Dell has shown that you can defy M$ and still make money. What's M$ going to do to Dell for selling Red Hat, break their boxes? The bluff has been called, breaking hardware only makes M$ look bad so the threat to vendors like Gateway is no longer an issue. If you spit out enough hardware M$ can't break you without ruining themselves - and they have already ruined themselves trying. Walmart's Lindows, Gateway and others will come to the party. Hardware makers themselves will be able to come soon. Microsoft's power was illusory all along, now it's broken.
People don't need Microsoft and do better with honest specs, hardware and software.
Must be another Microsoft success story. That's what happens when you do M$'s monkey dance.
Don't expect this to stay server bound. Almost ALL problems with new PCs are due to software issues, the kind of issues you have when you try to close off the source so you can screw your competition by breaking their codes. Any maker's quality would improve by simply ditching the software that breaks it.
Welcome to the free world Gateway, I hope you are not too late to save yourself. You might do better by going further to make up for lost time.
The Girl Scouts of America and the RIAA won, forcing them to pay fees because the Girl Scouts had been singing America The Beautiful around the campfire. If that's not wrong, I'm not sure what is.
The RIAA is an evil extortion ring fighting competition with silly laws.
If so, that makes your garage door a copy protection technology, and your garage door opener a device for circumventing it. Every time you park you violate the DMCA.
He parks outside because his garage door still does not work. Dumb laws will come and go, but some things will never change.
Don't they use something like this in China? I know some people want it here in the USA too. Selective filtering of network content is Carnivore. This new effort is just trying to get around holes in M$ junk. I say, let the shit burn rather than work on the next big thing in censorship.
What goes on between consenting adults is their business, but it's not always nice. Porn is degrading and it's a lie from production to consmption. Porn is just another form of prostitution. Normal businesses will shit can people who have sexual relations with others they might have institutional sway over. Porn and prostitition are the exact oposite of normal, consentual, trusting and respectful sexual behavior. At it's core, it's violent bodily exploitation and can be classed with violent crime. No one really gets into porn consentually, they are driven there by economic despiration. You should never in any way reward people who exploit others for porn. By so much as looking at a web page, you encourage the whole chain of exploitation. Sex laws are designed to put some kind of limit on what others may demand from their position of petty advantage.
OK, I look at porn from time to time. It does not do much for me and I vastly prefer real company. Marriage is a great thing. My wife is as grossed out by the porn I look at as you might be looking at pictures of members of your own sex engaged in painful and degrading acts.
Will I care much if my daughter grows up to look at porn? No. I think she will be bright enough to understand what she's looking at. I don't have a son yet, but I think he will be bright too. None of my kids is going to flunk out of school over porn. I've got an open and honest relationship with my wife and my girl. It's that simple.
Oh yeah, here's anther few simple things to do:
Computers go in the library. There's plenty of room in there and that makes browsing a group activity. I can hardly see what my wife browses, and only care if she has something to share. We know each other's passwords but never bother to snoop. Wifi laptops work, but the library has been made comfortable. I'm slowly working the network out to the living room with digital music. Sooner or later I'll get movies and games there via the network, but that's not a cause for concern now is it? There always has been and always will be a library in my house, even if I have to sleep under the desk (and I have!).
No Windoze. Everyone is root on their own machines and that assures privacy if it's desired. Browsing does not break the computers and we spend much more time using our computers than fixing them. SSH with X forwarding has blured the lines between boxes and all resources are shared well. The collective resources are greater than the sum of individual parts.
were do you think all the road dirt and other muck is going to end up?
On the plastic cover that was removed for the photo? If there is none, it would not be hard to make. Considering the 40 lb curb weight of this anchor, you might as well make the cover out of cast iron. Now that's durable!
They wear out and provide a terrifying ride. Check Dr. Sharp's 100 year old compendium and see for yourself. It also helps to check motorcycle history because motocycle development took right off of bike tech at the turn of the century. You will find that complicated sprung frames generally have problems. There's a reason most bikes are made in diamond frame sytle.
That said, the current generation of sprung frame mountian bikes do provice considerable advantages over rigid frames. You will pay for those advantages. If you've got the cash to play, bully for you and have a great time.
browser incompatibility with IE and weaknesses so far in supporting knowledge workers
I'm not sure what disadvantages exist for "knowledge workers" but I'm sure of the advantages. The stable platform and advanced window managers alone make place keeping and work organization much easier on free platforms. Not having to reorganize yourself every other day because your machine bluescreens is a big deal. I've never been at a loss for email clients, IM, browsers or file managers with free software. KDE's organizer and other office programs close the gap for people who think they need Outlook. Reasonable file formats such as pdf, text, html and images do a better job at what they are supposed to than hideous M$ formats and can be shared with everyone. When you consider that free software has first been adopted at Universities, you come to the realization that GNU was built for knowledge workers in the first place, general and flexible though it may be. What exactly are knowledge workers missing in free software? The slide was vauge, but you seem to have an idea.
