Also note that no DeBeers executives have set foot on American soil in several years -- there afraid they will be arrested for their monopolistic practices! So why don't we treat RIAA the same way? Oh, they're headquartered in the US and contribute a lot more to political campaigns...
what's the annual depreciation on two cans with a string tied between? Wouldn't we have a lot better laws if there was some "enforcibility" criteria they had to meet before they were passed?
So, if I've got a 100Mbit network, I've got to send 9Mbit to the state of Florida? Is it ok if those bits are random, or do they have to be 9% of my actual LAN data?
There are some differences in the design philosphy of the two systems. Linux is built by and for techies. It emphasizes transparency and modularity, and ships with a model that no port should be left open by default, i.e. services should be explicitly turned on by a presumably non-naive user. Windows is built with the philosophy that the end user is an idiot, with an emphasis on all apps sharing data. Windows traditionally ships with every port M$ apps may eventually want to use wide open. Yes, I'm sure this model is changing. But go to their knowledge base, and they'll still tell you that you should just buy a firewall rather than disabling the Microsoft Message service that allows anybody on the Internet to broadcast pop-up messages to your box!
Chances of human error being fixed sooner rather than later because "many eyes make all bugs shallow": much greater for Linux. Micro$oft does hire some of the smartest people out there; it makes their high defect rates hard to explain. Unrealistic schedules? Lack of peer revue? Lazy QA? Or perhaps there is a strong counter-incentive to shipping secure systems, when as it is now they can get anybody to immediately download any Orwellian privacy intrusion they can dream up by mumbling about a new worm or virus...
In the case of Total Recall, the fact that the laws of physics were being violated only confirmed the suspicion that he was still stuck in virtual reality, not the real world -- an idea they play with thoughout the movie. Same for Vanilla Sky, where the whole point of the movie is to figure out at what point it becomes so unrealistic that he must be in virtual reality.
Lois Lane falls from top of tall building, reaches terminal velocity of about 200 mph. Superman flies up from ground to meet her halfway, resulting in a 400mph relative speed. Superman catches Lois, and she's unhurt! Yes, it's no wonder schoolchildren don't understand physics, when what passes for everyday experience violates it on a regular basis, and nobody tells them that what they see on telivision and in the movies isn't real. From what I've seen of movie representations of computers, I have no doubt that an expert in ANY field must be appalled by how that field is depicted in the movies...
... and wasn't it named "The Pentium floating point bug"??? Damn it, I don't want a chip that probably gives the right answer, I want a chip that deterministically gives the right answer!
Er, that would be the same exact place you fit in the television stations, radio stations, billboard, magazine or newspapers business model, wouldn't it? The difference is you have more choice in receiving ads from these other media. And yes, the free newspapers that used to show up in my driveway twice a week used to piss me off too, until I made several complaints to the newspaper threatening to have their delivery person arrested for criminal tresspass and offensive littering... now they don't seem to show up anymore. Ah, the other difference: most other media don't lie about the source of the ad, so there actually is somebody to complain to!
Selling flowers to the public, for example, doesn't, usually , nurture hate, anger and whatever the spam fashion is brewing these days. Unless you do it the may the Hare-Krishnas used to, by running up to people in airports...
People should also understand that spam like anything else is a business People should understand that gambling, prostutution, and drugs, like anything else is a business. Sometimes businesses that have a huge negative impact on society are made illegal.
I'm seeing reduction to (from 20 a day to about 4 a day). But this might just be due to all the email servers being down combating the worms and virii. I can't beleive one spammer could make much of a difference. Perhaps the worm scares caused people to actually look at their server configurations, and they closed up a lot of open relays?
Last I looked into white LEDs there was still a color problem. The last time I looked into a white LED, the damn thing almost blinded me! Personally, I still think combining Red, Green, and Blue LEDs to get white light is a neat idea, and you should be able to vary the duty cycle of the LEDs to get any color tone you want. Any photons produced that aren't tuned to the center of the frequencies humans see in is just wasted energy!
Yes, LEDs are a win over incandescent bulbs. Problem is, compact florescents are currently much more energy efficient than LEDs. The DOE is sponsering long-term research into solid-state light bulbs; there goals is to have LEDs as efficient as a sodium light by the year 2020. Doesn't mean LEDs are a bad idea, just means they won't be the best way of saving energy until a long time in the future. On the other hand, LEDs are a big win for long life, light weight, and relative ruggedness, and for colored lights, they don't require an energy-wasting filter; that's why they're being used in traffic lights, not because the energy savings.
