Basically Business Week lays the groundwork as a recommendation to Microsoft to extend and maintain their monopoly..
When we consider what an abusive monopoly that has been, we have to wonder why Business Week would advocate it. What is a news magazine doing advocating any single business, much less one that has destroyed so many others?
It's doubtful people actually making decisions read Businessweek so it's purpose is not to inform. Most people who really know what's going on in the predatory companies that fill BusinesWeek's glossy pages do not talk to reporters. They have PR drones spin some kind of story. The target audience is gullible young MBA types and others thinking about how to build a retirement fund. For the MBA types it's like porn, where their hero's are portrayed in everything but a centerfold. Those who's earnings are invested in big dumb savings plans can take false solice as big dumb companies like M$ are claimed to be solid, eternal and not in anyway like that other Worldcom or Enron stuff that cost them so much.
Real news and enlightenment come from considering simple facts. M$ can put off their "anti-piracy" efforts, but it might as well be forever. M$ is no more going to be able to exploit the world with a software monopoly than they are ever going to understand why. There is no way M$ will be able to purchase the kind of complicity it would take to re-create their monopoly world wide. The US, for all it's talk about business freedom, was far easier to purchase than India and China will be. Those governments have their own self interest to consider and arguments about the well being of a US company won't apply there.
Is there any way to avoid IE7 if you are an XP user? I thought it was a forced "update" that had to be installed, unless you are a big company with your own special hell of updates and patches.
and the problem does not exits for Firefox before "upgrading" to IE 7 or on other platforms because M$ has yet to force sane user and privilege separation and on and on. Is there any way this could be anything but a M$ problem?
Why on earth would you need wi-fi and rfid at the beach?
Would you rather spend your time at the office or at the beach? This is something that's been a long time cumming. Prototype systems, such as the business leisure suit, were bulky but they get the idea across. The management class can do their jobs anywhere, if only they have the right support. RFID is vital for upper management, who need to keep tabs on their workers too, not to mention pesky reporters, protesters and other losers who care. Finally, America's ruling elite can reward themselves with healthy lifestyles. Imagine being free of wire jumbles, office clutter and face to face interaction with other people. Free coke for everybody!
there are some wealthier commmunities along the shore where the residents think they own the beach.
They do the same thing in south Florida. Sometimes, it's even the same people with their second home. It's disgusting but there are people who live within a mile or two of the ocean who've never been to the beach.
There are a number of ways that this is annoying. It's wasteful, painful and not really justified by a technical improvement.
SATA is right up there with ACPI for buggy implementation. For free software users, this is not good news but it's right in time for the Vista upgrade train.
It's also bad news for people who just want to keep using the drives they own. I've got older drives that do just fine as boot devices. I'd rather retire them for solid state devices than the same old mechanical stuff with a different plug.
The speeds might be better, but it's not SCSI class and you could get 20x that if you used a parallel cable.
If all your friends eat greasy burgers and pizza and have beer and then plop down to watch the game, you are likely to do the same to fit in.
Like people have not been doing that for the last sixty years. You can't tell me that all of the sudden 75% of the country is doing this and that is responsible for the fat epidemic that's happened since the 1980's. Something's changed and it's not football.
The most likely culprit are changes to food allowed by the Nixon administration, which include allowing high fructose corn syrup. Compare these two graphs side by side:
Of all the half baked research out there, this has got to be the lamest excuse for the fat epidemic ever. It's hard to find people who are not fat in a country that is well on track to a population that's 75% obese. If what the friendship connection is true, then a single fat person would inevitably make the whole country fat. There's has been a real change in the US population since the 80's. It's not genetic, it's not that people are suddenly lazy, and it's not because obesity is somehow more catching now than it was thirty years ago - it's the poison big food is selling you, and the 60 hour work weeks being extracted by every other big employer. The most disgusting example of this is childhood obesity caused by "school meals". This is one of the biggest reasons US life spans are comparable to Cuba's.
