Many here are obviously against anything they see as an encroachment of their privacy. I agree with them to varying degrees. But in this case, where would you draw the line and why?
I'd draw the line at any government study because it's a waste of money. Due to false positives, medical drug use and a lack of control population, I doubt this kind of study is worth more than the subject mater. The money is better spent on ordinary police work, where real crimes are investigated and people who are really a nuisance are locked up. If you can get a warrent, you can test my piss. If I'm intoxicated, you should lock me up before I hurt someone or myself. The best way to fight the negative consequences of drug abuse and addiction is to lock up the abusers when they misbehave. Everything else is a fishing expedition that's going to harass people who never bothered anyone at best and can be used to jail political opposition at worst. What? There won't be any enforcement over positive results? Then what are you wasting my money on?
No, not at all! Return them to a pharmacist for disposal.
So, what do you think he does? Eat them? I doubt it but whoops, that's in the waste water too. God help the hospital and the people who live around it.
There are as many uncontrolled factors as there are people and houses, which casts serious doubt on this study. You might wonder what kinds of shampoo, food and other things commonly put down drains will cause false positives. Some field tests are known to respond to harmless substances. Other people have pointed out that not all drugs put down the toilet have been consumed. Intentional dumping would look like several people's bad habit. To control for these things, the researchers need to monitor a population that does not exist: one that has hospitals, normal purchases and no illicit drug use.
All this freeloading removes money from the industry.... and who's going to whine when there's insufficient bandwidth for everything you want to do?
Sharing is good, OK? No money is removed by people who would never have bought the service anyway. If you want to lose customers and really remove money from the industry, just try telling them they HAVE to "secure" their wireless and fine them for not doing it. There's not a lot between people who don't care and those who are copyright warrior about it. The vast majority of people would drop the service if they could not use it as they please or it became a pain in the ass.
Why should he "police" anything. The copyright holder has to prove you did something wrong. Policing it their job and there's nothing wrong with sharing internet access.
You are a perfect example of the, insulting, divisive and hypocritical bullshit M$ puts out:
"Debian is the one true distribution" and "freedom, any way you want it as long as it's my way" is just quasi-religious static that is neither useful nor particularly fun to deal with.
That's a strawman which mostly reflects M$'s bad behavior. Those are words and phrases you repeat that have nothing to do with me. I advocate freedom and point out the problems created by those who would like to take your freedom away. People who value freedom made Debian, which you can take or leave. The only software group in the world that really acts like your strawman, or Linus' frothing at the mouth advocate, is M$.
Linus may have avoided Debian because of bullshit about how hard and "extreme" it is. This has nothing to do with technical excellence, user experience or anything else important. That would be an example of him not thinking things through well enough because he claims those important things guide his decisions. That he would even use language like "frothing" shows that he's fallen for M$ propaganda.
It's more troubling still if he does not understand the relationship between freedom and technical excellence.
More people are coming around to the RMS view of the world because he was right. Prominent examples are Shuttleworth and Lessig. There's a fundamental truth to the four software freedom that cuts through FUD and bullshit. That truth is not extreme, and it certainly does not froth at the mouth. You can have and distribute my work, so long as you don't use it to deprive others of the freedoms others have given me. If your code does not offer me that freedom, I don't want it. These days, there is very little non free code that anyone actually needs and that is because people have realized the value of freedom.
Linus's famed aversion to politics shows here. He needs to be more open minded. I think he realizes that the free software crowd is more on his side than the commercial crowd, but he's uncritically accepted a lot of bullshit from them.
Linux took a lot more pragmatic approach to what used to be called "Free Software" (and is still called that by some), and moved it from being a fringe and sometimes pretty extreme ideology to be something that was just "technically better".
And I'll certainly take some of the credit for that personally. I dislike the frothing-at-the-mouth ideology (to me, ideology should be something personal, not something you push on other people)
This view shows that he has not thought enough about the issues. Linux views people who have a different view as "pushing". If I were to use the same mindset, I'd say he was pushing a commercial agenda that threatens real software freedom. Because many more people look up to and will listen to Linus, whatever he advocates gets much more "push" than anything I say. If he paid more attention, he would "froth" more than me because he has much more of his life and energy invested in free software than a regular user like me ever will. A few questions down he hopes hardware vendors who don't cooperate, "die a painful death." People who go with "technically better" at the expense of their freedom soon have neither.