The browser incompatibiltity is all on the Microsoft end. It's interesting how they try to spin that as some kind of an advantage. People see it for what it is.
How about, "Rack yourself against 5,000 of the world's best programmers for a 1/5000 chance at $10,000 and an outside shot at a job offer. Salary is negotiable and depends on experience."
The director of the state elections board, Linda Lamone lost my trust when she refused outside help with her voting machines:
"I don't think Diebold would allow it," she said. "It's their proprietary code."
Bam, there it is, she's put some kind of faith in IP above her elected duty to safegaurd elections. It's peposterous that elections officials don't have access to the actual method of vote counting and everything else the machines do. With transparancy you don't need faith in a system, you can have reasonable trust that what you saw and know will work.
Dibold has made themselves a proxy for voting. If you removed the electronic components the flaw becomes apparent. Imagine Dibold hired people to sit in a booth and write down your vote where you could not see what they wrote! After that, the representatives would take the votes in closed bags to a place where they would count them and give the results to the elections commisioners. The electronic system has even larger flaws because it's easier to comprimise thousands of computers than it is to comprimise thousands of people, but no one would trust the low tech analog. Defending faith is such a system over the actual integrity of the system is nuts.
You can have an electronic system with a publically inspected paper trail. If the system is not free or open it can't be trusted because you don't know how it works. It's that simple.
Thanks for pointing to that site. I'd never seen "besgs the question" so well explained. I especially like the little picture of the jack ass. It makes me think of people who bray extraniuosly while others around them are trying to have a reasonable discussion about something important. Yeee-Awwww, Yee-Awwwww! You can't spell. Shut up, ass.
As far as the topic at hand, the poster might have written what they said as:
I can't fucking believe the Director of the Maryland Elections board would stand before an elected committe and say, "trust in the voting process is more important than the integrity of the process."
Linda Lamone might as well have said, "I'm a cheerleader and don't care if people steal elections, so long as the public thinks they have a voice." It's that cynical. Her slavish attitude is best captured by her refusal of outside help:
"I don't think Diebold would allow it," she said. "It's their proprietary code."
In other words, "We will eat whatever dogfood Dibold thinks we should." That kind of "trust" from a watchdog of elections is unacceptable. She's let some wierd faith in "IP" comprimise her duty to safegaurd elections. You don't need trust when you have transparency and can check for yourself. Lamone has put DiBold's ownership of a particular set of software above her own job. That's pathetic.
In this scam a pop up with no navigation and no URL box was presented to the user on top of a genuine web page. This confused the user into thinking the pop up came from citibank
The same scam can be pulled off using frames and normal html. The web can be avoided alltogether - the same scam can be pulled off by telephone call!
Which is just to say that may on/. would say that the luser should be more careful, and stupid people deserve to be swindled.
That's all you. I have a feeling that 99% of comments like that are paid for by M$. Still, common sense is the last line of defense. Any technology can be abused and the customer has to take care not to provide information to people who would already have it if they were who they said they were. An account number and a pid are not needed to verify an email address. No one deserves to be robbed. Stories like this get the word out to prevent further abuse. Only Microsofish people who think knowing details of Microsoft's holes, flaws and workarounds is useful would go around blaming and insulting their customers and friends.
I wouldn't call what they were doing exactly "hacking"
That's because you use the ignroamous definition of "hacking":
They never performed any exploits though, like actually trying to access the web server in russia to see what information they actually had...
instead of the nomral meaning, dissasemble and understand. The people who figured out what was going on with their spam did a better job of understanding a scam than the people being scammed. It was damn good hacking
You're right because it's so damn tough to burn those songs out to a CD and rip them back as MP3, WMA, or whatever.
Going digital to analog and back might not give you the quality you expect. This, of course, is what the makers of DRM want to force on you. Distribute in crummy and lossy formats that don't copy perfectly. It's a perversion of available technology.
The fact is that Apple's encrypted AAC files just barely have any DRM attached to them. It's just enough to appease the record industry
It's enough to appease the record industy because they can tighten the screws later. They first have to move people to crappy formats and make them think they are gaining something before they take it all away.
