While 3K sq. ft. certainly isn't small, it's hardly palatial.
Yeah, the house arrest must be for their own protection. Is Steve Baller so careful with his? Will Bill keep his own safe from Ipod and Google?
Inside the Baller residence, Steve is fishing around under his son's bed. His son fidgets helplessly.
Steve finds a CD, pulls it out and thrust it in his son's face. "What's this, son?!"
Steve Jr: "It's... it's my homework."
Steve: "No it's not. I can tell you are lying to me. What is it?"
Steve Jr: "It's porn. I'm sorry, and I won't do it again. Let's just throw it away and forget about it."
Steve, now spitting: "What kind of moron do you think I am? Do I have to boot it? You though you were using an anonymizer to download this filth, but it was my proxy. Now tell me what it is!"
Steve Jr, now crying and crushed: "It's Linux."
Steve falls on the floor, clutching his chest.
Steve Jr, hysterical: "Dad! no!
Steve, weakly: "I thought it was Firefox, I saw the signatures. Oh. my. God. How long has this been going on?"
Jr: "Not long. I swear, I only booted it once. A developer told me -"
Steve grasps his son by the shirt, regaining strength: "That's it. I'm going to give you all the tools you will ever need. Developers are what is going to save this family. I love this family! Developers, Developers, Developers!" Rising now with his fist in the air, "With God as my Witness, you will never be hungry again!"
you should not look into the latest retirement package of the CEO of Exxon. He received a $400 Million package that works out to what...... over $1,095,000/day over the past year?
That's small time next to Bill's $40 billion, dollars skimmed in part from companies like Exxon. Exxon at least makes gasoline and other petrochemicals.
Also, when is the last time you heard Exxon flaunting it like this? The press release contained details about the freaking meal, smoked foul salad and all that. It's like reading some kind or sycophantic Roman historian's accounts of the big, noble beams in Nero's new palace. Have a nice meal, fine who cares? Blowing your own horn about it and your palatial 24 bathroom house in a press release is tasteless.
What happens when that security check [identifies Bill Gates]
If it works like most Windoze "security" a little report is generated, a few files are wiped out, stability suffers and they all contract bird flu anyway.
Socialism is being redefined as something roughly along the lines of Nordic-style welfare capitalism.
I'm told that countries like Sweden still have pensions that pay out but that China has "reformed" theirs. $400,000,000 for Windoze... big dumb US companies do the same thing. Hmmm.
I believe the Party will continue on its path of liberalization as a younger, more cosmopolitan generation of Oxford- and Columbia-educated Chinese accedes to power. Who needs revolution, after all, when you can build democracy from within?
I hope "liberalization" happens. Internet censorship and stories about political dissidents being murdered for sale of their organs make me think actual discourse is dangerous at best. Without a free press there is no telling what's actually happening, except that someone does not want the story told.
I'll bet those trout are ill tempered and have lasers on their heads. Hey, the work for Microsoft so they have to be in a bad mood. Everyday is a bad day, then they serve you for dinner when they "fucking kill" you as they've done before and will do again.
It's nice to see the head of Evil Industry's Starbuck's division getting some publicity and credit. Number two's idea there was quite profitable.
Gates, stroking a bald cat: "Do you like my quasi futuristic clothing, Chairman Hu? I designed them myself."
Chairman Hu: "Ah yes, they are much like Chairman Mao's favorites, but he liked drab blue."
Master Gates: "A toast then, to $400,000,000 and the drab."
-clink-clink-
Chairman Hu: "I have a thing for Red."
Flunky S. Baller: "Tell me you are not talking about Red Flag Linux!" Perspiration half moons show under his arms.
Chairman Hu: "I am."
Baller, raising chair "I'm going to fucking kill Linus. I've done it before and -"
Master Gates slaps Baller on the back of the head: "Down boy!" Turns and smiles. "He's a little fired up tonight."
Baller: "I love this company! I work in the swamp. Though I do not fall in the trenches of coding, I am yet a soldier! Developers, Developers, Developers!"
Master Gates laughs and pats Baller on the head. Yes, this is my favorite number two.