Not sure you should be modded troll, there is certainly some value in what you say. I think the move towards 'web-apps' will help people be more prepared to run things remotely; VNC, X-windows and suchlike offer more sophistication of this sort.
The connected, free world threatens telcom, publishers and M$. M$ is far behind and this is intentional. Their digital restrictions reflect the interests of telcom and publishers as well as their pathetic desktop monopoly. PR firms from all three will be working to bury opinions which imply the good things that a connected and free world can do for people.
I would like to see a situation where all my data is held on a server. Maybe this can be one run by Google, maybe it can be one I run myself... I think the real watershed with this will be when a given device can access sufficient bandwidth to support full-resolution video.
You can already do this with OpenBSD's secure shell. KDE, Gnome and others have already taken advantage of this so it's GUI level already. Video is nice, but the information that's most important to people is tiny. In a free computing world, you will be able to securely share this information with others.
Asymmetrical computing exists in your head not in the machine. Computers can be configured for one purpose or another but there's no difference in the machine itself. The OP thought it strange to use a phone as a web server because M$ and others have pounded their product line into people's heads. The false notion that only powerful machines can do things through http is so strong that people forget that embedded devices often use http. The only difference is a small matter of speed and memory that are growing larger all the time. M$'s continued insistence on a difference between "servers" and "desktops" never had a reasonable foundation and should be an embarrassment to them.
There are lots of reasons to run "server" software and the difference between "servers" and "desktops" is one that M$ made up. An iPhone could be a portable wifi hotspot. http "servers" in embedded devices are typical control interfaces. If iPhone runs X, you should be able to forward applications to your laptop so that you can use your keyboard and screen. The list goes on and on, as it does for any general purpose computing device.
These things should and will be common. The only thing iPhone has over the Neo1973 is non free video codecs and other non free goodies. The laws that make that happen are finally changing. Sharing is good and portable, networked computing is going to make it happen. When it's free, you will be able to trust it and use it for business.
Since when do we ask permission to bend our gadgets to our will?
Since people have tried to sell you non free software. You might remember something about BSD, modems and the phone company. The phone company has not changed much.
I expect similar statements from IBM, HP and Dell soon. Vista is buggy and it's not selling. If it were selling, others might go along. Because it's not, they have no incentive to lie to their customers. Vista is so bad, people selling it risk their already tarnished reputations if they keep selling it. Dell has danced around the issue already. HP and IBM are openly defiant and will soon be offering more GNU/Linux for you. If they don't, they will be over run by companies like FIC and Acer who are more than happy to sell $200 GNU/Linux laptops.
Keep It Simple Stupid the problem with Vista was that Microsoft wanted to make the Ultimate Operating System,
You can talk till you're blue in the face, they keep doing and saying the same thing every time. They never have had the resources and organization to integrate all of the software they bought. $40 billion is not enough money the non free way, but they will burn though that quickly as revenues start falling.
Falling revenue? Yeah, flat today despite a new release of their OS and Office suite. The public has rejected Vista and the vendor revolt is on. Revenues have nowhere to go but down, and that's the death spiral predicted by ESR long ago - no money, no coders, no product, no money.
Microsoft had seven years to remake itself but failed and produced the Vista media lockdown nightmare instead. Poor quality has finally lead to poor sales. The vendor backlash is here. We're talking about sales worse than ME.
The only real option for them is to retool a GNU/Linux distribution. There is no way they are going to fix Vista in time to save themselves from disaster. It might be too late even for that drastic solution. As the market floods with $200 GNU/Linux laptops, they will be entirely squeezed out.
Good Riddance, M$. They don't have three years left, but it will take years to undo the technical and legislative damage they did.
Yeah, so I suppose that this is somehow going to end up being blamed on George Bush.
Sure, he's the dumb ass that thought you could wiretap the whole internet. Federal wiretapping has cost all of us lots of money and makes possible further dumb ass dreams like "protecting" music from Universities. The federal government is stupid from the top down. GWB is going to sign this bill with glee, as long as it does not give too much money to education, because it provides some flimsy justification for his other unAmerican policies.
