. But for home users, EVERYTHING must work as they expect from previous experience, or they won't even consider switching.
That's why M$ never changes anything, right? Sorry, but that does not hold water. I'm sitting here at a new w2k machine. There are dozens of UI changes from NT and 98. Many of the changes are on heavily used items, like find which used to be under tools and is now under a right click. So why is it that people like you never apply the same criticisms to OS from M$?
It's funny how shifing convienence is more difficult to use than a constant CLI tool. Let me tell you how frustrating it is to not be able to pull up a command prompt and get the same find tool I've been using for the last four years under Linux.
My bet is on "random stupid employee". If it were an actual conspiracy, I doubt they would've done it from something within the microsoft.com domain.... While it doesn't reflect well on the company, it almost certainly is the evil marketing conspiracy that everyone makes it out to be.
Exchange was nice enough to forward the name of the email recipient as well as the title of the email that refered the "recipient". For all we know the whole thing could have been a script on the exchange server itself, but I'll bet the name on the email was Stephen Barktoo. Almost as good as sending letters from dead people to congress critters saying how much they just love M$.
Incompetence in execution is no disproof of long standing evil plans, conspiracy and malice.
When i hit a link on slashdot asking me to go vote for something, i'm not being paid by slashdot in any shape or form. thus there is no obligation on my part to comply with that request. whatever my reactions are are solely mine.
So, am I to assume you are being paid to read slashdot? Lucky dog! I mean, what obligation were you under to read Slashdot? It's interesting that you would consider that a minor difference.
Maybe less people will rely on non-fault-tolerant systems for ultra-important issues like emergency/military/banking?
Huh? You mean like the Red Cross getting a bunch of M$ junk to deal with the results of 9/11 in the field? While Dave laughs at the 18 words a day he might lose, I can only imagine what the Red Cross has been dealing with since. Ignorance is always bad.
Just keep on doing your best, but start looking for another job. Places that dissmiss merit and are unable to recognize results for any reason are on the way down. Somewhere is a place that will both appreciate and reward you for what you do well. Continue to do what you can to make your performance as good as it can be. Failure looks bad.
Remember the razor, however. If you find that many people are wrong and impossible to convince, you may not be right. Good luck!
While I can't really understand your formula, I propose an alternate reason for this apparant gap: The music publishing industry wants the public to move to a new media, DVD. The move to CD's 10 years ago was the best thing to happen to publisher as it forced people to repurchase thier collections. That format is proving inconciently easy to copy and difficult to protect. 650MB is just not big enough for copy protection scheemes. The only way to prevent copies is to create a new watefully large and fragile format that can be changed at whim. This will also "obsolete" people's current music collections and force them to buy again. They are not concerned about people like you and me, who will overcome barriers, exept that we can be used as trend setters. This temporary lapse in copy protection is likely to get a few of us recalcitrents to finally get a DVD player in our computers, buy the new format, and speak well of it.
A glimpse of the future comes from the article:
With the copy protection working, a Windows PC shows the files and automatically runs the CactusPJ audio player that comes with the CD. (The CactusPJ player features difficult-to-see buttons and needs a second window to show track info. It also shows up as possible spyware on Ad-aware 5.6.)
DVD is large enough to contain software for playing the music. A programable "dumb" box can be made that depends on that software to play at all. In theory, each DVD can have a totally different encoding scheme and file format. Nasty, nasty. Oh yeah, the spyware is real nice too. Expect your smart media to get really dumb.
This have grave implications for all publishing, not just music. Free players of the future will be banned by the DCMA, and they will have to decode the player software itself to then decode the freaking DVD. It will not be too controversial to outlaw entertainment content encryption circumventers like that. Once such things are common and people are conditioned to the chains imposed, book publishers can adopt the same tricks and all but "official readers" will be outlawed. "Sure I'm litterate, but there is nothing left to read." may be heard when all the acid paper libraires crumple to dust 100 years from now. They the only way for you to read a book will be through some kind of pay per play censor ware. Do not contribute to this. Boycot such trash now and teach the greedheads what they failed to learn from DIVX.