It's hard to tell who should be more ashamed of this meeting, but a brief quote from Animal Farm is appropriate:
"Gentlemen," concluded Napoleon, "I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm! "
There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs. But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away.
But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Forty years ago, Nixon invented the policy of engagement to balance the dangerous Soviet Union against an equal dangerous but hungry Communist China.
Ten years ago, with the Soviet menace defeated, Bill Clinton invented the complete sell out. Slave made goods have flowed into out country, jobs and money have flowed out. Parallel to this was born the myth of the "information economy" where the US would own ideas and the rest of the world would do our bidding because of it. Of course, for this ownership to be complete, it must apply to our own citizens. To enslave others, we must first prove our dedication to ruling by enslaving ourselves.
You can draw a straight line to today, with the DMCA, Patriot act and rampant domestic spying from a tremendously expanded federal government. As the rich and powerful gateher in Redmond, ask yourself where the rhetoric of freedom has gone and why your boss is dining with a Communist. What in the hell are we doing?
IMO, before further filters and dumbing-down are useful, you need a powerful basic search engine that allows you to ask advanced search questions. Of course, this sort of open capability of search engines might reduce Google's proprietary control of the searches.
You are entitled to your opinions, but most people think Google's Pagerank goes a long way to forfilling Google's mission, to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." The system does allow for "advanced search question" of course and most people get what they are looking for. Numerous attempts to manipulate the results have failed, as should be obvious every time you pull up a page of results that's not covered with porn and other spam.
Microsoft's search results and filtering practices have been questioned before. Their mission is to make as much money as possible by any means. Their results are generally filtered along those lines, which further reduces the value of their already inferior algorithms. Even if M$ were allowed to use better algorithms or invented one superior to Pagerank, their basic nature would ruin it. An astroturfer like M$ is going to try and turn everything into it's own advertisement and you can never trust anything they do.
Yes, Google has a patent on it's algorithm and software patents are bad. The control Google has over Pagerank, however, does nothing to reduce the quality of results.
What if you could do a honest search that did not factor in the prior popularity of the site, but relied on other criteria, so that a new site with unique content might have a chance of getting found?
You do realize that you can find "unpopular" and "undiscovered" sites on Google by starting on page 20 of the results, don't you? When you have 100,000 sites to work with, you can be sure that you have not heard of 99,990 of the results.
Most folks have absolutely no reason to have their own web/email/ftp server, and if you did you would be very willing to pay about $100.00 a month for the right to have one.
Are you one of those people who think that no one will ever need more than 640k of RAM?
He wants to allow the telcos, a demonstratively corrupt group of companies, access to traditional cable services?
Unbelievable isn't it? You and I don't think it's a good idea to let Ma Bell extend their regulated reach. It would be fine if everyone was free to compete, but they are not. The crooks are about to be rewarded.
The FCC has this strange idea that all you need is two companies to service all your communication needs. Really. The FCC thinks that all you need is one phone company and one cable company each offering the same services. They probably continue this line of though with some kind of bogus economies of scale argument, where Ma Bell and her copper wires everywhere is still a good idea, sixty years after such technology has been obsoleted. In any case, that's what all of these telco mergers have come from. Oh yeah, you only need one radio station and one newspaper. This is going to work about as well as "competition" in the oil industry.
It only makes really sense when you consider the federal government's current hunger for control and eavesdropping. They can more easily bully around one or two of their own creatures than they can a free market. Uncle Sam wants your email, your browsing, your TV watching, your library records, what you buy, every fucking total information awareness thing you can think of. A few pigs are going to get very rich helping them out. The rest of us are going to suffer stagnant networks and an utter lack of privacy. You are not even going to be able to begin to compete when the Carnivore system is complete.
I know a lot of that copper is put there at the expense of private corporations, and that is a whole different argument.
Every penny of that copper belongs to the public if it was laid under an exclusive franchise. Those who live by regulation, die by it. If they have infringed on the publics' right to free competition, they have obligations to that public. Every penny they invest comes from your loss of price competition.
There are two ways to fix the problem. You let others compete or you limit profits as a fixed proportion of investment. As new technologies emerge and the price of telco installation falls, I'm leaning more towards the free for all.
