While I couldn't dispute most of the details in the logs, they seemed inaccurate. For example, the technician said I had been using Tor earlier that morning. In fact, I had been at Wal-Mart that morning looking for a good deal on an HDTV; I had reached my office only about five minutes earlier.
So, Dr. CESARINI, are you a Windoze user? It may be time to wipe and reload.
Widespread use of Tor could be a huge headache for network-security administrators, particularly in higher education. My university alone has more than 21,000 students. Imagine what would happen if even a tenth of them and a similar percentage of faculty and staff members started using Tor regularly. With all the spam scams, phishing scams, identity theft, and related criminal enterprises going on around the world many of which involve remotely hijacking university-owned computers we could approach technological anarchy on the campus.
With 25% of Windoze PCs already part of a botnet, I imagine more than 1/10 of those computers are already using some form of TOR. What will thwarting my privacy achieve again?
... they keep getting frustrated when iTunes tells them some of their tracks can't be converted to MP3. I've tried explaining DRM to them, but for the typical layperson, it goes right over their heads.
They are not confused, DRM simply sucks. Explaining the details is as pointless and asinine as a hide tanning lecture while someone is whipped. DRM is the ultimate non free expression, secrets created to dominate and abuse. The greed of the artist, the publisher and the listener are all played to create a dishonest deal in which none have real choices. Free and honest sales work better for everyone.
The point is to force business customers wanting to multiplex Vista on their big servers to buy more expensive versions of it. I think the Mac virtual machine business is just a side effect.
No, it's about fucking other platforms. With M$, it's their way or the highway. From the Fine Article:
It also seems that even if you do buy and install the more expensive version of Vista on your Mac, youre not able to play or access content protected by Microsofts digital rights management system, for fear that the full volume disk encryption wont work.
There you go, kiddies, if your favorite website does some kind of WMV crap you won't be able to view it in a VM. Wanna bet M$ makes sure Mac is not invited to their new DRM party?
They won't be able to follow though with their bad intentions, though. Their new DRM is going to be about as popular as Zune.
didn't do it, but I did indulge in a daydream about it:-)
People who act like assholes, eventually, are surrounded by the same. The result is disaster. Incompetence is self sabotaging, the problem is they are always looking for someone else to blame.
Next time, make sure they remove your access and then never look back.
Careful, making cynical comments like that may negatively affect your career prospects. Don't want to get labled as a whiner, people might think your planning to nuke the servers and fire you.
Especially if your bosses who are disgruntled, paranoid, generally show up late, argue with colleagues, and generally perform poorly.
Oh no!
This story really needs to be filed under, "The best way to improve moral is to fire all the unhappy people."
Toys are a bit of a climb down from the vastly profitable market they were looking at.
Thanks to a small legal reversal Ogg may get in more than toys. We shall see if the total M$ industry screw the recent change in DRM scheme will bring OGG to the prominence it deserves.
The Janus, "Plays for Sure" DRM license forbade OGG and that is a big reason there are not more players on the market. As newer players on the market show, the technical arguments given were pure bullshit and PR on M$'s part. They are fighting free software every dirty way they can.
Except in this case M$ gave music player makers a choice: our way or the highway. The Janus DRM license actually forbade the use of ogg. Though this was shot down by the EU, you might imagine the pressure is still there. Well, it was until M$ hosed every one of them over by dumping the former "Plays for Sure" for whatever their new "service" is. You would think they would revolt given they can't win in the M$ world.
"The challenge we face in administering and using them [Windows Vista and Office 2007] is humans - and humans make mistakes. A large part of what we do going forward is not dealing with the engineering aspects of the software we build, but we have to deal with the fact errors do happen whether by accident or intentional"
He needs to deal with the engineering first. What good is an ID if your computer is one of the 25% of all Windoze computers with a keylogging bot on it? It's not the user's fault.
I'm not really sure what you are trying to say here but I can tell you a little about GPE. You demand:
... run (recompiled) existing Linux apps? Mapping a touchscreen, joystick or keypad combo to the mouse, full Bluetooth and other radio control for voice/SMS/MMS/data...
and shall receive. GPE already runs recompiled applications with good mapping of input from all available buttons and the touch screen. Xstroke is on of the best graffiti handwriting recognitions I've ever used. The average distribution, like OpenZaurus, has a repository with many useful programs that work well. All the buttons work when it's useful and so on.
