Honestly, your willing to spend your precious time, money, and resources due to the incompetence of the school system - which you pay for in your taxes to begin with? I can understand if your sending your kids to a school in a high-crime neighborhood, but I doubt that's the case.
Talk to the school district. Ask why these mistakes happen in the first place, and make sure these mistakes don't happen. You shouldn't need to put your kids under surveillance "for their own protection" if there is someone who is supposed to be responsible for the safety and well being of your children.
As for a "Child Locating System", a $20 prepaid cellular phone with call restrictions so the phone can only call home should suffice. That way, all the child has to do is call "HOME" or "MOM" and describe where they are (Or, if the child is actually in trouble, the police should be able to locate the child using the data from the phone).
Perjury - n. the crime of intentionally lying after being duly sworn (to tell the truth) by a notary public, court clerk or other official. This false statement may be made in testimony in court, administrative hearings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, as well as by signing or acknowledging a written legal document (such as affidavit, declaration under penalty of perjury, deed, license application, tax return) known to contain false information. Although a crime, prosecutions for perjury are rare, because a defendant will argue he/she merely made a mistake or misunderstood.
So sue the RIAA for perjury (actually, that would be a criminal matter).
I, for one, am quite happy to see the the brilliant people we elect into the United States Congress are finally stepping up and protecting our children from the Internet. However, this bill does -not- go far enough.
I'm all for destroying the very principals this great country was founded on in the name of "PROTECTING THE CHILDREN", but if we're going to start out slow and weak like this, it'll take decades to make sure our government takes over the role of a parent to America's youth and keeps their minds protected.
Which is why I am writing to my Congressman and proposing that we create a new bill that goes something like this (Changes are marked by bold words):
`Sec. 881. Bullying
`(a) Whoever transmits in local, interstate, or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using any means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
`(b) As used in this section--
`(1) the term `communication' means any transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content or audible words of the information as sent and received; and
`(2) the term `any means' means anything dependent on any form of energy to communicate, including email, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones, text messages, talking, speaking, yelling, writing, publishing, or signaling'.
(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 41 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item:
`881. Bullying.'.
There, now the children can finally be safe in a perfect world - something parents fail to do, apparently.
Oops, it seems that I have just caused "severe emotional distress" to parents due to my last statement.
Jack Thompson must be alive, because I don't remember seeing anything on CNN about an anti-gaming crusader's death being blamed on video games, nor do I remember any recent Congressional hearings investigating weather or not Thompson's death was inspired by the Grand Theft Auto: IV mission where the player must kill an anti-gaming self-proclaimed "moral crusader" attorney, who states, just before the player must kill the man, that "Guns don't kill people. Video games do."
The US has banned numerous chemicals due to their deadly effects, but one chemical is in EVERY PERSON'S HOME! It's called Dihydrogen Monoxide, and it poses a substantial threat to everyone!
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.
Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S.
Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.
Not to mention the fact that DHMO can be connected to almost EVERY murder in the United States! All those people dead because someone was allowing this compound into his or her body.
Just look at some of the uses this deadly chemical is used for:
as an industrial solvent and coolant,
in nuclear power plants,
by the U.S. Navy in the propulsion systems of some older vessels,
by elite athletes to improve performance,
in the production of Styrofoam,
in biological and chemical weapons manufacture,
in the development of genetically engineering crops and animals,
as a spray-on fire suppressant and retardant,
in so-called "family planning" or "reproductive health" clinics,
as a major ingredient in many home-brewed bombs,
as a byproduct of hydrocarbon combustion in furnaces and air conditioning compressor operation,
in cult rituals,
by the Church of Scientology on their members and their members' families (although surprisingly, many members recently have contacted DHMO.org to vehemently deny such use),
by both the KKK and the NAACP during rallies and marches,
by members of Congress who are under investigation for financial corruption and inappropriate IM behavior,
by the clientele at a number of bath houses in New York City and San Francisco,
historically, in Hitler's death camps in Nazi Germany, and in prisons in Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Libya, Iraq and Iran,
in World War II prison camps in Japan, and in prisons in China, for various forms of torture,
during many recent religious and ethnic wars in the Middle East,
by many terrorist organizations including al Quaeda,
in community swimming pools to maintain chemical balance,
in day care centers, purportedly for sanitary purposes,
by software engineers, including those producing DICOM programmer APIs and other DICOM software tools,
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=696514
A similar bug has been used maliciously with Garry's Mod servers. I sure hope Valve get around to fixing that bug... shit's getting out of control with all the kids GMod seems to attract these days...
