Ok. Next time your company gets audited by the BSA(another beast we can thank MS for), and they find one or two pirated copies of software, that employees installed without authorization, and use that as justification to charge you for the audit, to the tune of several millions of dollars, remember what you just said today.
That's true, but we should remember what that "several millions of dollars" actually costs. It's easy for people who have not been raped like that to not really understand. It's not just that the company has to pay a lot of money. It's that the company becomes insolvent, even after they raid the pension plan. That means people lose their job and a large portion of their life savings. Many times people who lose their job go on to lose their house, get divorced and have all sorts of other bad things happen to them before they get on with their lives. Raping small companies, like the BSA does, does really bad things to real people. It's more than money, it's people's lives they screw with.
it also has some STUPID new crap,....a pointlessly MASSIVE back button.
When I'm forced to use M$ junk and don't have time to download FF, I feel like someone pressed a massive back button and it's 1998 again. Really, what has happened to IE since then?
I remember Bill Gates promising all these wonderful "integrated" browsing features way back in 1996, but KDE beat them to the punch in an overwhelming way. Sitting here with Konqueror, I have all the features I liked from Windoze, and most of Mozilla's feature set to boot and excellent integration. Built in spell checking for web forms, auto complete and password memory, split screen drag and drop file exchange from local, ftp, sftp and others. Oh yeah, tabs too, those are very helpful.
I stopped reading when I ran into our old friend, SCO and M$ shill, Laura Didio quoted as an expert:
Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio agrees. "There's a dearth of skilled Linux administrators, by comparison to the more-mature Windows, Unix, NetWare, and Macintosh environments," she says. And what happens when too much demand meets too little supply? "They can command a premium," DiDio says. "They get a 20% to 30% salary premium in the large metropolitan markets."
Mature? Please. When you consider that one good Unix guru can do the work of five Winblows admins, the 30% "premium" for higher skills is worth it and that's why people pay it. But surprise, surprise, you won't cost yourself any more if you don't hire new people but let the ones you have do what they have been recommending for years.
What I'm saying is that a fact that ought to be known, the fact that the vulnerability doesn't affect machines with Service Pack 2 installed, has been concealed by Slashdot and by people like you that think it doesn't matter.
Concealed? Sure, whatever. I looks like Slashdot gave you a nice place to trumpet the good news in your own insulting way. Of course it does not really matter. IE's still got holes and always will.
But guess what? It does matter; network admins that have to apply patches to many, many machines on a corporate network CARE.
I've been part of that kind of nightmare for BankOne. It was a pathetic and painful mess that's the best it ever gets.
asshole zealots like yourself don't care about people, you just care about your pushing your open source views on others and slamming those who don't agree with them. GNU/Linux/GPL nut jobs...you people will be the death of open source.
I've been called worse than better trolls than you. That's the kind of thing I expect from M$ apologists. It's strange how some people think insults are a way to sell something.
Open Source software is not likely to die because people like me point out glaringly obvious things like FF is better than IE and is less trouble and risk to install than something dumb like SP2. Free software is unlikely to die when people like me notice that it's easier install something like Mepis than it is to continue to grind along with M$ junk.
A big statement would be: "We will indemnify customers against time lost due to exploits found in our own code."
How about, "We will no longer fund BSA lawsuits against our own customers, such as public school systems, and are encouraging other member companies to cease and desist."
Again, I said in my original post that XP with SP2 was unaffected, a very important point purposefully ignored by Linux zealots such as yourself. I proved my point, I proved you wrong, but you're blind Linux zealotry is obscuring your views too much for you to see that.
Proved what? I never said that particular combination of painful upgraded junk had this particular problem. I will say, however, that it will have many other problems. That's easy to see from the history of the thing. What you've proved to me is that you are strangely obsessed with unimportant details. What exactly are you trying to say?
This fact was purposefully ignored and suppressed by Linux zealots like yourself to make you feel better about OSS.
That's an odd perspective and no where close to true. I don't have to invent problems for M$. I feel good about not having to pay the M$ tax. I feel good about having a reasonable user permissions model for my OS, multiple desktops, spam filtering, spell checks everywhere, and the hundreds of other ways that free software environments are superior to Windoze just like FF kicks IE. I don't need to overlook one small part of the Windoze system that's not broken for that. I get a kick out of seeing how broken the rest of it is.