Cox is doing the right thing. If you want to run your own server, get a static IP.
I had one of the with @home, before Cox, thank you. It worked well.
If you just want to submit via another MSA, use the submission port (587/tcp) for that.
What's the use of trading one "smart host" for another? It wold be nice to not have to change smart hosts from one network to another, but that does not really solve the problem, it just lets me use another overloaded service.
Running a full mailserver takes far more clue than the average Unix admin has (and that is saying a lot).
Really? Is there something wrong with Exim's default settings? Would this supposed difficulty make it any easier DoS the whole world? How would this be any worse than 3/4 of all Winblows machines having a spambot on it, as is the case now? You might as well say that running a machine connected to the internet takes more clue than average. You would be right, but that does not make email special.
As I said earlier, the way things are done does nothing but concentrate the failure points and reduce reliability. I don't see how it's helping anyone but the greedheads who want to make the web look like broadcast TV.
[the only difference] is the need for a license to run a mail server in a personal environment
For the vast majority of US households lucky enough to have better than dial up, the ISP forbids running "servers" of any kind. So there's no difference on that front except the penalties. In China, you will be put under then jail and your organs sold to the highest bidder for running anything like a press. In the US, right now, you will simply lose your connection to the network.
I like how the list of what's wrong with iTunes is from three years ago.
So, How many of the problems have been fixed? Will you get the fixes in the box? The pressed CD you get with your new player might just be two years old.
The list was a real eye opener for me. After using Amarok, the list of problems was shocking. Hell, the problems shocked the authors.
Given how much better Amarok is at what it does, the article has not been updated. This line is obviously wrong:
With that said, iTunes is still, sadly, the best MP3 player application.
But it uses Ogg vorbis! It's GPL! Really, GPL is a feature, it's not just something to puff up your chest about! Oh, and it's got to be better, because otherwise rockbox is just somebody wanking for geek cred!
JCR, you generally post reasonable stuff. Why the ogg flame? Do you think choice and software freedom are things for wankers? Perhaps you would like it better if you could give Apple some money for the same thing.
If by better you mean sounds better and takes up less space then ogg is better. If that's not good enough, you can move to flac. Yes, it's nice that there's no patents or royalties to keep device makers and software distributors from using the format too.
On the device side, the more I can feed it the better it is. It kind of sucks to not be able to share with your friends because their software does not know how to deal with a free format, but that's their loss not mine. I can play their inferior formats.
TFA seems to indicate that the only way to get files onto rockbox is drag and drop. How, exactly, is this better than auto-sync?
Because it works? If that article from 2003 is still correct, lots of ITunes does not work. Blame DRM, I suppose, the authors were shocked. Amarok has many of these problems solved.
Drag and drop might be your only option on Windoze right now, but there are many other options elsewhere. Amarok has built in iPod support, though I have not tried it because because the non free music device is apparently not all joy. There are Amarok scripts available for external music devices. You define the mount point and it puts your music and playlists there. This has worked well for CF I use with Opie.
On one hand this is good because it reaffirms such doctrines as "fair dealing" and "exhaustion of rights", which are statutory rights that cannot legally be abridged by contract.
Wow, I'm underwhelmed.
Wake me up when you can sell the crappy CD that comes with your non-naked PC the same way you could sell it's floppy drive, the manuals or any other worthless component. It's funny they want to extend all of the limitations of physical property into the binary world and then binary limits into the physical world.
There's only two or three of these turds, but they brag about all the noise they can make with their botnets. There's plenty more that are not dumb enough to brag.
However, I will address your post:
He has specific complaints about ONE patch. It would have been prudent for him to make some efforts towards testing the ONE patch he has a problem with.... And as other people in the thread have pointed out, there are ways to see exactly what changes a patch is making to your system files.
He mentioned several patches specifically and all in general, but you repeat yourself. Blaming the user and expecting others to do M$'s work is both pointless and foolish. It's all binary crap and the changes you detect are meaningless. The real problem is a well earned lack of trust. The rational solution is to quit using and paying for software from a dishonest company.
An English major and Developers, Developers, Developers. That things are a little quirky is not all their fault. I mean, how good could the latest M$ buzzword be?