The US lags because we set up our telcom infrastructure the first, and thus have the most primitive last-mile connections. Throw in some wide distances between communities and you have the situation we have today.
This is Bell Bullshit. The US is a dense urban nation now and the vast majority of people live in cities. The long haul network has lots of dark fiber because our cities are still using copper networks. Ma Bell wants to sell you each bit of data and we are falling further behind despite big promisses and big spending - in short you have paid for a world class network but don't have it. That the US is not first in the world despite having invented the technology and having the money for networks is a true scandal. Most people still use dial up - that's pathetic.
How bad is it? Socialist countries like France, Finland and Sweden are kicking our ass. Germany is right behind us, and half of it's network was made by Stalin. Want to bet on how long it will take Poland, Hungry or freaking Kahzakistan to catch up? You would think the US would be growing faster than other nations but we are not and what little growth we've got is grinding to a halt.
If you don't like the faulty DNS, feel free to change to one of the other public DNS servers such as the public Verison DNS Server at 4.2.2.1.
How long will it be before they block access to alternatives or the alternatives themselves can not be trusted? Breaking something as fundamental as DNS breaks the an important agreement that makes the internet work.
The problem is the assholes who take over people's computers to send spam and flood web sites. The solution is a well funded police force to hunt them down.
Start in Redmond. No really. Start rooting around the PR firms they pay and see what you find.
Then you can move on to Madison Avenue where big name companies like American Express, Home Depot, American Airlines and others have been busted paying these assholes to take over people's computers. Think those companies got more than a slap on the wrist? No, they had "plausible deniability" and all of them claimed absolute shock that these things were done in their name - shock I tell you, while they continue to support laws that make the internet look like broadcast TV and force the same thing.
Honeynets are a nice way to start tracking these things down but it's not going to work when the herds are all moved over to redundant and decentralized command and control structures. Police effort will dig up thousands of home users who know nothing about what's happened to their computers, unless you can make a TIA network as big as the plannet. The crooks will then add their own networks to the official one and you are back at square one.
No, the only way to get rid of the problem is to make it expensive though platform diversity. Making the user aware of the problem and making it cost the user time and trouble is the first step. At some point the network will be so degraded that users will start dropping off anyway.
Michael Dell estimates that 25% of the computers he sells ends up controlled by a bot net. Botnets used to abuse IRC while launching spam and DNS. The problem is Windows, but you would like to blame and punish IRC servers and users. Why?
Your plan does not even make sense. Botherders have already moved to their own distributed command and control systems that have nothing to do with IRC.
The only people disrupted by this are IRC users, who mostly use gnu/linux and other systems that don't have botnet problems. People with infected computers are not IRC users.
Leet-man dedazo insultingly blames the users again:
The botnet's root cause is not "Windoze", it's the people who are ignorant or lazy enough to let their computers be taken over by trojans and worms. Since it's stupidly simple to avoid that, the problem lies squarely between keyboard and chair.
Both ignorance and apathy would be cured by kicking off infected computers. I'd be looking forward to "responsible user" dedazo being kicked off but I think the PR firm he works for uses a botnet to post all it's pro M$ blather, so he could stay one step ahead of the terminations.
Interestingly enough, he scornfully proposes the right solution:
[lots of namecalling for normal computer users] You know what? You're more than welcome to them.
That wold be cool. Steve Jobs does not have a problem with average users on Apple. Sun does not have a problem with Solaris in hospitals. No one but M$ has a problem and liberating their users would be a great thing for everyone. It can't be done by force but it will happen when people have knowledge and choices.
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Basically Business Week lays the groundwork as a recommendation to Microsoft to extend and maintain their monopoly..
When we consider what an abusive monopoly that has been, we have to wonder why Business Week would advocate it. What is a news magazine doing advocating any single business, much less one that has destroyed so many others?