Face it, short of going out and buying physical CDs for a premium price... you are not going to be able to get much music legally without some sort of DRM
Nonsense. People are already providing music that's more reasonable. DRM is unreasonable because no one asked for it and it breaks. The artists themselves are rebelling.
Would you please provide me one good reason not to use free software? All of the above is circular - use it because you must. I've yet to see any advantages of DRM and encumbering new technology with 100 year old limits and more.
You can tell the difference between 192 kbps and 160 kbps but don't use variable bit rate encoding? Your encoder must suck. Move up to ogg and reduce the size of your music files by half. I can't tell the difference between my CDs at 100 kbps average.
Would it suprise you to learn that I have published papers, articles, and a book on the subjects of distributed and parallel computing as well as object-oriented design theory? I rose through the ranks with technical skills, not business skills. I learned my business skills on the job.
Yes it would surprise me. People who know what they are doing don't look down on others and say things like "they don't know as much as they think they do." Also, people with real accomplishments here have home pages next to their names. I don't see yours and so I assume you have as few as I do, though less social grace.
I have hired as many people since the "bubble-burst" in March 2000 in the US as in India
I cursed you for putting ANY work in India.
I hire "fresh" people and train them routinely.
That does not square with your arrogant post requiring business specific knowledge for reasonable pay. Indeed you are full of surprises, I mean shit.
The spec error I missed was buried in hundreds of pages of specs, reviewed by teams of people.
So teams of people reviewed the spec. Others do the programming. What do you do again? Write papers on object oriented programming?
I feel sorry for people who are so convinced they know everything.
It's the one that was not there. I've been out of work for more than a year now. Idiots like Jeff there have full reign to abuse his people because there are no other offers. I've never ever seen someone really willing to train people in the job specific skills companies so desperatly need. Well, good luck to the idiots who demand skills they won't pay to develop. They have fucked themselves and we all will pay a terrible price.
As an executive who out-sourced some work to India and also hires plenty of US talent,
Executives, as a class, know nothing of the fields they command and are overpaid for what they do. Fuck you for telling people who know more than you do that they don't know enough.
Just today (yes, today), I had a major schedule slip that could cost the company millions over that cheap labor.
I hope it cost you and the people that trusted you plenty. You deserve it for giving industry specific trianing offshore for price while advocating that people need more of the same. Fuck you for denying people the thing you advocate.
Business knowledge is still a damn rarity. Business knowledge and the ability to implement it in systems is almost impossible to find.
That would be because companies have not really hired and trained skilled people since the early 80's, no? So you and your fellow "executives" reap what you sow. Just wait till all those people who do know what they are doing and put up with your BS for the last 20 years reach reitrement. Fuck you 20 years of bullshit, that's what your stock portolio is worth.
Oh yeah, most resumes I see from programmers who think they know the business don't know nearly as much as they think. Spend as much time learning the business as your programming skills, and I think you'll be fine.
You only think you can tell. If you really know so much, you would have caught the spec error that you sent to India AND having fucked up, you could fix it yourself. Fuck you for your attitude and get to work, bitch.
The only problem the ipod has is that it's non-free. When it dies, so goes your music. As well made and beautiful as it is, one day it will die, and it will have outlasted it's non free software on the PC end. Good luck tranfering your music to the next generation toy unless you buy the new toy when it's very expensive and you keep up with new Mac or Windoze OS's. These are costs that make the $300 iPod cost look trivial.
Other than that, it's a great concept. All your music in your pocket, easy music purchase, the works. It makes your tapes and CDs look like the 20 and 30 year old dinosaurs they are. Walkman? Feh!
The free software route is not yet as convenient as the iPod, but it beats the hell out of a walkman. It looks like this. Zaurus rocks. A chepo 64MB Compact Flash card will play more than an hour of music. A 1 or 2 gig card will carry more than half of your music collection, in all free formats as easy to move as coppying files.
Digital Rights Management screws things up. If the iPod people had not worried about that kind of nonsense, their player would not be breaking due to a change in software and it would last as long as a crummy old walkman or diskman. As it is, it still beats the hell out of any windoze thingy but free software trumps all.
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People don't need Microsoft and do better with honest specs, hardware and software.
Must be another Microsoft success story. That's what happens when you do M$'s monkey dance.
Don't expect this to stay server bound. Almost ALL problems with new PCs are due to software issues, the kind of issues you have when you try to close off the source so you can screw your competition by breaking their codes. Any maker's quality would improve by simply ditching the software that breaks it.
