In fact, M$'s entry to the device market will hasten the demise of WMA. If M$ pulls it's usual strategy of "knifing the baby" or "cutting off their oxygen", both phrases from M$ emails, they will drive other device makers away from WMA. This will strengthen device maker support for less encumbered formats like mp3, ogg and flac.
Contrary to popular belief, iTunes is not doing that much better. People still overwhelmingly purchase their music in forms that are not DRM encumbered. DRM is damage and people route around it.
How will the brown Zune look with the blue screen of death?
Natural.
SNAFU, VISTA. Can you tell the difference? Six years to failure and counting. Zune, like previous M$ music services, will sink without a trace in short order.
Contrary to popular belief, most of the working world loves Microsoft.
Fully qualified, that is most of the working world over the age of 50, who's employers are in the Fortune 100, who had a large portion of their 401k put in M$TF without their permission, who still get their news from the broadcast networks, all of those people, still think M$ will be here in ten years. They also hate their computers and know it's M$'s fault. Really. Even the least informed and most vested of long time computer users know that M$ is second rate. They only think M$ will be around because they are used to seeing big dumb companies beat the marketplace and the law. IBM and friends give them pause, because they know that IBM knows computer excellence.
> This is not a realistic goal however so please, find another method
Why should i? There is a perfectly simple solution, why should i be forced to show another solution just because of the ignorance of other people?
You, a person foolishly representing the interests of the non free music industry, have to tell me why I should pass laws protecting your crappy little Digital Restrictions Management program from people who would circumvent it. Your anti-circumvention laws are not something written into any contract I ever signed and are a tremendous abuse of copyright law which goes well beyond any reasonable interpretation of the copyright establishment clause. It was government missallocation of broadcast spectrum that created the big music companies, not a free market. They will die in a free market and should not be protected by laws that destroy my freedom to do what I will with bits on my computer. Those laws cost money and I don't want to pay it.
That the market will vanquish DRM is not a good enough reason to legally protect it. Sure, I'm avoiding DRM'd music like most people are. The vast majority of people's music is still DRM free, despite the current "success" of the iTunes music store. Companies that sell non DRM'd music will continue to prevail and the non free formats will fizzle and die like DRM'd ebooks have. So tell me again why any country should pass and enforce laws to protect something no one wants that will soon die? Corporate welfare? No thanks.
1. The check is in the mail
2. I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you.
3. I won't cum in your mouth.
4. Linux is ready for the desktop.
Windoze comes FREE with your computer. Many vendors also include several programs that make it useful at no additional charge to your $2,000 PC.
The Government will protect you from abusive monopolies in computing and telecommunications so that the free market will deliver you the best and cheapest services.
Your new Windows operating system is a safer and more secure place to put your data than your old Windows operating system. It's more stable, user friendly and secure against hackers and our malware dependents.
Linux is made by Communist Gnomes in Moscow (aka Megog of Revelations). When you use it, a Microsoft developer in India loses his wings and plunges into a sea of fire. Drug dealers, terrorists and pedophiles alike will all abuse your machine and snicker behind your back. All will be chaos and botnets will overwhelm legitimate traffic with porn spam and kitten snuff films. The tubes of the internet will be clogged and fail, like your gas guzzling SUV. Israel will exchange nuclear weapons with Megog, Syria and China and the world will end in fire. Most of all, a mouse with more than one button it too hard for you to use.
... the Mainstream Media is well known for its expertise in IT and its reliability as a source of proven facts and sober analysis!... this is proof positive that Linux is absolutely not desktop ready.
So where are you going to get your facts now? For years, most specialized media has been saying that free software is ready for mass use. The rise of OSX showed that "consumer" grade Unix was not only possible but wildly better than existing alternatives. The adoption of free software by IBM and many of their large clients should have been a clue to you as well. Millions of others have been using free software exclusively for years without the "support" of large companies. All of this has been reflected in software and computer magazines outside of the Wintel rags and the mainstream press is finally noticing. You will have to go directly to Microsoft and further from reality to find the opinions you like.
What about the geeks who use Linux because it's not mainstream?