His aversion to politics has cost him - and that's the sign of a real idealog. Debian is not hard to use, even for a non technical user like myself. I'd say it was easier than Fedora in all things but adding non free software. Debian derivatives are easier still. Mepis, Ubuntu, Xandros and others come with all the non-free toys you could ask for. Mepis and Ubuntu have excellent compatibilty with the rest of the Debian tree, so you don't lose much more than a little stability and trust for the non free inclusions. My use of Debian has exposed me to the real beauty and stability of free software and I'm glad I made the jump from Red Hat years ago.
The thing that he should realize is that technical excellence happens when you have software freedom. In a world of bad patent laws and "trusted computing", there will be no new Linux kernels, or non you can run on commodity hardware. Future students in Linus's position will be thwarted if we don't guard the freedom that made his work possible.
That's just your opinion, and it's no more valid than anyone else's.
It's my opinion, the reporter's opinion, Disney's opinion and it was M$'s opinion. Here's what they article said:
The battle over the competing high-definition DVD technologies has sputtered in recent months as Blu-ray discs have emerged as the front-runner. Blu-ray titles are sharply outselling HD offerings, major retailers like Target are stocking only Blu-ray players, and Blockbuster recently said it would carry Blu-ray exclusively.
Last week, the Walt Disney Company said it would release one of its best-known animated movies, Sleeping Beauty, on Blu-ray. There is no longer any doubt that Blu-ray is the clear successor to standard DVDs, said Bob Chapek, president of Disneys home entertainment unit.
$300 million says M$ was more than a little convinced as well. That's more than they paid out in some of the anti-trust, copyright and patent violations suits they have lost over the years.
You know, we could live in a world where people had real choices and standards were formed by excellence. Right now you can get both. Blue Ray was the clear winner and that's why the deals were made. It would be one thing if they were just trying to keep their format alive, but they are using it to kill the competition instead. That's one big dumb business scratching the back of another and both of them screwing you and me.
This has anti-trust written all over it and we can only hope there's a conviction and a real remedy this time. It's funny how the Viacom executives did not stay bought and squealed on the deal. Crooked deals are like that because you can never pay off everyone. Now that they are caught, the investigation should start.
One things is for sure - they all rely on proprietary Microsoft produts.... [and they use] A license that governs USE of the software
So really, this is more of the same and another demonstration of what a bunch of control freaks the people at M$ really are. It's not enough for them that they own the OS. It's not enough that people want to write applications for that OS and that gives them sales and user value. No, they have to specify exactly how distribute and use anything that touches Windoze. They so fear losing their dinky little monopoly that they must control every detail of every kind of computing done.
Like anyone with a functioning brain, I'd blame the moron who broke my computer by screwing around with the junction box instead of looking for excuses to blame a third party against whom I've got some schoolboy grudge.
I'm an astroturfer who works for one of the many firms M$ hires to crapflood and harass Slashdot. You might know me because me and my friends post several thousand worthless, distracting and dishonest posts a day. I don't believe the things I post or enjoy it, I do it for the money. Most of the people I know think I'm a whore and it's true, I'll do just about anything but work for five bucks an hour.
I use terms like "zealot", "weird" and "hate" whenever I see something that might be bad for my employer. Like I said before, I don't have to be clever to get my job done. I just have to be annoying as all hell and disrupt conversations.
I don't really do a good job for M$. Polls confirm the backlash such abusive and dishonest "competition" and advertising create. M$'s credibility is matched only by that of an AC or the thousands of M$ loving sock puppets I've created. I hate the people I harass almost as much as M$, what I do, the people I with and myself. Most people ignore me and that's just fine because, you know, I'm a whore.
There are some clear lines, and some very fuzzy ones here.
Most communities have very clear ideas about what kind of data collecting and sharing are abusive. A grocer who told people about so and so's booze buying was once called a gossip. Now credit cards and vendors alike collect and sell that kind of information, in defiance of community standards. If the extent of collection and selling becomes known, people are going to be offended and make laws against the practices.
Don't waste your time on trying to 'control' what is being collected, the bad guys won't pay any heed and the good guys already have enough problems on their plate. Instead, spend your time on pushing for this information to be handled responsibly and INTELLIGENTLY, and not just as an afterthough.
