Perhaps if this were force-implemented, the best security measure would be to make it self-shielding on demand. Say with an external button or one on the outer part of the chip, like a tickle me elmo doll or some such. That way, no random ocks could track you whenever they feel like it.
It'd be the equivalent of unplugging a NIC to make a computer network secure. Maybe plug-in arms/foreheads are the future?
Mod flamebait, it's obviously designed to provoke controversy. As others have stated, you've gotta start somewhere. With a company that has so little marketshare to begin with, they go with the largest share of the pie first, and that is the Windows market.
Course a little nudge nudge wink wink could do wonders with getting them to write Linnox drivers.
but gooooogle.com does not. Google is at least partially responsible for this, how could they not forsee that this would happen if they indirectly encouraged it? Having to regsiter tons of domain names for all the possible combinations of mis/psuedo spellings will have you sitting there forever.
In a way, DNS should be done away with because of this. People should be able to type in "Microsoft Corporation" in the go bar, and without a third party service such as google I'm Feeling Lucky, go straight to the microsoft homepage. No ifs, ands or any other such bullshit. It's easy to claim that your micr0s0ft.com is totally different from microsoft.com, but try telling a court that Micr0s0ft corporation is not an almost complete violation of Microsoft Corporation's trademarks.
UNICODE web addresses with full text and spaces and everything. Eliminate the ".com." I don't need to have a sign saying "chipotle.com" to know that the chipotle down the street is a restraunt. Similarly, the web should have names that are chimp friendly as well.
Another idea: In addition to path, keyword paths. Instead of typing the following:
And comes to the mind of the non-geek much more quickly. An auto-complete function could list subcategories in real time under the typed keywords to assist users further.
That's just some rambling, but really a way to kill two or more birds with one e-stone.
Since the site is a pile of smoldering wreckage, let's talk about something else: the web. Specifically, when did you start needed a database to serve up five static files?
What, how many mishaps is this? What is going on with this company?
They pushed P6 until it broke. They pushed Netburst until it broke. They seem to be pushing P6-2 until it breaks.
Meanwhile, everything else (e.g. VIIV) is flopping. Why is it that when a business grows to a certain size, it becomes useless? Look how small AMD is compared to intel, and compare the two companies' product lineups right now.
I think the future will be distributed and groups/corpuses will be limited in size, after the mammals (say, F/OSS) eat the eggs of the dinosaurs.
the parent will have to learn their kid to not spend moneeeeee too, I presume.
Seriously though, even adults will have problems with this. Most people actually have extraordinarily weak constitutions, and the only thing preventing them from binge spending is laziness. If they can order/spend money on stuff instantly, on something they constantly use, we'll see the economic deficit widen even more.
The current financial system is rigged to make people go into ridiculously huge amounts of debt. Combined with the childlike nature of most people, it becomes a near certainty. Remember, whenever someone needs to go in the hole to buy something, the value of the money is decreased because the person has to spend more to pay for an item of a certain value. That, combined with a brain exodus will force us down the economic ladder. An individual cannot go into infinite debt and once his/her spending power runs out, he/she cannot buy. The inability to buy slows down the economy for everyone. In the long run, it causes growth to shrink to zero and even recess.
Sadly, nobody can do anything about smarter consumer spending. People will continue to do things no matter how much you tell them not to. THIS could sink us.
To hear about the sheer number of horror stories the parent talks about, go here:
http://www.paypalsucks.com/
I've been ripped off once, but it was a small amount. PP's customer service was in the toilet. All automated, impossible to get to a real person. And no, they do not have FDIC backing or anything. So they are free from the rules that constrain most banks/require them to insure your money.
They have a monopoly and thus get away with this. Once that starts eroding, they'll actually give a shit. Just look at IE...M$ has just started working on IE7. When FF was non-existent, the world had to live for years with a stagnating standards-incompliant browser.
Something will have to break eventually, and let's hope ebay doesn't have too much leverage in this market (competition is building, but it could be growing a lot more than it is).
Hehe, nice to see another U of A'er around on/.
I code for three websites, take computer engineering classes, and still find time to run from the dorm to the mall, downtown and back AND lift weights everyday.
The pudgy/to-be people are all sitting behind their comps in dark rooms playing WoW.
It's classic slashdot. I got modded troll once for suggesting an alternative view that didn't toe the party line. Made my karma bad.
Nah well, a $1200 laptop with decent graphics is more than possible. You may not get one equipped with an SLi 7900, but something like a 6600 go is feasible.
Is a bunch of buttons that insert custom HTML tags. That way, the user can make a font any size he/she wants. Mozilla's font tags are anyway from the stone age; any real ajax editor doesn't use them.
And there are significantly developed spelling/thesaurus/etc. libraries out on the net. Combine all this and you could make an ajax word.
But sorry, a repackaged Midas Demo is hardly groundbreaking.
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Perhaps if this were force-implemented, the best security measure would be to make it self-shielding on demand. Say with an external button or one on the outer part of the chip, like a tickle me elmo doll or some such. That way, no random ocks could track you whenever they feel like it.
It'd be the equivalent of unplugging a NIC to make a computer network secure. Maybe plug-in arms/foreheads are the future?
Does our flying-666-monster have one noodly appendage, or three?
