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  1. reality and spin rooms. on A Look at Microsoft's Security War Room · · Score: -1, Troll

    The two shall never meet.

    It's shocking they never had a dedicated fix team until now. Should have guessed it.

  2. Why are you here? A better prediction. on Publishers Seek Change in Search Result Content · · Score: -1

    news aggregators produce no useful content of their own.

    Organization is a valuable service. If it were not, you would not be here. Newspapers do some of this but are limited to their own subscriptions and staff time. Aggregation gives you the ability to find the one cluefull article on the subject you care about. Smaller newspapers with cluefull staff are grateful for the reads they would never have gotten in the paper world. Google News YouTube and Slashdot are the future of news.

    Slashdot did not become the New York Times. The New York Times became Slashdot (not yet, give it time).

  3. Noes, it's true! on Heavily Discounted Zune Outpacing iPod Sales · · Score: -1

    Zune is still #1 in the market for $250 brown music players at Steve Ballmer's house.

    Zune is stupid. People who want a cheap plastic player are going to buy one from Walmart(cheaper still, and rocking bottom). Even there, they are probably going to get an ipod unless they go for the very bottom price range. Quality and feature wise, people are better off with just about any other player.

    Thanks Bill, I'm glad the market has not rewarded you this time.

  4. It's never too late to advertise. on MTV Takes on P2P by Making South Park Free · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fresh news generates fresh interest and that's what this is about. Traditional broadcasters are having a hard time building new audiences because we've all gone to the greener pastures of the internet. Cable subscription rates will plummet if they don't keep the interest of young audiences. Somehow they have to convince you to pay $60/month for the advertisement saturated shows someone else chooses to broadcast.

    I'm not going to cry for them when they are gone. The businesses involved have been given considerable public resources, exclusive franchises and other unfair advantages. Instead of building out their networks they done everything possible to hold back the future.

  5. No Change on EMI May Cut Funding To RIAA, IFPI · · Score: -1

    Big Record Label cuts underperforming act. The RIAA has been defeated in court and in the court of public opinion, save heavily lobbied people over sixty. In short, they blew it and are getting hacked.

    Where's the real change? Is there some online music store where I can finally just buy music in FLAC without restrictions and OS limitations? Have they repudiated MediaSentry and other attacks on competitors? Will they start selling to independent music stores? Will they replace their hoplessly outmoded "target market" method that's given us unbearable commercial radio for thirty years? Will they call for de-licensing of broadcast standards? These are things that would indicate EMI is on the road to becoming a music publisher rather than a racket. Firing flunkies is only a good sign if they don't just hire a new bunch that's even worse.

  6. Not everything is better with the brand you know. on Google Purges Thousands of Malware Sites · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Hmmm, it's been about seven years since my browser looked like this. What does that blog say about it?

    Clicking on these links will expose the user to exploits which will infect a vulnerable system (in other words, a system that is not fully up-to-date with the latest patches).

    Those are all Microsoft Windows problems but neither of those words shows up anywhere in the articles. Instead, Google and the user are blamed. Nice.

    The less Windoze there is, the better off everyone is. Malware links are an annoyance to everyone and they directly threaten Google's business model. Google is taking care of their search listings, not making the internet safe for crappy software. We would all be better off without the crappy software that powers criminal botnets powerful enough to manipulate Google but the internet will never be a safe place for Windows.

  7. Re:No OS competition? on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Apple is hard competition.

    Wake me up when hardware makers are not afraid of reasonable standards and vendors can offer every OS with every computer. The States are not laying claim to the relative merits of the software, they are pointing out an overwhelming market reality.

  8. I'll settle for less. on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 0

    Sometimes less is more: Less control and fewer secrets will make more freedom and deny the future you predict:

    We won't know that there is competition in the marketplace until another monopoly has replaced Microsoft's monopoly.

    You might as well say that every company is just as evil as M$ because every person is just as greedy as Bill Gates and as craven as Steve Ballmer. That makes as much sense as M$'s unnatural software monopoly.