The only way to stop misuse is to stop collection. A grocer, for example, will not collect or store identifying information if that's against the law. They then won't be able to sell your alcohol, birth control and over the counter medical purchases to the insurance company. Trying to regulate that kind of thing after it's collected is the afterthought that's doomed to fail. Other institutions, like libraries should delete records when they are no longer needed to account for books and no other organizations should have access to the temporary records.
The problem with these closed systems, any closed system really, is the inability to find and locate not only the errors, but the correct data either.
The real problem is that people are collecting the data in the first place. People have no idea how much information is being stored about them by companies like ChoicePoint and how that data is just a request away from anyone. This is collected without their knowledge, permission or benefit. It is always used against them. At the very least, vendors and service providers should have to disclose what they are collecting and who they sell it to. At the best, most of it would be against the law to collect. Technology has created new threats and new laws need to be made to counter these threats that economic advantage alone won't eliminate.
TIA lives, obviously. A real regime change might help.
a project discontinued while continuing it under a new name. (note: definition also adopted by microsoft regarding the trusted computing project)
You should see what they did to parts of BSD. If they have their way with patents, Win8 will be another version of Debian. If you like your liberty, this also requires regime change.
Windows ME sucked hard, too, and it didn't seem to really push many users off of Windows -- they just skipped that version and Microsoft had to flog their developers a little harder to get something better
M$'s advantages are all due to false perceptions. When those perceptions end, the market will shift suddenly because there is a tremendous free software cost and performance advantage. Vista, Zune and Xbox go a long way to burying the M$ invincibility myth. The vendor revolt is on and that really is the end of M$'s dominance.
Free software superiority is now clear. In 1998, most gnu/linux distributions could claim performance and feature advantages over both 95 and 98, but there was a significant installation and file format lock advantage to M$. With Vista and Office 2007, these advantages have all reversed in favor of gnu/linux. Each new distribution of Windoze has offered less and run into more user resistance. XP took three years to make itself look like the majority M$ share. Vista is a significant performance downgrade that took six years to develop. M$ will release a SP1 but this won't fix things. They might release a chain of OS releases like they did before XP, but they don't have the resources to get them ready. In the mean time, gnu/linux distributions have been through three or four release cycles that each offered real improvements in performance and features.
my Pentium 1 - 133Mhz CPU could play MP3s. The tiny 'couple mW' CPU in the ipod shuffle can play MP3s. You expect me to believe that a modern computer is having CPU contention issues over the processing power to play a MP3?
This is a non free software issue. XP does not have this issue on the same hardware. This leaves Vista's obnoxious digital restrictions as the operative change, and we can safely blame that for this problem and many other media issues. Non free software devolves to this in time and people finally seem to be rejecting it.
Digital restrictions suck performance but still don't work. M$ knows this but plunges on anyway. The result is that Vista is a failure by every measure and 2007 may be the Year of Linux that we have all been waiting for. Vista is a great example of everything that's wrong with non free software.
So enlighten us here, why didn't this happen last Patch Tuesday? Or the one before?
You don't take enlightenment very well, dedazo. You already commented in the thread where I linked to articles showing that this was the second biggest patch tuesday in 2007, which would make it one of the biggest ever. M$ has been setting all recent OS to accept these things by default, so each month gets bigger than the last by the number of new XP or Vista machines sold and not replaced with gnu/linux. Other people here have shown that this mega patch had some 50 packages to it. Finally, the people at Skype know what they are talking about and have eaten considerable crow over this so as not to anger M$. I can cast these perls at your feet all day, but pigs like you are happier in shit.
SKYPE is blaming Skype for the outage quite contrary to the completely misleading headline on this article.
No, I don't know better. They have takes some part of the blame but a M$ anomaly was the initiating cause. To be fair to Skype you have to admit that 85% of the world's computers turning off at the same time is not an event a normal person would predict nor could such an event be tested in advance. M$'s synchronized forced updates are a menace.
NTFS is a journaling file system, and it has been since the early Windows NT days.
Pardon me for not knowing or caring about the exact specification of a trade secret. Let's go to the heavily modified Wiki page on ntfs:
Internally, NTFS uses B+ trees to index file system data. Although complex to implement, this allows faster file open times in most cases. A file system journal is used in order to guarantee the integrity of the file system itself (but not of each individual file).
Without individual file protection, your registry will still be hosed if you suffer the wrong kind of power failure. Let me know when their file system catches up to ext3, Reiser or when they get rid of that stupid and fragile registry.
So, is it my fault or M$'s fault your system is hosed if I flip the switch while you try to power up your mighty NT box?
