However, the general point stands. Both are part of the same government, one part doing something good (At the moment), the other screwing up big time.
However, I remain convinced that M$ is a monolithic evil entity that exists for the sole purpose of making my life hell, and nothing you say will convince me otherwise.
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro (The one with the normal position for Insert, Home, Del and so on))
Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
And with that I'm out of arguments.
You're taking a very simplistic view of the world.
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I hate to say it, but the series premiere of the short lived "Lone Gunmen" series stated it best. I will paraphrase here:
The government is not a single, unified entity with thousands of members acting towards the same goals. It is a collection of institutions each with their own goals and agendas, often operating at cross purposes.
To move beyond the point above, the FTC is as splintered as the rest of the government. It's starting to use the existing laws to go after SPAM, which is good. However, the portions of the FTC responsible for the whole High Definition Television mess is doing a less than spectacular job. The odds are good that the people involved in one project are not the same people involved with the other. Hell, each "Project" as I described above most likely consists of dozens of smaller units, no doubt mired in the same political issues as the organization as a whole.
Some people in the government are doing good things, others are doing bad things, most are just doing their functionary but morally neutral jobs.
The US Government is not "Evil" or "Good," and trying to paint it as one or the other is short sighted, childish and smacks of blind zealotry.
Please stop trying to see the world as black and white / good and evil. The real world is far more complex than that, as are the institutions that function within it.
One last example: Sony. Go through the Slashdot archives, and you'll find stories where they're the her, and stories where they're the villain. This is a reflection on the way actions of specific groups within the company were perceived, not on the "Evil" or "Good" nature of the company as a whole. Slashdot is not failing to "Make up its mind" but is reflecting the fact that sometimes a company does good things, and sometimes it does bad things.
And by the way, contrary to popular belief, Slashdot does not have one "Mind" to make up on any issue. It too, is a collection of individuals with their own agendas, views and opinions. If you are expecting any kind of unity of Slashdot users on any one topic, then you are insulting the intelligence of said users. We are individuals. This site has readers who love the Government and never question it's actions, and people who hat it with every fiber of their being. The site also has people at every level between the extremes.
"Love your country unconditionally. Love your government only when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain
"Expertise is difficult to acquire. Those who do not have an expertise think it's easy to become and expert, and have no respect for the real experts." -Howard Schechter
Regardless of my intelligence, I know the kind of research these people are doing is beyond my training.
Now, if they need a SQL Server Administrator I can do quite a bit to help them.:)
I should have spent more time writing up my original post.
I don't think the Internet is doomed or will become the marketing morass many want to make it. There are too many people paying for access and too many "subversive" communication technologies out there for the predicted doom and gloom to actually happen.
However, my post does reflect my view of the motivations of those who are scared by the change and want to maintain the status quo. Just look at the RIAA and Hillary Rosen for a real life example.
The dinosaurs are trying to stomp out all these upstart mammals, but we'll win in the end.
Am I paranoid? I don't think so. There are plenty of people who stand to lose their power an influence due to the Internet. They want to kill it for the reasons I listed and many others. I don't think they'll succeed though. The had their chance to kill it years ago, but their technological ignorance and lack of imagination stopped them for seeing the threat the Internet posed until it was too late to stop it.
Sorta like Microsoft failing to stomp out Linux back in 1991.:) It didn't attack it because it didn't see it as a threat. Hell, when it started up, I don't think anyone ever saw Linux as a possible threat to Minx, let alone Microsoft!
(Come on, you can't post to slashdot without bashing Microsoft)
Media companies must make sure no artists gain popularity without their approval and control.
Corporations need to ensure bad press and negative experiences with their products are buried.
The media must present the "correct" view of the world. Dissenters must be kept quiet.
"Your 15 minutes" must be in the form of a controlled "reality" show instead of a blog where you get people to boycott a company that screwed you over.
Even though movie grade cameras and editing equipment are priced within the reach of middle class citizens, they must not be permitted to make movies that threaten the Hollywood mainstream, or at the very least they must be prevented from distributing them.
There are more reasons, but I don't have time to type them now.
The validity of the lawsuit is not a factor in determining it's usefulness to Microsoft.
Even if defeated in the courts, it will be held up as an example, and somehow I doubt any press materials MS puts together on the topic will be updated when the lawsuit is resolved, one way or another.
Great. SCO is giving Microsoft the best anti Linux ammo it could hope for.
This is a disaster. Balmer and Gates will trot this out as a major drawback to Open Source. IT is, if true, the living proof of the Intellectual Property issues hey claim for Open Source.
SCO is hurting Linux in the long run. It doesn't matter if this is the last gasp of a dying company. It's ample ammunition for anyone who hates Linux and wants to argue against it.