English majors are striking it rich and, yes, I'm envious and agrivated. It's like GeoCities all over again. Or Hotmail or MP3.com. The only "free" service that did not get owned by evil, advertising, control freaks in the last boom was Google, which also has a blog easy enough for my wife to set up all by herself. Seeing the very expensive software they are using, MySpace had better hurry up and sell out their users. Cool things are happening with MySpace. The problem is that it's not your space at all, it belongs to Fox and they can pull the plug any time they want.
Really, they are making money off the inadequate state of networking and software in the English speaking world. In a better world, you could set up your space in your house. Your computer would be running free software, which does not get burnt for sharing, and your bandwith would not be artificially crimped. I'll bet that you don't see this kind of service arising in places with good bandwith and free software adoption.
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Yeah, the house arrest must be for their own protection. Is Steve Baller so careful with his? Will Bill keep his own safe from Ipod and Google?
Inside the Baller residence, Steve is fishing around under his son's bed. His son fidgets helplessly.
Steve finds a CD, pulls it out and thrust it in his son's face. "What's this, son?!"
Steve Jr: "It's ... it's my homework."
Steve: "No it's not. I can tell you are lying to me. What is it?"
Steve Jr: "It's porn. I'm sorry, and I won't do it again. Let's just throw it away and forget about it."
Steve, now spitting: "What kind of moron do you think I am? Do I have to boot it? You though you were using an anonymizer to download this filth, but it was my proxy. Now tell me what it is!"
Steve Jr, now crying and crushed: "It's Linux."
Steve falls on the floor, clutching his chest.
Steve Jr, hysterical: "Dad! no!
Steve, weakly: "I thought it was Firefox, I saw the signatures. Oh. my. God. How long has this been going on?"
Jr: "Not long. I swear, I only booted it once. A developer told me -"
Steve grasps his son by the shirt, regaining strength: "That's it. I'm going to give you all the tools you will ever need. Developers are what is going to save this family. I love this family! Developers, Developers, Developers!" Rising now with his fist in the air, "With God as my Witness, you will never be hungry again!"
That's small time next to Bill's $40 billion, dollars skimmed in part from companies like Exxon. Exxon at least makes gasoline and other petrochemicals.
Also, when is the last time you heard Exxon flaunting it like this? The press release contained details about the freaking meal, smoked foul salad and all that. It's like reading some kind or sycophantic Roman historian's accounts of the big, noble beams in Nero's new palace. Have a nice meal, fine who cares? Blowing your own horn about it and your palatial 24 bathroom house in a press release is tasteless.
If it works like most Windoze "security" a little report is generated, a few files are wiped out, stability suffers and they all contract bird flu anyway.
I'm told that countries like Sweden still have pensions that pay out but that China has "reformed" theirs. $400,000,000 for Windoze ... big dumb US companies do the same thing. Hmmm.
I believe the Party will continue on its path of liberalization as a younger, more cosmopolitan generation of Oxford- and Columbia-educated Chinese accedes to power. Who needs revolution, after all, when you can build democracy from within?
I hope "liberalization" happens. Internet censorship and stories about political dissidents being murdered for sale of their organs make me think actual discourse is dangerous at best. Without a free press there is no telling what's actually happening, except that someone does not want the story told.
I'll bet those trout are ill tempered and have lasers on their heads. Hey, the work for Microsoft so they have to be in a bad mood. Everyday is a bad day, then they serve you for dinner when they "fucking kill" you as they've done before and will do again.
It's nice to see the head of Evil Industry's Starbuck's division getting some publicity and credit. Number two's idea there was quite profitable.
Gates, stroking a bald cat: "Do you like my quasi futuristic clothing, Chairman Hu? I designed them myself."
Chairman Hu: "Ah yes, they are much like Chairman Mao's favorites, but he liked drab blue."
Master Gates: "A toast then, to $400,000,000 and the drab."
-clink-clink-
Chairman Hu: "I have a thing for Red."
Flunky S. Baller: "Tell me you are not talking about Red Flag Linux!" Perspiration half moons show under his arms.
Chairman Hu: "I am."