It's doubtful people actually making decisions read Businessweek so it's purpose is not to inform. Most people who really know what's going on in the predatory companies that fill BusinesWeek's glossy pages do not talk to reporters. They have PR drones spin some kind of story. The target audience is gullible young MBA types and others thinking about how to build a retirement fund. For the MBA types it's like porn, where their hero's are portrayed in everything but a centerfold. Those who's earnings are invested in big dumb savings plans can take false solice as big dumb companies like M$ are claimed to be solid, eternal and not in anyway like that other Worldcom or Enron stuff that cost them so much.
Real news and enlightenment come from considering simple facts. M$ can put off their "anti-piracy" efforts, but it might as well be forever. M$ is no more going to be able to exploit the world with a software monopoly than they are ever going to understand why. There is no way M$ will be able to purchase the kind of complicity it would take to re-create their monopoly world wide. The US, for all it's talk about business freedom, was far easier to purchase than India and China will be. Those governments have their own self interest to consider and arguments about the well being of a US company won't apply there.
Is there any way to avoid IE7 if you are an XP user? I thought it was a forced "update" that had to be installed, unless you are a big company with your own special hell of updates and patches.
and the problem does not exits for Firefox before "upgrading" to IE 7 or on other platforms because M$ has yet to force sane user and privilege separation and on and on. Is there any way this could be anything but a M$ problem?
Why on earth would you need wi-fi and rfid at the beach?
Would you rather spend your time at the office or at the beach? This is something that's been a long time cumming. Prototype systems, such as the business leisure suit, were bulky but they get the idea across. The management class can do their jobs anywhere, if only they have the right support. RFID is vital for upper management, who need to keep tabs on their workers too, not to mention pesky reporters, protesters and other losers who care. Finally, America's ruling elite can reward themselves with healthy lifestyles. Imagine being free of wire jumbles, office clutter and face to face interaction with other people. Free coke for everybody!
there are some wealthier commmunities along the shore where the residents think they own the beach.
They do the same thing in south Florida. Sometimes, it's even the same people with their second home. It's disgusting but there are people who live within a mile or two of the ocean who've never been to the beach.
There are a number of ways that this is annoying. It's wasteful, painful and not really justified by a technical improvement.
SATA is right up there with ACPI for buggy implementation. For free software users, this is not good news but it's right in time for the Vista upgrade train.
It's also bad news for people who just want to keep using the drives they own. I've got older drives that do just fine as boot devices. I'd rather retire them for solid state devices than the same old mechanical stuff with a different plug.
The speeds might be better, but it's not SCSI class and you could get 20x that if you used a parallel cable.
It's truly dumb to make it sound like you're outraged because the study says your fat friends will make you fat if they touch you.
That would be dumb. So, why did you say it?
If all your friends eat greasy burgers and pizza and have beer and then plop down to watch the game, you are likely to do the same to fit in.
Like people have not been doing that for the last sixty years. You can't tell me that all of the sudden 75% of the country is doing this and that is responsible for the fat epidemic that's happened since the 1980's. Something's changed and it's not football.
The most likely culprit are changes to food allowed by the Nixon administration, which include allowing high fructose corn syrup. Compare these two graphs side by side:
Of all the half baked research out there, this has got to be the lamest excuse for the fat epidemic ever. It's hard to find people who are not fat in a country that is well on track to a population that's 75% obese. If what the friendship connection is true, then a single fat person would inevitably make the whole country fat. There's has been a real change in the US population since the 80's. It's not genetic, it's not that people are suddenly lazy, and it's not because obesity is somehow more catching now than it was thirty years ago - it's the poison big food is selling you, and the 60 hour work weeks being extracted by every other big employer. The most disgusting example of this is childhood obesity caused by "school meals". This is one of the biggest reasons US life spans are comparable to Cuba's.
Not sure you should be modded troll, there is certainly some value in what you say. I think the move towards 'web-apps' will help people be more prepared to run things remotely; VNC, X-windows and suchlike offer more sophistication of this sort.