I can guarantee that we'll be hearing about Linux being riddled with IP violations for years to come, even if this is the one and only example to ever come to light.
According to "The Art of the Steal" the use of a UV light or a special "pen" is a waste of time. The "Pen" relies on the PH of the paper, and dusting the bill with any number of inexpensive chemicals will alter the PH to pass the "Pen" test.
UV lights are a similar waste. The factors they test for do not really help determine if the bill is real or not.
My point is, with frequent currency redesigns, criminals would be able to make up their own version of the "new" bill and circulate it. They wouldn't have to make it a very accurate reproduction, just something that looks like it COULD be something similar to the bill. Read "the Art of the Steal" for examples of all the half assed funny money that people accept. Another post in this thread has info on a $200 bill one woman passed.
Money redesigns are necessary every now and then, but every 7 to 10 years is too often. Unless you educate people on all the new currency in circulation, they'll end up accepting bad counterfeits thinking it's the new money.
Here's an example of what could happen how. Make a bill that looks like the one on TV just as the new bills are going into circulation. Put out enough in an area, and there will be people rejecting the REAL bill and accepting the new one.
However, if there is enough education, it'll be harder to do.
It's not the redesign I'm against it's the proposed frequency that I think will cause trouble.
Damn spell check. You'd think with the average spelling on slashdot, I'd get away with such a slip up.
As for the counterfeit bill I mentioned. My memory was flawed. It was $200 and George Bush, not $3.00 and Bill Clinton. (Thanks Unknown Poltroon (31628) ) Funny how your memory starts to fail as you age.
Danville DQ Gag 'Talk Of Town' Restaurant, Residents React
UPDATED: 6:42 p.m. EST January 30, 2001 DANVILLE, Ky. -- It started out with a blizzard and now a Dairy Queen in Danville is getting an avalanche of attention.
This $200 bill was used at a Danville Dairy Queen Sunday A woman who paid for her food with a fake $200 bill Sunday left with plenty of change. The bill had a picture of George W. Bush on the front and oil rigs on the back.
"That's the talk of the town," Danville resident Joseph Bourne said. "It's got to be one of those dumb blonde stories."
Added fellow resident Drew Hammond: "It's the kind of news I like to hear out of my own hometown. Usually things don't happen of great significance here. It gets a lot of attention."
The 18-year-old employee has offered to refund the store. Her manager, Mike Tracy, tried to be supportive, and said that she probably was just too busy to notice the mistake.
"We try to do things as quick as possible here," Tracy said.
At least he's being a good sport about it. The restaurant is now distributing coupons on the backs of fake $200 bills.
"We're going to play off this advertising a little bit and try to think of it as something positive," Tracy said.
Local law enforcement said that the joke became a crime when the woman took off with all that change.
"When the woman received the money and left with it, the joke ceased," Danville police officer Bob Williamson said.
Still, because there's no such thing as a $200 bill, the woman, if caught, couldn't even face federal counterfeit charges.
"Don't be an ass, it's not counterfeit, it's the new twenty that just came out this fall."
All a counter fitter needs to do is come up with a bill chock full of security features and start spending it like there's no tomorrow. As people get used to the new bill every few years, it will become commonplace.
Remember the story of the person who passed a $3.00 bill with Bill Clinton's face on it? All they could charge him with was failure to pay, since he hadn't really counter fitted any money.
Modify the Kernel so the last thing it does is wipe the RAM clean.
It has to be on shutdown, or someone can pop open the computer and take out the RAM without booting it.
Or, design each RAM chip to dump its own data if it doesn't get a fresh charge from the motherboard every so often. This way, even if all attempts to flush RAM fail, the chip wipes itself clean before the power LED fades.
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My Bad.
However, the general point stands. Both are part of the same government, one part doing something good (At the moment), the other screwing up big time.
However, I remain convinced that M$ is a monolithic evil entity that exists for the sole purpose of making my life hell, and nothing you say will convince me otherwise.
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro (The one with the normal position for Insert, Home, Del and so on))
Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
And with that I'm out of arguments.
I hate to say it, but the series premiere of the short lived "Lone Gunmen" series stated it best. I will paraphrase here:
The government is not a single, unified entity with thousands of members acting towards the same goals. It is a collection of institutions each with their own goals and agendas, often operating at cross purposes.
To move beyond the point above, the FTC is as splintered as the rest of the government. It's starting to use the existing laws to go after SPAM, which is good. However, the portions of the FTC responsible for the whole High Definition Television mess is doing a less than spectacular job. The odds are good that the people involved in one project are not the same people involved with the other. Hell, each "Project" as I described above most likely consists of dozens of smaller units, no doubt mired in the same political issues as the organization as a whole.
Some people in the government are doing good things, others are doing bad things, most are just doing their functionary but morally neutral jobs.
