Posts by Simpson

why??

1. As a container app for the various google services. The "final beta" will probably have permanent tabs for gmail google apps, etc. Even if it never gets to the point where all web pages render as expected, I'm sure that the google services will all work very nice. It is iGoogle v.2.

2. Wireless auction redux. They don't plan to win (or enter) a browser war. Chrome is a vehicle to get the v8 javascript engine out there. They have licensed v8 under the bsd license. So any browser can use it without going free software, even IE.

If other browsers were to begin using the v8 js engine, good for google.

Then the Oompa-Loompas can focus chrome as just the google services container.

If chrome were to grab a large market share, that's not too bad for google either.

Worth repeating

in soviet russia,

search enginen finds you....

Trying to install for kids machine - part tres

I made a mistake in my earlier post. It is on a 2.26 GHz p4, not a celeron 2.0.

Wifi: It took about 20 minutes to get wifi working, but it would have worked instantly if I had an open network.

Game good: "jump start" "reading for second graders" installed without any problems. On running the game the initial splash screen loads slowly, but then it runs without any problems.

Game bad: When the game is running, the cpu usage is at a steady 100%. The high cpu usage is almost entirely wine + the game executable. It stays at 100%, even if the game is idle, but running.

I am not sure if wine + any win32 exe is this cpu intensive or not. But if it is, then I would say that wine is there for when you NEED to run a win32 exe, and is not suitable for when you WANT to mostly run win32 exe's.

I will be setting up a gos based system for my mom. All she needs is kiosk style web and email access.

But for the kids machine, I will be using xp. I want to be sure that it is compatible with all of the hand-me-down games we already have (only tried one in gos). More important (to me), I don't think my 5yo will be neatly closing applications when he is done playing. So I don't want it to be running at 100% cpu 24 hrs a day, just because a win32 exe is running on the desktop.

@herby

"New York's attorney general will just hop on an airplane and head for Whitter California to serve the papers, where NewEgg will trash them"

I think it will go more like: NY AG goes to NY judge. Tells judge that newegg has a presence in NY and is violating existing NY law. NY AG tells judge that he tried to serve newegg, but was unable to. Because newegg does not have a "registered agent" in NY, in violation of state law, for companies with a physical presence in NY.

NY AG asks for (and gets) a default judgement + daily penalties. This will force newegg to try to overturn the default judgement, and become the plantiff. Then if ny loses, they just lose. But if newegg loses, the interest and court penalties would be piling up over the couse of the case.

I am a derivative work

of my Mom and Dad...

But I am different from both, and I may decide to do things my own way.

Knowledge is a cumlative work.

Invention is simply knowledge + "I can do it better"

or

knowledge + "everyone else is wrong"

or

copy existing work + better marketing

Everything is built on something that already exists.

neither Linux|Windows were incepted to a woman in a cave, by an angel. Both are copies+improvements/changes of what came before.

Simply

brilliant

my wife is NOT an idiot

She (see title) recently had a web page that matches the image in the article (page 2) load on her laptop. She stopped what she was doing and asked me to look at it.

Once I got past the "what did you install?", "are you sure?", "did you do x?", "are you sure?"... It is very authentic looking. But the app was already renamed to xp antivirus 2009.

I guess she got the upgraded version.

It looked very good. It caused me to leave the browser as it was; check the registry, check file system, download two anti virus programs (nod32) to check the system, etc.

The laptop was not infected, but the badware still caused me to waste time fighting it.

I have seen the other variations too, but only over the last three weeks. It is always from a google search result. It is usually a deceptively worded javascript confirmation box that wants to confirm that I want to navigate away from a page.

In some of these cases, alt+F4 would not kill the browser. I had to go into task manager to kill the browser to get rid of it.

I have had these badware results on google searches that return only 60 - 200 results, so I suspect that it is widespread and targets text from (at least) newsgroup posts and tech mailing lists.

The wording of the text box and the "I give up, I'll click OK" factor, would lead me to think that this xp antivirus may already be widespread.

And

@ "Firstly it had 'XP' in the name which no legitimate company would do for fear of being sued by MS. Secondly there are only a handful of legitimate antivirus / antimalware tools available."