I like asking that question because it's a no win for M$. If it's my fault your box dies, then M$ is responsible for the Skype meltdown. If it's M$'s fault, you can blame Skype for not being robust enough, but M$ is likewise fragile. It's really rhetorical because I believe both are true. M$ is fragile and shitty and that's what gave Skype a headache.
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Many here are obviously against anything they see as an encroachment of their privacy. I agree with them to varying degrees. But in this case, where would you draw the line and why?
I'd draw the line at any government study because it's a waste of money. Due to false positives, medical drug use and a lack of control population, I doubt this kind of study is worth more than the subject mater. The money is better spent on ordinary police work, where real crimes are investigated and people who are really a nuisance are locked up. If you can get a warrent, you can test my piss. If I'm intoxicated, you should lock me up before I hurt someone or myself. The best way to fight the negative consequences of drug abuse and addiction is to lock up the abusers when they misbehave. Everything else is a fishing expedition that's going to harass people who never bothered anyone at best and can be used to jail political opposition at worst. What? There won't be any enforcement over positive results? Then what are you wasting my money on?
No, not at all! Return them to a pharmacist for disposal.
So, what do you think he does? Eat them? I doubt it but whoops, that's in the waste water too. God help the hospital and the people who live around it.
There are as many uncontrolled factors as there are people and houses, which casts serious doubt on this study. You might wonder what kinds of shampoo, food and other things commonly put down drains will cause false positives. Some field tests are known to respond to harmless substances. Other people have pointed out that not all drugs put down the toilet have been consumed. Intentional dumping would look like several people's bad habit. To control for these things, the researchers need to monitor a population that does not exist: one that has hospitals, normal purchases and no illicit drug use.
All this freeloading removes money from the industry.... and who's going to whine when there's insufficient bandwidth for everything you want to do?
Sharing is good, OK? No money is removed by people who would never have bought the service anyway. If you want to lose customers and really remove money from the industry, just try telling them they HAVE to "secure" their wireless and fine them for not doing it. There's not a lot between people who don't care and those who are copyright warrior about it. The vast majority of people would drop the service if they could not use it as they please or it became a pain in the ass.
Why should he "police" anything. The copyright holder has to prove you did something wrong. Policing it their job and there's nothing wrong with sharing internet access.
You are a perfect example of the, insulting, divisive and hypocritical bullshit M$ puts out:
That's a strawman which mostly reflects M$'s bad behavior. Those are words and phrases you repeat that have nothing to do with me. I advocate freedom and point out the problems created by those who would like to take your freedom away. People who value freedom made Debian, which you can take or leave. The only software group in the world that really acts like your strawman, or Linus' frothing at the mouth advocate, is M$.
Linus may have avoided Debian because of bullshit about how hard and "extreme" it is. This has nothing to do with technical excellence, user experience or anything else important. That would be an example of him not thinking things through well enough because he claims those important things guide his decisions. That he would even use language like "frothing" shows that he's fallen for M$ propaganda.
It's more troubling still if he does not understand the relationship between freedom and technical excellence.
More people are coming around to the RMS view of the world because he was right. Prominent examples are Shuttleworth and Lessig. There's a fundamental truth to the four software freedom that cuts through FUD and bullshit. That truth is not extreme, and it certainly does not froth at the mouth. You can have and distribute my work, so long as you don't use it to deprive others of the freedoms others have given me. If your code does not offer me that freedom, I don't want it. These days, there is very little non free code that anyone actually needs and that is because people have realized the value of freedom.
Linus's famed aversion to politics shows here. He needs to be more open minded. I think he realizes that the free software crowd is more on his side than the commercial crowd, but he's uncritically accepted a lot of bullshit from them.
This view shows that he has not thought enough about the issues. Linux views people who have a different view as "pushing". If I were to use the same mindset, I'd say he was pushing a commercial agenda that threatens real software freedom. Because many more people look up to and will listen to Linus, whatever he advocates gets much more "push" than anything I say. If he paid more attention, he would "froth" more than me because he has much more of his life and energy invested in free software than a regular user like me ever will. A few questions down he hopes hardware vendors who don't cooperate, "die a painful death." People who go with "technically better" at the expense of their freedom soon have neither.