    A free software market will favor many vendors of free software. A free market adopts open standards that lower the cost of commerce. It's amazing that M$ has pulled off it's goofey 1980's file format and OS game for so long. The costs of upgrading from one barely adequate OS and Office suit to it's successor has always been much larger than the upfront cost of software and forklift hardware replacement. It's been blood sweat and tears wasted moving and converting everything or losing it forever. Market rejection of Vista shows that both home and business users are getting smart. Given the choice of Vista or the highway, people have chosen to limp along with what they have and are looking for another ride. Free software is just what they are looking for because users who write software make sure software does not screw users. Another plus is a great choice of vendors because software that has no owners can be fixed by anyone. Many winners, such as IBM, will emerge but none will have the kind of advantages M$ has now: complete ownership of a platform full of secrets and booby traps. Red Hat can not run Novel out of business though dirty tricks, they can only compete fairly. The world will be a better place without that kind of waste and the billion dollars a month M$ wastes in advertising to convince people that nothing could be better.

  9. Crazy Article! on Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed · · Score: -1

    Good grief, that's a foolish and dangerous article. I was expecting an attack on the linear no dose threshold model or similar. Instead I find a statisticless review of a "study" of Soviet era records that implies exposure to plutonium gas, nuclear fallout and 0.45 Gy doses are no big deal. There is little debate about the harm done by larger doses, contamination and heavy metal poisoning. These things will shorten your life if they don't kill you outright.

    The "evil incarnate" is that people were exposed without choice and unnecessarily. People were used as robots so that money could be spent on the pleasures of those in power. Great swaths of land were polluted in a way that makes the most awefull US transgressions look miniscule. The result of their hard work and sacrifice was bomb material. The regime that did this has been repudiated, even by it's successors who committed similar atrocities. It's records should not be trusted witout extensive verification by survivors and even then they are dangerous because memories fade.

  10. Ha ha, nice to see you come clean. on Vista Makes CNET UK's List of "Worst Consumer Tech" · · Score: -1

    How much did Microsoft pay you?
    [Dedazo, modded troll] To argue with random morons on the interwebs? About $4.25 a day, but I'm hoping to get a rise soon.

    It looks like he got a rise out of you. I hope you get your raise though. It gives me great joy to think of Bill Gates wasting tens of dollars on your drivel.

  11. Idiotic. on How the BSA Squeezes the Little Guys · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Personally I think it's fairly idiotic for businesses to not be completely above-board when it comes to software licensing.

    True. You might also question the wisdom of businesses that insist on software that comes with hard to track licenses and owners that offer cash rewards to employees that report mistakes. This is just one of the many ways non free software betrays it's users. You would think people would know better by now.

  12. Vista impact to bottom line, zero. M$ is Hosed. on Researchers Sour on Vista Service Pack 1 Performance · · Score: -1

    That's a rosy view of M$'s performance that falls short of reality in several ways. The most important indicator of trouble for M$ is Vista's failure. Zune and Xbox are not going to make up for the lost monopoly and the world will be a better place without M$ taking rents that rival Walmart and ExxonMobile.

    Despite billions of dollars and spending and six years of coding, Vista and Office 2007 have had no impact on M$'s bottom line. Because of the effort M$ put into Vista, it's failure in the marketplace is more serious than the failure of ME was. Because sales of Vista are actually declining, things are only going to get worse for them. Vista is such a dissaster that vendors are headed for the Linux and Mac exits. Wall Street has taken notice too.

    M$ screwed the pooch with Vista and SP1's failure to deliver seals the deal. Vista and the whole Windoze PC market are going to have a blue Christmas as customers avoid the Vista downgrade. The Eee, Dell and Everex's Linux based computers will sell even better for it and early adopters quit waiting form M$ to get it's act together. It's going to take M$ down. 80% of M$ profits come from OS and Office sales and the rest is not competitive without the M$ monopoly. M$ tried to sell you out to the entertainment industry, and has failed miserably. Their little monopoly is going down.

    This is good news for everyone.