1. XP: Athlon XP

2. legitimate antivirus: There are none.

yellowstone

Shut yellowstone and build a giant electric plant over it.

We might lose yellowstone, but we will save hell.

havoc

So who is going to run the root dns servers for all of these zones? I'm sure that you will need to be an accredited registrar for this, so we will soon be blessed with .godaddy .1and1 .netsol, .blog, etc.

If it is cheap enough, their will be so many tld's that it will wreak havoc on internal domains, active directory, and corporate email.

that's stupid

and it doesn't make sense. If the dollar is down, you already get more dollars for every foreign sale.

Don't you all just buy your software from US websites, at a lower price? If not, why?

Adobe

Macromedia products I liked. Adobe products I don't.

When Adobe release an upgrade for coldfusion server, the license went from a few paragraphs to several (maybe a dozen?) pages. All of the fairly liberal things were gone from the license.

Has Adobe ever released an x64 windows version of flash player?

Software for Linux

Some big companies do not release their own versions of software for Linux, because they are afraid that they will make some mistake and the Linux people will force them to open source that piece of software.

You never know how a judge might rule. It is better to not take the chance. Just look at all the shouting over the Novell - MS deal.

When people say they will never use Novell again, because of the deal with MS, It is no longer an issue over a better OS or software support. It is a political / near religious issue. The discussions and anger that come up, it sounds like people debating abortion.

Many in the Linux community would do everything they could to force Adobe, MS, etc to open source their products. They might even change the licenses to try to screw them.

Titanic

"... Melting polar ice is a variable mixture as the colours in photos show. Was the Titanic in Polar Ice when it sank?... "

The Titanic was not in polar ice.

But, polar ice was in the Titanic.

@Mark: "... so when over 50 years the temperature has gone up 3 degrees and you already know that during that time we have had only one thing that has been consistently increasing over that time (CO2 levels) ..."

Only one thing?

You sure about that?

Contract

This is a civil case. Not a criminal one, right?

The case is over the violation of the license "agreement" of the music. How can a 16 year old agree to a contract?

I am pretty sure that if I signed a contract with a 16 yr old and tried to enforce it in court, the judge would throw it out. I thought that you would need to sign the contract with the parent or legal rep of the child.

If this is not the case, I have a new career. I am going to be selling movie tickets and ipods to people 14 - 17 yrs old, then signing a contract with them that requires them to pay me $1000 for the item when they turn 21.

bofh

They need to blam tis on the San Fransisco sys admin

Linux Therapy

You come in here every few months and say that you want to make more friends. You say that you want everyone to like you and get along with you. Every few months, you say that you are ready. That you have changed.

But it is always the same result.

You go to the party and you expect everyone to love you, just because you are there. If they don't tell you how great you are, you get angry and start calling people names, knock things over, cause a scene, and storm out.

Then you come in here and start complaining on how bad they treated you, and say you are never going back. But if they don't invite you to their parties, you complain about that too. Then call the host and ask if you can go to the party.

Why do you keep doing this?

When you went to Joe's party, you refused to play any games with his kids. Not even monopoly. You kept insisting to play linopoly, but they didn't know what that was, because you just made it up yesterday. When Joe asked what the problem was, you started screaming "JOE SIX PACK", "JOE SIX PACK" and "YOU'RE KIDS ARE DUMB". This sort of behavior doesn't help you. Why would he invite you back to his house?

When none of the guests at Mr. WalMart's party would talk to you, you got on the microphone and said "You are all mouth breathers. I'm out", and left the party. This sort of behavior doesn't help you.

You always tell me what great friends you are with Mr. R.P.M. and Mr. D.E.B. But just the other day, Mr. R.P.M. was in here and he said that he saw you and Mr. D.E.B. out together. He went over to say hi, but you pretended you didn't even know him... You told him that you didn't remember him... That you might know him through Mr. Package, but that you wouldn't even talk to him if Mr. Package wasn't at the table with you and Mr. D.E.B. That's just crazy.

You need to introduce your friends to each other and get along, you can't just focus on the person you came with. That sort of behavior angers and confuses the people around you.