Welcome to the free world Gateway, I hope you are not too late to save yourself. You might do better by going further to make up for lost time.
The Girl Scouts of America and the RIAA won, forcing them to pay fees because the Girl Scouts had been singing America The Beautiful around the campfire. If that's not wrong, I'm not sure what is.
The RIAA is an evil extortion ring fighting competition with silly laws.
He parks outside because his garage door still does not work. Dumb laws will come and go, but some things will never change.
Sure they are, but I would not give a shell account to Bill Gates..
-what? is this thing live? I love Big Brother.
OK, I look at porn from time to time. It does not do much for me and I vastly prefer real company. Marriage is a great thing. My wife is as grossed out by the porn I look at as you might be looking at pictures of members of your own sex engaged in painful and degrading acts.
Will I care much if my daughter grows up to look at porn? No. I think she will be bright enough to understand what she's looking at. I don't have a son yet, but I think he will be bright too. None of my kids is going to flunk out of school over porn. I've got an open and honest relationship with my wife and my girl. It's that simple.
Oh yeah, here's anther few simple things to do:
EOM.
On the plastic cover that was removed for the photo? If there is none, it would not be hard to make. Considering the 40 lb curb weight of this anchor, you might as well make the cover out of cast iron. Now that's durable!
That said, the current generation of sprung frame mountian bikes do provice considerable advantages over rigid frames. You will pay for those advantages. If you've got the cash to play, bully for you and have a great time.
I'm not sure what disadvantages exist for "knowledge workers" but I'm sure of the advantages. The stable platform and advanced window managers alone make place keeping and work organization much easier on free platforms. Not having to reorganize yourself every other day because your machine bluescreens is a big deal. I've never been at a loss for email clients, IM, browsers or file managers with free software. KDE's organizer and other office programs close the gap for people who think they need Outlook. Reasonable file formats such as pdf, text, html and images do a better job at what they are supposed to than hideous M$ formats and can be shared with everyone. When you consider that free software has first been adopted at Universities, you come to the realization that GNU was built for knowledge workers in the first place, general and flexible though it may be. What exactly are knowledge workers missing in free software? The slide was vauge, but you seem to have an idea.
The browser incompatibiltity is all on the Microsoft end. It's interesting how they try to spin that as some kind of an advantage. People see it for what it is.
What an impact. Someone hit me before I come up with more bad puns. Rock the hou - ouch.
So what would you say their odds were?
How about, "Rack yourself against 5,000 of the world's best programmers for a 1/5000 chance at $10,000 and an outside shot at a job offer. Salary is negotiable and depends on experience."
"I don't think Diebold would allow it," she said. "It's their proprietary code."
Bam, there it is, she's put some kind of faith in IP above her elected duty to safegaurd elections. It's peposterous that elections officials don't have access to the actual method of vote counting and everything else the machines do. With transparancy you don't need faith in a system, you can have reasonable trust that what you saw and know will work.
Dibold has made themselves a proxy for voting. If you removed the electronic components the flaw becomes apparent. Imagine Dibold hired people to sit in a booth and write down your vote where you could not see what they wrote! After that, the representatives would take the votes in closed bags to a place where they would count them and give the results to the elections commisioners. The electronic system has even larger flaws because it's easier to comprimise thousands of computers than it is to comprimise thousands of people, but no one would trust the low tech analog. Defending faith is such a system over the actual integrity of the system is nuts.
You can have an electronic system with a publically inspected paper trail. If the system is not free or open it can't be trusted because you don't know how it works. It's that simple.
As far as the topic at hand, the poster might have written what they said as:
I can't fucking believe the Director of the Maryland Elections board would stand before an elected committe and say, "trust in the voting process is more important than the integrity of the process."
Linda Lamone might as well have said, "I'm a cheerleader and don't care if people steal elections, so long as the public thinks they have a voice." It's that cynical. Her slavish attitude is best captured by her refusal of outside help:
"I don't think Diebold would allow it," she said. "It's their proprietary code."
In other words, "We will eat whatever dogfood Dibold thinks we should." That kind of "trust" from a watchdog of elections is unacceptable. She's let some wierd faith in "IP" comprimise her duty to safegaurd elections. You don't need trust when you have transparency and can check for yourself. Lamone has put DiBold's ownership of a particular set of software above her own job. That's pathetic.
The same scam can be pulled off using frames and normal html. The web can be avoided alltogether - the same scam can be pulled off by telephone call!
Which is just to say that may on /. would say that the luser should be more careful, and stupid people deserve to be swindled.
