTML/Javascript. OS output has to vary by printing device, by display device, by NIC, by you name it. And as far as Browswer compatibility, its not even a noteworthy issue here. The subtleties in IE vs FF are well documented.
Those are just 3 off the top of my head. So before you spout off that Beta should mean "It works fine", realize that the scope of the comparision should be in similar fields. Show me MS Search beta not working, and google's beta search working. Or, show me Google's OS in beta working, but MS's Beta OS not working.
Sony announces it will be sending an apology note to users who were infected by their rootkit DRM. The apology will be in .doc format.
I have, but I don't feel comfortable yet, implementing a new MS technology. MS sometimes adopts, and then extinquishes new thing. AJAX, being universal, wouldn't succum to this, imo.
Whether its a good thing, or a bad thing isn't my point, but a hell of a lot of development out there is done in .NET. .NET and AJAX really don't play nicely. The fact that AJAX moves much of the processing to the client, and away from the server means you have to do nasty things to keep some semblance of a session state, regarless of whether the server receives a postback or not.
Conceptually, I love the idea of AJAX. In implementation however, I've found it to be a royal PITA.
So, they can teach a dog to sniff out DVDs, drugs, people, and anything else under the sun.
I can't get my dog to stop crapping on the floor when it wants to eat, even with the back door wide open.
I honestly hope they do a good job with this. Hollywood has lost nearly all of my faith, when trying to make movies from games. It really is a hard sell. Those people who play games, and would best appreciate a movie, are the types of people who won't appreciate a movie, because they play games.
When you play a game, your creative side gets involved, and you make your own story up as you go along, no matter how sound a plot the game might have. That just isn't possible in a movie, especially when Hollywood shoves a precanned experience down your throat.
" Will Wal-Mart shoppers migrate to Linux in order to save a hundred bucks or more, or will they even have the chance?"
I see this as totally irrelevant, based on the type of people I see at Wal-Mart. I don't think you'll get a whole lot of hits on a open source OS at the same place that has a gun counter and offers hunting licenses.
How is it that every time one of these "NSA Surveillance" articles pops up, nobody chimes in about FISA Court? (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act)
All you tinfoil hat people need to read this pdf document.
Some talking points:
Page 3: "In so doing, the Court of Review recognized that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, "as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information."
More Page 3: ""perhaps most crucially, the executive branch not only has superior expertise in the area of foreign intelligence, it is also constitutionally designated as the pre-eminent authority in foreign affairs. The President and his deputies are charged by the constitution with the conduct of the foreign policy of the United States"
Page 4: In addition, substantial authority indicates that the President has inherent constitutional authority over the gathering of foreign intelligence--authority that Congress may not circumscribe. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review suggested that, even after FISA, the President possesses inherent constitutional Authority that FISA could not limit.
The list of quotes goes on
So, for all you people wondering why the hell nobody has got any legal dirt on all these 'illegal activities', you need to read your history book. Its come up before, FISA court shot the president down, FISA court of review shot FISA court down, and the Supreme Court Won't even hear the case because its been settled already. This is all democratic dragging through the mud.
/rant off
Microsoft should fix their operating system to ask for a password any time a program is installed, registry settings are changed, key files are modified, etc. You obviously have no idea Windows works.
First, you are prompted before running any program from the net. It even prompts you twice, once to confirm to run, a second to confirm publisher info.
Second, if you've ever seen a program like RegMon, you know that registry keys are being changed all the time. I watched the closing of one window and there were 77 writes to the registry. Tell me how willing you are to type in your ultra secure password 77 times.
Mod me down as flamebait here, but blatently igonrant "OMG FIXX0RZ UR OS!!!" posts are flamebait too, imo.
That said, I'd be stoked to have a way to lock the kernel from editing once I got my system setup.
I want the ability to drag and drop various parts of the site how I want it to look (similar to google custom homepage, which I love).
I also want to add custom feeds and have a lot of options to choose from.
Did I mention let me customize it how i want?
Anyone think this headline and the previous "Vista Firewall to be Crippled" showed up way too close to each other?
I always come to slashdot with the broad, and sometimes naive assumption that the articles provided will be neutral. Whether or not the responses to these articles are neutral is another story, and any biased there towards OSS, away from MS, agaisnt Apple, or whatever, is just fine in my book. Thats what makes the internet great.
;)
That said, I strongly detest the wording of this headline and the tagline below it. Especially from CmdrTaco.
When I read the topic in RSS, I thought that some features would be removed from the exisitng firewall, or that some key features would require a paid subscription to be activated. When I read the summary, however, I realized that was not the case. The attitude on slashdot towards Microsoft (as well as any other non-OSS business model that seems to work) is jaded and negative enough without being given a predisposition via headlines like this.
The summary in 1.5: Negative, misleading headlines need to go.
So, mod me down for offtopic, mod me down for Troll, mod me down for Redundant. My Karma can take it. Or, if you agree, mod the other way
I went to college as a CS major, but then dropped it when I saw I had to take a crapload of irrelevant classes such as Calc 2, Calc-based physics, and the likes. I wanted to program, not be a rocket scientist.
.NET.
;)
4 months before I graduated I found a great CS job, doing programming in
Go ahead and mod me down now, for being a MS fanboi.
My point is, I didn't graduate as a CS major, but rather with a BA in "Interdisciplinary Studies". My employer didn't care. I can churn out clean, reliable fast code <Insert 'omg you cant do that with M$' joke here> in a resonable amount of time, which is exactly what CS people do.
While it might not be done yet, you can't ignore some of the already established code. Yes, that's right. When us coders write code, we actually finish portions of it before others. This helps us you know, test the application. >
What disappoints me is their continued support of legacy applications. I'm not against them, I just don't use them enough to warrant upgrading to a new OS that has the same dragging-feet syndrome that NT, 98, ME (no I didn't buy it), 2k and XP has.
Compel me to upgrade by promising the lack of legacy support. Let me sandbox those apps in a VM or something, if I really want to.
Give me more before establishing a de-facto standard.