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'Think Tank' Issues Microsoft-Funded Troll
dlur (among many others) writes: "According to this ZDNet article, a Washington think tank known as the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution is soon to release a study stating that Open Source Software allows terrorists an easy time hacking into our systems. It's little suprise that this group takes money from Microsoft."
The Register's story
is good too.
All the whoring reports in the world won't make open source any less secure. This same institute backed destabilizing, unworkable '80s missile defense
and thinks Alexis de Tocqueville would have wanted the
V-22 Osprey deathplane.
Also, see what their coin-operated policy dispenser spat out for
internet privacy
(eat what you're fed) and
antitrust
(advantage of Microsoft monopoly: "manufacturers of computer hardware need to provide only one
driver").
We weren't going to run this, but there were a lot of submissions, so ...
>i>from the insitute-and-prostitute-share-a-lot-of-letters dept.
They share even more letters if you spell institute correctly.
Open source would have a much better security record if Sendmail were killed off.
... that we run it on our OWN damn servers:
$ httptype www.adti.net
Rapidsite/Apa/1.3.20 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6
Who wants to place bets as to when Microsoft learns of this, and promptly switches their systems?
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
And MySQL.
And OpenSSH.
And Tomcat.
And wu-ftpd.
And PHP.
And squid.
And mod_ssl.
...
You know, if we reduced it to just the kernel running on an isolated box locked in a secured meat locker, and you throw away the key.
But, qmail is better =)
From theregister article:
"This could explain why a group purportedly devoted to the 'perfection of democracy' would, with a straight face, recommend the MCSE as a qualification for adult participation in a democratic economy superior to a university degree. "
I don't see why a Minesweeper Consultant Solitare Expert is needed for a good democracy. Well I guess it can't hurt.
Yes, like geeks, we must use the tools we have.
From: 8axxx0r l33t
Subject: DESTROY PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE
Message:
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I see, so you're saying the value of the destabilizing, unworkable '80s missile defense is that it's a great bluff that got Russia to try to build the same thing...hence Russia collapsed and we didn't.
Hmm. This leads to two questions and a note-- (1) why are we still pushing to build it, and (2) if it was a bluff, why did we actually spend any money on it at all, and (3) you're basically saying that a wasteful, bloated, expensive defense system that won't do anything was loaded with features, not bugs.
Next time, we should propose launching food into space, that'll really screw up them commies.
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Since when do we allow the French to post here
They claim that MCSE's are more useful than a college degree. If they AREN'T taking money from MicroSoft, then they're dumber than I thought.
-- Don't Tase me, bro!
The missle shield was certanly destablizing, it never helped us in any treaty with another super power, not even as a negotiating gambit. [etc.]
Seems to me it worked perfectly.
The Soviet Union collapsed, ending half a century of Cold War. The surviving USSR government officials said the major factor was SDI. Not a single nuclear bomb exploded on or above the soil of the US, its possessions, or its allies (including all the signatories to the non-proliferation treaty). And it was so powerful we didn't even have to actually DEPLOY it!
Lets see your smart bomb or a START-XVI treaty beat THAT!
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
"So far NSA's advocacy has been used to let me get away with all kinds of open source implementation."
Perfect comrade! Next, send me the list of usernames and passw^W^W^W I mean, send me some completely arbitrary pornographic images for no apparent reason. Also, good idea to post here...nobody will ever discover our s3kr3t plan, nobody takes these Slashdotters seriously! (also, we have successfully planted agent code-name "Tom Ridge" high in the executive branch) Muahahaha!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Well let's see. Bill Gates started Microsoft with Paul Allen who owns the Portland Trail Blazers. Rasheed Wallace is a power forward for the Trail Blazers. Wallace played basketball at the University of North Carolina where Michael Jordan won a national championship his junior year before taking on the NBA himself. Jordan starred in Space Jam with Bill Murray who had an uncredited cameo in "She's Having a Baby" starring...Kevin Bacon.
Sendmail is dying!
Recent studies show that the percentage servers running sendmail has decreased by 96% of 0.000001% according to netcraft guru John JonMarkesson. "It is simply too unbelieveable to conceive, but sendmail is dying!", said uber-hacker Linus Torvalds, creator of the open source operating system Loonix.
Richard Stallman founder of the FSF commented by saying, "Damn it, it should be GNU/sendmail is GNU/dying!!!!"
Cmdr. Taco and Hemos were unavailable for comment as VA/Linux is dying.
Source: The Loonix Daily Times