That's all you. I have a feeling that 99% of comments like that are paid for by M$. Still, common sense is the last line of defense. Any technology can be abused and the customer has to take care not to provide information to people who would already have it if they were who they said they were. An account number and a pid are not needed to verify an email address. No one deserves to be robbed. Stories like this get the word out to prevent further abuse. Only Microsofish people who think knowing details of Microsoft's holes, flaws and workarounds is useful would go around blaming and insulting their customers and friends.
That's because you use the ignroamous definition of "hacking":
They never performed any exploits though, like actually trying to access the web server in russia to see what information they actually had...
instead of the nomral meaning, dissasemble and understand. The people who figured out what was going on with their spam did a better job of understanding a scam than the people being scammed. It was damn good hacking
Now run along and play with that scam site of your own and the Windoze crap that runs it. You, Bill Gates and Peter Tippett can fold that deffinition of yours till it's all sharp corners and stick it up each others declining sales.
Going digital to analog and back might not give you the quality you expect. This, of course, is what the makers of DRM want to force on you. Distribute in crummy and lossy formats that don't copy perfectly. It's a perversion of available technology.
The fact is that Apple's encrypted AAC files just barely have any DRM attached to them. It's just enough to appease the record industry
It's enough to appease the record industy because they can tighten the screws later. They first have to move people to crappy formats and make them think they are gaining something before they take it all away.
Face it, short of going out and buying physical CDs for a premium price ... you are not going to be able to get much music legally without some sort of DRM
Nonsense. People are already providing music that's more reasonable. DRM is unreasonable because no one asked for it and it breaks. The artists themselves are rebelling.
Would you please provide me one good reason not to use free software? All of the above is circular - use it because you must. I've yet to see any advantages of DRM and encumbering new technology with 100 year old limits and more.
You can tell the difference between 192 kbps and 160 kbps but don't use variable bit rate encoding? Your encoder must suck. Move up to ogg and reduce the size of your music files by half. I can't tell the difference between my CDs at 100 kbps average.
Yes it would surprise me. People who know what they are doing don't look down on others and say things like "they don't know as much as they think they do." Also, people with real accomplishments here have home pages next to their names. I don't see yours and so I assume you have as few as I do, though less social grace.
I have hired as many people since the "bubble-burst" in March 2000 in the US as in India
I cursed you for putting ANY work in India.
I hire "fresh" people and train them routinely.
That does not square with your arrogant post requiring business specific knowledge for reasonable pay. Indeed you are full of surprises, I mean shit.
The spec error I missed was buried in hundreds of pages of specs, reviewed by teams of people.
So teams of people reviewed the spec. Others do the programming. What do you do again? Write papers on object oriented programming? I feel sorry for people who are so convinced they know everything.
Pity yourself.
Executives, as a class, know nothing of the fields they command and are overpaid for what they do. Fuck you for telling people who know more than you do that they don't know enough.
Just today (yes, today), I had a major schedule slip that could cost the company millions over that cheap labor.
I hope it cost you and the people that trusted you plenty. You deserve it for giving industry specific trianing offshore for price while advocating that people need more of the same. Fuck you for denying people the thing you advocate.
Business knowledge is still a damn rarity. Business knowledge and the ability to implement it in systems is almost impossible to find.
That would be because companies have not really hired and trained skilled people since the early 80's, no? So you and your fellow "executives" reap what you sow. Just wait till all those people who do know what they are doing and put up with your BS for the last 20 years reach reitrement. Fuck you 20 years of bullshit, that's what your stock portolio is worth.
Oh yeah, most resumes I see from programmers who think they know the business don't know nearly as much as they think. Spend as much time learning the business as your programming skills, and I think you'll be fine.
You only think you can tell. If you really know so much, you would have caught the spec error that you sent to India AND having fucked up, you could fix it yourself. Fuck you for your attitude and get to work, bitch.
Other than that, it's a great concept. All your music in your pocket, easy music purchase, the works. It makes your tapes and CDs look like the 20 and 30 year old dinosaurs they are. Walkman? Feh!
The free software route is not yet as convenient as the iPod, but it beats the hell out of a walkman. It looks like this. Zaurus rocks. A chepo 64MB Compact Flash card will play more than an hour of music. A 1 or 2 gig card will carry more than half of your music collection, in all free formats as easy to move as coppying files.
Digital Rights Management screws things up. If the iPod people had not worried about that kind of nonsense, their player would not be breaking due to a change in software and it would last as long as a crummy old walkman or diskman. As it is, it still beats the hell out of any windoze thingy but free software trumps all.