Baller, raising chair "I'm going to fucking kill Linus. I've done it before and -"
Master Gates slaps Baller on the back of the head: "Down boy!" Turns and smiles. "He's a little fired up tonight."
Baller: "I love this company! I work in the swamp. Though I do not fall in the trenches of coding, I am yet a soldier! Developers, Developers, Developers!"
Master Gates laughs and pats Baller on the head. Yes, this is my favorite number two.
Everyone laughs.
"Gentlemen," concluded Napoleon, "I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm! "
There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs. But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover's old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away.
But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Forty years ago, Nixon invented the policy of engagement to balance the dangerous Soviet Union against an equal dangerous but hungry Communist China.
Ten years ago, with the Soviet menace defeated, Bill Clinton invented the complete sell out. Slave made goods have flowed into out country, jobs and money have flowed out. Parallel to this was born the myth of the "information economy" where the US would own ideas and the rest of the world would do our bidding because of it. Of course, for this ownership to be complete, it must apply to our own citizens. To enslave others, we must first prove our dedication to ruling by enslaving ourselves.
You can draw a straight line to today, with the DMCA, Patriot act and rampant domestic spying from a tremendously expanded federal government. As the rich and powerful gateher in Redmond, ask yourself where the rhetoric of freedom has gone and why your boss is dining with a Communist. What in the hell are we doing?
You are entitled to your opinions, but most people think Google's Pagerank goes a long way to forfilling Google's mission, to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." The system does allow for "advanced search question" of course and most people get what they are looking for. Numerous attempts to manipulate the results have failed, as should be obvious every time you pull up a page of results that's not covered with porn and other spam.
Microsoft's search results and filtering practices have been questioned before. Their mission is to make as much money as possible by any means. Their results are generally filtered along those lines, which further reduces the value of their already inferior algorithms. Even if M$ were allowed to use better algorithms or invented one superior to Pagerank, their basic nature would ruin it. An astroturfer like M$ is going to try and turn everything into it's own advertisement and you can never trust anything they do.
Yes, Google has a patent on it's algorithm and software patents are bad. The control Google has over Pagerank, however, does nothing to reduce the quality of results.
What if you could do a honest search that did not factor in the prior popularity of the site, but relied on other criteria, so that a new site with unique content might have a chance of getting found?
You do realize that you can find "unpopular" and "undiscovered" sites on Google by starting on page 20 of the results, don't you? When you have 100,000 sites to work with, you can be sure that you have not heard of 99,990 of the results.
Are you one of those people who think that no one will ever need more than 640k of RAM?
Unbelievable isn't it? You and I don't think it's a good idea to let Ma Bell extend their regulated reach. It would be fine if everyone was free to compete, but they are not. The crooks are about to be rewarded.
The FCC has this strange idea that all you need is two companies to service all your communication needs. Really. The FCC thinks that all you need is one phone company and one cable company each offering the same services. They probably continue this line of though with some kind of bogus economies of scale argument, where Ma Bell and her copper wires everywhere is still a good idea, sixty years after such technology has been obsoleted. In any case, that's what all of these telco mergers have come from. Oh yeah, you only need one radio station and one newspaper. This is going to work about as well as "competition" in the oil industry.
It only makes really sense when you consider the federal government's current hunger for control and eavesdropping. They can more easily bully around one or two of their own creatures than they can a free market. Uncle Sam wants your email, your browsing, your TV watching, your library records, what you buy, every fucking total information awareness thing you can think of. A few pigs are going to get very rich helping them out. The rest of us are going to suffer stagnant networks and an utter lack of privacy. You are not even going to be able to begin to compete when the Carnivore system is complete.
Every penny of that copper belongs to the public if it was laid under an exclusive franchise. Those who live by regulation, die by it. If they have infringed on the publics' right to free competition, they have obligations to that public. Every penny they invest comes from your loss of price competition.
There are two ways to fix the problem. You let others compete or you limit profits as a fixed proportion of investment. As new technologies emerge and the price of telco installation falls, I'm leaning more towards the free for all.
I had one of the with @home, before Cox, thank you. It worked well.
