You know, it makes no sense. You want to bash Microsoft for their lack of inginuity on their own hardware, yet this article is specifically deals with modifying their hardware. If it were all that bad, why wouldn't you just use someone elses hardware?
I would like to have taken an exit poll of how many of the people at the midnight showing had Everquest accounts. If you wanted to take Sony/Verant/989Studios down, all you would have to do is bomb all the theaters last night. It would have taken out most of their customer base:). As a plus, from the looks of it, you would have killed Hot Topic's sales too!
I wonder if the people at Verant received an all-time low in their log-ons of Everquest -- all their geeks were out for three hours watching this thing:)
Thanks for the rational reply to a very blunt question. That had to be the most mature response I've seen. Thanks for the reply and for not taking it as flaimbate.
I started using trillian instead of massive amounts of IM clients. I started using IRC again myself simply because it has the option to open up an connection to an IRC server.
I just didn't realize that it was big news to get 100K users on a server.
I hope you aren't getting on MS's case for releasing this notice early. This is the type of behaviour everyone has been wanting to get out of MS. In the past everyone has complained that microsoft doesn't release security information soon enough. I think this is a good change for once.
This wasn't intended to be "the answer" to everyone's problems. It is just another help. Placing cameras in banks doesn't stop banks from being robbed either, but guess what, it sure helps when one does get robbed right? This is the same thing. Kids will find ways around things -- always. But it's just another deterant. When I was a kid, I had ways around things and my parents had their ways of finding out if I circumvented their rules. In today's high-tech world, kids have more advanced ways to circumvent things (as you pointed out with call forwarding etc). Why not even the playing field with more advanced means of monitoring.
Before it goes unsaid (by me anyway), this seems unnecessary if you are raising your children right. However, an occasional check-up on junior isn't out of the ordinary.
The next question is this. You can track where your kids are. But I wonder how long it will be before someone comes up with an alert system that tells you if kids go someplace you don't allow them to. Can you imagine going to a website and setting location boundaries, then getting a cell-phone alert if your kids cross those boundaries?
Actually, you've supported my thoughts. I never mentioned "recently" in my post. The thought in my original post was that science has been wrong for ages and they never seem to learn that statements should not be made as fact until proven as such. It seems like there are too many scientist out there that feel the first thought they have that might be remotely correct should be announced to the world. One other replying poster made a horrid attempt at sarcasm -- as thought my post was anti-science. I love science. That is the reason that I dislike poor science. Hope that clears the air.
Sure. And along with that, the earth is flat, the atom is the smallest thing on the face of th earth, and moldy bread can cure disease. Oh wait, science got one of those right -- I guess accidents DO happen.
It is so funny to see "scientific guessing" so readily stated as absolute fact. I think more scientist should study history and learn just how many times they have been wrong before stating absolute fact -- unless of course you still contend that the world is flat?
Gee, I don't sense the same cynical tone that you might see if this were a Microsoft product. I can't imagine that could have anything to do with bias on this site would it? NOoooo Not here. We just want the truth right?
It's so hard to find good flaimbait in the form of a story these days... oh wait. not on slashdot. The "story", if you want to call it one, is riddled with assumptions. I'm tired of people attacking Microsoft as if it were just some entity that they didn't like. Bill Gates is not an evil monster and Microsoft is not the evil empire everyone here for some reason wants them to be. These are people who have ideas about how things should be. Good for them for bucking the system!
A while ago, I had thought up a domain called "show.com" for a reason I'm not quite ready to release just yet. It was obviously taken. When register.com said I could pre-register show.biz, I was happy as hell. I registered it not even thinking about the fact that I would now own a very popular and much wanted domain for entertainment purposes (showbiz!) It would even appear that there is a copyright on the name "show.biz" for the purposes of entertainment. I have no intentions of using this for entertainment purposes at all, but I already have about 6 Intellectual Property claims against me for the domain. I imagine if I am actually awarded the domain when it is all said and done, I will have lawsuits to contend with.
Anyone got some advice?
Thanks.
Tobin
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... And I spelled Buddha wrong in the first post too...
You failed to point that out. If you reely want two do spel chex on my pozt then plez do it thorohlee.
Thanx.
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Thank you. I would have felt somehow unfulfilled without having someone correct my jumbled spelling. Here I am trying to learn spanish and portuguese and I can't even get my native language right.
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*chuckle*
It's like telling a buddhist that Budda was just a man. No one wants to believe it.
I feel so priviledged that my first "Troll" vote came because I attacked a self-proclaimed god in the industry (he did say "I am your god.").
All I have to say is if you can't take the truth, then don't come here looking for it.
Anyone care to "flamebait" vote me here? I'm waiting =).
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Look at the changes in Linux in the past two years. Look at the differences in Windows in the past two years. What can you say that Linux is improving that Microsoft isn't. How can you dare say that Microsoft isn't improving their product. I have been using Windows 2000 and Windows XP (since beta) at home. I had to help someone out the other day that was running windows 95 and windows 98 on their boxes in their office. If I were to sit back and think about it, I would say they weren't all that different. But after using a wide spectrum of the company's OS's all in one day, I would have to say that the difference is staggering.