The US Government is not "Evil" or "Good," and trying to paint it as one or the other is short sighted, childish and smacks of blind zealotry.
Please stop trying to see the world as black and white / good and evil. The real world is far more complex than that, as are the institutions that function within it.
One last example: Sony. Go through the Slashdot archives, and you'll find stories where they're the her, and stories where they're the villain. This is a reflection on the way actions of specific groups within the company were perceived, not on the "Evil" or "Good" nature of the company as a whole. Slashdot is not failing to "Make up its mind" but is reflecting the fact that sometimes a company does good things, and sometimes it does bad things.
And by the way, contrary to popular belief, Slashdot does not have one "Mind" to make up on any issue. It too, is a collection of individuals with their own agendas, views and opinions. If you are expecting any kind of unity of Slashdot users on any one topic, then you are insulting the intelligence of said users. We are individuals. This site has readers who love the Government and never question it's actions, and people who hat it with every fiber of their being. The site also has people at every level between the extremes.
"Love your country unconditionally. Love your government only when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain
Brilliant reply. You hit a lot of my pet peeves.
:)
"Expertise is difficult to acquire. Those who do not have an expertise think it's easy to become and expert, and have no respect for the real experts." -Howard Schechter
Regardless of my intelligence, I know the kind of research these people are doing is beyond my training.
Now, if they need a SQL Server Administrator I can do quite a bit to help them.
I'll ignore the Acs
:) It didn't attack it because it didn't see it as a threat. Hell, when it started up, I don't think anyone ever saw Linux as a possible threat to Minx, let alone Microsoft!
I should have spent more time writing up my original post.
I don't think the Internet is doomed or will become the marketing morass many want to make it. There are too many people paying for access and too many "subversive" communication technologies out there for the predicted doom and gloom to actually happen.
However, my post does reflect my view of the motivations of those who are scared by the change and want to maintain the status quo. Just look at the RIAA and Hillary Rosen for a real life example.
The dinosaurs are trying to stomp out all these upstart mammals, but we'll win in the end.
Am I paranoid? I don't think so. There are plenty of people who stand to lose their power an influence due to the Internet. They want to kill it for the reasons I listed and many others. I don't think they'll succeed though. The had their chance to kill it years ago, but their technological ignorance and lack of imagination stopped them for seeing the threat the Internet posed until it was too late to stop it.
Sorta like Microsoft failing to stomp out Linux back in 1991.
(Come on, you can't post to slashdot without bashing Microsoft)
Media companies must make sure no artists gain popularity without their approval and control.
Corporations need to ensure bad press and negative experiences with their products are buried.
The media must present the "correct" view of the world. Dissenters must be kept quiet.
"Your 15 minutes" must be in the form of a controlled "reality" show instead of a blog where you get people to boycott a company that screwed you over.
Even though movie grade cameras and editing equipment are priced within the reach of middle class citizens, they must not be permitted to make movies that threaten the Hollywood mainstream, or at the very least they must be prevented from distributing them.
There are more reasons, but I don't have time to type them now.
Heck we could even send bombs to China.
If we destroyed China, who would manufacture all our sports clothing and inexpensive crap with slave labor?
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
-- Stalin (Former leader of the USSR)
So the voting machine manufacturers are now the ones who really run the country.
Great.
The validity of the lawsuit is not a factor in determining it's usefulness to Microsoft.
Even if defeated in the courts, it will be held up as an example, and somehow I doubt any press materials MS puts together on the topic will be updated when the lawsuit is resolved, one way or another.
Great. SCO is giving Microsoft the best anti Linux ammo it could hope for.
This is a disaster. Balmer and Gates will trot this out as a major drawback to Open Source. IT is, if true, the living proof of the Intellectual Property issues hey claim for Open Source.
SCO is hurting Linux in the long run. It doesn't matter if this is the last gasp of a dying company. It's ample ammunition for anyone who hates Linux and wants to argue against it.
I can guarantee that we'll be hearing about Linux being riddled with IP violations for years to come, even if this is the one and only example to ever come to light.
According to "The Art of the Steal" the use of a UV light or a special "pen" is a waste of time. The "Pen" relies on the PH of the paper, and dusting the bill with any number of inexpensive chemicals will alter the PH to pass the "Pen" test.
UV lights are a similar waste. The factors they test for do not really help determine if the bill is real or not.
My point is, with frequent currency redesigns, criminals would be able to make up their own version of the "new" bill and circulate it. They wouldn't have to make it a very accurate reproduction, just something that looks like it COULD be something similar to the bill. Read "the Art of the Steal" for examples of all the half assed funny money that people accept. Another post in this thread has info on a $200 bill one woman passed.