His aversion to politics has cost him - and that's the sign of a real idealog. Debian is not hard to use, even for a non technical user like myself. I'd say it was easier than Fedora in all things but adding non free software. Debian derivatives are easier still. Mepis, Ubuntu, Xandros and others come with all the non-free toys you could ask for. Mepis and Ubuntu have excellent compatibilty with the rest of the Debian tree, so you don't lose much more than a little stability and trust for the non free inclusions. My use of Debian has exposed me to the real beauty and stability of free software and I'm glad I made the jump from Red Hat years ago.
The thing that he should realize is that technical excellence happens when you have software freedom. In a world of bad patent laws and "trusted computing", there will be no new Linux kernels, or non you can run on commodity hardware. Future students in Linus's position will be thwarted if we don't guard the freedom that made his work possible.
My biggest fan, AC, jokes:
Priapism - It will, if they use M$ Winblozes and big dumb company products and services on the mission which takes aways their freedoms.
Digital restrictions and bugs are more like a cock block, but Micro Soft has always promised that.
The thing that really scared me was this:
extreme space exploration can help make living sustainably sexy
I think they meant that sustainable living would look sexy, not that space exploration gives you Priapism.
That's just your opinion, and it's no more valid than anyone else's.
It's my opinion, the reporter's opinion, Disney's opinion and it was M$'s opinion. Here's what they article said:
$300 million says M$ was more than a little convinced as well. That's more than they paid out in some of the anti-trust, copyright and patent violations suits they have lost over the years.
You know, we could live in a world where people had real choices and standards were formed by excellence. Right now you can get both. Blue Ray was the clear winner and that's why the deals were made. It would be one thing if they were just trying to keep their format alive, but they are using it to kill the competition instead. That's one big dumb business scratching the back of another and both of them screwing you and me.
This has anti-trust written all over it and we can only hope there's a conviction and a real remedy this time. It's funny how the Viacom executives did not stay bought and squealed on the deal. Crooked deals are like that because you can never pay off everyone. Now that they are caught, the investigation should start.
One things is for sure - they all rely on proprietary Microsoft produts. ... [and they use] A license that governs USE of the software
So really, this is more of the same and another demonstration of what a bunch of control freaks the people at M$ really are. It's not enough for them that they own the OS. It's not enough that people want to write applications for that OS and that gives them sales and user value. No, they have to specify exactly how distribute and use anything that touches Windoze. They so fear losing their dinky little monopoly that they must control every detail of every kind of computing done.
Like anyone with a functioning brain, I'd blame the moron who broke my computer by screwing around with the junction box instead of looking for excuses to blame a third party against whom I've got some schoolboy grudge.
Good work, AC. Now, realize that M$ is the moron and Skype is the broken computer.
Hi,
I'm an astroturfer who works for one of the many firms M$ hires to crapflood and harass Slashdot. You might know me because me and my friends post several thousand worthless, distracting and dishonest posts a day. I don't believe the things I post or enjoy it, I do it for the money. Most of the people I know think I'm a whore and it's true, I'll do just about anything but work for five bucks an hour.
I use terms like "zealot", "weird" and "hate" whenever I see something that might be bad for my employer. Like I said before, I don't have to be clever to get my job done. I just have to be annoying as all hell and disrupt conversations.
I don't really do a good job for M$. Polls confirm the backlash such abusive and dishonest "competition" and advertising create. M$'s credibility is matched only by that of an AC or the thousands of M$ loving sock puppets I've created. I hate the people I harass almost as much as M$, what I do, the people I with and myself. Most people ignore me and that's just fine because, you know, I'm a whore.
There are some clear lines, and some very fuzzy ones here.
Most communities have very clear ideas about what kind of data collecting and sharing are abusive. A grocer who told people about so and so's booze buying was once called a gossip. Now credit cards and vendors alike collect and sell that kind of information, in defiance of community standards. If the extent of collection and selling becomes known, people are going to be offended and make laws against the practices.
Don't waste your time on trying to 'control' what is being collected, the bad guys won't pay any heed and the good guys already have enough problems on their plate. Instead, spend your time on pushing for this information to be handled responsibly and INTELLIGENTLY, and not just as an afterthough.
The only way to stop misuse is to stop collection. A grocer, for example, will not collect or store identifying information if that's against the law. They then won't be able to sell your alcohol, birth control and over the counter medical purchases to the insurance company. Trying to regulate that kind of thing after it's collected is the afterthought that's doomed to fail. Other institutions, like libraries should delete records when they are no longer needed to account for books and no other organizations should have access to the temporary records.
