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Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux
maxifez writes writes to tell us that Microsoft has released yet another independent study downplaying the viability of Linux at the enterprise level. The study claims that Windows is "more consistent, predictable, and easier to manage than Linux." From the article: "The study, commissioned by the software giant from Security Innovation, a provider of application security services, claimed that Linux administrators took 68 per cent longer to implement new business requirements than their Windows counterparts." Vnunet.com has also provided a PDF of the original report.
There are plenty of ways to push software remotely to windows machines. Maybe you should learn to administer them.
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He didn't mention free as a constraint. If free mattered they wouldn't have windows machines.
/. fanboy bending over for the choir.
Typical
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My karma burns faster than the American flag at an ACLU meeting
That's funny -- mine burns faster than the Bill of Rights in a Republican Oval Office...
The most awful abuses of the current one are the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth articles. If you get your news from anyone but Fox and Rush, you should be able to spot them. Holy crap, man, these people are coming out in support of torture.
Love my country, always. Love my government, when it deserves it.
Hmmm... This is getting a little heated and also way off topic, so I'll give brief examples rather than a complete exposition.
(1) Free assembly has been a problem, but I think that is more encouragement of selective enforcement than actual legislation. Free speech is a big problem in several ways, the most notable is the massive expansion of ITAR and EAR. I do not knowingly handle classified information, but it is now illegal for me to discuss certain aspects of my profession (solar physics) with many of my colleagues. If I do so, I can be sent to prison for more than twenty years. That is a result of actual recent legislation pushed by the current executive branch.
(2) Have you tried to buy chemicals recently? Small arms are not very regulated, but almost everything else is heavily regulated and reported. Small arms aren't very useful today anyway for the main point of the 2nd amendment -- which is to enable, as a last resort, armed revolution.
(4) Yes, the PATRIOT act is exactly what I am thinking about. Wiretaps, secret warrants, and tracking of motion and purchases. Seizure is not as obvious and this administration may not be as bad as the Reagan administration (which pushed using the RICO act to seize assets of accused drug dealers without benefit of trial)
(5) Here I am referring to people being accused of infamous crimes against the U.S.A. and being extradited elsewhere for detainment and torture by our government in locations that are not subject to our laws. Guantanamo Bay is one such location, and the popular press is rife with recent reportage of others that have been held in secret.
(6) Both gitmo and the acknowledged foreign torture camps feature here, but the real problem with this administration is how strongly they pushed (to the supreme court) to be able to try civilians by closed military tribunal rather than under a court of law. No star-chamber courts here in America, please.
(8) Torture. This is what inspired my "holy crap" in the grandparent -- our President has stated that he will veto any bill that contains a clause outlawing torture of prisoners held by the U.S.A.
(9) May not guarantee you "...the right to check out communist literature from public libraries..." but the point of this clause is to frame the intent of the constitution: it is not an exhaustive enumeration of all rights thought to be held by people, but rather an enumeration of the ones that were on the founders' minds. Secret searches of library history, bookstore records, and spending habits may not be specifically forbidden but they're against the spirit of the document.
My point here is not that the ruling party is stupid or corrupt or evil -- it is that they are not supporters of the freedoms and moral leadership that we love about our country. I was puzzled by your sig because the ACLU seems to me to be a very patriotic organization: our bill of rights is a huge part of what makes our country special and desirable. ACLU is devoted to defending those rights against elements in our government that would quash them.