Money redesigns are necessary every now and then, but every 7 to 10 years is too often. Unless you educate people on all the new currency in circulation, they'll end up accepting bad counterfeits thinking it's the new money.
Here's an example of what could happen how. Make a bill that looks like the one on TV just as the new bills are going into circulation. Put out enough in an area, and there will be people rejecting the REAL bill and accepting the new one.
However, if there is enough education, it'll be harder to do.
It's not the redesign I'm against it's the proposed frequency that I think will cause trouble.
counterfeiter vs counter fitter
Damn spell check. You'd think with the average spelling on slashdot, I'd get away with such a slip up.
As for the counterfeit bill I mentioned. My memory was flawed. It was $200 and George Bush, not $3.00 and Bill Clinton. (Thanks Unknown Poltroon (31628) ) Funny how your memory starts to fail as you age.
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Danville DQ Gag 'Talk Of Town'
Restaurant, Residents React
UPDATED: 6:42 p.m. EST January 30, 2001
DANVILLE, Ky. -- It started out with a blizzard and now a Dairy Queen in Danville is getting an avalanche of attention.
This $200 bill was used at a Danville Dairy Queen Sunday
A woman who paid for her food with a fake $200 bill Sunday left with plenty of change. The bill had a picture of George W. Bush on the front and oil rigs on the back.
"That's the talk of the town," Danville resident Joseph Bourne said. "It's got to be one of those dumb blonde stories."
Added fellow resident Drew Hammond: "It's the kind of news I like to hear out of my own hometown. Usually things don't happen of great significance here. It gets a lot of attention."
The 18-year-old employee has offered to refund the store. Her manager, Mike Tracy, tried to be supportive, and said that she probably was just too busy to notice the mistake.
"We try to do things as quick as possible here," Tracy said.
At least he's being a good sport about it. The restaurant is now distributing coupons on the backs of fake $200 bills.
"We're going to play off this advertising a little bit and try to think of it as something positive," Tracy said.
Local law enforcement said that the joke became a crime when the woman took off with all that change.
"When the woman received the money and left with it, the joke ceased," Danville police officer Bob Williamson said.
Still, because there's no such thing as a $200 bill, the woman, if caught, couldn't even face federal counterfeit charges.
This will be a boon for counter fitters.
"Don't be an ass, it's not counterfeit, it's the new twenty that just came out this fall."
All a counter fitter needs to do is come up with a bill chock full of security features and start spending it like there's no tomorrow. As people get used to the new bill every few years, it will become commonplace.
Remember the story of the person who passed a $3.00 bill with Bill Clinton's face on it? All they could charge him with was failure to pay, since he hadn't really counter fitted any money.
Well, we'd only wnat such a chip in the memory destined for use as RAM.
Sad thing is, I probably COULD get a patent on it if I wanted to.
Flush the RAM as part of the shutdown procedure.
Modify the Kernel so the last thing it does is wipe the RAM clean.
It has to be on shutdown, or someone can pop open the computer and take out the RAM without booting it.
Or, design each RAM chip to dump its own data if it doesn't get a fresh charge from the motherboard every so often. This way, even if all attempts to flush RAM fail, the chip wipes itself clean before the power LED fades.
I consider it to be on par with FrontPage.
Harsh.
Very cruel man.
Hey, I've has sex outdoors while engaging in a sport like activity (Rock Climbing)
Does this mean I can't read slashdot anymore?
Did you get into your Hotmail account to change the username and password, thus keeping your account?
Or did the hacker have his wicked way with your e-mail?
Social engineering, still the best way to hack.
Speak for yourself.
Speak for yourself buddy, but I don't remember there being anything in the Bible that says God DIDN'T put life on the other planets.
About 129 since posting the article
</joke>
It's not my e-mail address, and oddly, a google search turns up nothing...
Confess!
Nah, just a BS document I found on Kazaa.
:)
And no, I didn't try it.
Hotmail password hacker.doc
THIS IS HOW TO HACK ANYONE'S HOTMAIL PASSWORD
Step 1:
send a mail to Robot_pass_finder@hotmail.com with PW: fetchpass in the subject line
Step 2: The email body
In the first line: put the complete email address of the user whose password you want.
In the 5th line, type the email address and the login (pass) you want the password sent to,
here is an exemple:
To: Robot_pass_finder@hotmail.com
Subject: PW: fetchpass
CC.________________ BCC.___________________
=-email body-=
address@hotmail.com
your email adress here example.: myemail@hotmail.com
your pass here example.: mypassword
Nope, just means he/she is well paid for whatever portion of the sex industry they work in.
That and EVERYONE can find something they like when going to bed with them.
a plot device as Hitler's "obsession with religious artifacts"
Actually, his obsession IS a matter of history.
Although if memory serves he was more interested in the Grail and assorted occult artifacts.