So what drives you to make these silly and pointless apologies for M$ in such a sneering and unprofessional manner?
ReactOS may well be cool, but *UGH*... From their page source: meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" Friends dont let Friends use MSFP
I can and do say the same for most M$ junk. At least FP puts out something other people can read. The cool thing would be them running it on top of their own free software. A useless demonstration of prowess, but a demonstration just the same.
Just the other day, I tried out dosbox under Sarge. It worked very well and made a few very useful old programs available to me.
I love these projects. When you compare the effort required to set up all the versions of DOS/Windoze required to run all the software and devices with the effort required to run the same things under dosbox, wine and others, the free software wins by a large margin. The goodness does end at having fewer entries in your grub file, but is multiplied by the ease and convenience of modern networking. It is very cool indeed to be able to run Dos, Win31 and Windoze via ssh -X and so share the applications. Go-Go React OS!
as I hovered over links the font size changed, cusing the entire page to flicker all over the place
Konqueror 3.3 / Debian Unstable renders it without the problems you describe.
Why is it theft when it comes to GPL OSS programs, but it's suddenly NOT theft (instead, it's a "culture revolution") when it comes to taking music and movies from p2p networks?
What you see here is a cry for equal enforcement of copyright law. If I can be stripped of my life savings and companies can be fined hundreds of millions of dollars and put out of business for copyright violations, then the people behind ekush should be forced to do as the current owners of the software demand. It just so happens that people who "own" GPL'd software are not as asinine when it comes to their demands, so the remedies are simple: release the code or pay the authors. You will find me recommending p2p music "theft".
Read Lessing's Free Culture for an understanding of how the radio, recording and movie industries all "pirate" content. The only way anyone could think the current copyright mess is legitimate is if they believe in a command economy as many of the "IP" rights are stripped from performers and composers in favor of price controls.
The GPL is a mechanism to undermine software copyrights and the closed source model. The makers of the GPL think those things are abusive, but were clever enough to make an instrument that relies on the power of copyright law. Use of free software directly ends the user's abuse by closed source companies but indirectly fixes copyright laws. When the revenue for abusive companies like Microsoft dries up, they will be less able to purchase laws for themselves and copyright laws can return to something less intrusive and dangerous.
Lessing's creative commons will do much the same thing for entertainment and all of this AM radio empire bullshit will be long forgoten as programmers, composers and performers all make livings without as many nasty middle men.
I think there should be more education for the public that Free Software is not Public Domain and ripping off Open Source Work is just as bad a Pirating Closed Source Software.
"Ripping off" free software is actually worse because it confuses the message of free software. The message of free software is that free people can co-operate to make tools for themselves that work. A ripped free software tool with "improvements" directly undermines that message by trying to convince people that they need some closed software to make their lives easier. Typically, the ripped version is inferior but the money involved will create a stream of advertising that says otherwise. Public education on the value, cause and workings of free software is an ongoing project.
It is too bad that a lot of people confuse Open Source with Public Domain.
No, these bozos knew what they were doing and did not limit their "theft" to free software. They knew that they were violating licenses for free software just as much as they knew they were violating M$'s license by distributing their floppy driver. Since having the obvious string matches pointed out, they have tried to replace them without bothering to replace binaries or release source code. As the easiest thing to do would be to release source code, these people are up to no good and know it.
We shall see if they come clean. If they don't and M$ does not clean their clock, we can draw further conclusions.
Note how the vulnerability only affects XP and XP with SP1.
Win2K made it to the list too, fully patched.
I particularly liked their solution "use another product". Given the choice between SP2 or FF, guess which wins. The one with a new exploit every month or the one with tabs.
I've been M$ free for years now. I look at this stuff for amusement purposes only.
Slashdot forgot to mention the fact that this vulnerability has no effect on XP machines patched with SP2. Way to go Slashdot!
Way to go Swamii, by making an asinine comment about Slashdot, you make yourself look less than believable. In defense of Slashdot, I can say that McAfee does not confirm what you say. Do you have a link to back up your claim?