People always say that Microsoft is good at "marketing" but not good at coding. This is complete BS. They are good at marketing -- marketing the new features they have implemented because of customer and business demand. The "problem" that you all feel is that Microsoft found out early they need to solicit opinions from both the business and the consumer. Microsoft has been intent on pleasing both of these groups as best they can. They create an OS that supports business models that business wants but also support the features that the MAJORITY of consumers are asking for.
You can knock them all you want, but the fact is you can't blame them for supporting the development of new business models. We are going through a major recession because a million startups suddenly realized that they couldn't survive on banner ads alone. They realized that they can't provide services that cost them $2 if they are selling it for $1. Microsoft builds in the functionality to help these businesses try to make money and we call them what... capitalist?... hmm
The fact is, Microsoft IS building in the functionality to help businesses charge money for services that wouldn't otherwise exist. If Microsoft didn't do this, the company wouldn't exist and you woudln't have the choice of using the service. Now that they do, you have the option. Sure it will cost you, but why should everything in life be free? I think you guys have watched too much Start Trek. You think people should just be able to go to replicators and get whatever they want and "someone" will pick up the tab. Last I looked that was called socialism. There are plenty of countries that have tried that and failed. You are overlooking one thing though. Even the Star Trek crew had to pay for things. They had to use credits that they earned by their work on the ship. Sounds like the world we live in.
Get overyourself. Linux is a great operating system. I am about to purchase a colocated server and it will probably run Linux instead of Windows. Not because it's better, but because it's cheeper -- period. Linux fills my immediate needs. In the long run though, I'm moving to an MS solution because it's better -- period.
Ok. Downgrade me for flaimbate right away because I've got an itch to scratch. You say you only raise an eyebrow at this and NOT a red flag? I have seen this type of attitude over and over and it sickens me. If it were another company divulging information the same way, you would be crowing all day long about the injustice done. It's only because this is a company using Linux that people aren't taking aim at Google on this one. Don't get me wrong. I love Google, but don't defend them on this issue because they use Linux for God's sake. Pretty soon, when they sell out -- and they will --, everyone will be talking about their poor privacy issues.
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You know, it makes no sense. You want to bash Microsoft for their lack of inginuity on their own hardware, yet this article is specifically deals with modifying their hardware. If it were all that bad, why wouldn't you just use someone elses hardware?
I would like to have taken an exit poll of how many of the people at the midnight showing had Everquest accounts. If you wanted to take Sony/Verant/989Studios down, all you would have to do is bomb all the theaters last night. It would have taken out most of their customer base :). As a plus, from the looks of it, you would have killed Hot Topic's sales too!
I wonder if the people at Verant received an all-time low in their log-ons of Everquest -- all their geeks were out for three hours watching this thing :)
Thanks for the rational reply to a very blunt question. That had to be the most mature response I've seen. Thanks for the reply and for not taking it as flaimbate.
I started using trillian instead of massive amounts of IM clients. I started using IRC again myself simply because it has the option to open up an connection to an IRC server.
I just didn't realize that it was big news to get 100K users on a server.
Thanks again for the info.
In all seriousness -- trash-talking and flaiming aside -- who gives a sh*t?
I hope you aren't getting on MS's case for releasing this notice early. This is the type of behaviour everyone has been wanting to get out of MS. In the past everyone has complained that microsoft doesn't release security information soon enough. I think this is a good change for once.
Forget about sensitive data, I can use this to keep my boss from looking at my porn surfing habits while at work!
Haiku!
Gesundheit!
American laws
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This wasn't intended to be "the answer" to everyone's problems. It is just another help. Placing cameras in banks doesn't stop banks from being robbed either, but guess what, it sure helps when one does get robbed right? This is the same thing. Kids will find ways around things -- always. But it's just another deterant. When I was a kid, I had ways around things and my parents had their ways of finding out if I circumvented their rules. In today's high-tech world, kids have more advanced ways to circumvent things (as you pointed out with call forwarding etc). Why not even the playing field with more advanced means of monitoring.
Before it goes unsaid (by me anyway), this seems unnecessary if you are raising your children right. However, an occasional check-up on junior isn't out of the ordinary.
The next question is this. You can track where your kids are. But I wonder how long it will be before someone comes up with an alert system that tells you if kids go someplace you don't allow them to. Can you imagine going to a website and setting location boundaries, then getting a cell-phone alert if your kids cross those boundaries?
Actually, you've supported my thoughts. I never mentioned "recently" in my post. The thought in my original post was that science has been wrong for ages and they never seem to learn that statements should not be made as fact until proven as such. It seems like there are too many scientist out there that feel the first thought they have that might be remotely correct should be announced to the world. One other replying poster made a horrid attempt at sarcasm -- as thought my post was anti-science. I love science. That is the reason that I dislike poor science. Hope that clears the air.
I wonder how the DMCA will weigh in on this.