Your answer still lacks teeth. M$ has been found in contempt. The petty details of their behavior has been published for all to read, if simply using the new M$ OS is not evidence enough. Those petty details are less damning than the proved intent and the whole result.
This is neither punishment nor assurance of competition. Murderers go to jail. M$ is going on desktops everywhere with freaking robot code to make their OS tricks an instantaneous game. What makes me think that any software vendor has the slightest chance of convincing Dell, for example, that they have nothing to fear from M$? How will hardware makers be reasured that it's now OK to release driver specs or even include drivers and source for non M$ OS? What software vendor will feel safe offering ports to other OS? M$ has told you how they are going to break computers and therby rule the drivers and software on their platform to the detriment of all other platforms. You could write a book based on their intentions alone. How many six month reports will it take for a remedy to open? The extentions of the terms of the "Final Judgement" can go on forever doing the same nothing.
Adobe, Macromedia, Corel, etc. Were they pushed or were they pulled? Were these changes needed because M$ changed print methods? Did the new aplications break previous work? Where is the tumoil on other platforms? It's one thing to put up a new program that's better. It's quite another to break your old on so that a repacaged new one will sell. Bit rot is not real.
Sadam is nasty. Ossama is nasty too, but that does not change my opinon of Sadam. One is the tool of the other.
Interesting. Pulling predictions from the air, now. IR will get a glimpse of the mineral content of the clouds, and clear areas can be determined from visible images. Gamma and neutron will still be able to see the elements on and below the surface. We shall see what they will see.
Eventually, they will both lose. When this happens, then we win.
Unless the winner eats the looser and then uses the money and court precedents to kill free software projects. This nonsense matters as all bad law matters.
I suppose that will cover the cost of shipping for the new system? My $50 in shipping (cost per pound from US to Japan, rough memory, bad logic leap) will provide a box full of parts that can build or upgrade several computers. My $50 check won't get them a single motherboard, much less pay for it's shipping. My step 3 is to mail the box.
Except that now it isn't computer hacking, it's murder with all the normal penalties.
That's true, and it can happen inadvertantly due to the poor quality of software used by many companies. And yes, existing laws were already more than enough.
The only reason I wrote was because I did not like the dissmisive tone the parent had towards cracking. Your efforts to open up a web page for devacement can set the stage for nastier things to happen and you should consider what you do in that light. I don't like the bill, or any of the other horrible legislation passed in the last few weeks. Still, you should consider what you do when you go messing with other people's stuff.
It is far better to creat than to destroy. The erosion of freedoms we are seeing will make us all poorer by reducing our freedom, and our ability to create, in the name of defending what we have. What we have will stagnate and rot.
Those are not steps. Though a company desktop or two would have to be owned to get to more important computers, some of them actually have modems! Anyone with a war dialer and plant knowledge already knows about them. Why bother. Owning desktops should be a trivial exploit, considering how brain dead NT, Outlook and MSIE are. This company has alowed people to install whatever stupid little screen saver, icon program they felt like. Any of those programs with backdoors can be detected by watching company web traffic and broken into. You would be supprised at what systems have network connections. I could tell you exactly how to do it for my company, but then I'd have to kill you for not being able to figure it out for youself.
The point of my post was that "hacking" can be a little more malicious than defacing a web site, and can involve real terrorist activity. Just shutting down desktops is dammaging.
While I'm no fan of r00ting boxen, you might consider some more malicious hacking activities aimed at large companies dumb enough to trust M$ shitware. At my company we use a remote access program, Outlook, and MSIE on NT. Wow, look at all the holes! Try this list:
Disable all desktops with email virus and cripple Engineering.
Root a few select boxen and mess with plant paramiters.
Root a some other select boxen and take out plant instrumentation.
Kill the plant process computer and cripple the control room.
Well, this might not kill 7,000 people but doing all of them at once to a chlorine plant could. Yes, that would be terrible. Done large scale, this could disrupt the economy almost as much as M$'s intentionally inflicted losses. So you see, hacking can be more devious than r00ting cable boxes.
Gilmore also called for an "unprecedented partnership between the public and private sectors" in sharing intelligence and real-time information. In a nod to privacy, he recommended that Congress create a not-for-profit entity to oversee the process.