I don't know anyone like that, do you? Most of the people I know want their friends, family and neighbors to get away from non free software. Communications and record keeping are the major uses of computers and both of those things are difficult under the perpetually changing "standards" of non free software. Converting everyone to free and relatively constant standards is in everyone but Bill Gates' best interest and all but a few Windoze users know it. People use Linux because it's free and an easy way to run GNU and other software that does what they want it to do.
Servers aren't consumer products so I don't see how this gets consumers any closer to a Cell or any sooner.
The server that runs Fedora core 5 costs $18,000 or so. Like most people, I'm not going to buy a computer that costs so much but it does get me closer to a Cell processor.
Next to a part of a Los Alamos super computer, a $600 PS3 looks like a bargain. Hell, it looks like a bargain next to a "Ready for Vista Ultimate Sucker Edition" computer. I thought the PS3 was interesting as a gaming platform and nothing else. If Sony makes it so I can dual boot, so that I can run Fedora when I want to crunch numbers I'll put up with the non free nature of the Sony half that plays DVDs and games the same way other non free set top boxes do. The PS3 does not cost that much more than the average PC I build for myself but promisses much more power. I'm going to be watching PS3 very closely, it might be my next PC. If it really works like Sony wants it to, it will be a lot of people's next home computer and it will help make 2007 the year of Linux.
No, I've never said "next year will be the year of Linux" before this year. Vista's impending flop and truly new hardware from IBM is making good on IBM's promiss that the future is free. 2007 has a very good chance of seeing free software market share reach 20% of the home market, aka "mainstream".
... the list of defendants, they're almost all small time computer sales or software sales companies.... if you are a consumer who's been sold a pirated copy of Windows without your knowledge, Microsoft will even help you get a free or discounted copy if you just let them know who sold it to you.
Yes the list of defendants is a who's who of mom and pop computer store owners. Have you ever thought that they too might have been passed off an "illegitimate" copy by their distributor? The wild and wacky world of Windoze pricing makes that easy and the copies come shrink wrapped with all the proper credentials just like the "legitimate" coppies. I know someone who was nearly ruined fighting off one of these suits. For years he passed on M$ junk at his cost and helped line Bill Gates' pockets. His reward was one of these suits, which he fought and won at great cost. It's a shake down. The money you give them is never enough.
The WGA program, judging from all the reported false positives, is a way of extending the shake down all the way to the end user. The "discounted" copy price is probably more than they can get out of Michael Dell. So it looks like end users are now exposed to threats and harassment.
The only way to avoid the extortion is to avoid M$. For all of their business friendly propaganda, it's starting to look like the free software people are better for commerce. I've never heard of the Free Software Foundation filing suit against a mom and pop store or an individual for distributing software, even if they charged money for that service.
Computer Plus USA is not CompUSA, so M$ might not be shaking down it's larger corporate pals this way. The extensive list of small shops is still disturbing and I stand by my opinion that it's another part of the non free extortion.
Grief, that list has everyone from CompUSA to the mom and pop store down the street. I know of one guy in town who's store was almost ruined fighting such a bogus charge, but seeing a list like that drives home how common such things are. The local who was sued eventually won in court. There was no way he could tell the fakes from the real because they had all the little stickers and worked. His distributor burnt him and was in turn burnt by someone upstream but the whole thing has the stink of an extortion racket. M$ likes to promote their WGA program as a way around all of these suits but the remedy used is only pushing the extortion down to the end user who gets to pay for a "legitmate" copy. You can be sure that the store that sold the "illegitimate" copy gets added to a lawsuit list and the racket goes on. Is there anyone who's sold a lot M$ software and put a lot money in Bill Gate's pocket who M$ has not turned around and sued?
The only way to avoid problems is to have nothing to do with them.
... there are people who find trolling so important to them that they make a website out of it, then they've probably considered attacking Digg. So I went to their site, and did a forum search for "Digg". Lo and behold, the first item on the results...
No surprise there. If it's free and cool, the assholes will be on it.