The problem with these closed systems, any closed system really, is the inability to find and locate not only the errors, but the correct data either.
The real problem is that people are collecting the data in the first place. People have no idea how much information is being stored about them by companies like ChoicePoint and how that data is just a request away from anyone. This is collected without their knowledge, permission or benefit. It is always used against them. At the very least, vendors and service providers should have to disclose what they are collecting and who they sell it to. At the best, most of it would be against the law to collect. Technology has created new threats and new laws need to be made to counter these threats that economic advantage alone won't eliminate.
TIA lives, obviously. A real regime change might help.
a project discontinued while continuing it under a new name. (note: definition also adopted by microsoft regarding the trusted computing project)
You should see what they did to parts of BSD. If they have their way with patents, Win8 will be another version of Debian. If you like your liberty, this also requires regime change.
Windows ME sucked hard, too, and it didn't seem to really push many users off of Windows -- they just skipped that version and Microsoft had to flog their developers a little harder to get something better
M$'s advantages are all due to false perceptions. When those perceptions end, the market will shift suddenly because there is a tremendous free software cost and performance advantage. Vista, Zune and Xbox go a long way to burying the M$ invincibility myth. The vendor revolt is on and that really is the end of M$'s dominance.
Free software superiority is now clear. In 1998, most gnu/linux distributions could claim performance and feature advantages over both 95 and 98, but there was a significant installation and file format lock advantage to M$. With Vista and Office 2007, these advantages have all reversed in favor of gnu/linux. Each new distribution of Windoze has offered less and run into more user resistance. XP took three years to make itself look like the majority M$ share. Vista is a significant performance downgrade that took six years to develop. M$ will release a SP1 but this won't fix things. They might release a chain of OS releases like they did before XP, but they don't have the resources to get them ready. In the mean time, gnu/linux distributions have been through three or four release cycles that each offered real improvements in performance and features.
my Pentium 1 - 133Mhz CPU could play MP3s. The tiny 'couple mW' CPU in the ipod shuffle can play MP3s. You expect me to believe that a modern computer is having CPU contention issues over the processing power to play a MP3?
This is a non free software issue. XP does not have this issue on the same hardware. This leaves Vista's obnoxious digital restrictions as the operative change, and we can safely blame that for this problem and many other media issues. Non free software devolves to this in time and people finally seem to be rejecting it.
Digital restrictions suck performance but still don't work. M$ knows this but plunges on anyway. The result is that Vista is a failure by every measure and 2007 may be the Year of Linux that we have all been waiting for. Vista is a great example of everything that's wrong with non free software.
So enlighten us here, why didn't this happen last Patch Tuesday? Or the one before?
You don't take enlightenment very well, dedazo. You already commented in the thread where I linked to articles showing that this was the second biggest patch tuesday in 2007, which would make it one of the biggest ever. M$ has been setting all recent OS to accept these things by default, so each month gets bigger than the last by the number of new XP or Vista machines sold and not replaced with gnu/linux. Other people here have shown that this mega patch had some 50 packages to it. Finally, the people at Skype know what they are talking about and have eaten considerable crow over this so as not to anger M$. I can cast these perls at your feet all day, but pigs like you are happier in shit.
SKYPE is blaming Skype for the outage quite contrary to the completely misleading headline on this article.
No, I don't know better. They have takes some part of the blame but a M$ anomaly was the initiating cause. To be fair to Skype you have to admit that 85% of the world's computers turning off at the same time is not an event a normal person would predict nor could such an event be tested in advance. M$'s synchronized forced updates are a menace.
NTFS is a journaling file system, and it has been since the early Windows NT days.
Pardon me for not knowing or caring about the exact specification of a trade secret. Let's go to the heavily modified Wiki page on ntfs:
Without individual file protection, your registry will still be hosed if you suffer the wrong kind of power failure. Let me know when their file system catches up to ext3, Reiser or when they get rid of that stupid and fragile registry.
So, is it my fault or M$'s fault your system is hosed if I flip the switch while you try to power up your mighty NT box?
I like asking that question because it's a no win for M$. If it's my fault your box dies, then M$ is responsible for the Skype meltdown. If it's M$'s fault, you can blame Skype for not being robust enough, but M$ is likewise fragile. It's really rhetorical because I believe both are true. M$ is fragile and shitty and that's what gave Skype a headache.
the gay, baby polar bears
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