The link to McAffee with signs of infection and removal instructions is all anyone really needs here. IE is a thing people use at work when forced by clueless management.
I don't usually get mail from people I know telling me that Paypal has charged my credit card.
Sure but Paypal does and their email can be spoofed exactly by cut and paste. Combine this with the recent and very easy spoof of the contents of the status bar and you have an easy pasword harvester. Or you could combine it with an email that automatically overwrites the Windoze hosts file, so that the next time you think you are visiting paypal, you are visiting some snake in Romania. The list of holes is endless and damning and it's easy to fool anyone if the software does not do what it should.
These are not demonstrated problems with Firefox unless Firefox uses the Windoze host file, DNS or other unreliable services. Better just use Firefox on a reliable OS.
"Forced video"??? What the heck are you talking about?
The flash trash, moving gif polution in the average IE session. You know, top, left, right, bottom and mid article advertisements that take up about 80 of a person's browser. Maybe you don't know because you have a browser that blocks most of that or you have not installed flash. About 75% of the world uses M$ IE which has numerous exploits to make things even worse, such as porn advert hijacking. A large portion of the rest use a better browsers on top of M$ and they are still subject to the hijacks. Even using a person using a reasonable browser on a reasonable platform has to take time to block obnoxious adverts and they do so at the cost of blocking legitimate content from the same servers.
Typical fanboi, and offtopic to boot.
I thought the topic was video blogs made on Linux, as the linked article was all about that. Only an AC crapflooder would call links to a live CD with the tools off topic. Bill Gates got his money's worth out of you, AC.
Hooray for the next big bandwidth waster! Everyone needs to stream not just text describing what I did today, and not just pictures, but full-friggin-motion video showing just what I may have done today!
This is about the fifth +5 insightful, funny troll post about what a waste video blogging is.
No bandwith is wasted when someone visits a site and downloads a video. They want to see it. Tons of bandwith is wasted every day by advertisers who movies into 80% of their visitor's browsers. Requested video is not a waste. Forced video is. Get the difference?
The real story is that it is now easy to make movies on Linux. Angula has got what you want. They in turn point to dynebolic and Chainsaw. Don't take my word for it, go get an iso or a live CD and see it for yourself.
... they were devil customers: They purposefully would "buy" a video card, hold it for just under the return period, and then return it. They'd get a full refund of their original purchase price which they'd use to buy whatever was new
That's pretty insulting and self defeating. Those people are the best customers video card companies and local stores have. They are the experts and the enthusiasts who plunk down $500 for a silly graphics card and go through the trouble of bleeding edge configs every return period. Their experience and good will is critical to your business, because they are the people who know where to get things and what works best. Everyone "normal" asks these people what to get and they come and buy it. In the end, these enthusiasts will build a collection of expensive hardware that other people would never think about owning. It happens when nothing new comes out in a return period. These people can't go back to less than the best performance, so they are stuck with the moment's best. You piss them off at your peril. They have similar burn rates on motherboards and sound systems.
At the same time, I will buy an open package from a reasonable computer store. Good stores check returned packages for contents. Dipshit stores with $5/hr clerks are too cheap to bother and end up throwing the product back at the maker as "defective". That's a huge drag on the maker and I don't want to encourage it. Yeah, the store that treats it's employees like crap also treats their customers and business associates the same way.
Similarly it isn't cost effective to have customers who'll bogart your salespeople's time for hours while they ruminate over a trivial decision -- one which they'll likely recant on, reappearing in your returns line.
That's typical suck training from a chain store. You need to train your sales people to say, "Think about it for a while and come get me, that guy over there has been waiting." If you have a real computer store you can sit them at a terminal so they can google for the answers they seek. Easy, eh? No insult or pressure is needed.
I hate, with a passion, stores like CompUSA that don't have a public terminal or three so you can do your research. I'm better off getting things online than I am farting around the computer store in the dark. Because of this, I only use such stupid stores for the cheapest need it now crap I can get. I will drive miles out of my way to visit the local store, the same people from years ago still are and I can put my hands on product and research. I will and do pay a premium for that kind of service, but I don't buy too much because I'm "normal".
The one way to get rid of bad customers is to raise your prices.... Why doesn't Best Buy try that?