The only thing that surprises me is that the Feds have not busted down the door on those people. Their whole site is devoted to harassing people, they admit to running botnets of the sort that annoy the hell out of big business, telco, hospitals and everyone that runs a Windoze PC. More importantly, they use language that's sure to get some clueless TIA attention. Once that's established, you would think it's only a matter of time before they notice claims of copyright infringement, anti-semitic comments, blatant race baiting, pushing obscene images and a host of other offenses that would draw ire and investigation of actual law breaking.
The actual statement has to sound like the Terminator. Observe:
I mean Cuban, Puerto Rican, they are all very hot
Should be
I.MEAN.CUBAN.PUER.TO.RI.CAN.DEY.ARE.ALL.VER.Y.HO T.
[screen flickers between visible and infrared view, zooms in on a rodent in the wall]
[choice screen appears, -kill, -verbally abuse and process further, -ignore]
.FUCK.YOU.ASS.HOLE.
[At this point the person talking to Arnold should be alarmed and might actually gasp.]
The next statement should be kind of like this:
.THEY.HAVE.THE.YOU.KNOW.PART.OF.THE.BLACK.BLOOD. IN.THEM.AND.PART.OF.THE.LAT.INO.BLOOD.
[DNA sequences labled "BLACK", "LATINO" and "MIX" scroll by with statistics and portions highlighted, "COMMON", "DIVERGENT", "WEAKNESS", "FLAW", "KILLPOINT". The killpoint flashes red and various biological agents dance in the corner with diffusion constants. Special nasal passage pits glow with involuntary anticipation and a new sequence scrolls. "POS. ID: RAT" A faint, high pitched whine can be heard and the wall rat runs for cover.]
.IN.THEM.THAT.TOGETHER.MAKES.IT.
[Laser beams come from his eyes and vaporize a portion of the wall and the rat. The aid runs off screaming and posts the recording in public. Screen flashes "THREAT TERMINATED"]
It's all very science fiction. You have you have to see the vid out recording to understand all the subtle nuances and depth of Arnold's assessment and decision making power. I mean, how many of you have a portable DNA database for blood type and the processing power to instantly and without contact analyze it like Arnold does? It's incredible but it's all verifiable by Holywood Physics.
On the chip front, although HP and Intel have had a long relationship involving their collaboration on the Itanium chip, delays by Intel have created frustration in the HP camp, the source said. As a result, HP may use Intel's archrival Advanced Micro Devices as a cattle prod of sorts to the chip giant, the source noted. "We plan to use AMD's Opteron more and more," the source said.
Lionize? No. I asked you to justify calling him "slime" who deserves to be fired. The above, an anonymous threat to Intel over obvious and public technical failure, does not do it for me. You can mumbo jumbo it all up by calling that "proprietary information" but you can't call it a serious offense or even pin it to Keyworth. Anyone who'd have bet money on an anonymous report like that is crazy, so what harm could it have done? Companies talk about switching suppliers all the time when they are not engaging in illegal trusts to drive out competition. You will have to do better than that.
Evidence is all over the place but hard to prove.
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Snotman wants evidence of social gaming. Evidence of past behavior abounds. First, let's reiterate the potential problem. From the Fine article:
Register them on Digg. Have them randomly digg 5 stories a day. Then scrape the top 100 users on Digg, and add them randomly across the 100 fake users. Simmer for a week or 3, and then *bam* - start reporting any story dugg by the top 100 users as inaccurate.
The ease of creating a botnet of Windoze machines eliminates all evidence. Instances of actually catching a company hired troll like Barkto are rare. Even obvious astroturf, like the M$ PR created Apple Switcher are hard to detect. If that's not proof enough for you that some dishonest companies are abusing the net for there advantage, I'm not sure what is. Oh yeah, you can look up the court proven public disinformation campaign against DRDOS by M$.
As for evidence of gaming sites like Slashdot, visit these these losers one day. Use a text browser and a condom or you might walk off with more than you want.
Yes, it's pathetic but people do that kind of thing.
How about looking at every cargo container at every port before it goes to sea and before it's brought ashore? After all, by the time the bomb gets where it's going it's too late. Brilliant. Yes, an array of NaI detectors costs a lot more than a crummy little 1x1 crystal but the proximity gives directional information that really deals with background and false positives. Yes, competent people are working on the problem and solutions are on the way. No, the world never will be safe.
