Oh yeah, right. It's the Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, Egyptians and Palestinians that are oppresing Palestinians. It must be those folks who stand gaurd at the exit points of the concentration camps to check for valid ID on exit and entry. They must be the people indisciminatly shelling residential areas from tanks and helocopters. I'm glad you cleared that up, but it's not my point.
My point is that unpopular veiw points can be suppresed by harrasment by a government that can violate fourth ammendment garantees of security of person, house, and personal effects against unreasonable search and siezure, without warrent, or with a warrent that is not gained by testimony under oath or affirmation, or with a warrent that is not specific to place of search and thing to be siezed. My wife's medical records, though they are "tangible" should be kept between my wife and her doctor and whoever else she decides to share them with.
Yes, established interests want to suppress this. Did you really expect the phone companies to give up their lucrative long distance communications rape? Nope, DSL is not going to happen with phone companies in charge of things. Do you expect the cable company to give up charging absorbadent fees to serve? No, they like their @work revenues, and you can expect poor TOS and port blocks. Of course the makers of slave-ware like M$ do not want a media capable of sustaining the development and distrobution of free software. Expect them to use DRM to eliminate all but approved filesharing by certified software. Do you expect existing publishers to support potential competition? No, don't expect the New York Times or any other publisher to cover the issue fairly. They all want to devide up this new media among themselves like traditional broadcast.
They are all wrong. The net is the future of publishing. It is a public resource and should be protected by existing laws. To deny any person the ability to publish on the web on their own terms, without editorial control like any meat space news paper, it to deny that person constitutionally protected rights of free speech and press. There are no valid techincal justifications for this kind of violation. Effective public legislation should be going in the opposite direction, and those companies who oppose the public interest like this should be stripped of their franchises.
We must not let anti-terrorist hysteria accelerate the loss of our rights. The USA ACT destroys our fourth amendment protection for security in our homes, possesions and personal effects. Beware of Anti-Hacker legislation that removes your first amendment rights to free speech and press.
The most frightening things here are internet snooping, "secret search", and As wired put it:
Right now, the USA Act says that system administrators should be able to monitor anyone they deem a "computer trespasser."...the USA Act still allows police to conduct Internet eavesdropping without a court order in some circumstances. [amemdments would have] Preseved the privacy of sensitive records -- such as medical or educational data -- by requiring police to convince a judge that viewing them is necessary. Without that amendment, the USA Act expands police's ability to access any type of stored or "tangible" information.
It's almost too much to belive. Agents of my government may now view all records related to me without warrent. Those records will now contain anything any "system admin" decides to collect about me. If enough computer records can be collected to convince a judge that my house should be searched, I might not ever be informed.
How long before the "system admin" is required to collect information? Might my competitors and enemies create false records for me? I'm sure the FBI will now be equiped with M$'s most secure tools. How can anyone be secure in their house and possesions knowing that their government may have bugged it? Do I have to sit behind a bookshelf to write this?
The potential for abuse is unlimited. Such observation can easily be used to harrass. By posting the comment, "Israel is unjust for driving the Palestinians out of their land and keeping them as slaves in concentration camps that lack plumbing, sewerage, power, medical facilities, and schools. It is beyond my comprehension that a people who suffered such things at the hands of others two generations ago could behave this way.", do I become a suspected terroist? Does the FBI then dig into my wife's medical records?
The terrorists have won. We are swiftly becoming the enemy we defeated in the cold war. Rights of free speech, publication and privacy are being stripped away faster and more permenatly than I had ever thought possible. You don't think encryption and the web as a collection of peers will survive digital rights managment do you? Say good bye to the free press of the digital era. With such massive ability to harrass, you don't think people will dare speak their minds about controverial subjects, do you? Say good bye to rational public debate. Our government will soon make the UK's privacy invading cameras and other Orwellian nightmares look like child's play. YOU WILL CONFORM AND CALL IT FREE WILL.
This legislation is perminant. God help the supreme court see it for what it is.
No, I don't want to shoot anyone. I was just pointing out that the problems don't go away with legalization. In China the users became such a problem that people there lost all sypathy and exterminated them.