How do you raise prices over insane? The linked article named Best Buy as one of the wost buys out there. They cited a typical example of a nice camera Best Buy was selling for 850 that could be had for $650 on line and wondered what kind of "service" they were getting for the extra $250. Oh yeah, that's right, you start charging your suckers 15% restocking fees and adopt other methods from businesses that have very thin profit margins.
In my experience, you can get rid of good customers with a quick glance, but the bad customers you can't drive away with an axe.
Where did you work retail, Taco Hell?
Why doesn't Best Buy try that? Probably because most of their customers are the bad kind.
No, it must have been McDonald's or some other place that might have a "bad customer". No customer is bad, ever. They might not have time to look things up, that's your job. Some might not have manners, oh well. One or two might go out of their way to make you miserable because they have no life, but that's retail and you put up with it. If you are good, you can deal with it all without making a scene and driving off people who just want an honest deal.
Bloggers are a new, third layer. They take what was already reported on by other sources, and put their own unique spin on it, with outside commentary. The problem is, the further you get from the first layer, the more distorted the original facts get.
Editors and their bosses at GE, Westinghouse, Disney and M$ have their heads up their ass.
Bloggers have their head outside of their windows. It's first hand and they are in a better position to validate what some official thinks is happening in the world than any talking head. Blogs enable normal people to witness and report. It replaces the whole editorial food chain.
Just what do you expect from self-important competitors who are being eclipsed?
I wish they would go with the flow, modify their business and career. I expect them to FUD, cry, legislate and get in the way as long as they can.
Here's a quick list of things that could not be done by volunteers, co-operating and, yes, earning a living at the same time:
make a kernel. See Linux, BSD, Hurd, freedos and many others.
make an operating system. See GNU, Debian, Fedora, Slackware and hundreds of others.
make a user friendly interface See KDE, Gnome and many others.
The new is better than the old. All of the above have costs that are orders of magnitude less than the traditional methods they replace. At the same time, free quality is also vastly better.
Next on the list are:
mesh nets and others to replace traditional telco
services to run on mesh nets to replace all your news and entertainment needs. Current success stories are Wikipedia, Creative Commons and many others.
Those traditional news and entertainment groups who move with things will survive. Those who try to legislate the limits of gramphones and AM radio on us all forever are going away. It will be possible to make money on news and entertainment but the transaction costs are going to fall and people will have to work with that. The path of least resistance is the path that always wins and people always hate the middle man. Take note, all you magic diamond people, the asshole in the middle is going to be squeezed out.
I can't stand MSFT's business tactics as much as the next Slashdotter... Maybe this lawsuit was better served 10 years ago in 1994 and not now in 2004.
You must have missed the federal M$ anti-trust trial. Novel did not and did their part then. Now that the case is proved, the damages are being awarded. This case is only going to trial so far after the antitrust file because Novel has tried to settle in good faith. Good faith is generally a mistake when it comes to Microsoft.
WordPerfect missed the fucking boat on a lot of shit when it came to the migration from DOS to Windows... How they expected to compete against Word was really beyond me. Any software application that basically required a function key explanation chart at the top of every keyboard was doomed when GUI took hold.
You must have also missed WP 5.2 for Windoze 3.1. It was out as early as anything dependent on business with a convicted predatory monopoly can be. Support for older methods, while adding new ones is called good product support and logical evolution.
Now, go wash your mouth out with soap before the feces in it multiply by fornication.
Uh, they aren't trying to gain control of TCP/IP. The license basically says, while they use it, they have absolutely no ownership of it. Read the license.
You have weird ideas about control and reading material.
The articles I read mentioned 30 day termination, vague "marketing" requirements and unilateral change of contract clauses. Why would I dig through M$'s "randz" idea of Reasonable and Non Discriminatory when someone else has picked out all the unreasonable bits that make it something no sane developer would sign?
There seem to be a lot of rumours, but no real evidence that Microsoft will pursue this action. Getting control of TCP/IP as a protocol is a near-impossible challenge, even for Microsoft.
Can you tell me why M$ published this list then? Why would anyone essentially copy their/etc/services file and publish it as a "randz" list?