I want my phone to run the same apps on the same shared data as my desktop
That one is a little tricky still, but the applications all recognize normal formats like vcf. Projects like kandy are supposed to deal with that and will.
the limited phone UI will force new paradigms in using these little mobile devices which will run on my desktop. Linux has been a reworking of Apple/Windows too long. Jumping ahead on the desktop, with an eye on Apple's parallel iPhone evolution, will not only speed development of simpler, more powerful "phones", but also rejuice the networked desktop that's stuck in the 1990s.
Apparently you are not very familiar with GNU/Linux desktops, but that's beside the point. GPE does contain a collection of applications designed for PDA display constraints, but you should not confuse application and desktop design issues. X has proved itself admirably in GPE. Don't like your PDA's constraints? X forward the display to your laptop through secure shell to get both terminal and GUI interfaces complete with keyboard, mouse and screen real estate. On it's own GPE is somewhere between GNOME and Palm and is simple to understand and use. Work with Enlightenment as a Window manager promisses virtual desktops to help overcome small screen limitations and make multitasking easier. Right now, you can run Inkscape on GPE but you are better off using the simple GPE drawing tool.
Silver himself posted showing the Electric Slide, he wrote, "Any video that shows my choreography being done incorrectly is being removed. I don't want future generations having to learn it wrong and then relearn it as I am being faced with now because of certain sites and (people) that have been teaching it incorrectly and without my permission. That's the reason I (copyrighted) it in the first place."
So, all dances which are similar to his but not his are his? Was there nothing remotely like "his" dance that he got "wrong" that should have prevented him from owning this dance for the next hundred years?
These are issues anyone can understand. They might agree that people can't rip off broadway shows and movies to make other shows and movies but they will never be so servile as to think they need someone's permission to dance. More, they expect to be able to sing, dance and share the moment with their friends.
As Lessing put it, suddenly with new technology there's a new common sense. The example he used was the vertical ownership of land. Once upon a time, ownership was theorized to cover all of land from the Earth's core to the stars. Shortly after the invention of airplanes, two chicken farmers tried to sue an airport. The case was shot down because it flew in the face of common sense. It will be obnoxious cases like the Electric Slide that will set straight just what is owned with a copyright to a dance, and it's not going to be forcing everyone to ask one person permission to share their home movies.
With that part of a bad law defeated, people will start to want other freedoms.
most people upon learning vista will break their iPod, will just stick with their current OS until the issue is fixed. where's the incentive to spend a lot of money on a mac, or switch to linux?
So, they will then magically jump to the expensive option that had to be "fixed"? Dream on, Steve-o.
You can buy a mac for less than a PC and you don't have to buy anything to get GNU/Linux, and both have more going for them than Vista. A low end mini costs about $500. GNU/Linux costs nothing and runs on the user's current hardware. Both have performance, interfaces and programs that blow a Vista machine out of the water. "Vista premium" computers are being advertised for $15,000! A cheap-o vista computer is going to be a downgrade from what most people already have.
... it's good for TiVo to have another revenue stream and a way to keep networks and advertisers happy, since generally the content providers have been working pretty hard to fight against DVR.
Don't forget how vital this kind of feed back is for producing quality advertisements. If it were not for digital restrictions that force you to watch and evaluate ads, people on Madison Avenue would be so far out of touch that you might describe them as having their heads shove up their ass. The ads would surely suck much worse. See? Aren't you glad that you are not really in control of your recorder, that you are forced to watch advertisements? What a great deal for the $250/month you pay your cable company. A DVR that's not a DVR but more like a pay per play juke box from hell. I mean, when you can just watch what you pay for instead of whatever is being broadcast, 90% of your advertisement watching goes out the window. A free DVR that could skip advertisements all together would eliminate the last 10% and and and that would be terrible. Think of the quality messages you will be missing. Isn't that why you pay for cable TV? I know it's why I don't.
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They should have just blamed M$. Why bother with debate, you ask.
"Who's fault do you think it is" doesn't imply Apple or Microsoft is at fault - but it opens up a debate that can't possibly be intelligently executed.
There's no evidence of anything ; we don't even know what happened.
You might as well sprinkle M&M's all over a busy freeway beside a Richard Simmons retreat. People are going to rush into this one and end up looking pretty stupid.
The only people who look stupid are the people trying to sell a snazzy new OS that does not work with 80% of the world's digital music players. That's not really debatable.
make sure that your #1 money making product actually worked on a new operating system that was likely to gain significant market share in a very short time.
How about the first mover advantage? You think people are going to rush out and buy software that breaks their favorite toy? No, M$ just sealed the deal for the huge iPod owning population - Vista will wait, and it might be time to check out a Mac or Linux. Not working with the most popular music player on the market is a bad move.
It took XP four long years to have more desktops than previous M$ OS. Vista is not going to come close and could undo M$.
