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'Think Tank' Issues Microsoft-Funded Troll

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the institute-and-prostitute-share-a-lot-of-letters dept.

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 ...

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  1. Welcome to slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You must be new here?

  2. Re:Nice to see no politics by flatlineloc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "This same institute backed destabilizing, unworkable '80s missile defense and thinks Alexis de Tocqueville would have wanted the V-22 Osprey deathplane."

    Nice to see no politics being spouted here.

    I wouldn't call that politics, more a statement of fact skewed towards presenting a certain viewpoint... Oh wait, that's spin.

  3. Off-topic: missile defense by foobar104 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    This same institute backed destabilizing, unworkable '80s missile defense....

    You are aware, are you not, that the Reagan administration's emphasis on missile defense technology forced the Soviets to spend billions on research into their own missile defense systems? And that that level of unsustainable spending contributed directly to the collapse of the Soviet economy, and the eventual dissolution of the USSR as a political entity?

    Just spreading around a little knowledge.

  4. Re:Open Source Easier to Hack by t0qer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    look at my name,

    looks very similiar to that thinktanks name.. Fuckers stole my name, then they "Thinked" about how to change it so I wouldnt get offended, fucking washington buttlickers.

  5. Re:Drivers by Russ+Steffen · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    And my experience is completly contrary. I have here a fairly basic PC. After installing Win2k it still requires 8 separate driver downloads (and 8 reboots) before it's fully functional. Even the motherboard chipset requires an updated driver to be stable. On the other had, after installing Red Hat 7.3, everything works - no downloads needed.

  6. far more interesting to me is ... by way_out_on_the_dark_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have been going to zd's website for several years and I have also been a less frequent visitor to c-net but I have never realized c-net owns the domain name com.com. I just found it odd when I clicked on the link at the top of the article it was taking me to:

    http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-929669.html

    How in the hell have I missed this over my last 6-7 years online and moreso should I feel like a total idiot for just now realizing it or should I feel like a total idiot for actually posting that I feel like an idiot on slashdot?

    mmmmm, I will sit and ponder the meanimg of it all.