You're papering over so many of Microsoft's crimes: I'll just select one, but a big one, to shoot down. Note that as a result of the original court case, Microsoft _is_, legally and otherwise, a monopoly and continues to behave as such to this day.
Break it? Originally the "interweb" was defined largely by what IE and Netscape implemented.
...they wanted to add incompatible or proprietary extensions to HTML. In particular, the context here is they were going to add RTF extensions to HTML. Those extensions weren't widely accepted as standards. They were unlikely to be adopted by Netscape or other promoters -- or other peope that dealt with HTML. And if they managed to fragment or balkanize the HTML community into what -- into who could read what version of HTML, then they would significantly blunt the power and ability of other computer software companies to implement it and produce compatible products.
But what really was an eye opener to me is when I would point out a tool on Microsoft's site to strip out administrative rights when you run a program.
Instead of providing your own potentially trojan-loaded and virus-ridden version of that program, please instead provide a URL to Microsoft's tool.
swollen nut and stumble home like Quasimodo with my scrotum in an ice-packed jockstrap and instructions to lie in bed 5 days and take Tylenol if it hurts. This is progress? I'll just bite my nut off myself next time! It couldn't be any harder.
Medicine has promised a cure for cancer for 50 years and still are taking our money. The war on cancer is like the war on drugs, neverending and self-serving for the providers (doctors and hospitals on the one hand, police departments on the other).
Doctors probably kill more than they cure, even today in the West.
Most small companies die far before then. So unless you can prove to yourself that the company will be alive and thriving in 5 years, she's offering you a bag of shite. And she can fire you at any time in that 5 years. And 5 years is a _long_ chunk of lifetime to promise to anyone. Where otherwise have you ever promised so much time to a single endeavor? Unless you've done prison time, the only examples you should be able to retrieve are grade school and early family life.
P.T. Barnum said "There's a sucker born every minute." Don't be a sucker. Quit and do what you want.
She called him on his cellphone. Cellphone records are public and can be purchased. I can purchase yours, you can purchase mine.
So buy his cellphone records for the period of interest. Her phone number is the one originating in the Austin area.
I know my own news site is read on a regular basis by just about every intelligence agency there is. I know when I write a story about being flagged as a security risk at the airport, I'm not flagged again.
that so many claim it to be.
e.g., Nassim Nicholas Taleb heaps scorn upon several recent winners of the Nobel Prize in economics and demonstrates how their work is completely invalid and incorrect and has contributed greatly to the current economic collapse.
It's well-established that older people (yes, even into their 60's and 70's) are smarter than younger people. Why the focus on 60 and up? Are younger people unable to learn from strategy games?
I think this post is a form of ageism in disguise: another presentation of the meme "Older people are dumbasses." basically.
If true, this should have been spotted by medical researchers years ago. It's not as if the statistical data isn't present - there's tons of it. If true, this once again shows how sucky our medical system is.
I'm surprised to see posts about how USENET is defunct. Yet most USENET tech groups remain viable to date. USENET remains the best source of technical support bar none.
I do wish Google would add a third option, "Non-Google groups only", to searches. The groups maintained by Google are populated mostly by SPAM. Google seems to have no interest whatsoever in controlling that SPAM.
"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated". - Mark Twain
If just one of those immigrants turns around and helps found a major company like Google...
The probability of this happening is zero: Google is a "Black Swan".
In contrast, the probability of hundreds of these immigrants committing criminal acts, welching on welfare and food stamps, and lowering our standard of living is, in contrast, 1.0, certainty. Sometimes the truth hurts.
Sure America has gained from it's immigrant population. But now America accepts anyone, even barbers, manicurists, and students for hair-salon schools. These are merely cheaper workers and we don't need them.
Few immigrants are geniuses. Their primary qualification seems to be having enough money to apply and persist until accepted. No difference if we take only the best 4,000 of these people or all 65,000.
Limit the "geniuses" on the basis of their income and IQ and limit their numbers to something reasonable, certainly something an order of magnitude less than 65K.
Taleb saw Fannie Mae as about to blow up. Page 255 footnote from Taleb's "The Black Swan" (published in 2007):
Likewise, the government-sponsored institution Fanny Mae, when I look at their risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."
Taleb's book The Black Swan discusses how statistics are (incorrectly) used to predict financial markets. Unfortunately the markets don't fit the assumptions of the statistics and sh** happens that is unpredictable with the statistical models. Taleb has much to say and contribute about finance (he was a trader and quant for years) and also about science.
USENET is one part of the Internet worth paying money for.
For years I used a newsgroup reader and Deja(later Google Groups) to post and respond to technical questions. The level of support on USENET has always been superb.
Should Google provide separate branches for searching their own "groups" and leave the previous USENET groups intact on another branch then the viability of the original system would remain.
Unfortunately spammers have rendered Google's groups nearly useless, yet USENET remains relevant.
TBL was either crucified or ignored (justly in either case) by the programming masses for his Semantic Web(SW) initiative and now has ascended into the electronic cloud from hence he will issue e-mail missives anew.
With any luck this will, like the SW, quietly fade and die. Surprising that some fool tossed so much cash into a TBL initiative. There must have been some Ecstasy in the drinking water when that one went down.
Nobody needs to send packets on that network. All they need to do is monitor packets on that network. And that's very likely to be done and very difficult to prevent if the network is of any significant size.
Unless the network is on a single floor of a single building it will be difficult to keep unvetted persons from coming near it.