About a year ago, I walked into a local Best Buy, and was shocked, appalled, angry, but not surprised, to see anti-filesharing propaganda set up throughout the store.
I counted over 25 fliers hanging on walls, telling people "DOWNLOADING IS A CRIME!", and other propaganda. The most elaborate display they set up was in the MP3 Players section of the store. They mounted two flashing strobe lights on top of a display, designed to look like a police car's flashing lights. They then placed a large sign stating that "DOWNLOADING IS A CRIME. DON'T GO TO JAIL, DON'T DOWNLOAD".
So I asked one of the employees about the signs. They said it was an order by their upper management (as in, from their corporate offices). I then asked if they believed that downloading music is a criminal offense that can result in arrest, as they clearly try to say. They did not know. Some of them said "Yes", while others didn't answer the question.
Needless to say, I guess people complained, because the signs were gone after a while...
Fox has clearly decided that their viewers would rather watch two whole hours of their "hit" reality show, American Idol, than great sci-fi shows such as Fringe.
If you've noticed, since they got rid of all the prime-time dramas/sci-fi shows, American Idol has been two hours long for the three days it's broadcast every week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and the "results" show on Thursday).
The irony there is that, in a two hour block, you STILL have only about 35-40 minutes of NEW content. Even on Tuesday and Wednesday's episodes (which are the "competition" rounds), the actual performances are only about 30 minutes long. They fill those two hour blocks with commentary from the "judges", shitty "emotional" messages from the family of the AI contestants, show "recaps" of each contestant, etc.
This goes right along with the post I made in last week's "Why TV Lost" article...
tl;dr: Fox thinks the majority of their consumers would rather watch two hour blocks of generic reality shows, filled with commercials and "pork", rather than new, original, compelling dramas or sci-fi shows.
And, according to AI's ratings, they were right. From Fox's point of view, fans of shows such as Fringe and Dollhouse are simply minorities. They make more money by showing ten minute commercial blocks on American Idol every 10 minutes, three nights a week than they do showing these great shows.
Went to the CC in my city, as I was out anyway, and the place is empty. There were workers in the process of dismantling the shelves, but other than that, nothing. A group of 3 people were at cash registers. They were selling anything left in the store. Hell, for $50, I could have bought those alarm devices that beep if you walk out of the store without paying.
They pretty much tossed what was left in the store into bins, and threw a "$2.95" sign on it. I bought some box thing whose function I have yet to figure out (but it looks uber h4xxy), a barcode scanner (which I have working using Linux drivers), and an IP phone.
Honestly, on their LAST day of business, I STILL can't believe a fucking BOX whose function is unknown costs $2.95. Typical CC, I guess.
Odd... I always thought the reason TV lost was...
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I would have loved to see the space station named after Xenu, then we'd just have someone "leak" information to the press that NASA has been infiltrated by Scientoligists, and the entire federal government could (yet again) be compromised by Scientologists.
Legend of clearly marked shit that totally stands out:
Blurred out/distorted images represent so-called 'soft-targets' in the State of California. Soft-targets include schools, hospitals, churches and government buildings.
I just download TV episodes from BitTorrent. Much more convenient, I don't have to install some shitty Windows only software filled with security holes, no commercials, and I have full control over the files I download.
I usually download a ~349Mb TV episode, and copy it to a flash drive. I then bring the flash drive downstairs, plug it into my PlayStation 3, and enjoy watching the shows in HD.