At least the slimy mofo George Keyworth who was blabbing to the press got his name slimed.
I'd love to know just what he "leaked" and why you hate him for doing it. The nearest I can tell from reading the Wikipedia, the "leak" was about Fiorina's $42,000,000 severance package which has two HP investors suing HP for violating their own payment caps. If that's all there is, Keyworth is a whistle blower. If you know something, I'd love to hear it.
Why is it that I get a visit from the police when I do some good ole' social engineering and get caught? And this woman gets a seat as a director?
She disclosed their social security numbers and other info but did not commit the fraud herself and claims ignorance. We'll see what the AG does about that but the fall guy "investigator" will be nailed. When someone asks you to do something wrong, just say no.
Why do people keep perpetuating this myth? It should be widely known by now that all the important Linux developers get paid by their respective employers to work on the kernel.
People like you still don't want to understand free software. The "myth" is perpetuated because it's true for free software, which should not be confused with the Linux kernel alone. You might be able to come up with a definition of "important" that would make it look like the kernel is corporate sponsored, but that ignores the fact that it grew up without such sponsorship and depends on lots of other free software. The kernel is an important but small part of free software. Other important projects are the GNU utilities, GNOME, KDE, and Mozilla. There are thousands if not tens of thousands of other projects which make the overall free computing experience excellent. Companies are embracing free software because it costs less and does more so there will be more corporate "support" for all free software. That's great, but the vast majority of free software is still developed by unpaid volunteers.
Because people don't understand free software, they fail to understand why non free is failing them. The article comes very close to understanding:
It could be that purely networked enterprises like the Linux project are actually a better way of producing very complex products,...
but they still don't really get the importance of standards, modularity and how non free companies will always break those things at everyone else's expense. They get caught up in this "complexity" thing and buy the same old M$ song and dance about making everything better:
The difficulties in developing Vista stemmed from its monolithic structure and the need for 'backwards compatibility', ie ensuring that software used by customers on older versions of Windows will work under Vista. This vast accumulation of legacy applications acts like an anchor on innovation. The Vista trauma has convinced some Microsoft engineers that they will have to adopt a radically different approach.
The failure of M$ to produce quality code in reasonable time is entirely cultural and predicted. Microsoft said the same "Never again, next time radically better" things when it launched XP. Nothing much has changed there and nothing much has changed in the free software world. How can it be that free software does not suffer from compatibility problems while M$ struggles to keep in touch with itself? Is it because M$ has inadequate communications tools? As much as I hate Outlook, that's not the reason. The reason is that M$'s abusive practices have made them a disfunctional island of incompetence. M$, was only worth something when others helped them. Their anti-social and greedy practices have driven the developers to free tools and with their exit the failure trend has only accelerated. M$ was more dependent on community input than free software was but hid the fact and treated their neighbors with contempt. In the non free world, you not only had to give mind share, you also had to give up money to participate and ultimately would be asked to sign non disclosure agreements and promise not to cooperate with your friends. It was a lie and it has failed. The free software community has none of those shackles.
Vista will be a bigger market flop than XP was and the free software exodus will continue. The hardware requirements, performance hit and the cost of replacing all of the "backward incompatible" software are just not worth it. People offering GNU/Linux computers will see an exponential growth in sales.
Likewise in windows you can change the background color and text color of the BSOD (or at least you could uder 98, I haven't had the desire to play around with it under 2000 / XP since they crash much less frequently).
Are you still trying to tell people that XP is stable? I'd say it's worse than 98, which I still have on hand. Neither should be mentioned around OSX or any other Unix derivative. How many mod points are you going to spend promoting such junk? Of course, the Umbral Blot is full of infuriating bullshit a brief Google search shows:
Likewise in windows you can change the background color and text color of the BSOD (or at least you could uder 98, I haven't had the desire to play around with it under 2000 / XP since they crash much less frequently).
