.. when I read about Metallica suing Napster on that screen in the elevator before I read about it on Slashdot./. beaten to the punch by an elevator. What's the world coming to? OT- anybody else have these advertising^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnews screens in the elevators in your building? Ours is run by some firm called Captive. That's too cute.
I just called into the local radio show on which the vice-president of Semantec was (WRKO in Boston). What timing! I mentioned that his company was violating its own privacy policy by sending people's real (window's) name back to their servers, and said it was ironic that this was coming from a supposed leader in computer security. I also mentioned how Icrave got it wrong 3/4 of the time. His response was that filtering software gets it wrong about 50% of the time, and that's industry standard, so that's that. He didn't get a chance to comment about sending info back to their servers (we ran out of time), but he asked where I read it. "Wired," I said. The host laughed when I said that Icrave incorrectly filterd out Latin, probably due to heavy use of the word "cum." "Thank's for slipping that in"
My favorite Wintel text editor already behaves like it uses a touch sensitive mouse. It's called Epsilon - sort of an Emacs for DOS. The mouse arrow appears when you move the mouse, and vanishes when you start typing. The drop down menus only show up when the arrow hits the top of the screen, and also vanish when typing. When I first saw this I thought "Hey, what a flipping good idea! I wish _all_ DOS programs did this." It looks like they will, once M$ forces us into another costly round of hardware/software upgrades.
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.. when I read about Metallica suing Napster on that screen in the elevator before I read about it on Slashdot. /. beaten to the punch by an elevator. What's the world coming to? OT- anybody else have these advertising^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnews screens in the elevators in your building? Ours is run by some firm called Captive. That's too cute.
I just called into the local radio show on which the vice-president of Semantec was (WRKO in Boston). What timing! I mentioned that his company was violating its own privacy policy by sending people's real (window's) name back to their servers, and said it was ironic that this was coming from a supposed leader in computer security. I also mentioned how Icrave got it wrong 3/4 of the time. His response was that filtering software gets it wrong about 50% of the time, and that's industry standard, so that's that. He didn't get a chance to comment about sending info back to their servers (we ran out of time), but he asked where I read it. "Wired," I said. The host laughed when I said that Icrave incorrectly filterd out Latin, probably due to heavy use of the word "cum." "Thank's for slipping that in"
My favorite Wintel text editor already behaves like it uses a touch sensitive mouse. It's called Epsilon - sort of an Emacs for DOS. The mouse arrow appears when you move the mouse, and vanishes when you start typing. The drop down menus only show up when the arrow hits the top of the screen, and also vanish when typing. When I first saw this I thought "Hey, what a flipping good idea! I wish _all_ DOS programs did this." It looks like they will, once M$ forces us into another costly round of hardware/software upgrades.