No, but WINE is a kluge, because it must support all the stupid assumptions that writers of DOS software made, right down to poking values into special addresses for some operations.
If this is true, then why does Citrix/WinTerm have to go to great lengths to make multiple applications run concurrently on a server? Hint: The windows standard convention was to have single.ini file applying to all users. This functionality was replicated in the registry for many apps. Unix has always kept settings on a per-user basis. Another case in point: there is still no method I know of temporarily gaining Admin privledges short of logging off and logging back in again. So while NT made some improvements in multiple user support, it still tryed to maintain backwards compatibility with operating systems in which multiple users were screwed.
It's reprehensible that Microsoft apparently didn't have security (a broad term, but the literature to define it is out there) as a guiding design principle when they designed Windows
You're assuming that Windows was designed, and didn't just evolve from a quick and dirty rip-off of CP/M by adding more and more Unix-like features. I have a favorite saying: "Anything that's backwards compatible with a kluge is, by definition, a kluge." Remember, supporting multiple users was an afterthought for Windows!
Which is why we should be thankful for SCO. Their actions clearly illustrate that the IP laws are rife with potential for abuse. Perhaps when congress finally realizes that some asshole lawyer behaving badly can destroy billions of dollars of market capitalization overnight by making unsubstantiated claims like "All your codebase are belong to us" then they'll get off their duffs and fix the problem. (Yes, the preceding sentence should be taken out and shot.)
If you crash due to receiving a malformed packet, it's still a serious bug in your software! It doesn't matter whether the packet was intentionally malicious or not. (And yes, I've crashed NT servers by sending them malformed SMB requests.) The cardinal rule in designing packet parsing routines is to assume the sender is malicious and has access to your source!
Anybody that uses a Madonna ringtone certainly DESERVES to have their phone burst into flames! Of course, my phone plays Tocatta En Fugue in D Major every time somebody calls, so I probably shouldn't talk...
Start pointing out that cell phones can easily be made into incendiary devices by shorting out the batteries, and they'll start confiscating them at airport security gates and throwing into the same basket as the fingernail clippers and knitting needles.
"Stop that man!!! He's got a CELL PHONE hidden in his shoe!!!"
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Also note that no DeBeers executives have set foot on American soil in several years -- there afraid they will be arrested for their monopolistic practices! So why don't we treat RIAA the same way? Oh, they're headquartered in the US and contribute a lot more to political campaigns...
what's the annual depreciation on two cans with a string tied between? Wouldn't we have a lot better laws if there was some "enforcibility" criteria they had to meet before they were passed?
So, if I've got a 100Mbit network, I've got to send 9Mbit to the state of Florida? Is it ok if those bits are random, or do they have to be 9% of my actual LAN data?
There are some differences in the design philosphy of the two systems. Linux is built by and for techies. It emphasizes transparency and modularity, and ships with a model that no port should be left open by default, i.e. services should be explicitly turned on by a presumably non-naive user. Windows is built with the philosophy that the end user is an idiot, with an emphasis on all apps sharing data. Windows traditionally ships with every port M$ apps may eventually want to use wide open. Yes, I'm sure this model is changing. But go to their knowledge base, and they'll still tell you that you should just buy a firewall rather than disabling the Microsoft Message service that allows anybody on the Internet to broadcast pop-up messages to your box!
Chances of human error being fixed sooner rather than later because "many eyes make all bugs shallow": much greater for Linux. Micro$oft does hire some of the smartest people out there; it makes their high defect rates hard to explain. Unrealistic schedules? Lack of peer revue? Lazy QA? Or perhaps there is a strong counter-incentive to shipping secure systems, when as it is now they can get anybody to immediately download any Orwellian privacy intrusion they can dream up by mumbling about a new worm or virus...
In the case of Total Recall, the fact that the laws of physics were being violated only confirmed the suspicion that he was still stuck in virtual reality, not the real world -- an idea they play with thoughout the movie. Same for Vanilla Sky, where the whole point of the movie is to figure out at what point it becomes so unrealistic that he must be in virtual reality.
Have you tried reading the book?
Especially if they depicted the minimum 4 lightyear trip to get to the nearest star in real time...