Why all these negative posts? Compared to a kick me sign in one, fuck off!
This is a great new toy and the OS makes all the difference. It's tiny embeded controler with a nice screen and, hopefully, a hackable OS. If IBM uses GCC for it, it will be just awsome. Why would anyone want to develop for non free alternatives when they have something like that sitting around to exploit? Propriatory $DK goes in the garbage.
Wow, a $30 patch for a $250 OS that might make you feel less venerable. I don't mind people trying to make a living selling binaries. I just don't understand why people would buy such things when free alternatives are available. GPG not enough security? Try OpenBSD.
If the answer is that the free alternatives are too hard to administer and set up, go get help. There are Linux User Groups (LUGs) everywhere. Take the hundreds of dollars you as an individual would spend on canned binaries and hire someone to help you out. If you are a business, save yourself thousands of dollars the same way.
The world is always changing. Sometimes it hurts, as when 250 fine programers get laid off. As long as the world remains free, the changes will be for the better. Just think of that talent being liberated. All of those nifty Windows tricks are unlikely to be released even if NA itself goes belly up.
Oh, that's easy! Just ask the girl on the corner.
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Why can't a site go from Grassroots, Sugar Daddy, back to Grassroots?
It's called intelectual property. When Sugar Daddy buys the cool site, he expects, errr, returns. This typically involves modifications that annoy everyone. When they complain, he slaps them around a little. When his new toy doesnt put out, well, he fires all those folks who gave him all the trouble about the changes. But he keeps the mangled results, thinking that they may have value to someone. Sugar Daddy might not ever use those cool ideas again, but he thinks he owns them and has a pimp^H^H^H^H lawyer to keep things honest.
Let's see, I have a vauge memory of the British legalizing opium in China. The problems created were so great that the adicts were exected without sympathy later. It's hard for addicts to support themselves, and they turn to crime to obtain the impossible quantities they need before they overdose and die.
The I Can't Stop Thinking logic is underpinned by this statement they make, "Money...is never far from the minds of artists in a capitalist society." This is true only for a class of artists and it's the same logic is used by the "middle men" he disparages.
Many artists are not dependent on their craft for their livelyhood. They have jobs that may or may not be related. They work for wealthy patrons and institutions. They do all sorts of things and consider their crafts luxuries. Some people even make things for the people they like, without looking for a reward. Anyone can do this if they want, you don't have to be wealthy to water paint. People painted, sang and made cool things for each other before money was invented.
It is arrogant to think people like that can not develop their crafts as fully as those who have to hussle them. D'Vinci was mostly a military advisor and party planner. His society was as capitalist as they come. In fact, artists who are indepenent of their craft are the only ones who can produce the artwork without editorial constraint.
Word? RIAA CDs? You have already adopted the bullshit standards of the present. Why bother when free alternatives are available? Only the most draconian of laws can keep people from writing and distributing free software, their own music, or singing. People will never tollerate that. The future is always free.
The drug analogy is false. Intoxicated and adicted people obnox their neighbors. Obnoxious people get put in jail. People who create software and music are productive and useful. No society that quashed productive activities has lasted very long. All societies have had laws and mores regarding intoxication. Even the most primative societies have strict rules on time and place.
Freedom of speech and publication are better analogies. After all, free software will continue to flourish given the right to publish code. It is impossible to keep people from saying and writting what they believe, as they can conceal themselves and publish anonymously. Drug useres can not conceal themsleves forever and the substances they depend on for their recreation have no legitimate uses besides medical perscription. There is no substitute for free speech in a viable society. There are many better ways to entertain yourself than intoxication.
The vast majority of Free Software advocates are exactly that - advocates. They aren't developing code, they aren't reading the source to make improvements.
Put up or shut up is a good thing to tell people who complain. It's not a nice thing to tell people who are trying to help you.
Without Linux, GNU would still be a rather obscure name that many computer scientists don't even recognize. Sure, the GNU tools allowed Linux to start off sooner, but there was nothing special about the GNU tools at the time Linux was created -- save that it was free (gratuis), and our beloved Finn could afford them on a student's budget.