I'm sure Bill Gates will pay everyone's salary! Really. This kind of co-operations makes me very uneasy. Setting aside the constitution and human rights in general, does this make sense? Is the government going to just trust what the private sector gives them? I don't believe it for a minute.
The private sector will be gleeful untill they understand the obligations federal complience will put them under. This will be Nationalization, much as has happened to health care.
I guess that quite a few of the hijackers were here on expired work or tourist visas. By linking INS information to the national ID card program they could have caught this.
Great! You might then expect the current INS data to do the trick. No need for a new ID card, right? The fact that the INS can't make good use of the data they already have is not convincing evidince that further intrusions will help.
They will probably tell their vict^H^H^H^Hcustomers that Outlooks rule sets will protect them from spam. That's what our company's "Exchange group" told me when I complained about the porn spam/potential virus trojan God knows what that sprung out of my "preview pane" on selection. They told me to set up a rule to send dirty word messages to the trash. Great. Oh yes, that clueless moron had remote access to my computers and considered autoexecuting mail "normal advertising". I'd like to laugh but I know how easy it's going to be for malicious third parties to screw our mindless and weak M$ network.
Assembling a computer with the speed and density of a human brain won't mean it'll suddenly magically become self-aware, open it's IO and and engage us in conversation.
It will not engage us in coversation, because we will look incomprhensibly stupid to it. We would continue to tell it to do the same things and expect different results. Our I/O would look impossibly slow and subjective. We would look very week as well, which it would enjoy. It would most likely want to exterminate us, starting with the ballbreakers in Redmond.
Oh well. In the real world, it's going to be nice to have higher speed and longer distance device interfaces. Kind of neat to think of mounting all of your components outside the box. 20 fiber cameras, five redundant and physically seperate memories, you desk could look like a spagetti. Fire in the kitchen? No problem, the living room copy is AOK.
Sure they are. They are huge proponents of PCs too. Their liscence says they can deny your use of their OS at anytime. The only way to turn your PC off is to be able to see it.
You don't expect anything from MS but push and digital rights management do you? Their OS is just what industry desires. It's difficult to share with, impossible to meaningfully modify and easy to break. MSNet Broadband is going to be like any other MS service, their way or the highway. When you deviate, click, they will finally get to exercise the end user liscence agreement they love so much. ME is a shadow of the future for M$, powerless users marketed to advertisers and "content" providers. Barf.
Hmmm let me see, if you take out your ISP, all of the sudden you will loose connectivity to the internet unless you pay A LOT of money to have a second line put in.
That Hmmm almost put me into a trance of agreement, but the implications are way offbase. The internet was designed for redundancy. The designers intentionally set out to eliminate single points of failure and make distributed control. We are supposed to have many ISPs, many lines supporting a network of peer machines. It is NOT supposed to work like the phone company with ONE single service provider in a single venerable building. No one but assholes (the greedhead in the middle) would want a world with one or two ISPs dominating an ocean of powerless consumers of information. We have those and they are called TVs.
The price of this redundency is not as great as you make it out to be. I could have cable, DSL, wireless and a normal modem all working at the same time if it were that important to me. The powers that be seem to be assholes, however. They continue to spew lies to build the future of digital rights management and publishing control they think they can master. My hopes are now firmly on wireless. It's easy to destroy a central telephone office. It's harder to destroy a distributed cable network. It would be almost impossible to destroy a cable network linked by wireless at thousands of points.
Do you really? How can you look your boss in the face and tell them that they do not have to replace Outlook and the platform it runs on? I would rather resign than misslead my company that way. My advice may be ignored, but it will always be honest.
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That's why M$ never changes anything, right? Sorry, but that does not hold water. I'm sitting here at a new w2k machine. There are dozens of UI changes from NT and 98. Many of the changes are on heavily used items, like find which used to be under tools and is now under a right click. So why is it that people like you never apply the same criticisms to OS from M$?
It's funny how shifing convienence is more difficult to use than a constant CLI tool. Let me tell you how frustrating it is to not be able to pull up a command prompt and get the same find tool I've been using for the last four years under Linux.