Lois Lane falls from top of tall building, reaches terminal velocity of about 200 mph. Superman flies up from ground to meet her halfway, resulting in a 400mph relative speed. Superman catches Lois, and she's unhurt! Yes, it's no wonder schoolchildren don't understand physics, when what passes for everyday experience violates it on a regular basis, and nobody tells them that what they see on telivision and in the movies isn't real. From what I've seen of movie representations of computers, I have no doubt that an expert in ANY field must be appalled by how that field is depicted in the movies...
... and wasn't it named "The Pentium floating point bug"??? Damn it, I don't want a chip that probably gives the right answer, I want a chip that deterministically gives the right answer!
Er, that would be the same exact place you fit in the television stations, radio stations, billboard, magazine or newspapers business model, wouldn't it? The difference is you have more choice in receiving ads from these other media. And yes, the free newspapers that used to show up in my driveway twice a week used to piss me off too, until I made several complaints to the newspaper threatening to have their delivery person arrested for criminal tresspass and offensive littering... now they don't seem to show up anymore. Ah, the other difference: most other media don't lie about the source of the ad, so there actually is somebody to complain to!
Selling flowers to the public, for example, doesn't, usually , nurture hate, anger and whatever the spam fashion is brewing these days. Unless you do it the may the Hare-Krishnas used to, by running up to people in airports...
People should also understand that spam like anything else is a business People should understand that gambling, prostutution, and drugs, like anything else is a business. Sometimes businesses that have a huge negative impact on society are made illegal.
I'm seeing reduction to (from 20 a day to about 4 a day). But this might just be due to all the email servers being down combating the worms and virii. I can't beleive one spammer could make much of a difference. Perhaps the worm scares caused people to actually look at their server configurations, and they closed up a lot of open relays?
Last I looked into white LEDs there was still a color problem. The last time I looked into a white LED, the damn thing almost blinded me! Personally, I still think combining Red, Green, and Blue LEDs to get white light is a neat idea, and you should be able to vary the duty cycle of the LEDs to get any color tone you want. Any photons produced that aren't tuned to the center of the frequencies humans see in is just wasted energy!
Yes, LEDs are a win over incandescent bulbs. Problem is, compact florescents are currently much more energy efficient than LEDs. The DOE is sponsering long-term research into solid-state light bulbs; there goals is to have LEDs as efficient as a sodium light by the year 2020. Doesn't mean LEDs are a bad idea, just means they won't be the best way of saving energy until a long time in the future. On the other hand, LEDs are a big win for long life, light weight, and relative ruggedness, and for colored lights, they don't require an energy-wasting filter; that's why they're being used in traffic lights, not because the energy savings.
Over-analyzing jokes somehow does little to improve their entertainment value!
No, but WINE is a kluge, because it must support all the stupid assumptions that writers of DOS software made, right down to poking values into special addresses for some operations.
If this is true, then why does Citrix/WinTerm have to go to great lengths to make multiple applications run concurrently on a server? Hint: The windows standard convention was to have single .ini file applying to all users. This functionality was replicated in the registry for many apps. Unix has always kept settings on a per-user basis. Another case in point: there is still no method I know of temporarily gaining Admin privledges short of logging off and logging back in again. So while NT made some improvements in multiple user support, it still tryed to maintain backwards compatibility with operating systems in which multiple users were screwed.
You're assuming that Windows was designed, and didn't just evolve from a quick and dirty rip-off of CP/M by adding more and more Unix-like features. I have a favorite saying: "Anything that's backwards compatible with a kluge is, by definition, a kluge." Remember, supporting multiple users was an afterthought for Windows!
Which is why we should be thankful for SCO. Their actions clearly illustrate that the IP laws are rife with potential for abuse. Perhaps when congress finally realizes that some asshole lawyer behaving badly can destroy billions of dollars of market capitalization overnight by making unsubstantiated claims like "All your codebase are belong to us" then they'll get off their duffs and fix the problem. (Yes, the preceding sentence should be taken out and shot.)
If you crash due to receiving a malformed packet, it's still a serious bug in your software! It doesn't matter whether the packet was intentionally malicious or not. (And yes, I've crashed NT servers by sending them malformed SMB requests.) The cardinal rule in designing packet parsing routines is to assume the sender is malicious and has access to your source!
Anybody that uses a Madonna ringtone certainly DESERVES to have their phone burst into flames! Of course, my phone plays Tocatta En Fugue in D Major every time somebody calls, so I probably shouldn't talk...
"Stop that man!!! He's got a CELL PHONE hidden in his shoe!!!"
Yes, how could then not have known they couldn't use the code they wrote themselves in a product not owned by SCO!