No one who ever wrote a line of code outside of Visual Basic would ever say something as ignorant as that. First off, anyone who knows their history knows that GCC was not the only gratis compiler in the world. Second, anyone who has been using those compiler knows that GCC has long been and remains one of the best. Combined with other GNU tools, GCC provides one of the finest development environments in the world. It's reputation is well earned and great. I am not a proffesional programer, but my first compiler was gcc for DOS. I have used Borland, Watcom and MS compilers as well. All but MS have their charm. GCC is my first choice today.
Free Software is all about philosopy. It would not exist if people had not thought about community, individual rights, and how to foster such things in an increasingly greedy and careless world. GNU/Linux is a direct result of this man's effort to teach people a better way, as you might be able to tell from the vast numbers of contributors to it. A community has been formed that values individual and community rights. They publish their works under the GPL and other free liscences.
Aside from some work in the HURD, RMS isn't a software developer anymore.
Hmmm, That's a kernel, right? Just like Linus organized and maintains. Oh I see, I've been trolled. You were so good at acting ignorant it was hard to tell.
No, that's not fair, it's flambait really. By diminishing the work of one of your enemies, you seek to have people flame away at another of your enemies. Nope, not gonna work. Linus is a fine fellow and his kernel works very well. There is nothing common about any of the great achievers of the free software world.
hope that they understand that a large-scale network like this isn't going to solve all of their problems. They'll still have to maintain heavy security on all of their sites, regardless of how much more secure this network is.
Sounds like much more trouble. If they build their own private wires, the terrorists will know exactly what to break and listen to. I can see it now, "Ah yes, as prommised there it is, the red wire! Cut it quickly for there is no reason for the animal to suffer.", and the Bat Phone dies.
Heck, even the Department of Homeland Security sounds like something out of Nazi Germany.
While it hardly matters where such hideous things first evolved, you might consider Stalin's campain against "wreckers" particularly chilling. As part of his attempt to undermine potential opposition (ie any profesional, priest, officer, or person who had ever read anything) he made them all into potential forgien agents. Films were made where the vilian took money from the Germans to destroy factories and harvests. It terrorized the whole society and shook it to the core. In a country with an accute shortage of competent engineers, engineers were put on trial, jailed and even executed for supposed sabotage. They made great scape goats for his faild social policies.
Hitler got most of his tricks from the old man of steel. Orwell, having survived the conflict between the two, imagined governments that were continously at war and lobbed missiles at their own people to keep them upset. Kill Goldstien!
We are not there yet, but SSCA, DMCA, and other oppresive laws aimed at putting desperatly needed IT folks in jail are ominous. The popular culture has not been kind to hackers lately. How do you like being portrayed as a criminal interested only in stealing music, spam, breaking into military computers and stealing credit cards? Perceptions are powerful and bad ones can hurt you.
The issues have been confused beyond recognition by the popular media. Those who have little real use for computers also have little or no interest in them or what makes them go. The publishing industry has a much easier time reaching these folks than we do, and a much easier time convincing them that the people who entertain them have some kind of "right to proffit". By the time you finish describing what source code is, your friend will have lost focus. They think you are a pervert for going to the lenghts you might just to avoid comercial software in the first place. It's not easy. People without a real use for a computer constitute the vast majority of the US population. Sure, they may be forced to look at one at work, but they hate it to death and don't recognize the one in their cell phone or VCR.
Try to keep the message simple. The Free Software Foundation still has the best philosophy pages and it's good to memorize the fundamental software freedoms, but don't expect most people to really care. This is a free speach issue and people do understand that. Tell them that it is fundamentally UnAmerican to limit what people do with their own property in their own homes, and that such arbitrary extention of copyright franchises will bite them in the ass later.
Someone pinch me.
Yes, they exist and they look just like normal keyboards. I suffer under NT here at work, so the company does not actually need more costly devices. If your company does not allow you to use your own keyboard, be suspicious.
Well, ummm, how would you get it in there to begin with? Face it, if someone has your keystrokes they are root and have all your hardware and your silly clipboard. All of this is so much easier to do with M$, as everything is root.
Not if you figure out the AOL auto-updating mechanism as part of the protocol.