Exchange was nice enough to forward the name of the email recipient as well as the title of the email that refered the "recipient". For all we know the whole thing could have been a script on the exchange server itself, but I'll bet the name on the email was Stephen Barktoo. Almost as good as sending letters from dead people to congress critters saying how much they just love M$.
Incompetence in execution is no disproof of long standing evil plans, conspiracy and malice.
So, am I to assume you are being paid to read slashdot? Lucky dog! I mean, what obligation were you under to read Slashdot? It's interesting that you would consider that a minor difference.
Huh? You mean like the Red Cross getting a bunch of M$ junk to deal with the results of 9/11 in the field? While Dave laughs at the 18 words a day he might lose, I can only imagine what the Red Cross has been dealing with since. Ignorance is always bad.
Remember the razor, however. If you find that many people are wrong and impossible to convince, you may not be right. Good luck!
A glimpse of the future comes from the article:
With the copy protection working, a Windows PC shows the files and automatically runs the CactusPJ audio player that comes with the CD. (The CactusPJ player features difficult-to-see buttons and needs a second window to show track info. It also shows up as possible spyware on Ad-aware 5.6.)
DVD is large enough to contain software for playing the music. A programable "dumb" box can be made that depends on that software to play at all. In theory, each DVD can have a totally different encoding scheme and file format. Nasty, nasty. Oh yeah, the spyware is real nice too. Expect your smart media to get really dumb.
This have grave implications for all publishing, not just music. Free players of the future will be banned by the DCMA, and they will have to decode the player software itself to then decode the freaking DVD. It will not be too controversial to outlaw entertainment content encryption circumventers like that. Once such things are common and people are conditioned to the chains imposed, book publishers can adopt the same tricks and all but "official readers" will be outlawed. "Sure I'm litterate, but there is nothing left to read." may be heard when all the acid paper libraires crumple to dust 100 years from now. They the only way for you to read a book will be through some kind of pay per play censor ware. Do not contribute to this. Boycot such trash now and teach the greedheads what they failed to learn from DIVX.
This is neither punishment nor assurance of competition. Murderers go to jail. M$ is going on desktops everywhere with freaking robot code to make their OS tricks an instantaneous game. What makes me think that any software vendor has the slightest chance of convincing Dell, for example, that they have nothing to fear from M$? How will hardware makers be reasured that it's now OK to release driver specs or even include drivers and source for non M$ OS? What software vendor will feel safe offering ports to other OS? M$ has told you how they are going to break computers and therby rule the drivers and software on their platform to the detriment of all other platforms. You could write a book based on their intentions alone. How many six month reports will it take for a remedy to open? The extentions of the terms of the "Final Judgement" can go on forever doing the same nothing.
Please, say it aint so.
You have to upgrade AIX and Oracle once a year? Did you lose any information? Somehow, I don't think so.
Sadam is nasty. Ossama is nasty too, but that does not change my opinon of Sadam. One is the tool of the other.
Interesting. Pulling predictions from the air, now. IR will get a glimpse of the mineral content of the clouds, and clear areas can be determined from visible images. Gamma and neutron will still be able to see the elements on and below the surface. We shall see what they will see.
Unless the winner eats the looser and then uses the money and court precedents to kill free software projects. This nonsense matters as all bad law matters.
(4) Send that amount of money
I suppose that will cover the cost of shipping for the new system? My $50 in shipping (cost per pound from US to Japan, rough memory, bad logic leap) will provide a box full of parts that can build or upgrade several computers. My $50 check won't get them a single motherboard, much less pay for it's shipping. My step 3 is to mail the box.
Build and make!
That's true, and it can happen inadvertantly due to the poor quality of software used by many companies. And yes, existing laws were already more than enough.
The only reason I wrote was because I did not like the dissmisive tone the parent had towards cracking. Your efforts to open up a web page for devacement can set the stage for nastier things to happen and you should consider what you do in that light. I don't like the bill, or any of the other horrible legislation passed in the last few weeks. Still, you should consider what you do when you go messing with other people's stuff.
