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Author of Paper Critical of Microsoft is Fired
chongo writes "Daniel E. Geer Jr., one of the primary authors of a
report
Reliance
On MS A Danger To National Security,
was fired from @stake Thursday morning.
@stake said that 'The values an opinions of the
report
are not in line with @stake's views' and that Geer's
participation was 'not sanctioned.'
Microsoft, who has worked closely with @stake
in the past, denied that it was involved in @stake's
decision to fire Dan." There might not be anything fishy going on at all, but that's no reason to stop making perfectly good conspiracy theories.
Its just *us* and *them*! Mel Gibson was right! Dear God no, I thought that was a movie! Time to start boobie trapping the house!
They also boosted the memory limitation of Notepad so that it can open files larger than 60 kilobytes. Definately a feature that distinguishes notepad from all the rest.
Geesh, he's correcting an obvious mistake. It's not like he called me an idiot for not spelling correctly.
You, on the other hand, did it, and did it anonymously. I'm not pissed at him, so why the hell should you care?
-Todd
"The details of my life are quite inconsequential..."
>Try talking bad about Linux on Slashdot and I bet you'll get banned from this place.
If by "ban" you mean unable to access slashdot for 72 hours due to attempts to ruin the forum (page widening by klerck), then sure.
Otherwise, you're quite wrong. In fact, slashdot has only ever deleted one post.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Mr. Vampyre, you are a virtous, albeit undead, soul. However, you are preaching to the wind. Were you to flog LinuxMan with a bag of nails, he'd misspell its by week's end.
Hey, he spelled business right!
Ha, I spelled 'virtuous' wrong. Had to happen.
Hey, I like the right-clickability of solitaire and spider solitaire is great!
I use emeditor instead of notepad (it doesn't suck). but I've got calculator hot-keyed to "webcam" on my keyboard!
He could cross over to the dark side, hack MS and prove his point...
Top 5 reasons to become a hacker:
5 -- Easier than getting a real CS degree
4 -- On top of 15 minutes of fame, you may also get 15 years of jailtime at no extra cost if you act now!
3 -- Opportunity to be featured in Jon Katz's new book about "Hacking in America: The Paradigm Shift Toward Increased Justice After 9/11"
2 -- Something to do while you're busy not trying to find a job
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Good security is based upon reality and common sense. Common sense is a function of having common knowledge.
solitaire and spider solitaire is great!
I prefer AisleRiot... it's a ton of card games all in one app (including spider solitaire and normal solitaire).
Ok, it's not really a card game... it's actually a Scheme interpreter that predefines some functions for handling card-game logic. So, if you feel like it, you can write your own card game and play it with AisleRiot, relatively easily.
Oops, I guess I'm not eligible for the job...
does the history really matter? shouldn't each post be modded for the merit of the post rather than the history or karma of a poster?
Ooo, ooo, and the Aqueduct!
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
There has always been BBEdit Lite, free as in beer, to get around that limitation. Oh yeah, and Palm's Memo Pad app also had a similar 32K limitation. And one other thing...TeachText and SimpleText could open files much larger than 32K. They just couldn't edit them.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.