And that one popular girl.. You know the one. The one that used to pretend that you didn't exist. You need to get over her. You guys have a lot of the same friends. These new people you want to meet, they all know her. You can't force your new friends to pick sides. If you try to, they will pick her. You may think she is a shallow slut, but she is popular. While you my friend, are an arrogant, prick.

You have a choice to make.

If you want to get along with everyone, you need to change. You can't keep calling everyone dumb and expect them to change to fit your needs, people just don't like that. You will need to change to fit everyone.

If this will not work for you, stop trying to be someone you are not. Stop worrying about all the people who don't like you. Stop being angry at them and calling them dumb. Accept who you are, and try to enjoy the friends that you already have.

nuclear

They just need to invest in a nuclear power plant design that does not look so scary.

It is kind of hard to sell your house, if the view from the yard is a nuclear cooling tower.

Maybe they could build them 99% underground, or in old salt mines or somthing.

For dating

It would be for the same reason that a person would wear a $15,000 watch.

Because some attractive lady might recognize "that's a $15k watch!", lean over and say to you "nice watch". It's a convenient in.

Narnia?

Narnia (the first one) was more violent.

I remember taking my kids to this "kids movie" and seeing much more violence. The queen shanked someone prison style, by breaking off the blade in the victim.

In the batman movie has violence like the 80's tv show "the A team", just not as silly. You never see the results.

It's a pretty good film, because it gets the violence across to you, without having to show any (Al?) gore.

Is it election season over there?

afraid

This Anonymous Group scares me more than scientology.

They appear to be a huge, secret, world wide organization. When I did a google search fo Anonymous, google came up with 217,000,000 results.

Their members seem to be everywhere. The Anonymous dominate (and may control) most web sites that allow comments / feedback. the Anonymous even make most of the posts here on the reg.

Could the reg just be a front for this Anonymous organization?

Pretty scary stuff.

private public privacy

Woman takes top off on public beach = woman having fun and relaxing

woman photographed with top off on public beach = punch in nose / you pervert / invasion of privacy.

You can not expect privacy in areas where the general public or passersby could easily view your activities. If so, we would never see pictures of celebs picking their noses.

You don't even have the right to privacy in your own home, if you are in an area (no curtains) where the general public or passersby could easily view your activities.

If you disagree with this hypothesis, you can test it by standing in front of a window while masterbating. Repeat as necessary.

If these people win, the "I did not have sex with that patio table" guy should get a load? of cash from the media, for invading his private (and intimate) moment with his patio furniture.

he should be arrested

What should the police do, take his word for it? If the message came from his location, he can expect to be arrested, held, and questioned.

Let's say I put a telephone by the street at the edge of my property and let anyone use it. Then you walk up and make a call threatening the president / queen, say that allah wears short pants, or disgrace the founder of Turkey.

I would expect the police at my door. I would expect to be arrested. I would expect to be cleared, but I would expect to be arrested.

Bet he never has an open wi-fi network again...

fcc

shouldn't the FCC view the blocking of all usnet groups ala at&t, the same way that they view the blocking or throttling of bit torrent?

nuts?

A sociopath is not mentally ill. It is a personality disorder. They can not be treated. It is who they are.

So this guy was senteced to 21 months in a minimum security, white collar "prison" camp. One that he could just walk away from. A "prison" that was close to home too. Not exactly hard time.

He would have been paroled after 14 months. What a piece of crap. These kind of people lose it, when they lose control over their victims. She probabaly missed a visit, then told him she didn't have time that day.

Snap.

i feel bad for all of the other minimum security prisoners who are going to suffer from the policy changes that this brings on.

lifetime

So when you buy the car, you can go 100 miles on a full charge.

Six months later, 80 miles. A year, 60 miles. Two years later, 2 miles - 40 miles.

People will love these cars.

Dear Leader

"understand the rationale for the regime, enjoy the improved reliability it delivers, and accept the need for high levels of monitoring and compliance"

Sounds like a report written for a personality cult dictator. (The people love the monitoring, they want more)

You guys will be trying to emigrate to China soon, to get more freedom.

Commerce

"If the cost per customer conversion (usually somewhere around US$10) exceeds the value of the company at the current offer price, then the offer from Microsoft is too low"

False.