Huh? I'm not sure how you can do this. If AOL sends out some big nasty M$ patch as it's update, what are you going to do? I suppose someone could set up a rig to automatically update observed protocall from an official and updated AOL client. If they then set up a Deb, everyone could get the updates as a chron job. Whew! What a lot of trouble for AOL's dinky client.
For some reason, I still give AOL $10/month. It's a junk mail account until I get a reasonable TOS that will let me serve my own mail. It get's about 30 spams/day, and is utterly useless for real mail, despite AOL anywhere that actually lets me read it. The only AOL software I have is AIM. Will they ever see the light?
I'm amazed by the bitter tone displayed by all the Micro$oft appologists here. Calling users "idiots" and "illiterates" for not reading help manuals that don't exist, give me a break. Why all the arrogance? The silly little tricks you know won't do you much good in the future.
Here at work, I no longer have access to file types.jse,.js,.vbs,.vbe, and.wsf. Why not? Because the little "file types" dialog did not show them to me. So there, a great and grevious abuse you can expect as a MS user in the future. What makes you think MS does not own "Open With", "Send To" and any of those other closed source convenience applications?
I found this out after getting a mail bomb from a porn site. It opened two browsers and did God knows what else before I could kill it. Yes, the company has applied ALL of the MS patches. NO, I DID NOT DOUBLE CLICK ANYTHING! As a corporate user, I am powerless. XP, I'm sure, will duplicate this situation with M$ as remote Admin, and user as powerless.
This goes beyond a legitimate argument to just finding something to complain about because complaining about microsoft is the thing to do.
Having recieved a porn bomb in Outlook yesterday that exploded from my preview pain when I tried to erase it, I'm suddenly interested in the default behavior of certian files. We run NT, service patch 6, here at work, and the company has been very good about applying Nimda, Code Red, Mellissa, I love you and all of those freaking virus patches.
Well, imagine my disapointment when I could not find file types.jse,.js,.vbs,.vbe, and.wsf, to set the default application to notepad. What a supprise! The default dialog box has hidden those file types from me. Nice security, I can't keep anonymous emails from running as root.
I imagine this same kind of behavior being pushed onto other filetypes soon. Monopoly? They would like to be, but I tell my friends that Debian is easier.
Twitter, posting as anonymous because because the auto login did not work. I hope that this post gets through the other 850 denial of service posts stuck onto this article by the MicroTurds. I'll repost as soon as I can.
Not that most M$ users would bother to read it, but where exacly are such user friendly features documented? Last time I tried to use M$ help I had to talk to that stupid paper clip, who's more of a salesman than a help agent.
You think it's easy but it really is more of the same abuse. All of those left handed tricks, and the way M$ made all of my favorite applications vanish... now they let others set your registry from accross the web? Barf. Who's going to fill the "open with" folder? I'm sure it will work just as well as the start button itself. "Send to" is the only thing that makes using NT at work tollerable. If they kill that, I'll have to figure something else out. Most people won't. The anoyance factor is going to run joe user off computers for good. The rest of us will simply move to less obnoxious platforms. When people ask me, I tell them it's easier to use Debian.
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VI is nice to have around. Thanks for the VIM tip. I've been using VIW from Watcom.
My point is that unpopular veiw points can be suppresed by harrasment by a government that can violate fourth ammendment garantees of security of person, house, and personal effects against unreasonable search and siezure, without warrent, or with a warrent that is not gained by testimony under oath or affirmation, or with a warrent that is not specific to place of search and thing to be siezed. My wife's medical records, though they are "tangible" should be kept between my wife and her doctor and whoever else she decides to share them with.
They are all wrong. The net is the future of publishing. It is a public resource and should be protected by existing laws. To deny any person the ability to publish on the web on their own terms, without editorial control like any meat space news paper, it to deny that person constitutionally protected rights of free speech and press. There are no valid techincal justifications for this kind of violation. Effective public legislation should be going in the opposite direction, and those companies who oppose the public interest like this should be stripped of their franchises.