Sure. And along with that, the earth is flat, the atom is the smallest thing on the face of th earth, and moldy bread can cure disease. Oh wait, science got one of those right -- I guess accidents DO happen.
It is so funny to see "scientific guessing" so readily stated as absolute fact. I think more scientist should study history and learn just how many times they have been wrong before stating absolute fact -- unless of course you still contend that the world is flat?
I'm not a game programmer and I don't live in LA, but can I just like, hang out with you guys? :)
Gee, I don't sense the same cynical tone that you might see if this were a Microsoft product. I can't imagine that could have anything to do with bias on this site would it? NOoooo Not here. We just want the truth right?
What are your feelings on Microsoft's .NET and any initiatives to make the technology work on Linux?
It's so hard to find good flaimbait in the form of a story these days... oh wait. not on slashdot. The "story", if you want to call it one, is riddled with assumptions. I'm tired of people attacking Microsoft as if it were just some entity that they didn't like. Bill Gates is not an evil monster and Microsoft is not the evil empire everyone here for some reason wants them to be. These are people who have ideas about how things should be. Good for them for bucking the system!
A while ago, I had thought up a domain called "show.com" for a reason I'm not quite ready to release just yet. It was obviously taken. When register.com said I could pre-register show.biz, I was happy as hell. I registered it not even thinking about the fact that I would now own a very popular and much wanted domain for entertainment purposes (showbiz!) It would even appear that there is a copyright on the name "show.biz" for the purposes of entertainment. I have no intentions of using this for entertainment purposes at all, but I already have about 6 Intellectual Property claims against me for the domain. I imagine if I am actually awarded the domain when it is all said and done, I will have lawsuits to contend with.
Anyone got some advice?
Thanks.
Tobin
... And I spelled Buddha wrong in the first post too...
You failed to point that out. If you reely want two do spel chex on my pozt then plez do it thorohlee.
Thanx.
Thank you. I would have felt somehow unfulfilled without having someone correct my jumbled spelling. Here I am trying to learn spanish and portuguese and I can't even get my native language right.
=)
*chuckle*
It's like telling a buddhist that Budda was just a man. No one wants to believe it.
I feel so priviledged that my first "Troll" vote came because I attacked a self-proclaimed god in the industry (he did say "I am your god.").
All I have to say is if you can't take the truth, then don't come here looking for it.
Anyone care to "flamebait" vote me here? I'm waiting =).
Look at the changes in Linux in the past two years. Look at the differences in Windows in the past two years. What can you say that Linux is improving that Microsoft isn't. How can you dare say that Microsoft isn't improving their product. I have been using Windows 2000 and Windows XP (since beta) at home. I had to help someone out the other day that was running windows 95 and windows 98 on their boxes in their office. If I were to sit back and think about it, I would say they weren't all that different. But after using a wide spectrum of the company's OS's all in one day, I would have to say that the difference is staggering.
People always say that Microsoft is good at "marketing" but not good at coding. This is complete BS. They are good at marketing -- marketing the new features they have implemented because of customer and business demand. The "problem" that you all feel is that Microsoft found out early they need to solicit opinions from both the business and the consumer. Microsoft has been intent on pleasing both of these groups as best they can. They create an OS that supports business models that business wants but also support the features that the MAJORITY of consumers are asking for.
You can knock them all you want, but the fact is you can't blame them for supporting the development of new business models. We are going through a major recession because a million startups suddenly realized that they couldn't survive on banner ads alone. They realized that they can't provide services that cost them $2 if they are selling it for $1. Microsoft builds in the functionality to help these businesses try to make money and we call them what... capitalist?... hmm
The fact is, Microsoft IS building in the functionality to help businesses charge money for services that wouldn't otherwise exist. If Microsoft didn't do this, the company wouldn't exist and you woudln't have the choice of using the service. Now that they do, you have the option. Sure it will cost you, but why should everything in life be free? I think you guys have watched too much Start Trek. You think people should just be able to go to replicators and get whatever they want and "someone" will pick up the tab. Last I looked that was called socialism. There are plenty of countries that have tried that and failed. You are overlooking one thing though. Even the Star Trek crew had to pay for things. They had to use credits that they earned by their work on the ship. Sounds like the world we live in.
Get overyourself. Linux is a great operating system. I am about to purchase a colocated server and it will probably run Linux instead of Windows. Not because it's better, but because it's cheeper -- period. Linux fills my immediate needs. In the long run though, I'm moving to an MS solution because it's better -- period.
Ok. Downgrade me for flaimbate right away because I've got an itch to scratch. You say you only raise an eyebrow at this and NOT a red flag? I have seen this type of attitude over and over and it sickens me. If it were another company divulging information the same way, you would be crowing all day long about the injustice done. It's only because this is a company using Linux that people aren't taking aim at Google on this one. Don't get me wrong. I love Google, but don't defend them on this issue because they use Linux for God's sake. Pretty soon, when they sell out -- and they will --, everyone will be talking about their poor privacy issues.
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<BR>Get over it. Evil is Evil no matter what it's wrapped in.