Of course by making these claims you force people to go into details of how a kernel upgrade might fail, which is not exactly a popular theme around here. I learned early that the best way to "upgrade" Linux was to just backup ~/ and do a clean install. Which is no different from Windows.
but in the Linux world, when you are finished with your upgrade, your devices still work. Oh, and you don't have to backup anything. The files most people care about are in their home directory, which should be on a separate partition, and have nothing to do with the binaries. If you have fancy commercial software, you were careful to install it on/opt and it's a separate partition too and requires no further effort except the usual non free library dependency hell. Oh, and most distributions have binary kernel packages which just work and don't require any further effort. In short, a GNU/Linux upgrade is nothing like the reboot filled, driver floppy swapping, registration pained, occasionally binary registry hacking disaster a Windoze "upgrade" is. It is much better any way you like to do it.
and this has nothing to do with Vista not getting along with iPod. It should work right out of the box. M$ broke it, on purpose or by accident it does not matter.
Given that they were involved with J++, discussing a cross-platform mandate (big with Slashdotters, but not even a blip on the radar screen with 99% of Microsoft's customer base), and the context of the discussion involved co-opting lessons learned and design imperatives (not really the product itself), this discussion was not exactly the smoking gun you guys would like it to be.
The attitude is not so easily dismissed and it shows itself again and again. While the comment might be aimed at Sun, it ultimately harms the customer.
"Cross-platform" is a huge subject that customers deeply care about but one that M$ customers will always be disappointed with. People desperately want their computers and other devices to work together but it's not going to happen with a company like M$ around. People want their PDA, cameras, portable music players and DVRs to work together and share information. Anyone trying to provide that for customers on a M$ platform is doomed to have their work broken when M$ inevitably comes in to steal the market. "Let's steal java," is a perfect example. When he says that, he means "we have the market share and can define what works and what does not." I watched them do the same thing to Palm, when "security" updates screwed over sync on W2K, so that the new Windoze Pocket PCs could gain market share. And, we've seen the same kind of thing in portable music players. The third E of EEE is extinguish. Once the treat to M$ dominance has been removed, the thing stolen will be ignored or removed. The issue is so much larger than Java and one or two employees. When you sum up all the pieces, the picture that emerges is not pretty at all, is it?
Maybe you can upgrade from version 2.6.123456 to version 2.6.123457 and expect all your drivers to continue working, Twitter, but I doubt this is the case with major version changes. Correct me if I'm wrong (that is, someone who knows something, not Twitter).
Ignorance is difficult, isn't it Koreaman?
I've taken computers from 2.2 to 2.6 with very few problems. The only issue I've ever had has been with a two really nasty old ISA sound cards that never worked well to begin with. The trend has been for each new kernel to support more, not less hardware, despite major design changes.
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Cite please, or is this another baseless Twitter Anti-M$ wankfest? (Do I even need to ask?)
Would you believe Vint Cerf and Michael Dell? The latter would tend to underestimate.
So, Dr. CESARINI, are you a Windoze user? It may be time to wipe and reload.
With 25% of Windoze PCs already part of a botnet, I imagine more than 1/10 of those computers are already using some form of TOR. What will thwarting my privacy achieve again?
They are not confused, DRM simply sucks. Explaining the details is as pointless and asinine as a hide tanning lecture while someone is whipped. DRM is the ultimate non free expression, secrets created to dominate and abuse. The greed of the artist, the publisher and the listener are all played to create a dishonest deal in which none have real choices. Free and honest sales work better for everyone.
The point is to force business customers wanting to multiplex Vista on their big servers to buy more expensive versions of it. I think the Mac virtual machine business is just a side effect.
No, it's about fucking other platforms. With M$, it's their way or the highway. From the Fine Article:
There you go, kiddies, if your favorite website does some kind of WMV crap you won't be able to view it in a VM. Wanna bet M$ makes sure Mac is not invited to their new DRM party?
They won't be able to follow though with their bad intentions, though. Their new DRM is going to be about as popular as Zune.
Angry workers more likely to sabotage systems...
That or those who let it show are more likely to be caught or blamed.
Had there been a failure, the only competent person (aka Mr. Moody) would have been blamed.
as opposed to the armies of users that "sabotage" the desktops and network resources on a daily basis? sure... the IT guys are the problem.
Only when the IT guys chose software that's easy to "sabotage." Are 25% of your desktops part of a bot net? Do you blame your users for that?
didn't do it, but I did indulge in a daydream about it :-)
People who act like assholes, eventually, are surrounded by the same. The result is disaster. Incompetence is self sabotaging, the problem is they are always looking for someone else to blame.