We must not let anti-terrorist hysteria accelerate the loss of our rights. The USA ACT destroys our fourth amendment protection for security in our homes, possesions and personal effects. Beware of Anti-Hacker legislation that removes your first amendment rights to free speech and press.
Right now, the USA Act says that system administrators should be able to monitor anyone they deem a "computer trespasser." ...the USA Act still allows police to conduct Internet eavesdropping without a court order in some circumstances. [amemdments would have] Preseved the privacy of sensitive records -- such as medical or educational data -- by requiring police to convince a judge that viewing them is necessary. Without that amendment, the USA Act expands police's ability to access any type of stored or "tangible" information.
It's almost too much to belive. Agents of my government may now view all records related to me without warrent. Those records will now contain anything any "system admin" decides to collect about me. If enough computer records can be collected to convince a judge that my house should be searched, I might not ever be informed.
How long before the "system admin" is required to collect information? Might my competitors and enemies create false records for me? I'm sure the FBI will now be equiped with M$'s most secure tools. How can anyone be secure in their house and possesions knowing that their government may have bugged it? Do I have to sit behind a bookshelf to write this?
The potential for abuse is unlimited. Such observation can easily be used to harrass. By posting the comment, "Israel is unjust for driving the Palestinians out of their land and keeping them as slaves in concentration camps that lack plumbing, sewerage, power, medical facilities, and schools. It is beyond my comprehension that a people who suffered such things at the hands of others two generations ago could behave this way.", do I become a suspected terroist? Does the FBI then dig into my wife's medical records?
The terrorists have won. We are swiftly becoming the enemy we defeated in the cold war. Rights of free speech, publication and privacy are being stripped away faster and more permenatly than I had ever thought possible. You don't think encryption and the web as a collection of peers will survive digital rights managment do you? Say good bye to the free press of the digital era. With such massive ability to harrass, you don't think people will dare speak their minds about controverial subjects, do you? Say good bye to rational public debate. Our government will soon make the UK's privacy invading cameras and other Orwellian nightmares look like child's play. YOU WILL CONFORM AND CALL IT FREE WILL.
This legislation is perminant. God help the supreme court see it for what it is.
No, I don't want to shoot anyone. I was just pointing out that the problems don't go away with legalization. In China the users became such a problem that people there lost all sypathy and exterminated them.
Why all these negative posts? Compared to a kick me sign in one, fuck off!
This is a great new toy and the OS makes all the difference. It's tiny embeded controler with a nice screen and, hopefully, a hackable OS. If IBM uses GCC for it, it will be just awsome. Why would anyone want to develop for non free alternatives when they have something like that sitting around to exploit? Propriatory $DK goes in the garbage.
1. Remove strap.
2. Attatch larger battery.
3. Place in shirt pocket.
Tiny is nice. Think of all the places you could fit it. Remote control by ssh? If this is really hackable it will be fun.
More is better. Mass production will surely drive prices down later. More toys!
Wow, a $30 patch for a $250 OS that might make you feel less venerable. I don't mind people trying to make a living selling binaries. I just don't understand why people would buy such things when free alternatives are available. GPG not enough security? Try OpenBSD.
If the answer is that the free alternatives are too hard to administer and set up, go get help. There are Linux User Groups (LUGs) everywhere. Take the hundreds of dollars you as an individual would spend on canned binaries and hire someone to help you out. If you are a business, save yourself thousands of dollars the same way.
The world is always changing. Sometimes it hurts, as when 250 fine programers get laid off. As long as the world remains free, the changes will be for the better. Just think of that talent being liberated. All of those nifty Windows tricks are unlikely to be released even if NA itself goes belly up.
It's called intelectual property. When Sugar Daddy buys the cool site, he expects, errr, returns. This typically involves modifications that annoy everyone. When they complain, he slaps them around a little. When his new toy doesnt put out, well, he fires all those folks who gave him all the trouble about the changes. But he keeps the mangled results, thinking that they may have value to someone. Sugar Daddy might not ever use those cool ideas again, but he thinks he owns them and has a pimp^H^H^H^H lawyer to keep things honest.
Let's see, I have a vauge memory of the British legalizing opium in China. The problems created were so great that the adicts were exected without sympathy later. It's hard for addicts to support themselves, and they turn to crime to obtain the impossible quantities they need before they overdose and die.