It does not matter if the buyer is MS or someone else. The value of an asset, is the highest price that someone is willing to pay in an open market. If there was value, someone else would offer more.

Prices of assets go up and down. Coin flips are heads or tails. Percieved "value" or the "stats from the last five coin flips" have nothing to do with the present or future reality of any situation. The price may go up or down in the future, but the value of any item (beyond emotional) is the price that someone is willing to pay.

on the fence

While I favor the little guy, I am on the fence on this one.

For AMD: Dell would not offer AMD for a long time, even though AMD had superior products; The biggie: MS did not release a 64-bit 386 OS until Intel had their 64-bit chips ready to ship.

For Intel: Intel had a better product for a long time. It takes a while to build trust and market share, and it takes a while to piss it away too; AMD increased market share, when they had a better product.

I can understand Dell's long term position on AMD. As the lone Intel Only large provider, the could us the AMD hammer on Intel pricing. I would have done it myself, on a weekly basis.

But you could never 'splain to me why the 64-bit Windows took so long to ship. Why it needed to wait for 64-bit intel chips. Most of the other software and OS vendors converted easily, and MS had already ported to 64-bit Itanium without too much trouble. The release of 64-bit Windows appeared to be delayed until Intel was ready to compete. I will have a problem with that one, when I am on the jury in June of 2023.

Hostility? I'll show you hostility.

Who seethes with more repressed hostility and deception than your average IT worker?

People who have been married for a while. That's who.

There would be so many false alarms due to couples who want to kill each other, because they got into a fight about who was packing the luggage.. It? could never work.

People who have had their flights delayed for several hours/days may be a little hostile too.

Crime?

I don't see the crime. Might be a violation of the TOS, but I don't see the crime.

Maybe providing false information?

Why didn't the sites have a limit based on the routing+account number. With security like this, I bet their forms are open to spam abuse too.

I don't think I would trust them with my money. I wouldn't hire them as my latex salesman either.

asbo?

interim anti-social behaviour order? What the hell kind of law is that? and I thought our liberties had been curtailed here in the U.S.

When I read the reg articles that casually mention being monitored by gov camera on the street, people dying in the trunk of their car for fear of drunk driving (via doing the right thing and sleeping the in car) arrest, holding a sign, and now this interim anti-social behaviour order / law, it bothers me. It makes me fear the incremental nanny police state that is coming our way too.

He should be able to get out of this easily. 1. As a bystander. "I am a journalist, and this is a documentary. I am simply trying to expose and document this behaviour". 2. As a participant. "I am a film maker. The actions you see are all 'acting'. I had assumed that my assistant had paid for the petrol and arranged for everythin with the owner. I appoligize for the misunderstanding".

asbo? Do you think they just rearranged the letters of A S.O.B.? That sounds like who the law is targeted at.

USFL

Reminded me of USFL vs NFL.

$3 Ha! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usfl#USFL_v._NFL

bbbeta fete

If you are beta this + beta that + beta other thing + (what the hell) one more beta;

1. You are a very impatient person.

2. You can expect (and deserve) a few problems.

3. I'm surprised you read this far.

The weak link in LAMp

Yes that's a small p.

Badly configured PHP bulletin board? What?

Never heard of one.

Badly written PHP bulletin board? Where?

pHP mail() being exploited by spammers? No way!

If you are going to market your product as easy to use (pHP), at least provide examples that show users how to work around the weaknesses in the mail() function.

pHP bulletin boards are not as bad as MS frontpage guest books, but they are not far behind.

Next!

The Earth's magnetic field is collapsing. We are all going to die in x years!

"But the only reports of controversy are from people who get some reward from reporting it, whether from vested interests funding them directly or simply by being paid for publishing."

Yes. Its obvious. Headlines of "The weather is fine, don't worry about it" sell a lot of newpapers (damn those greedy bastards!). I better run out and get mine now, to beat the rush. I also will read the article of "Man safely crosses street", with great interest

P.S.

Let the water out of your bathtub. Y2K is over.

Gotta go.. need to watch that Discovery program on the worlds most dormant, micro volcanoes.