The proposed reason is to intimidate developers and create licensing friction for free software developers. The way copyright and patent infringement enforcement works a clear cut ownership is less important than a fat bank account and lawyers.
This list is indeed designed to give businesses pause. Ignorant big dog types will look at the list and shy away from developing software to meet their own needs in order to avoid SCO style messes.
What makes you think McBride has got it? linuxguy seems to have the scoop and McBride has nothing.
Stay is school. The job market is terrible, thanks in part to lawsuit happy wipes like SCO. Still, it looks like the bad guys are losing. In a few years, you might emerge onto a better market. If you get out now and whore like McBride, you might end up in jail.
Let's see, I record a show to share with my friends. Had I done that with a VCR and mailed it to specific people, there's little anyone could do. When I put it up for 10,000 of my best buddies to get, I might be doing something that is close to publishing. An easier thing to do is just set up SSH for junk that other people would make a fuss about and leave the torrent for content that was meant to be shared.
Yeah, I know, the damn copyright warriors want the freedom to crack my password and throw me in jail. They have proposed as much, but have not gotten it yet, thank goodness. I hate them and their stupid 100 year duration copyright almost as much as I hate 99.99% of crap that is copyrighted.
Tools like Etherape will draw funky realtime network connectivity maps. Watching your computer talk to that many other peers makes you feel pretty exposed.
Just remember that the world can see you whether you have anything usefull to say or not. You might as well get and give something for your connection.
Knowing is half the battle, so good tools like Eatherape, Guarddog and Guidedog are indispensable. Go get it!
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That's true, but we should remember what that "several millions of dollars" actually costs. It's easy for people who have not been raped like that to not really understand. It's not just that the company has to pay a lot of money. It's that the company becomes insolvent, even after they raid the pension plan. That means people lose their job and a large portion of their life savings. Many times people who lose their job go on to lose their house, get divorced and have all sorts of other bad things happen to them before they get on with their lives. Raping small companies, like the BSA does, does really bad things to real people. It's more than money, it's people's lives they screw with.
When I'm forced to use M$ junk and don't have time to download FF, I feel like someone pressed a massive back button and it's 1998 again. Really, what has happened to IE since then?
I remember Bill Gates promising all these wonderful "integrated" browsing features way back in 1996, but KDE beat them to the punch in an overwhelming way. Sitting here with Konqueror, I have all the features I liked from Windoze, and most of Mozilla's feature set to boot and excellent integration. Built in spell checking for web forms, auto complete and password memory, split screen drag and drop file exchange from local, ftp, sftp and others. Oh yeah, tabs too, those are very helpful.
Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio agrees. "There's a dearth of skilled Linux administrators, by comparison to the more-mature Windows, Unix, NetWare, and Macintosh environments," she says. And what happens when too much demand meets too little supply? "They can command a premium," DiDio says. "They get a 20% to 30% salary premium in the large metropolitan markets."
Mature? Please. When you consider that one good Unix guru can do the work of five Winblows admins, the 30% "premium" for higher skills is worth it and that's why people pay it. But surprise, surprise, you won't cost yourself any more if you don't hire new people but let the ones you have do what they have been recommending for years.
This is the kind of stellar logic we can expect from the person who actually signed SCO's nasty NDA and came out blithering about what a strong case SCO had, when in fact SCO has nothing. Her shilling knows no bounds and we can expect her to faithfully echo whatever M$ is saying at anytime. Why do people ask her anything anymore?
Concealed? Sure, whatever. I looks like Slashdot gave you a nice place to trumpet the good news in your own insulting way. Of course it does not really matter. IE's still got holes and always will.
But guess what? It does matter; network admins that have to apply patches to many, many machines on a corporate network CARE.
I've been part of that kind of nightmare for BankOne. It was a pathetic and painful mess that's the best it ever gets.
asshole zealots like yourself don't care about people, you just care about your pushing your open source views on others and slamming those who don't agree with them. GNU/Linux/GPL nut jobs...you people will be the death of open source.
I've been called worse than better trolls than you. That's the kind of thing I expect from M$ apologists. It's strange how some people think insults are a way to sell something.