  13. No one wants Vista. on Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details · · Score: -1, Troll

    My experience is that it Just Works. Everything is set up with a minimum of hassle and prompting, the defaults are sensible, and most of the eye candy has at least some redeeming value. ... I'm not a huge Vista booster or anything. The above makes me sound like I am,

    That's the way I would describe Mepis, Ubuntu or any other reasonable gnu/linux distribution.

    Others have described Vista as anything but well organized, convenient or functional. You can start with the GUI you praise and go from there to the usual anti-competitive crap and brand new restrictions that fuck everyone but M$. No one, but softies say what you do. Not even the Wintel rag people like Vista. Even Dvorak says Vista should be scrapped. That makes you the only Vista booster around.

  14. no one has ever thought toture was useful. on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These protections were brought to the American shores by Puritans, and were later incorporated into the United States Constitution through its Bill of Rights.

    Thomas Jefferson was not a Puritian.

    People throughout history have realized that torture is like a mirror. Under duress, people will say whatever the person in control wants to hear. Tacitus wrote as much in the second century AD. Only the ignorant, thoughtless or cruel believe torture is useful for investigation. People who practice tortue know the results better than anyone else but they too are pawns. Those who advocate torture do not seek information, they seek control through terror. Nothing is more terrifying than a crowd of cruel halfwits who are so self righteous they demand torture. Their hatefilled faces are echoed by the agony of their victims, but all of it is a reflection of their leader's twisted souls.

    It is a tool of tyrants, religious fanatics and other evil people who think of themselves as better than you. It is always a crime.

  15. Privacy Concerns. on Turning E-Mail into a Social Network · · Score: 1, Informative

    I thought I already took care of this by creating mailboxes for people or subjects that matter and filters to put messages in them. It's worked pretty well for quite ...

    Yes, this is a fairly standard email client tool that could use a few minor improvements without third party disclosure. Kmail makes it easy to organize your email with a right click create filter option. It's also bright enough to notice mail lists so you can organize that way too. This can be improved on by noticing how often you email those on your filter list and making those folders more prominent, but that's not important. What matters is that you know what folders have mail from what person. You already know what mail is important to you better than any algorithm can tell. Third party interest in your contacts is creep to say the least and it should be against the law for ISPs to collect and store the information.

    Really free networks can help insure privacy by letting people run their own encrypted mail and messaging services. The real reason ISPs and Government have forced ISP only mail service is so they can wiretap and advertises more easily. Spam has not been defeated by blocking port 25.

  16. ALL FUD, It's Free Sofware. on Google's Shadow Over Firefox · · Score: 0

    I'm sure MS would love to have more traffic pointed at their search, regardless of the source.

    M$ has offered a free software project money? The same people they drove nearly to extinction ten years ago? This is news to me and it makes no sense whatsoever as does this whole troll article.

    Can you tell me exactly how M$ would get any traffic to their website by giving the Mozilla Foundation money? I can promise you that 100% of gnu/linux distributions would compile Google as the default search engine and that there would be plenty of places to get the same for Windoze. Look at Konqueror, Safari and Opera as examples of people choosing excellence when given a free choice.

    M$ can't force crap onto the free software wold anymore than Google can. Respect and usage in the free software world come from utility and function. Community developed software can't be bought and sold.

  17. You Sank My Enterprise! on The World's Biggest Botnets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ah, but you fail it!

    In other words, stupid people and people who dont care about security punish the rest of us. How nice. You dont know how much I would appreciate a "Internet License" to show basic security and protections on the net.

    Anyone who thinks non free software can be secured should be denied said license. FTFA:

    This shift has even awakened enterprises, which historically have either looked the other way or been in denial about bots infiltrating their organizations. (See Bots Rise in the Enterprise.)

    If you think you can do better than Fortune 100 support teams, you are sorely mistaken. They have all the time, money and employees they want to throw at this problem and still get their ass kicked. People trying to tweak non free software are working in the dark and will always be surprised. No matter how much they spend, they can never fix the problem.

  18. They suck and it's time for them to go. on Ballmer Calls Android a "Press Release" · · Score: 0

    Microsoft has a great share of the mobile market and their software is actually quite good nowadays.