Many artists are not dependent on their craft for their livelyhood. They have jobs that may or may not be related. They work for wealthy patrons and institutions. They do all sorts of things and consider their crafts luxuries. Some people even make things for the people they like, without looking for a reward. Anyone can do this if they want, you don't have to be wealthy to water paint. People painted, sang and made cool things for each other before money was invented.
It is arrogant to think people like that can not develop their crafts as fully as those who have to hussle them. D'Vinci was mostly a military advisor and party planner. His society was as capitalist as they come. In fact, artists who are indepenent of their craft are the only ones who can produce the artwork without editorial constraint.
The drug analogy is false. Intoxicated and adicted people obnox their neighbors. Obnoxious people get put in jail. People who create software and music are productive and useful. No society that quashed productive activities has lasted very long. All societies have had laws and mores regarding intoxication. Even the most primative societies have strict rules on time and place.
Freedom of speech and publication are better analogies. After all, free software will continue to flourish given the right to publish code. It is impossible to keep people from saying and writting what they believe, as they can conceal themselves and publish anonymously. Drug useres can not conceal themsleves forever and the substances they depend on for their recreation have no legitimate uses besides medical perscription. There is no substitute for free speech in a viable society. There are many better ways to entertain yourself than intoxication.
Drug use is a thing to put into the past.
Put up or shut up is a good thing to tell people who complain. It's not a nice thing to tell people who are trying to help you.
Without Linux, GNU would still be a rather obscure name that many computer scientists don't even recognize. Sure, the GNU tools allowed Linux to start off sooner, but there was nothing special about the GNU tools at the time Linux was created -- save that it was free (gratuis), and our beloved Finn could afford them on a student's budget.
No one who ever wrote a line of code outside of Visual Basic would ever say something as ignorant as that. First off, anyone who knows their history knows that GCC was not the only gratis compiler in the world. Second, anyone who has been using those compiler knows that GCC has long been and remains one of the best. Combined with other GNU tools, GCC provides one of the finest development environments in the world. It's reputation is well earned and great. I am not a proffesional programer, but my first compiler was gcc for DOS. I have used Borland, Watcom and MS compilers as well. All but MS have their charm. GCC is my first choice today.
Free Software is all about philosopy. It would not exist if people had not thought about community, individual rights, and how to foster such things in an increasingly greedy and careless world. GNU/Linux is a direct result of this man's effort to teach people a better way, as you might be able to tell from the vast numbers of contributors to it. A community has been formed that values individual and community rights. They publish their works under the GPL and other free liscences.
Aside from some work in the HURD, RMS isn't a software developer anymore.
Hmmm, That's a kernel, right? Just like Linus organized and maintains. Oh I see, I've been trolled. You were so good at acting ignorant it was hard to tell.
No, that's not fair, it's flambait really. By diminishing the work of one of your enemies, you seek to have people flame away at another of your enemies. Nope, not gonna work. Linus is a fine fellow and his kernel works very well. There is nothing common about any of the great achievers of the free software world.
hope that they understand that a large-scale network like this isn't going to solve all of their problems. They'll still have to maintain heavy security on all of their sites, regardless of how much more secure this network is.
Sounds like much more trouble. If they build their own private wires, the terrorists will know exactly what to break and listen to. I can see it now, "Ah yes, as prommised there it is, the red wire! Cut it quickly for there is no reason for the animal to suffer.", and the Bat Phone dies.
While it hardly matters where such hideous things first evolved, you might consider Stalin's campain against "wreckers" particularly chilling. As part of his attempt to undermine potential opposition (ie any profesional, priest, officer, or person who had ever read anything) he made them all into potential forgien agents. Films were made where the vilian took money from the Germans to destroy factories and harvests. It terrorized the whole society and shook it to the core. In a country with an accute shortage of competent engineers, engineers were put on trial, jailed and even executed for supposed sabotage. They made great scape goats for his faild social policies.
Hitler got most of his tricks from the old man of steel. Orwell, having survived the conflict between the two, imagined governments that were continously at war and lobbed missiles at their own people to keep them upset. Kill Goldstien!
