Posts by doperative 173 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Dec 2010
> Among the donors to Revolution is Bill Gates, who also provided the establishing gift: the BASIC interpreter tape he wrote for the MITS Altair 8800 while at Harvard in 1975, and that led to Microsoft and Windows.
I thought it was based on Decus BASIC a copy of the source code Bill obtained from the DECUS, the DEC User Society?
http://63.249.85.132/open_source_license.htm
Held in solitary confinement, Sleep deprivation, Prevented from exercising, Kept naked .. Of course this has nothing to do with preventing suicide, is instead the implementation of a form of psychological torture, the symptoms that Bradly is no doubt now displaying being used as a pretext to continue the treatment. These techniques are also used in `enhanced interrogation' which has nothing to do with interrogation either.
re: experience # Posted Friday 21st January 2011 23:28 GMT
> As someone who's spent time on suicide watch (in a hospital, not a prison) I can certainly see why the guy doesn't want to be on it - it really is one of the worst experiences you can think of.
Describe the difference symptomatically between clinically suicidal behavior and the effects of the anti-suicide treatment.
> .. The problem with it .. isn't if it works and if drivers are available, but how well it works, petur
Can't say I've experienced stability issues, and I'm running flash fullscreen here on this Lubuntu distro running off a USB on 979,756 kb of ram with a standard graphic card.
> They may be now where Windows95 was, but the world moved on.
Now I know you're kidding :)
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2011/01/18/microsoft_mobile_melee/
Hosted apps, a solution in search of a problem. Once you download and run someone elses code on your machine, then security is out the window. How about implimenting single-sign-on and locking down the database to authorized users, eg, staff, accounts, warehouse etc ...?
> Linux? When everyone else (non-techies) is using either Windows or Apple Macs? I hope they pay for training? Or they just going to give you a piece of paper with destructions on how to launch the browser?
Rubbish, the Linux GUIs are just as easy to navigate as the Windows 'standard'.
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/lubuntu-lxde-1004-lucid-lynx-alpha-3.html
> Assange, who is wanted by Swedish authorities over sex crime allegations, which he denies ..
"No charges have been filed against Assange in Sweden relating to the claims of sexual misconduct, which include an allegation of rape by one of the two women. Nor does he face any charges -- yet -- in the United States or anywhere else relating to his organization's publication of thousands of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20026260-503543.html
> However if the patents don't go to this consortium they may well end up in some patent troll lawfirms portfollio .., AC
You mean like Nathan Myhrvolds Acacia or Intellectual Ventures and now MS has 882 former Novell Open Source patents, what could be bad about that ?
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/more-mobile-patent-madness-microsoft-licenses-74-smartphone-related-patents-from-acacia/7606
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/12/intellectual-ventures-sues-nine-tech.html
I was told that what caused my Aspire One portable to keep hanging during boot-up was a faulty power supply .. – the culprit was the software .. Acer shipped the Acer Aspire One with a version of the Linpus Lite Linux OS .. there’s no denying that Redmond knows how to develop and maintain reliable software – mostly – that you can trust.
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/opinion/1932226/welcome-windows-missed
Even if there were a vuln in thumbnails, this shouldn't propagate into a system wide vulnerability. Microsoft the company that made thumbnails dangerous
"the first known report of the bug in the way those operating systems process thumbnail images came on December 15"
“The vulnerability is exploited by setting the number of color indexes in the color table to a negative number,”
How would quality of service be impacted if the servers got overloaded?
How would quality of service be impacted if some of the clients contained buggy software?
How would quality of service be impacted if significant proportion of clients restarted?
How would quality of service be impacted when supernodes shut down?
Why would a peer-to-peer system be routing calls through supernodes, unless it is to make it easier for the security services to monitor people. See the NSA helping Microsoft secure Windows :)
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems/microsoft_windows.shtml
> Fowler was identified as a potential suspect but denied culpability until she confessed during an interview with FBI agents and supplied the revised password of the corporate firewall.
Isn't there anyone in Florida that knows how to reset a password with physical access to the hardware?
> BT has said sorry to subscribers to its "Infinity" packages, who have seen their "superfast" broadband connections slowed to a relative crawl in the evening recently.It blamed the problems on a "technical fault", but did not provide any further details.
The "technical fault" being that they really meant to slow home customers on their basic 'broadband' contract.
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