    M$'s vendor manipulation has done to the mobile market what Vista is doing to the PC market. Their ability to push crap onto "willing" partners kills markets and the partners eventually. People don't buy stuff that does not work and Windoze mobile is the pits. CompuUSA and DSG are good examples.

    It's all downhill for M$ at this point. Vendors and handset makers are tired of losing money for M$ and are jumping on free software. Google is going to clean M$'s clock in mobile computing. M$ will soon be driven out of the PC market as well. Non free software can not compete. Sucktard owners like M$ never did anything for anyone and need to go.

  19. Only way he could have gotten his results. on Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Gets Axed · · Score: -1

    From ZDNet [zdnet.com]:

    One of Scotts biggest efforts to date has been to centralize IT operations, pulling functions in from the business units and in some cases stomping out shadow IT functions that inevitably sprout in such a tech-smart company. The company has consolidated 26 data centers to five and eliminated about 1,000 applications in two years, with the goal of taking out another 1,000.

    Ballmer found out Scott was using Samba. It was ugly.

    The above is a joke taken from pure imagination. Any resemblance to fact is purely co-incidental.

  20. Software not Hardware Problems. on The Dying PC Market · · Score: 0

    Maybe the lowering pc sales is a result of the quality of computers and software, rather than the other gadgets being that good?

    Declining sales are a direct result of the M$ domination and digital restrictions. No one wants Vista but they would it it did what half of the set top boxes did. People want MythTV and a website that shares their photo album. Free software offers the best quality versions of what people want and Japan has more than enough network to support it. Thanks to the M$ domination it's hard to get a PC with anything but Vista and sales reflect this world wide, not just in Japan. Hardware is more than capable but it's been crippled by media publishers who would be happy to see general purpose computing and the internet dissapear.

  21. US Patriots use Free Software on $200 Linux PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart · · Score: -1, Interesting

    The Windoze monoculture makes the USA a sitting duck for criminals and terrorists. We pay the price every day in terms of spam, DoS attacks and other fraud. Criminals and terrorists alike have a tremendous platform which they can use as they please all thanks to the pathetic design of Windoze and M$'s coercive monopoly. Free software presents a diversity of platforms that will never be abused the same way. It also protects rights that are central to US law. There's nothing patriotic about giving your money to Bill Gates and there's a lot wrong with what he gives you in return.

  22. Game Over. on $200 Linux PCs On Sale At Wal-Mart · · Score: -1

    I though that there was impossible to get a computer without Windows.

    M$'s model is in deep shit. As the price of computers fall, the industry will not be able to support software licenses. Software at $40/PC is too much when the retail price is $200, and that's where retail prices are going because there's nothing important a $700 PC can do that this $200 can't. The industry's shift to free software has already happened in servers and embedded systems for similar reasons. It's about to happen where you can see it. No one really cares about M$, they just want their computers to work.

  23. Breaking the Internet. on Google Caught in Comcast Traffic Filtering? · · Score: -1

    And then what are you left with? ... Breaking the internet by refusing to route packets directly between end-users and only routing them to major sites?

    What, like they did with email? Yes, the evil fuckers would rather do things that way.

  24. Re:LOL on FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database · · Score: -1

    Citizen! The following complaint about Canada has been recorded and your name has been added to the Canadian malcontent watch list:

    The USA has finally outlawed complaining! I'm moving down there now.

    It's malcontents like you who make life dangerous for the rest of us. Based on this, you will be denied entry to the USA, employment, housing and healthcare. Why do you hate your freedom like that?

    Your record may be expunged at the Office of Fatherland Defense any working Tuesday. You will be fingerprinted and inseminated before being allowed to fill out the requisite forms and writing, "I Love Canada's Glorious Rulers" 300 times on the head of a nail.

    Good Day and thank you for paying your taxes promptly.

  25. No Joke. Re:You got to be kidding me.. on Vista Sales Rate Fell Last Quarter · · Score: -1, Troll

    Twitter the troll made slashdot main page? WTF?!

    Once or twice a month, thanks, but it's not me it's the news you M$ Fanboys don't like to hear. This time, it's a 9% drop in Vista sales. Got something useful to say about that?