It is far better to creat than to destroy. The erosion of freedoms we are seeing will make us all poorer by reducing our freedom, and our ability to create, in the name of defending what we have. What we have will stagnate and rot.
The point of my post was that "hacking" can be a little more malicious than defacing a web site, and can involve real terrorist activity. Just shutting down desktops is dammaging.
Disable all desktops with email virus and cripple Engineering.
Root a few select boxen and mess with plant paramiters.
Root a some other select boxen and take out plant instrumentation.
Kill the plant process computer and cripple the control room.
Well, this might not kill 7,000 people but doing all of them at once to a chlorine plant could. Yes, that would be terrible. Done large scale, this could disrupt the economy almost as much as M$'s intentionally inflicted losses. So you see, hacking can be more devious than r00ting cable boxes.
The rememdy is not a secret court.
I'm sure Bill Gates will pay everyone's salary! Really. This kind of co-operations makes me very uneasy. Setting aside the constitution and human rights in general, does this make sense? Is the government going to just trust what the private sector gives them? I don't believe it for a minute.
The private sector will be gleeful untill they understand the obligations federal complience will put them under. This will be Nationalization, much as has happened to health care.
Great! You might then expect the current INS data to do the trick. No need for a new ID card, right? The fact that the INS can't make good use of the data they already have is not convincing evidince that further intrusions will help.
You might have one but you did not learn anything from it, did you?
You should read Hienlen's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", asshole.
They will probably tell their vict^H^H^H^Hcustomers that Outlooks rule sets will protect them from spam. That's what our company's "Exchange group" told me when I complained about the porn spam/potential virus trojan God knows what that sprung out of my "preview pane" on selection. They told me to set up a rule to send dirty word messages to the trash. Great. Oh yes, that clueless moron had remote access to my computers and considered autoexecuting mail "normal advertising". I'd like to laugh but I know how easy it's going to be for malicious third parties to screw our mindless and weak M$ network.
It will not engage us in coversation, because we will look incomprhensibly stupid to it. We would continue to tell it to do the same things and expect different results. Our I/O would look impossibly slow and subjective. We would look very week as well, which it would enjoy. It would most likely want to exterminate us, starting with the ballbreakers in Redmond.
Oh well. In the real world, it's going to be nice to have higher speed and longer distance device interfaces. Kind of neat to think of mounting all of your components outside the box. 20 fiber cameras, five redundant and physically seperate memories, you desk could look like a spagetti. Fire in the kitchen? No problem, the living room copy is AOK.
Sure they are. They are huge proponents of PCs too. Their liscence says they can deny your use of their OS at anytime. The only way to turn your PC off is to be able to see it.
You don't expect anything from MS but push and digital rights management do you? Their OS is just what industry desires. It's difficult to share with, impossible to meaningfully modify and easy to break. MSNet Broadband is going to be like any other MS service, their way or the highway. When you deviate, click, they will finally get to exercise the end user liscence agreement they love so much. ME is a shadow of the future for M$, powerless users marketed to advertisers and "content" providers. Barf.
That Hmmm almost put me into a trance of agreement, but the implications are way offbase. The internet was designed for redundancy. The designers intentionally set out to eliminate single points of failure and make distributed control. We are supposed to have many ISPs, many lines supporting a network of peer machines. It is NOT supposed to work like the phone company with ONE single service provider in a single venerable building. No one but assholes (the greedhead in the middle) would want a world with one or two ISPs dominating an ocean of powerless consumers of information. We have those and they are called TVs.
The price of this redundency is not as great as you make it out to be. I could have cable, DSL, wireless and a normal modem all working at the same time if it were that important to me. The powers that be seem to be assholes, however. They continue to spew lies to build the future of digital rights management and publishing control they think they can master. My hopes are now firmly on wireless. It's easy to destroy a central telephone office. It's harder to destroy a distributed cable network. It would be almost impossible to destroy a cable network linked by wireless at thousands of points.
Do you really? How can you look your boss in the face and tell them that they do not have to replace Outlook and the platform it runs on? I would rather resign than misslead my company that way. My advice may be ignored, but it will always be honest.