Open Source software is not likely to die because people like me point out glaringly obvious things like FF is better than IE and is less trouble and risk to install than something dumb like SP2. Free software is unlikely to die when people like me notice that it's easier install something like Mepis than it is to continue to grind along with M$ junk.
How about, "We will no longer fund BSA lawsuits against our own customers, such as public school systems, and are encouraging other member companies to cease and desist."
An offer of "protection" by M$, very funny.
Proved what? I never said that particular combination of painful upgraded junk had this particular problem. I will say, however, that it will have many other problems. That's easy to see from the history of the thing. What you've proved to me is that you are strangely obsessed with unimportant details. What exactly are you trying to say?
This fact was purposefully ignored and suppressed by Linux zealots like yourself to make you feel better about OSS.
That's an odd perspective and no where close to true. I don't have to invent problems for M$. I feel good about not having to pay the M$ tax. I feel good about having a reasonable user permissions model for my OS, multiple desktops, spam filtering, spell checks everywhere, and the hundreds of other ways that free software environments are superior to Windoze just like FF kicks IE. I don't need to overlook one small part of the Windoze system that's not broken for that. I get a kick out of seeing how broken the rest of it is.
So what drives you to make these silly and pointless apologies for M$ in such a sneering and unprofessional manner?
I can and do say the same for most M$ junk. At least FP puts out something other people can read. The cool thing would be them running it on top of their own free software. A useless demonstration of prowess, but a demonstration just the same.
Just the other day, I tried out dosbox under Sarge. It worked very well and made a few very useful old programs available to me.
I love these projects. When you compare the effort required to set up all the versions of DOS/Windoze required to run all the software and devices with the effort required to run the same things under dosbox, wine and others, the free software wins by a large margin. The goodness does end at having fewer entries in your grub file, but is multiplied by the ease and convenience of modern networking. It is very cool indeed to be able to run Dos, Win31 and Windoze via ssh -X and so share the applications. Go-Go React OS!
as I hovered over links the font size changed, cusing the entire page to flicker all over the place
Konqueror 3.3 / Debian Unstable renders it without the problems you describe.
What you see here is a cry for equal enforcement of copyright law. If I can be stripped of my life savings and companies can be fined hundreds of millions of dollars and put out of business for copyright violations, then the people behind ekush should be forced to do as the current owners of the software demand. It just so happens that people who "own" GPL'd software are not as asinine when it comes to their demands, so the remedies are simple: release the code or pay the authors. You will find me recommending p2p music "theft".
Read Lessing's Free Culture for an understanding of how the radio, recording and movie industries all "pirate" content. The only way anyone could think the current copyright mess is legitimate is if they believe in a command economy as many of the "IP" rights are stripped from performers and composers in favor of price controls.
The GPL is a mechanism to undermine software copyrights and the closed source model. The makers of the GPL think those things are abusive, but were clever enough to make an instrument that relies on the power of copyright law. Use of free software directly ends the user's abuse by closed source companies but indirectly fixes copyright laws. When the revenue for abusive companies like Microsoft dries up, they will be less able to purchase laws for themselves and copyright laws can return to something less intrusive and dangerous.
Lessing's creative commons will do much the same thing for entertainment and all of this AM radio empire bullshit will be long forgoten as programmers, composers and performers all make livings without as many nasty middle men.
"Ripping off" free software is actually worse because it confuses the message of free software. The message of free software is that free people can co-operate to make tools for themselves that work. A ripped free software tool with "improvements" directly undermines that message by trying to convince people that they need some closed software to make their lives easier. Typically, the ripped version is inferior but the money involved will create a stream of advertising that says otherwise. Public education on the value, cause and workings of free software is an ongoing project.
It is too bad that a lot of people confuse Open Source with Public Domain.
No, these bozos knew what they were doing and did not limit their "theft" to free software. They knew that they were violating licenses for free software just as much as they knew they were violating M$'s license by distributing their floppy driver. Since having the obvious string matches pointed out, they have tried to replace them without bothering to replace binaries or release source code. As the easiest thing to do would be to release source code, these people are up to no good and know it.
We shall see if they come clean. If they don't and M$ does not clean their clock, we can draw further conclusions.
Note how the vulnerability only affects XP and XP with SP1.
Win2K made it to the list too, fully patched.