We are not there yet, but SSCA, DMCA, and other oppresive laws aimed at putting desperatly needed IT folks in jail are ominous. The popular culture has not been kind to hackers lately. How do you like being portrayed as a criminal interested only in stealing music, spam, breaking into military computers and stealing credit cards? Perceptions are powerful and bad ones can hurt you.
Try to keep the message simple. The Free Software Foundation still has the best philosophy pages and it's good to memorize the fundamental software freedoms, but don't expect most people to really care. This is a free speach issue and people do understand that. Tell them that it is fundamentally UnAmerican to limit what people do with their own property in their own homes, and that such arbitrary extention of copyright franchises will bite them in the ass later.
Someone pinch me.
Mininfo, second in importance only to Minilove.
Yes, they exist and they look just like normal keyboards. I suffer under NT here at work, so the company does not actually need more costly devices. If your company does not allow you to use your own keyboard, be suspicious.
What, me worry? Nahhh!
Huh? I'm not sure how you can do this. If AOL sends out some big nasty M$ patch as it's update, what are you going to do? I suppose someone could set up a rig to automatically update observed protocall from an official and updated AOL client. If they then set up a Deb, everyone could get the updates as a chron job. Whew! What a lot of trouble for AOL's dinky client.
For some reason, I still give AOL $10/month. It's a junk mail account until I get a reasonable TOS that will let me serve my own mail. It get's about 30 spams/day, and is utterly useless for real mail, despite AOL anywhere that actually lets me read it. The only AOL software I have is AIM. Will they ever see the light?
Here at work, I no longer have access to file types .jse, .js, .vbs, .vbe, and .wsf. Why not? Because the little "file types" dialog did not show them to me. So there, a great and grevious abuse you can expect as a MS user in the future. What makes you think MS does not own "Open With", "Send To" and any of those other closed source convenience applications?
I found this out after getting a mail bomb from a porn site. It opened two browsers and did God knows what else before I could kill it. Yes, the company has applied ALL of the MS patches. NO, I DID NOT DOUBLE CLICK ANYTHING! As a corporate user, I am powerless. XP, I'm sure, will duplicate this situation with M$ as remote Admin, and user as powerless.
This goes beyond a legitimate argument to just finding something to complain about because complaining about microsoft is the thing to do.
I don't think so.
Having recieved a porn bomb in Outlook yesterday that exploded from my preview pain when I tried to erase it, I'm suddenly interested in the default behavior of certian files. We run NT, service patch 6, here at work, and the company has been very good about applying Nimda, Code Red, Mellissa, I love you and all of those freaking virus patches.
Well, imagine my disapointment when I could not find file types .jse, .js, .vbs, .vbe, and .wsf, to set the default application to notepad. What a supprise! The default dialog box has hidden those file types from me. Nice security, I can't keep anonymous emails from running as root.
I imagine this same kind of behavior being pushed onto other filetypes soon. Monopoly? They would like to be, but I tell my friends that Debian is easier.
Twitter, posting as anonymous because because the auto login did not work. I hope that this post gets through the other 850 denial of service posts stuck onto this article by the MicroTurds. I'll repost as soon as I can.
Uhh, his point was that the streets were not safe. Murders, beatings and all happened anyway.
Don't forget the ever popular dolphin bike. Talk about streamlined. Whew. People look kind of silly flopping down the road, though.
Not that most M$ users would bother to read it, but where exacly are such user friendly features documented? Last time I tried to use M$ help I had to talk to that stupid paper clip, who's more of a salesman than a help agent.
You think it's easy but it really is more of the same abuse. All of those left handed tricks, and the way M$ made all of my favorite applications vanish ... now they let others set your registry from accross the web? Barf. Who's going to fill the "open with" folder? I'm sure it will work just as well as the start button itself. "Send to" is the only thing that makes using NT at work tollerable. If they kill that, I'll have to figure something else out. Most people won't. The anoyance factor is going to run joe user off computers for good. The rest of us will simply move to less obnoxious platforms. When people ask me, I tell them it's easier to use Debian.