Or sometimes, if I know I won't have time to watch the show because I know I'll be busy all day, I'll run the video file through a converter and copy it to my MP3/Video player, and watch the TV show when I have a bit of free time.
And the legitimate, legal customer is limited to watching a video that's interrupted by commercials, confined to a small Flash window, etc etc.
Your playing a video game online with a group of pre-pubescent kids and teenagers who are granted nearly full anonymity without any fear of punishment, what did you expect?
Now, due to the vague explanation of what happened given in the article linked in the story, I'm going to make some assumptions here. I would assume that: * Some kids on Xbox Live noticed that the gamer identified herself as lesbian. * Due to ignorance, or just for the "lulz", kids decide to file fake complaints against the gamertag in question to get the account banned. * Microsoft's fully-automated complaint system receives numerous reports from many people about the gamertag in question, and automatically bans the account.
This just goes to show what a failure Microsoft's disciplinary system is. Microsoft made these game consoles and FREE headsets available to kids and teenagers, as well as adults. So, with that many people using an online service, it's fairly obvious that SOMEONE will abuse the system, break rules, etc.
And yet, Microsoft decides to not only use a centralized network infrastructure for Xbox Live, rather than the infrastructure used by most online PC games, but they even made the disciplinary system fully automated. No human involvement. No one checks the validity of reports. No one is in the games to ban abusers. No way of even verifying weather or not a ban was justified or not when someone calls Microsoft's Tech Support. Such an easy thing to abuse.
By contrast, nearly all servers on PC games are administered properly. There's at least one admin on, admins ban the hackers, cheaters, racist/homophobic people, and maintain their server's rules. Nothing's automated. There's always human involvement.
I don't think Microsoft intentionally banned this person or refused to re-activate the account because the user is lesbian. Live's servers received compliments from a bunch of people, automated system bans the account, with no way of telling weather or not the compliments were legitimate or created fraudulently.
Microsoft seems to be ignoring the lesson here: You can't trust machines to babysit children.
I'd be pretty surprised if this latest leaked build ends up giving us a sneak peak at what Microsoft's plans to butcher up Windows 7 into 5+ "versions" is. I'd like to try to use my computer with a 2-process limit, just to see how stupid that would be!
Apparently, there is a "bug" in Windows 7 that prevents the operating system from properly joining Windows NT based domains, specifically Linux servers that are using Samba to emulate an NT domain. As of yet, there has not been a fix.
There was a similar problem with Windows Vista, but the issue could be fixed by editing a setting in the Security Policy MMC snap-in. This does not fix the issue in Windows 7.
I noticed this problem when I first installed Windows 7, and a quick Google search revealed I was not alone.
Microsoft actually responded to the bug, which was posted to the Samba mailing list(Link to the post), saying:
Jim Pinkerton asked me to post this message from Microsoft:
Sincere apologies, but wanted to confirm that there is an issue with NT Domain support in
Windows 7. We're trying to expeditiously track down exactly the issue(s), but the short of
it is I wouldn't spend time trying to get this functionality to work. We'll get some sort
of official notice out shortly (and I do mean shortly).
Jim Pinkerton
Microsoft
There still hasn't been a fix.
My guess: Microsoft made the process of joining a domain more LDAP based and reliant on Active Directory. Still, I just hope this "bug" is fixed.
... does a company use something as serious as protecting large amounts of people from danger as free publicity for some "innovative" new product.
What ever happened to just saying "Sure, we'll help protect American lives!" Now it's "Sure, we'll help protect American lives with our SLEEK, INNOVATIVE NEW TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTER, the Microsoft Surface(tm), revolutionizing how you use your computer!".
... that the damn thing doesn't BSoD 5 minutes before the game starts...
The CIA use Norton, on Linux, in The Bourne movies
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Some of my favorite "gui interface using visual basic" moments:
The Bourne Ultimatum. When I was watching this film in the theater, I actually laughed at this: Scanning for viruses... on Linux? The CIA use Norton.