If you just want to submit via another MSA, use the submission port (587/tcp) for that.
What's the use of trading one "smart host" for another? It wold be nice to not have to change smart hosts from one network to another, but that does not really solve the problem, it just lets me use another overloaded service.
Running a full mailserver takes far more clue than the average Unix admin has (and that is saying a lot).
Really? Is there something wrong with Exim's default settings? Would this supposed difficulty make it any easier DoS the whole world? How would this be any worse than 3/4 of all Winblows machines having a spambot on it, as is the case now? You might as well say that running a machine connected to the internet takes more clue than average. You would be right, but that does not make email special.
As I said earlier, the way things are done does nothing but concentrate the failure points and reduce reliability. I don't see how it's helping anyone but the greedheads who want to make the web look like broadcast TV.
That's when they buy a Mac Mini.
If you are using a Windoze crippled PC and want the good looking interface, stability and media capability of a Mac you can:
The Mac mini is a beautiful machine and OS X is a big improvement over Windoze.
Mepis looks great and does most of what you want.
If you count the trip to the store and the higher OSX learning curve, Mepis is less trouble.
For the vast majority of US households lucky enough to have better than dial up, the ISP forbids running "servers" of any kind. So there's no difference on that front except the penalties. In China, you will be put under then jail and your organs sold to the highest bidder for running anything like a press. In the US, right now, you will simply lose your connection to the network.
So, How many of the problems have been fixed? Will you get the fixes in the box? The pressed CD you get with your new player might just be two years old.
The list was a real eye opener for me. After using Amarok, the list of problems was shocking. Hell, the problems shocked the authors.
Given how much better Amarok is at what it does, the article has not been updated. This line is obviously wrong:
With that said, iTunes is still, sadly, the best MP3 player application.
JCR, you generally post reasonable stuff. Why the ogg flame? Do you think choice and software freedom are things for wankers? Perhaps you would like it better if you could give Apple some money for the same thing.
If by better you mean sounds better and takes up less space then ogg is better. If that's not good enough, you can move to flac. Yes, it's nice that there's no patents or royalties to keep device makers and software distributors from using the format too.
On the device side, the more I can feed it the better it is. It kind of sucks to not be able to share with your friends because their software does not know how to deal with a free format, but that's their loss not mine. I can play their inferior formats.
Because it works? If that article from 2003 is still correct, lots of ITunes does not work. Blame DRM, I suppose, the authors were shocked. Amarok has many of these problems solved.
Drag and drop might be your only option on Windoze right now, but there are many other options elsewhere. Amarok has built in iPod support, though I have not tried it because because the non free music device is apparently not all joy. There are Amarok scripts available for external music devices. You define the mount point and it puts your music and playlists there. This has worked well for CF I use with Opie.
Wow, I'm underwhelmed.
Wake me up when you can sell the crappy CD that comes with your non-naked PC the same way you could sell it's floppy drive, the manuals or any other worthless component. It's funny they want to extend all of the limitations of physical property into the binary world and then binary limits into the physical world.
I make some losers angry by adding signal to their noise and spoiling their astroturfing:
There's only two or three of these turds, but they brag about all the noise they can make with their botnets. There's plenty more that are not dumb enough to brag.
However, I will address your post: He has specific complaints about ONE patch. It would have been prudent for him to make some efforts towards testing the ONE patch he has a problem with. ... And as other people in the thread have pointed out, there are ways to see exactly what changes a patch is making to your system files.
He mentioned several patches specifically and all in general, but you repeat yourself. Blaming the user and expecting others to do M$'s work is both pointless and foolish. It's all binary crap and the changes you detect are meaningless. The real problem is a well earned lack of trust. The rational solution is to quit using and paying for software from a dishonest company.
No, bitch, it's MySpace, says Murdoch.
Ha, ha, ha, says Mr. Gates.
And so it goes on in the database nation. It's not yours.
Really, they are making money off the inadequate state of networking and software in the English speaking world. In a better world, you could set up your space in your house. Your computer would be running free software, which does not get burnt for sharing, and your bandwith would not be artificially crimped. I'll bet that you don't see this kind of service arising in places with good bandwith and free software adoption.