Are you still trying to tell people that XP is stable? I'd say it's worse than 98, which I still have on hand. Neither should be mentioned around OSX or any other Unix derivative. How many mod points are you going to spend promoting such junk? Of course, the Umbral Blot is full of infuriating bullshit a brief Google search shows:
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Just like the ipod was a complete and utter failure because it has DRM?
No, Zune will sink just like the new Napster and other utterly forgetable M$ music services. In case you missed it, they sucked so bad that even no one wanted them, even after being forced to pay, despite M$'s OS advantage and prevalence of cheap, compatible players. DRM sucks, M$'s brand is the worst and people know it. A whoop-de-do wireless network that only shares temporarily with other Zunes will contribute to the well earned bad reputation.
In fact, M$'s entry to the device market will hasten the demise of WMA. If M$ pulls it's usual strategy of "knifing the baby" or "cutting off their oxygen", both phrases from M$ emails, they will drive other device makers away from WMA. This will strengthen device maker support for less encumbered formats like mp3, ogg and flac.
Contrary to popular belief, iTunes is not doing that much better. People still overwhelmingly purchase their music in forms that are not DRM encumbered. DRM is damage and people route around it.
How will the brown Zune look with the blue screen of death?
Natural.
SNAFU, VISTA. Can you tell the difference? Six years to failure and counting. Zune, like previous M$ music services, will sink without a trace in short order.
Contrary to popular belief, most of the working world loves Microsoft.
Fully qualified, that is most of the working world over the age of 50, who's employers are in the Fortune 100, who had a large portion of their 401k put in M$TF without their permission, who still get their news from the broadcast networks, all of those people, still think M$ will be here in ten years. They also hate their computers and know it's M$'s fault. Really. Even the least informed and most vested of long time computer users know that M$ is second rate. They only think M$ will be around because they are used to seeing big dumb companies beat the marketplace and the law. IBM and friends give them pause, because they know that IBM knows computer excellence.
You, a person foolishly representing the interests of the non free music industry, have to tell me why I should pass laws protecting your crappy little Digital Restrictions Management program from people who would circumvent it. Your anti-circumvention laws are not something written into any contract I ever signed and are a tremendous abuse of copyright law which goes well beyond any reasonable interpretation of the copyright establishment clause. It was government missallocation of broadcast spectrum that created the big music companies, not a free market. They will die in a free market and should not be protected by laws that destroy my freedom to do what I will with bits on my computer. Those laws cost money and I don't want to pay it.
That the market will vanquish DRM is not a good enough reason to legally protect it. Sure, I'm avoiding DRM'd music like most people are. The vast majority of people's music is still DRM free, despite the current "success" of the iTunes music store. Companies that sell non DRM'd music will continue to prevail and the non free formats will fizzle and die like DRM'd ebooks have. So tell me again why any country should pass and enforce laws to protect something no one wants that will soon die? Corporate welfare? No thanks.
I could get my information from humorless internet asshats.
Talking to yourself again? That's better than "get the facts".
1. The check is in the mail 2. I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you. 3. I won't cum in your mouth. 4. Linux is ready for the desktop.
So where are you going to get your facts now? For years, most specialized media has been saying that free software is ready for mass use. The rise of OSX showed that "consumer" grade Unix was not only possible but wildly better than existing alternatives. The adoption of free software by IBM and many of their large clients should have been a clue to you as well. Millions of others have been using free software exclusively for years without the "support" of large companies. All of this has been reflected in software and computer magazines outside of the Wintel rags and the mainstream press is finally noticing. You will have to go directly to Microsoft and further from reality to find the opinions you like.
What about the geeks who use Linux because it's not mainstream?
I don't know anyone like that, do you? Most of the people I know want their friends, family and neighbors to get away from non free software. Communications and record keeping are the major uses of computers and both of those things are difficult under the perpetually changing "standards" of non free software. Converting everyone to free and relatively constant standards is in everyone but Bill Gates' best interest and all but a few Windoze users know it. People use Linux because it's free and an easy way to run GNU and other software that does what they want it to do.
Servers aren't consumer products so I don't see how this gets consumers any closer to a Cell or any sooner.