I particularly liked their solution "use another product". Given the choice between SP2 or FF, guess which wins. The one with a new exploit every month or the one with tabs.
I've been M$ free for years now. I look at this stuff for amusement purposes only.
Way to go Swamii, by making an asinine comment about Slashdot, you make yourself look less than believable. In defense of Slashdot, I can say that McAfee does not confirm what you say. Do you have a link to back up your claim?
The link to McAffee with signs of infection and removal instructions is all anyone really needs here. IE is a thing people use at work when forced by clueless management.
Sure but Paypal does and their email can be spoofed exactly by cut and paste. Combine this with the recent and very easy spoof of the contents of the status bar and you have an easy pasword harvester. Or you could combine it with an email that automatically overwrites the Windoze hosts file, so that the next time you think you are visiting paypal, you are visiting some snake in Romania. The list of holes is endless and damning and it's easy to fool anyone if the software does not do what it should.
These are not demonstrated problems with Firefox unless Firefox uses the Windoze host file, DNS or other unreliable services. Better just use Firefox on a reliable OS.
The flash trash, moving gif polution in the average IE session. You know, top, left, right, bottom and mid article advertisements that take up about 80 of a person's browser. Maybe you don't know because you have a browser that blocks most of that or you have not installed flash. About 75% of the world uses M$ IE which has numerous exploits to make things even worse, such as porn advert hijacking. A large portion of the rest use a better browsers on top of M$ and they are still subject to the hijacks. Even using a person using a reasonable browser on a reasonable platform has to take time to block obnoxious adverts and they do so at the cost of blocking legitimate content from the same servers.
Typical fanboi, and offtopic to boot.
I thought the topic was video blogs made on Linux, as the linked article was all about that. Only an AC crapflooder would call links to a live CD with the tools off topic. Bill Gates got his money's worth out of you, AC.
This is about the fifth +5 insightful, funny troll post about what a waste video blogging is.
No bandwith is wasted when someone visits a site and downloads a video. They want to see it. Tons of bandwith is wasted every day by advertisers who movies into 80% of their visitor's browsers. Requested video is not a waste. Forced video is. Get the difference?
The real story is that it is now easy to make movies on Linux. Angula has got what you want. They in turn point to dynebolic and Chainsaw. Don't take my word for it, go get an iso or a live CD and see it for yourself.
That's pretty insulting and self defeating. Those people are the best customers video card companies and local stores have. They are the experts and the enthusiasts who plunk down $500 for a silly graphics card and go through the trouble of bleeding edge configs every return period. Their experience and good will is critical to your business, because they are the people who know where to get things and what works best. Everyone "normal" asks these people what to get and they come and buy it. In the end, these enthusiasts will build a collection of expensive hardware that other people would never think about owning. It happens when nothing new comes out in a return period. These people can't go back to less than the best performance, so they are stuck with the moment's best. You piss them off at your peril. They have similar burn rates on motherboards and sound systems.
At the same time, I will buy an open package from a reasonable computer store. Good stores check returned packages for contents. Dipshit stores with $5/hr clerks are too cheap to bother and end up throwing the product back at the maker as "defective". That's a huge drag on the maker and I don't want to encourage it. Yeah, the store that treats it's employees like crap also treats their customers and business associates the same way.
Similarly it isn't cost effective to have customers who'll bogart your salespeople's time for hours while they ruminate over a trivial decision -- one which they'll likely recant on, reappearing in your returns line.
That's typical suck training from a chain store. You need to train your sales people to say, "Think about it for a while and come get me, that guy over there has been waiting." If you have a real computer store you can sit them at a terminal so they can google for the answers they seek. Easy, eh? No insult or pressure is needed.
I hate, with a passion, stores like CompUSA that don't have a public terminal or three so you can do your research. I'm better off getting things online than I am farting around the computer store in the dark. Because of this, I only use such stupid stores for the cheapest need it now crap I can get. I will drive miles out of my way to visit the local store, the same people from years ago still are and I can put my hands on product and research. I will and do pay a premium for that kind of service, but I don't buy too much because I'm "normal".