Next time, make sure they remove your access and then never look back.
Careful, making cynical comments like that may negatively affect your career prospects. Don't want to get labled as a whiner, people might think your planning to nuke the servers and fire you.
Especially if your bosses who are disgruntled, paranoid, generally show up late, argue with colleagues, and generally perform poorly.
Oh no!
This story really needs to be filed under, "The best way to improve moral is to fire all the unhappy people."
They also sweat profusely throw chairs.
Also, it's not such a great idea to put a screen next to your mouth. Unless you can flip it over the screen will be a mess.
Toys are a bit of a climb down from the vastly profitable market they were looking at.
Thanks to a small legal reversal Ogg may get in more than toys. We shall see if the total M$ industry screw the recent change in DRM scheme will bring OGG to the prominence it deserves.
The Janus, "Plays for Sure" DRM license forbade OGG and that is a big reason there are not more players on the market. As newer players on the market show, the technical arguments given were pure bullshit and PR on M$'s part. They are fighting free software every dirty way they can.
It's the PNG/GIF thing all over again.
Except in this case M$ gave music player makers a choice: our way or the highway. The Janus DRM license actually forbade the use of ogg. Though this was shot down by the EU, you might imagine the pressure is still there. Well, it was until M$ hosed every one of them over by dumping the former "Plays for Sure" for whatever their new "service" is. You would think they would revolt given they can't win in the M$ world.
He needs to deal with the engineering first. What good is an ID if your computer is one of the 25% of all Windoze computers with a keylogging bot on it? It's not the user's fault.
I'm not really sure what you are trying to say here but I can tell you a little about GPE. You demand:
and shall receive. GPE already runs recompiled applications with good mapping of input from all available buttons and the touch screen. Xstroke is on of the best graffiti handwriting recognitions I've ever used. The average distribution, like OpenZaurus, has a repository with many useful programs that work well. All the buttons work when it's useful and so on.
I want my phone to run the same apps on the same shared data as my desktop
That one is a little tricky still, but the applications all recognize normal formats like vcf. Projects like kandy are supposed to deal with that and will.
the limited phone UI will force new paradigms in using these little mobile devices which will run on my desktop. Linux has been a reworking of Apple/Windows too long. Jumping ahead on the desktop, with an eye on Apple's parallel iPhone evolution, will not only speed development of simpler, more powerful "phones", but also rejuice the networked desktop that's stuck in the 1990s.
Apparently you are not very familiar with GNU/Linux desktops, but that's beside the point. GPE does contain a collection of applications designed for PDA display constraints, but you should not confuse application and desktop design issues. X has proved itself admirably in GPE. Don't like your PDA's constraints? X forward the display to your laptop through secure shell to get both terminal and GUI interfaces complete with keyboard, mouse and screen real estate. On it's own GPE is somewhere between GNOME and Palm and is simple to understand and use. Work with Enlightenment as a Window manager promisses virtual desktops to help overcome small screen limitations and make multitasking easier. Right now, you can run Inkscape on GPE but you are better off using the simple GPE drawing tool.
GPE rocks because free software rocks.
So, all dances which are similar to his but not his are his? Was there nothing remotely like "his" dance that he got "wrong" that should have prevented him from owning this dance for the next hundred years?
These are issues anyone can understand. They might agree that people can't rip off broadway shows and movies to make other shows and movies but they will never be so servile as to think they need someone's permission to dance. More, they expect to be able to sing, dance and share the moment with their friends.
As Lessing put it, suddenly with new technology there's a new common sense. The example he used was the vertical ownership of land. Once upon a time, ownership was theorized to cover all of land from the Earth's core to the stars. Shortly after the invention of airplanes, two chicken farmers tried to sue an airport. The case was shot down because it flew in the face of common sense. It will be obnoxious cases like the Electric Slide that will set straight just what is owned with a copyright to a dance, and it's not going to be forcing everyone to ask one person permission to share their home movies.
With that part of a bad law defeated, people will start to want other freedoms.
most people upon learning vista will break their iPod, will just stick with their current OS until the issue is fixed. where's the incentive to spend a lot of money on a mac, or switch to linux?
So, they will then magically jump to the expensive option that had to be "fixed"? Dream on, Steve-o.
You can buy a mac for less than a PC and you don't have to buy anything to get GNU/Linux, and both have more going for them than Vista. A low end mini costs about $500. GNU/Linux costs nothing and runs on the user's current hardware. Both have performance, interfaces and programs that blow a Vista machine out of the water. "Vista premium" computers are being advertised for $15,000! A cheap-o vista computer is going to be a downgrade from what most people already have.