The connected, free world threatens telcom, publishers and M$. M$ is far behind and this is intentional. Their digital restrictions reflect the interests of telcom and publishers as well as their pathetic desktop monopoly. PR firms from all three will be working to bury opinions which imply the good things that a connected and free world can do for people.
I would like to see a situation where all my data is held on a server. Maybe this can be one run by Google, maybe it can be one I run myself ... I think the real watershed with this will be when a given device can access sufficient bandwidth to support full-resolution video.
You can already do this with OpenBSD's secure shell. KDE, Gnome and others have already taken advantage of this so it's GUI level already. Video is nice, but the information that's most important to people is tiny. In a free computing world, you will be able to securely share this information with others.
Asymmetrical computing exists in your head not in the machine. Computers can be configured for one purpose or another but there's no difference in the machine itself. The OP thought it strange to use a phone as a web server because M$ and others have pounded their product line into people's heads. The false notion that only powerful machines can do things through http is so strong that people forget that embedded devices often use http. The only difference is a small matter of speed and memory that are growing larger all the time. M$'s continued insistence on a difference between "servers" and "desktops" never had a reasonable foundation and should be an embarrassment to them.
There are lots of reasons to run "server" software and the difference between "servers" and "desktops" is one that M$ made up. An iPhone could be a portable wifi hotspot. http "servers" in embedded devices are typical control interfaces. If iPhone runs X, you should be able to forward applications to your laptop so that you can use your keyboard and screen. The list goes on and on, as it does for any general purpose computing device.
These things should and will be common. The only thing iPhone has over the Neo1973 is non free video codecs and other non free goodies. The laws that make that happen are finally changing. Sharing is good and portable, networked computing is going to make it happen. When it's free, you will be able to trust it and use it for business.
Since when do we ask permission to bend our gadgets to our will?
Since people have tried to sell you non free software. You might remember something about BSD, modems and the phone company. The phone company has not changed much.
Yeah ... they'll just block or corrupt EVERY SINGLE PUBLIC NAMESERVER IN THE WORLD.
Or they could just block it at the cable modem.
But reality manifestly has no place in your nice cozy conspiracy theories.
What are you talking about?
I expect similar statements from IBM, HP and Dell soon. Vista is buggy and it's not selling. If it were selling, others might go along. Because it's not, they have no incentive to lie to their customers. Vista is so bad, people selling it risk their already tarnished reputations if they keep selling it. Dell has danced around the issue already. HP and IBM are openly defiant and will soon be offering more GNU/Linux for you. If they don't, they will be over run by companies like FIC and Acer who are more than happy to sell $200 GNU/Linux laptops.
Keep It Simple Stupid the problem with Vista was that Microsoft wanted to make the Ultimate Operating System,
You can talk till you're blue in the face, they keep doing and saying the same thing every time. They never have had the resources and organization to integrate all of the software they bought. $40 billion is not enough money the non free way, but they will burn though that quickly as revenues start falling.
Falling revenue? Yeah, flat today despite a new release of their OS and Office suite. The public has rejected Vista and the vendor revolt is on. Revenues have nowhere to go but down, and that's the death spiral predicted by ESR long ago - no money, no coders, no product, no money.
Microsoft had seven years to remake itself but failed and produced the Vista media lockdown nightmare instead. Poor quality has finally lead to poor sales. The vendor backlash is here. We're talking about sales worse than ME.
The only real option for them is to retool a GNU/Linux distribution. There is no way they are going to fix Vista in time to save themselves from disaster. It might be too late even for that drastic solution. As the market floods with $200 GNU/Linux laptops, they will be entirely squeezed out.
Good Riddance, M$. They don't have three years left, but it will take years to undo the technical and legislative damage they did.
Oh how the M$ party is over.
You PR tolls better start looking for another job. Your best efforts have done more harm than good and your owner is about to run out of money.
Yeah, so I suppose that this is somehow going to end up being blamed on George Bush.