The server that runs Fedora core 5 costs $18,000 or so. Like most people, I'm not going to buy a computer that costs so much but it does get me closer to a Cell processor.
Next to a part of a Los Alamos super computer, a $600 PS3 looks like a bargain. Hell, it looks like a bargain next to a "Ready for Vista Ultimate Sucker Edition" computer. I thought the PS3 was interesting as a gaming platform and nothing else. If Sony makes it so I can dual boot, so that I can run Fedora when I want to crunch numbers I'll put up with the non free nature of the Sony half that plays DVDs and games the same way other non free set top boxes do. The PS3 does not cost that much more than the average PC I build for myself but promisses much more power. I'm going to be watching PS3 very closely, it might be my next PC. If it really works like Sony wants it to, it will be a lot of people's next home computer and it will help make 2007 the year of Linux.
No, I've never said "next year will be the year of Linux" before this year. Vista's impending flop and truly new hardware from IBM is making good on IBM's promiss that the future is free. 2007 has a very good chance of seeing free software market share reach 20% of the home market, aka "mainstream".
Yes the list of defendants is a who's who of mom and pop computer store owners. Have you ever thought that they too might have been passed off an "illegitimate" copy by their distributor? The wild and wacky world of Windoze pricing makes that easy and the copies come shrink wrapped with all the proper credentials just like the "legitimate" coppies. I know someone who was nearly ruined fighting off one of these suits. For years he passed on M$ junk at his cost and helped line Bill Gates' pockets. His reward was one of these suits, which he fought and won at great cost. It's a shake down. The money you give them is never enough.
The WGA program, judging from all the reported false positives, is a way of extending the shake down all the way to the end user. The "discounted" copy price is probably more than they can get out of Michael Dell. So it looks like end users are now exposed to threats and harassment.
The only way to avoid the extortion is to avoid M$. For all of their business friendly propaganda, it's starting to look like the free software people are better for commerce. I've never heard of the Free Software Foundation filing suit against a mom and pop store or an individual for distributing software, even if they charged money for that service.
Computer Plus USA is not CompUSA, so M$ might not be shaking down it's larger corporate pals this way. The extensive list of small shops is still disturbing and I stand by my opinion that it's another part of the non free extortion.
Grief, that list has everyone from CompUSA to the mom and pop store down the street. I know of one guy in town who's store was almost ruined fighting such a bogus charge, but seeing a list like that drives home how common such things are. The local who was sued eventually won in court. There was no way he could tell the fakes from the real because they had all the little stickers and worked. His distributor burnt him and was in turn burnt by someone upstream but the whole thing has the stink of an extortion racket. M$ likes to promote their WGA program as a way around all of these suits but the remedy used is only pushing the extortion down to the end user who gets to pay for a "legitmate" copy. You can be sure that the store that sold the "illegitimate" copy gets added to a lawsuit list and the racket goes on. Is there anyone who's sold a lot M$ software and put a lot money in Bill Gate's pocket who M$ has not turned around and sued?
The only way to avoid problems is to have nothing to do with them.
No surprise there. If it's free and cool, the assholes will be on it.
The only thing that surprises me is that the Feds have not busted down the door on those people. Their whole site is devoted to harassing people, they admit to running botnets of the sort that annoy the hell out of big business, telco, hospitals and everyone that runs a Windoze PC. More importantly, they use language that's sure to get some clueless TIA attention. Once that's established, you would think it's only a matter of time before they notice claims of copyright infringement, anti-semitic comments, blatant race baiting, pushing obscene images and a host of other offenses that would draw ire and investigation of actual law breaking.
This will still be necessary as long as there are AMD fanboys out there still living in denial.
Without 64 bit benchmarks, you can't make up your mind, unless you are some kind of Wintel fanboy who's ignored the Vista hype and does not think 64 bit will be practical for years.
The actual statement has to sound like the Terminator. Observe:
I mean Cuban, Puerto Rican, they are all very hot
Should be
I.MEAN.CUBAN.PUER.TO.RI.CAN.DEY.ARE.ALL.VER.Y.HO T.