Don't forget how vital this kind of feed back is for producing quality advertisements. If it were not for digital restrictions that force you to watch and evaluate ads, people on Madison Avenue would be so far out of touch that you might describe them as having their heads shove up their ass. The ads would surely suck much worse. See? Aren't you glad that you are not really in control of your recorder, that you are forced to watch advertisements? What a great deal for the $250/month you pay your cable company. A DVR that's not a DVR but more like a pay per play juke box from hell. I mean, when you can just watch what you pay for instead of whatever is being broadcast, 90% of your advertisement watching goes out the window. A free DVR that could skip advertisements all together would eliminate the last 10% and and and that would be terrible. Think of the quality messages you will be missing. Isn't that why you pay for cable TV? I know it's why I don't.
They should have just blamed M$. Why bother with debate, you ask.
"Who's fault do you think it is" doesn't imply Apple or Microsoft is at fault - but it opens up a debate that can't possibly be intelligently executed. There's no evidence of anything ; we don't even know what happened. You might as well sprinkle M&M's all over a busy freeway beside a Richard Simmons retreat. People are going to rush into this one and end up looking pretty stupid.
The only people who look stupid are the people trying to sell a snazzy new OS that does not work with 80% of the world's digital music players. That's not really debatable.
I'll turn that one on it's head:
make sure that your #1 money making product actually worked on a new operating system that was likely to gain significant market share in a very short time.
How about the first mover advantage? You think people are going to rush out and buy software that breaks their favorite toy? No, M$ just sealed the deal for the huge iPod owning population - Vista will wait, and it might be time to check out a Mac or Linux. Not working with the most popular music player on the market is a bad move.
It took XP four long years to have more desktops than previous M$ OS. Vista is not going to come close and could undo M$.
Of course by making these claims you force people to go into details of how a kernel upgrade might fail, which is not exactly a popular theme around here. I learned early that the best way to "upgrade" Linux was to just backup ~/ and do a clean install. Which is no different from Windows.
but in the Linux world, when you are finished with your upgrade, your devices still work. Oh, and you don't have to backup anything. The files most people care about are in their home directory, which should be on a separate partition, and have nothing to do with the binaries. If you have fancy commercial software, you were careful to install it on /opt and it's a separate partition too and requires no further effort except the usual non free library dependency hell. Oh, and most distributions have binary kernel packages which just work and don't require any further effort. In short, a GNU/Linux upgrade is nothing like the reboot filled, driver floppy swapping, registration pained, occasionally binary registry hacking disaster a Windoze "upgrade" is. It is much better any way you like to do it.
and this has nothing to do with Vista not getting along with iPod. It should work right out of the box. M$ broke it, on purpose or by accident it does not matter.
Given that they were involved with J++, discussing a cross-platform mandate (big with Slashdotters, but not even a blip on the radar screen with 99% of Microsoft's customer base), and the context of the discussion involved co-opting lessons learned and design imperatives (not really the product itself), this discussion was not exactly the smoking gun you guys would like it to be.
The attitude is not so easily dismissed and it shows itself again and again. While the comment might be aimed at Sun, it ultimately harms the customer.
"Cross-platform" is a huge subject that customers deeply care about but one that M$ customers will always be disappointed with. People desperately want their computers and other devices to work together but it's not going to happen with a company like M$ around. People want their PDA, cameras, portable music players and DVRs to work together and share information. Anyone trying to provide that for customers on a M$ platform is doomed to have their work broken when M$ inevitably comes in to steal the market. "Let's steal java," is a perfect example. When he says that, he means "we have the market share and can define what works and what does not." I watched them do the same thing to Palm, when "security" updates screwed over sync on W2K, so that the new Windoze Pocket PCs could gain market share. And, we've seen the same kind of thing in portable music players. The third E of EEE is extinguish. Once the treat to M$ dominance has been removed, the thing stolen will be ignored or removed. The issue is so much larger than Java and one or two employees. When you sum up all the pieces, the picture that emerges is not pretty at all, is it?
Maybe you can upgrade from version 2.6.123456 to version 2.6.123457 and expect all your drivers to continue working, Twitter, but I doubt this is the case with major version changes. Correct me if I'm wrong (that is, someone who knows something, not Twitter).
Ignorance is difficult, isn't it Koreaman?
I've taken computers from 2.2 to 2.6 with very few problems. The only issue I've ever had has been with a two really nasty old ISA sound cards that never worked well to begin with. The trend has been for each new kernel to support more, not less hardware, despite major design changes.