Those look a lot like Linux desktop icons... and yet Norton Internet Security 2006 is running. LOL. (Apparently, Norton were promoting the movie, so that was probably some odd product placement thing. But really, the CIA using Norton...
I also noticed this on an episode of CBS's drama NCIS: SETI@home on NCIS.
Most TV shows want their computers to look "cool", rather than realistic, when a computer is used for something important, like tracing the location of a murderer through his cell phone. Plus, most people wouldn't realize they're doing something like tracing a cell phone on a CLI based OS...
I have noticed on CBS's TV show Numb3rs, that they often use lines of source code, and even Mathematica code, to do stuff.
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Honestly, your willing to spend your precious time, money, and resources due to the incompetence of the school system - which you pay for in your taxes to begin with? I can understand if your sending your kids to a school in a high-crime neighborhood, but I doubt that's the case.
Talk to the school district. Ask why these mistakes happen in the first place, and make sure these mistakes don't happen. You shouldn't need to put your kids under surveillance "for their own protection" if there is someone who is supposed to be responsible for the safety and well being of your children.
As for a "Child Locating System", a $20 prepaid cellular phone with call restrictions so the phone can only call home should suffice. That way, all the child has to do is call "HOME" or "MOM" and describe where they are (Or, if the child is actually in trouble, the police should be able to locate the child using the data from the phone).
... if they can't even find a job with access to the all-mighty power of the Internet.
Why not make a batch script that runs every hour to abort a shutdown?
Perjury - n. the crime of intentionally lying after being duly sworn (to tell the truth) by a notary public, court clerk or other official. This false statement may be made in testimony in court, administrative hearings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, as well as by signing or acknowledging a written legal document (such as affidavit, declaration under penalty of perjury, deed, license application, tax return) known to contain false information. Although a crime, prosecutions for perjury are rare, because a defendant will argue he/she merely made a mistake or misunderstood.
So sue the RIAA for perjury (actually, that would be a criminal matter).
I, for one, am quite happy to see the the brilliant people we elect into the United States Congress are finally stepping up and protecting our children from the Internet. However, this bill does -not- go far enough.
I'm all for destroying the very principals this great country was founded on in the name of "PROTECTING THE CHILDREN", but if we're going to start out slow and weak like this, it'll take decades to make sure our government takes over the role of a parent to America's youth and keeps their minds protected.
Which is why I am writing to my Congressman and proposing that we create a new bill that goes something like this (Changes are marked by bold words):
`Sec. 881. Bullying
`(a) Whoever transmits in local, interstate, or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using any means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
`(b) As used in this section--
`(1) the term `communication' means any transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content or audible words of the information as sent and received; and
`(2) the term `any means' means anything dependent on any form of energy to communicate, including email, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones, text messages, talking, speaking, yelling, writing, publishing, or signaling'.
(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 41 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item:
`881. Bullying.'.
There, now the children can finally be safe in a perfect world - something parents fail to do, apparently.
Oops, it seems that I have just caused "severe emotional distress" to parents due to my last statement.
Jack Thompson must be alive, because I don't remember seeing anything on CNN about an anti-gaming crusader's death being blamed on video games, nor do I remember any recent Congressional hearings investigating weather or not Thompson's death was inspired by the Grand Theft Auto: IV mission where the player must kill an anti-gaming self-proclaimed "moral crusader" attorney, who states, just before the player must kill the man, that "Guns don't kill people. Video games do."
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
Not to mention the fact that DHMO can be connected to almost EVERY murder in the United States! All those people dead because someone was allowing this compound into his or her body.
Just look at some of the uses this deadly chemical is used for:
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=696514
A similar bug has been used maliciously with Garry's Mod servers. I sure hope Valve get around to fixing that bug... shit's getting out of control with all the kids GMod seems to attract these days...
About a year ago, I walked into a local Best Buy, and was shocked, appalled, angry, but not surprised, to see anti-filesharing propaganda set up throughout the store.