How do you raise prices over insane? The linked article named Best Buy as one of the wost buys out there. They cited a typical example of a nice camera Best Buy was selling for 850 that could be had for $650 on line and wondered what kind of "service" they were getting for the extra $250. Oh yeah, that's right, you start charging your suckers 15% restocking fees and adopt other methods from businesses that have very thin profit margins.
In my experience, you can get rid of good customers with a quick glance, but the bad customers you can't drive away with an axe.
Where did you work retail, Taco Hell?
Why doesn't Best Buy try that? Probably because most of their customers are the bad kind.
No, it must have been McDonald's or some other place that might have a "bad customer". No customer is bad, ever. They might not have time to look things up, that's your job. Some might not have manners, oh well. One or two might go out of their way to make you miserable because they have no life, but that's retail and you put up with it. If you are good, you can deal with it all without making a scene and driving off people who just want an honest deal.
Editors and their bosses at GE, Westinghouse, Disney and M$ have their heads up their ass.
Bloggers have their head outside of their windows. It's first hand and they are in a better position to validate what some official thinks is happening in the world than any talking head. Blogs enable normal people to witness and report. It replaces the whole editorial food chain.
I wish they would go with the flow, modify their business and career. I expect them to FUD, cry, legislate and get in the way as long as they can.
Here's a quick list of things that could not be done by volunteers, co-operating and, yes, earning a living at the same time:
The new is better than the old. All of the above have costs that are orders of magnitude less than the traditional methods they replace. At the same time, free quality is also vastly better.
Next on the list are:
Those traditional news and entertainment groups who move with things will survive. Those who try to legislate the limits of gramphones and AM radio on us all forever are going away. It will be possible to make money on news and entertainment but the transaction costs are going to fall and people will have to work with that. The path of least resistance is the path that always wins and people always hate the middle man. Take note, all you magic diamond people, the asshole in the middle is going to be squeezed out.
You must have missed the federal M$ anti-trust trial. Novel did not and did their part then. Now that the case is proved, the damages are being awarded. This case is only going to trial so far after the antitrust file because Novel has tried to settle in good faith. Good faith is generally a mistake when it comes to Microsoft.
WordPerfect missed the fucking boat on a lot of shit when it came to the migration from DOS to Windows ... How they expected to compete against Word was really beyond me. Any software application that basically required a function key explanation chart at the top of every keyboard was doomed when GUI took hold.
You must have also missed WP 5.2 for Windoze 3.1. It was out as early as anything dependent on business with a convicted predatory monopoly can be. Support for older methods, while adding new ones is called good product support and logical evolution.
Now, go wash your mouth out with soap before the feces in it multiply by fornication.
You have weird ideas about control and reading material.
The articles I read mentioned 30 day termination, vague "marketing" requirements and unilateral change of contract clauses. Why would I dig through M$'s "randz" idea of Reasonable and Non Discriminatory when someone else has picked out all the unreasonable bits that make it something no sane developer would sign?
Can you tell me why M$ published this list then? Why would anyone essentially copy their /etc/services file and publish it as a "randz" list?
The proposed reason is to intimidate developers and create licensing friction for free software developers. The way copyright and patent infringement enforcement works a clear cut ownership is less important than a fat bank account and lawyers.
This list is indeed designed to give businesses pause. Ignorant big dog types will look at the list and shy away from developing software to meet their own needs in order to avoid SCO style messes.
What makes you think McBride has got it? linuxguy seems to have the scoop and McBride has nothing.
Stay is school. The job market is terrible, thanks in part to lawsuit happy wipes like SCO. Still, it looks like the bad guys are losing. In a few years, you might emerge onto a better market. If you get out now and whore like McBride, you might end up in jail.
Do you really think anyone is going to be paid? Well, the unlimited Linux license perk will work. Works for me.
Yeah, I know, the damn copyright warriors want the freedom to crack my password and throw me in jail. They have proposed as much, but have not gotten it yet, thank goodness. I hate them and their stupid 100 year duration copyright almost as much as I hate 99.99% of crap that is copyrighted.
Just remember that the world can see you whether you have anything usefull to say or not. You might as well get and give something for your connection.
Knowing is half the battle, so good tools like Eatherape, Guarddog and Guidedog are indispensable. Go get it!