[screen flickers between visible and infrared view, zooms in on a rodent in the wall]
[choice screen appears, -kill, -verbally abuse and process further, -ignore]
.FUCK.YOU.ASS.HOLE.
[At this point the person talking to Arnold should be alarmed and might actually gasp.]
The next statement should be kind of like this:
.THEY.HAVE.THE.YOU.KNOW.PART.OF.THE.BLACK.BLOOD. IN.THEM.AND.PART.OF.THE.LAT.INO.BLOOD.
[DNA sequences labled "BLACK", "LATINO" and "MIX" scroll by with statistics and portions highlighted, "COMMON", "DIVERGENT", "WEAKNESS", "FLAW", "KILLPOINT". The killpoint flashes red and various biological agents dance in the corner with diffusion constants. Special nasal passage pits glow with involuntary anticipation and a new sequence scrolls. "POS. ID: RAT" A faint, high pitched whine can be heard and the wall rat runs for cover.]
.IN.THEM.THAT.TOGETHER.MAKES.IT.
[Laser beams come from his eyes and vaporize a portion of the wall and the rat. The aid runs off screaming and posts the recording in public. Screen flashes "THREAT TERMINATED"]
It's all very science fiction. You have you have to see the vid out recording to understand all the subtle nuances and depth of Arnold's assessment and decision making power. I mean, how many of you have a portable DNA database for blood type and the processing power to instantly and without contact analyze it like Arnold does? It's incredible but it's all verifiable by Holywood Physics.
You going to lionize him for this, too?
From you link:
On the chip front, although HP and Intel have had a long relationship involving their collaboration on the Itanium chip, delays by Intel have created frustration in the HP camp, the source said. As a result, HP may use Intel's archrival Advanced Micro Devices as a cattle prod of sorts to the chip giant, the source noted. "We plan to use AMD's Opteron more and more," the source said.
Lionize? No. I asked you to justify calling him "slime" who deserves to be fired. The above, an anonymous threat to Intel over obvious and public technical failure, does not do it for me. You can mumbo jumbo it all up by calling that "proprietary information" but you can't call it a serious offense or even pin it to Keyworth. Anyone who'd have bet money on an anonymous report like that is crazy, so what harm could it have done? Companies talk about switching suppliers all the time when they are not engaging in illegal trusts to drive out competition. You will have to do better than that.
Snotman wants evidence of social gaming. Evidence of past behavior abounds. First, let's reiterate the potential problem. From the Fine article:
Register them on Digg. Have them randomly digg 5 stories a day. Then scrape the top 100 users on Digg, and add them randomly across the 100 fake users. Simmer for a week or 3, and then *bam* - start reporting any story dugg by the top 100 users as inaccurate.
The ease of creating a botnet of Windoze machines eliminates all evidence. Instances of actually catching a company hired troll like Barkto are rare. Even obvious astroturf, like the M$ PR created Apple Switcher are hard to detect. If that's not proof enough for you that some dishonest companies are abusing the net for there advantage, I'm not sure what is. Oh yeah, you can look up the court proven public disinformation campaign against DRDOS by M$.
As for evidence of gaming sites like Slashdot, visit these these losers one day. Use a text browser and a condom or you might walk off with more than you want.
Yes, it's pathetic but people do that kind of thing.
How about looking at every cargo container at every port before it goes to sea and before it's brought ashore? After all, by the time the bomb gets where it's going it's too late. Brilliant. Yes, an array of NaI detectors costs a lot more than a crummy little 1x1 crystal but the proximity gives directional information that really deals with background and false positives. Yes, competent people are working on the problem and solutions are on the way. No, the world never will be safe.
At least the slimy mofo George Keyworth who was blabbing to the press got his name slimed.
I'd love to know just what he "leaked" and why you hate him for doing it. The nearest I can tell from reading the Wikipedia, the "leak" was about Fiorina's $42,000,000 severance package which has two HP investors suing HP for violating their own payment caps. If that's all there is, Keyworth is a whistle blower. If you know something, I'd love to hear it.
Why is it that I get a visit from the police when I do some good ole' social engineering and get caught? And this woman gets a seat as a director?