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You're papering over so many of Microsoft's crimes: I'll just select one, but a big one, to shoot down. Note that as a result of the original court case, Microsoft _is_, legally and otherwise, a monopoly and continues to behave as such to this day.
No. The Internet had clear standards and Microsoft intentionally set out to break those standards. Microsoft sought to "Embrace, extend and extinguish" the Internet and to exclude rivals. From Steven McGeady's testimony during the court case:
Your machines are underutilized and, with luck, you too soon will be!
If so, we know what the problem is and are just dancing around it.
Instead of providing your own potentially trojan-loaded and virus-ridden version of that program, please instead provide a URL to Microsoft's tool.
swollen nut and stumble home like Quasimodo with my scrotum in an ice-packed jockstrap and instructions to lie in bed 5 days and take Tylenol if it hurts. This is progress? I'll just bite my nut off myself next time! It couldn't be any harder.
Medicine has promised a cure for cancer for 50 years and still are taking our money. The war on cancer is like the war on drugs, neverending and self-serving for the providers (doctors and hospitals on the one hand, police departments on the other).
Doctors probably kill more than they cure, even today in the West.
Most small companies die far before then. So unless you can prove to yourself that the company will be alive and thriving in 5 years, she's offering you a bag of shite. And she can fire you at any time in that 5 years. And 5 years is a _long_ chunk of lifetime to promise to anyone. Where otherwise have you ever promised so much time to a single endeavor? Unless you've done prison time, the only examples you should be able to retrieve are grade school and early family life.
P.T. Barnum said "There's a sucker born every minute." Don't be a sucker. Quit and do what you want.
She called him on his cellphone. Cellphone records are public and can be purchased. I can purchase yours, you can purchase mine. So buy his cellphone records for the period of interest. Her phone number is the one originating in the Austin area.
Most scientific papers are probably wrong. That being so, then the cited paper is also probably wrong. Aside: are black holes a planetary civilization IQ test?
is here.
You're genuinely paranoid.
to save itself from being replaced by Obama's proposed NASA-military merge. This is fear-mongering to keep their bureaucratic pants pockets full.
then you're out of luck. Most landline phones have independent power and will work in an emergency. That's one reason I always have a landline.
He reminded me that most human scientific articles are wrong and not to listen to anything unless I got it straight from the horse's mouth.
that so many claim it to be. e.g., Nassim Nicholas Taleb heaps scorn upon several recent winners of the Nobel Prize in economics and demonstrates how their work is completely invalid and incorrect and has contributed greatly to the current economic collapse.
It's well-established that older people (yes, even into their 60's and 70's) are smarter than younger people. Why the focus on 60 and up? Are younger people unable to learn from strategy games? I think this post is a form of ageism in disguise: another presentation of the meme "Older people are dumbasses." basically.
If true, this should have been spotted by medical researchers years ago. It's not as if the statistical data isn't present - there's tons of it. If true, this once again shows how sucky our medical system is.
I'm surprised to see posts about how USENET is defunct. Yet most USENET tech groups remain viable to date. USENET remains the best source of technical support bar none.
I do wish Google would add a third option, "Non-Google groups only", to searches. The groups maintained by Google are populated mostly by SPAM. Google seems to have no interest whatsoever in controlling that SPAM.
"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated". - Mark Twain
On my system a second copy is stored at
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Macromedia\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys
So do a find on a single entry on you system to locate both caches, e.g., find #flash.quantserve.com.
The macromedia GUI only cleans the first directory's cache, leaving the second untouched.
You can manually delete them from both areas.
The probability of this happening is zero: Google is a "Black Swan".
In contrast, the probability of hundreds of these immigrants committing criminal acts, welching on welfare and food stamps, and lowering our standard of living is, in contrast, 1.0, certainty. Sometimes the truth hurts.
Few immigrants are geniuses. Their primary qualification seems to be having enough money to apply and persist until accepted. No difference if we take only the best 4,000 of these people or all 65,000.
Limit the "geniuses" on the basis of their income and IQ and limit their numbers to something reasonable, certainly something an order of magnitude less than 65K.
Taleb saw Fannie Mae as about to blow up. Page 255 footnote from Taleb's "The Black Swan" (published in 2007):
Taleb's book The Black Swan discusses how statistics are (incorrectly) used to predict financial markets. Unfortunately the markets don't fit the assumptions of the statistics and sh** happens that is unpredictable with the statistical models. Taleb has much to say and contribute about finance (he was a trader and quant for years) and also about science.
USENET is one part of the Internet worth paying money for.
For years I used a newsgroup reader and Deja(later Google Groups) to post and respond to technical questions. The level of support on USENET has always been superb.
Should Google provide separate branches for searching their own "groups" and leave the previous USENET groups intact on another branch then the viability of the original system would remain.
Unfortunately spammers have rendered Google's groups nearly useless, yet USENET remains relevant.
Gotta love his WWW! But...
TBL was either crucified or ignored (justly in either case) by the programming masses for his Semantic Web(SW) initiative and now has ascended into the electronic cloud from hence he will issue e-mail missives anew.
With any luck this will, like the SW, quietly fade and die. Surprising that some fool tossed so much cash into a TBL initiative. There must have been some Ecstasy in the drinking water when that one went down.
I use Directron.com. They are always cheaper than any big chain, including Fry's. Service is impeccable.
Nobody needs to send packets on that network. All they need to do is monitor packets on that network. And that's very likely to be done and very difficult to prevent if the network is of any significant size.
Unless the network is on a single floor of a single building it will be difficult to keep unvetted persons from coming near it.