Mod flamebait, it's obviously designed to provoke controversy. As others have stated, you've gotta start somewhere. With a company that has so little marketshare to begin with, they go with the largest share of the pie first, and that is the Windows market. Course a little nudge nudge wink wink could do wonders with getting them to write Linnox drivers.
but gooooogle.com does not. Google is at least partially responsible for this, how could they not forsee that this would happen if they indirectly encouraged it? Having to regsiter tons of domain names for all the possible combinations of mis/psuedo spellings will have you sitting there forever.
In a way, DNS should be done away with because of this. People should be able to type in "Microsoft Corporation" in the go bar, and without a third party service such as google I'm Feeling Lucky, go straight to the microsoft homepage. No ifs, ands or any other such bullshit. It's easy to claim that your micr0s0ft.com is totally different from microsoft.com, but try telling a court that Micr0s0ft corporation is not an almost complete violation of Microsoft Corporation's trademarks.
UNICODE web addresses with full text and spaces and everything. Eliminate the ".com." I don't need to have a sign saying "chipotle.com" to know that the chipotle down the street is a restraunt. Similarly, the web should have names that are chimp friendly as well.
Another idea: In addition to path, keyword paths. Instead of typing the following:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/update
The following can bring one to the same page:
Microsoft Corporation: Office Update
And comes to the mind of the non-geek much more quickly. An auto-complete function could list subcategories in real time under the typed keywords to assist users further.
That's just some rambling, but really a way to kill two or more birds with one e-stone.
Text addendum: "It lets you have porn, and a life too!"
Since we start needed go to English 101.
Well erm can't fix it, fly 'er up agaiiiin
in the guise of "national security."
Intel is run by marketdroids, AMD by engineers. Who would you put your money in?
The compulsory urge to make inane self-informative posts on slashdot.
What, how many mishaps is this? What is going on with this company?
They pushed P6 until it broke.
They pushed Netburst until it broke.
They seem to be pushing P6-2 until it breaks.
Meanwhile, everything else (e.g. VIIV) is flopping. Why is it that when a business grows to a certain size, it becomes useless? Look how small AMD is compared to intel, and compare the two companies' product lineups right now.
I think the future will be distributed and groups/corpuses will be limited in size, after the mammals (say, F/OSS) eat the eggs of the dinosaurs.
Live nearby. This US style of doing things is going to turn earth into venus.
will drive us into the stone age. Actually, I think every succeeding one will too. We're royally shoved.
is high-contrast websites. What is up with this Ajax shit where you have to squint to see the borders?
the parent will have to learn their kid to not spend moneeeeee too, I presume.
Seriously though, even adults will have problems with this. Most people actually have extraordinarily weak constitutions, and the only thing preventing them from binge spending is laziness. If they can order/spend money on stuff instantly, on something they constantly use, we'll see the economic deficit widen even more.
The current financial system is rigged to make people go into ridiculously huge amounts of debt. Combined with the childlike nature of most people, it becomes a near certainty. Remember, whenever someone needs to go in the hole to buy something, the value of the money is decreased because the person has to spend more to pay for an item of a certain value. That, combined with a brain exodus will force us down the economic ladder. An individual cannot go into infinite debt and once his/her spending power runs out, he/she cannot buy. The inability to buy slows down the economy for everyone. In the long run, it causes growth to shrink to zero and even recess.
Sadly, nobody can do anything about smarter consumer spending. People will continue to do things no matter how much you tell them not to. THIS could sink us.
To hear about the sheer number of horror stories the parent talks about, go here: http://www.paypalsucks.com/ I've been ripped off once, but it was a small amount. PP's customer service was in the toilet. All automated, impossible to get to a real person. And no, they do not have FDIC backing or anything. So they are free from the rules that constrain most banks/require them to insure your money. They have a monopoly and thus get away with this. Once that starts eroding, they'll actually give a shit. Just look at IE...M$ has just started working on IE7. When FF was non-existent, the world had to live for years with a stagnating standards-incompliant browser. Something will have to break eventually, and let's hope ebay doesn't have too much leverage in this market (competition is building, but it could be growing a lot more than it is).
wiki for your link got slashdotted:P
Hehe, nice to see another U of A'er around on /.
I code for three websites, take computer engineering classes, and still find time to run from the dorm to the mall, downtown and back AND lift weights everyday.
The pudgy/to-be people are all sitting behind their comps in dark rooms playing WoW.
This guy needs kids.
Big time.
slashdot is lamed out today. this needs to stop LIKE TOTALLY NEEDS TO STOP OMGz LOL!!11...ok I'll stop
It's classic slashdot. I got modded troll once for suggesting an alternative view that didn't toe the party line. Made my karma bad. Nah well, a $1200 laptop with decent graphics is more than possible. You may not get one equipped with an SLi 7900, but something like a 6600 go is feasible.
Is a bunch of buttons that insert custom HTML tags. That way, the user can make a font any size he/she wants. Mozilla's font tags are anyway from the stone age; any real ajax editor doesn't use them. And there are significantly developed spelling/thesaurus/etc. libraries out on the net. Combine all this and you could make an ajax word. But sorry, a repackaged Midas Demo is hardly groundbreaking.
"May be this is part of the incompetence I have seen in US companies lately. I hope I am wrong." Shh, I want the dow to go to 12000...
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