I counted over 25 fliers hanging on walls, telling people "DOWNLOADING IS A CRIME!", and other propaganda. The most elaborate display they set up was in the MP3 Players section of the store. They mounted two flashing strobe lights on top of a display, designed to look like a police car's flashing lights. They then placed a large sign stating that "DOWNLOADING IS A CRIME. DON'T GO TO JAIL, DON'T DOWNLOAD".
So I asked one of the employees about the signs. They said it was an order by their upper management (as in, from their corporate offices). I then asked if they believed that downloading music is a criminal offense that can result in arrest, as they clearly try to say. They did not know. Some of them said "Yes", while others didn't answer the question.
Needless to say, I guess people complained, because the signs were gone after a while...
Fox has clearly decided that their viewers would rather watch two whole hours of their "hit" reality show, American Idol, than great sci-fi shows such as Fringe.
If you've noticed, since they got rid of all the prime-time dramas/sci-fi shows, American Idol has been two hours long for the three days it's broadcast every week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and the "results" show on Thursday).
The irony there is that, in a two hour block, you STILL have only about 35-40 minutes of NEW content. Even on Tuesday and Wednesday's episodes (which are the "competition" rounds), the actual performances are only about 30 minutes long. They fill those two hour blocks with commentary from the "judges", shitty "emotional" messages from the family of the AI contestants, show "recaps" of each contestant, etc.
This goes right along with the post I made in last week's "Why TV Lost" article...
tl;dr: Fox thinks the majority of their consumers would rather watch two hour blocks of generic reality shows, filled with commercials and "pork", rather than new, original, compelling dramas or sci-fi shows.
And, according to AI's ratings, they were right. From Fox's point of view, fans of shows such as Fringe and Dollhouse are simply minorities. They make more money by showing ten minute commercial blocks on American Idol every 10 minutes, three nights a week than they do showing these great shows.
American popular culture... gets worse every day.
Went to the CC in my city, as I was out anyway, and the place is empty. There were workers in the process of dismantling the shelves, but other than that, nothing. A group of 3 people were at cash registers. They were selling anything left in the store. Hell, for $50, I could have bought those alarm devices that beep if you walk out of the store without paying.
They pretty much tossed what was left in the store into bins, and threw a "$2.95" sign on it. I bought some box thing whose function I have yet to figure out (but it looks uber h4xxy), a barcode scanner (which I have working using Linux drivers), and an IP phone.
Honestly, on their LAST day of business, I STILL can't believe a fucking BOX whose function is unknown costs $2.95. Typical CC, I guess.
... Reality TV.
I would have loved to see the space station named after Xenu, then we'd just have someone "leak" information to the press that NASA has been infiltrated by Scientoligists, and the entire federal government could (yet again) be compromised by Scientologists.
Legend of clearly marked shit that totally stands out: Blurred out/distorted images represent so-called 'soft-targets' in the State of California. Soft-targets include schools, hospitals, churches and government buildings.
I just download TV episodes from BitTorrent. Much more convenient, I don't have to install some shitty Windows only software filled with security holes, no commercials, and I have full control over the files I download.
I usually download a ~349Mb TV episode, and copy it to a flash drive. I then bring the flash drive downstairs, plug it into my PlayStation 3, and enjoy watching the shows in HD.
Or sometimes, if I know I won't have time to watch the show because I know I'll be busy all day, I'll run the video file through a converter and copy it to my MP3/Video player, and watch the TV show when I have a bit of free time.
And the legitimate, legal customer is limited to watching a video that's interrupted by commercials, confined to a small Flash window, etc etc.
Your playing a video game online with a group of pre-pubescent kids and teenagers who are granted nearly full anonymity without any fear of punishment, what did you expect?
Now, due to the vague explanation of what happened given in the article linked in the story, I'm going to make some assumptions here. I would assume that:
* Some kids on Xbox Live noticed that the gamer identified herself as lesbian.
* Due to ignorance, or just for the "lulz", kids decide to file fake complaints against the gamertag in question to get the account banned.