She disclosed their social security numbers and other info but did not commit the fraud herself and claims ignorance. We'll see what the AG does about that but the fall guy "investigator" will be nailed. When someone asks you to do something wrong, just say no.
Why do people keep perpetuating this myth? It should be widely known by now that all the important Linux developers get paid by their respective employers to work on the kernel.
People like you still don't want to understand free software. The "myth" is perpetuated because it's true for free software, which should not be confused with the Linux kernel alone. You might be able to come up with a definition of "important" that would make it look like the kernel is corporate sponsored, but that ignores the fact that it grew up without such sponsorship and depends on lots of other free software. The kernel is an important but small part of free software. Other important projects are the GNU utilities, GNOME, KDE, and Mozilla. There are thousands if not tens of thousands of other projects which make the overall free computing experience excellent. Companies are embracing free software because it costs less and does more so there will be more corporate "support" for all free software. That's great, but the vast majority of free software is still developed by unpaid volunteers.
Because people don't understand free software, they fail to understand why non free is failing them. The article comes very close to understanding:
It could be that purely networked enterprises like the Linux project are actually a better way of producing very complex products, ...
but they still don't really get the importance of standards, modularity and how non free companies will always break those things at everyone else's expense. They get caught up in this "complexity" thing and buy the same old M$ song and dance about making everything better:
The difficulties in developing Vista stemmed from its monolithic structure and the need for 'backwards compatibility', ie ensuring that software used by customers on older versions of Windows will work under Vista. This vast accumulation of legacy applications acts like an anchor on innovation. The Vista trauma has convinced some Microsoft engineers that they will have to adopt a radically different approach.
The failure of M$ to produce quality code in reasonable time is entirely cultural and predicted. Microsoft said the same "Never again, next time radically better" things when it launched XP. Nothing much has changed there and nothing much has changed in the free software world. How can it be that free software does not suffer from compatibility problems while M$ struggles to keep in touch with itself? Is it because M$ has inadequate communications tools? As much as I hate Outlook, that's not the reason. The reason is that M$'s abusive practices have made them a disfunctional island of incompetence. M$, was only worth something when others helped them. Their anti-social and greedy practices have driven the developers to free tools and with their exit the failure trend has only accelerated. M$ was more dependent on community input than free software was but hid the fact and treated their neighbors with contempt. In the non free world, you not only had to give mind share, you also had to give up money to participate and ultimately would be asked to sign non disclosure agreements and promise not to cooperate with your friends. It was a lie and it has failed. The free software community has none of those shackles.
Vista will be a bigger market flop than XP was and the free software exodus will continue. The hardware requirements, performance hit and the cost of replacing all of the "backward incompatible" software are just not worth it. People offering GNU/Linux computers will see an exponential growth in sales.
I'm getting a strange feeling that I've read this before...
That's because you, iced_773, read everything I write. Guys like you are my biggest fans:
If it weren't for twitter, what would you do with yourself? At least we agree that Windoze blows blue screens.
Likewise in windows you can change the background color and text color of the BSOD (or at least you could uder 98, I haven't had the desire to play around with it under 2000 / XP since they crash much less frequently).
Are you still trying to tell people that XP is stable? I'd say it's worse than 98, which I still have on hand. Neither should be mentioned around OSX or any other Unix derivative. How many mod points are you going to spend promoting such junk? Of course, the Umbral Blot is full of infuriating bullshit a brief Google search shows:
Umbral, do you do anything other than promote M$ and diss everything else? I suppose not, hence your nick name.
Likewise in windows you can change the background color and text color of the BSOD (or at least you could uder 98, I haven't had the desire to play around with it under 2000 / XP since they crash much less frequently).
Are you still trying to tell people that XP is stable? I'd say it's worse than 98, which I still have on hand. Neither should be mentioned around OSX or any other Unix derivative. How many mod points are you going to spend promoting such junk? Of course, the Umbral Blot is full of infuriating bullshit a brief Google search shows:
Umbral, do you do anything other than promote M$ and diss everything else? I suppose not, hence your nick name.