Sure, he's the dumb ass that thought you could wiretap the whole internet. Federal wiretapping has cost all of us lots of money and makes possible further dumb ass dreams like "protecting" music from Universities. The federal government is stupid from the top down. GWB is going to sign this bill with glee, as long as it does not give too much money to education, because it provides some flimsy justification for his other unAmerican policies.
The US lags because we set up our telcom infrastructure the first, and thus have the most primitive last-mile connections. Throw in some wide distances between communities and you have the situation we have today.
This is Bell Bullshit. The US is a dense urban nation now and the vast majority of people live in cities. The long haul network has lots of dark fiber because our cities are still using copper networks. Ma Bell wants to sell you each bit of data and we are falling further behind despite big promisses and big spending - in short you have paid for a world class network but don't have it. That the US is not first in the world despite having invented the technology and having the money for networks is a true scandal. Most people still use dial up - that's pathetic.
How bad is it? Socialist countries like France, Finland and Sweden are kicking our ass. Germany is right behind us, and half of it's network was made by Stalin. Want to bet on how long it will take Poland, Hungry or freaking Kahzakistan to catch up? You would think the US would be growing faster than other nations but we are not and what little growth we've got is grinding to a halt.
If you don't like the faulty DNS, feel free to change to one of the other public DNS servers such as the public Verison DNS Server at 4.2.2.1.
How long will it be before they block access to alternatives or the alternatives themselves can not be trusted? Breaking something as fundamental as DNS breaks the an important agreement that makes the internet work.
The problem is the assholes who take over people's computers to send spam and flood web sites. The solution is a well funded police force to hunt them down.
Start in Redmond. No really. Start rooting around the PR firms they pay and see what you find.
Then you can move on to Madison Avenue where big name companies like American Express, Home Depot, American Airlines and others have been busted paying these assholes to take over people's computers. Think those companies got more than a slap on the wrist? No, they had "plausible deniability" and all of them claimed absolute shock that these things were done in their name - shock I tell you, while they continue to support laws that make the internet look like broadcast TV and force the same thing.
Honeynets are a nice way to start tracking these things down but it's not going to work when the herds are all moved over to redundant and decentralized command and control structures. Police effort will dig up thousands of home users who know nothing about what's happened to their computers, unless you can make a TIA network as big as the plannet. The crooks will then add their own networks to the official one and you are back at square one.
No, the only way to get rid of the problem is to make it expensive though platform diversity. Making the user aware of the problem and making it cost the user time and trouble is the first step. At some point the network will be so degraded that users will start dropping off anyway.
Botnets used to abuse IRC while launching spam and DNS.
That's supposed to be Botnets used to abuse IRC while launching spam and DoS (denial of service attacks).
Michael Dell estimates that 25% of the computers he sells ends up controlled by a bot net. Botnets used to abuse IRC while launching spam and DNS. The problem is Windows, but you would like to blame and punish IRC servers and users. Why?
Your plan does not even make sense. Botherders have already moved to their own distributed command and control systems that have nothing to do with IRC.
The only people disrupted by this are IRC users, who mostly use gnu/linux and other systems that don't have botnet problems. People with infected computers are not IRC users.
Leet-man dedazo insultingly blames the users again:
The botnet's root cause is not "Windoze", it's the people who are ignorant or lazy enough to let their computers be taken over by trojans and worms. Since it's stupidly simple to avoid that, the problem lies squarely between keyboard and chair.
Both ignorance and apathy would be cured by kicking off infected computers. I'd be looking forward to "responsible user" dedazo being kicked off but I think the PR firm he works for uses a botnet to post all it's pro M$ blather, so he could stay one step ahead of the terminations.
Interestingly enough, he scornfully proposes the right solution:
[lots of namecalling for normal computer users] You know what? You're more than welcome to them.
That wold be cool. Steve Jobs does not have a problem with average users on Apple. Sun does not have a problem with Solaris in hospitals. No one but M$ has a problem and liberating their users would be a great thing for everyone. It can't be done by force but it will happen when people have knowledge and choices.