* Microsoft's fully-automated complaint system receives numerous reports from many people about the gamertag in question, and automatically bans the account.
This just goes to show what a failure Microsoft's disciplinary system is. Microsoft made these game consoles and FREE headsets available to kids and teenagers, as well as adults. So, with that many people using an online service, it's fairly obvious that SOMEONE will abuse the system, break rules, etc.
And yet, Microsoft decides to not only use a centralized network infrastructure for Xbox Live, rather than the infrastructure used by most online PC games, but they even made the disciplinary system fully automated. No human involvement. No one checks the validity of reports. No one is in the games to ban abusers. No way of even verifying weather or not a ban was justified or not when someone calls Microsoft's Tech Support. Such an easy thing to abuse.
By contrast, nearly all servers on PC games are administered properly. There's at least one admin on, admins ban the hackers, cheaters, racist/homophobic people, and maintain their server's rules. Nothing's automated. There's always human involvement.
I don't think Microsoft intentionally banned this person or refused to re-activate the account because the user is lesbian. Live's servers received compliments from a bunch of people, automated system bans the account, with no way of telling weather or not the compliments were legitimate or created fraudulently.
Microsoft seems to be ignoring the lesson here: You can't trust machines to babysit children.
Uninstall Acrobat, the most bloated software product I've ever used.
I'd be pretty surprised if this latest leaked build ends up giving us a sneak peak at what Microsoft's plans to butcher up Windows 7 into 5+ "versions" is. I'd like to try to use my computer with a 2-process limit, just to see how stupid that would be!
But, I suppose that would be BAD press...
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If I get stuck with a shitty "Basic" or So-Called "Premium" version of Windows 7, I'd just download the "Ultimate" version on BitTorrent!
There was a similar problem with Windows Vista, but the issue could be fixed by editing a setting in the Security Policy MMC snap-in. This does not fix the issue in Windows 7.
I noticed this problem when I first installed Windows 7, and a quick Google search revealed I was not alone.
Microsoft actually responded to the bug, which was posted to the Samba mailing list(Link to the post), saying:
Jim Pinkerton asked me to post this message from Microsoft:
Sincere apologies, but wanted to confirm that there is an issue with NT Domain support in Windows 7. We're trying to expeditiously track down exactly the issue(s), but the short of it is I wouldn't spend time trying to get this functionality to work. We'll get some sort of official notice out shortly (and I do mean shortly).
Jim Pinkerton
Microsoft
There still hasn't been a fix.
My guess: Microsoft made the process of joining a domain more LDAP based and reliant on Active Directory. Still, I just hope this "bug" is fixed.
... does a company use something as serious as protecting large amounts of people from danger as free publicity for some "innovative" new product.
What ever happened to just saying "Sure, we'll help protect American lives!" Now it's "Sure, we'll help protect American lives with our SLEEK, INNOVATIVE NEW TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTER, the Microsoft Surface(tm), revolutionizing how you use your computer!".
... that the damn thing doesn't BSoD 5 minutes before the game starts...
Some of my favorite "gui interface using visual basic" moments:
The Bourne Ultimatum. When I was watching this film in the theater, I actually laughed at this:
Scanning for viruses... on Linux?
The CIA use Norton.
Those look a lot like Linux desktop icons... and yet Norton Internet Security 2006 is running. LOL. (Apparently, Norton were promoting the movie, so that was probably some odd product placement thing. But really, the CIA using Norton...
I also noticed this on an episode of CBS's drama NCIS: SETI@home on NCIS.
Most TV shows want their computers to look "cool", rather than realistic, when a computer is used for something important, like tracing the location of a murderer through his cell phone. Plus, most people wouldn't realize they're doing something like tracing a cell phone on a CLI based OS...
I have noticed on CBS's TV show Numb3rs, that they often use lines of source code, and even Mathematica code, to do stuff.
.... I demand to see the security camera footage that * allegedly * shows an airplane hitting the Pentagon.