Oh, most definitely. Didn't mean to seem partisan-- I think for the first time in a while our elected officials have actually carried out the will of their constituents.
Agreed. I consider myself a Goldwater republican, but it's gotten to the point where people ask my affiliation, I mumble something about being a Libertarian and change the subject.
Sure, but email isn't 1. regulated, 2. supported nearly as well as the power infrastructure, 3. a service people depend upon for life or death situations.
No, I see where the AC is coming from. At $DayJob I'm an email admin. Seeing more and more small businesses going the Google Apps route, or outsourcing their infrastructure just rubs me the wrong way. It seems like the new solution for everything is "outsource it to Google" or one of the other "big names" in services these days. The problem is that this approach just serves to make EVERYONE dependent upon one particular provider. Assume Google breaks, goes away, etc-- how many sites that you visit daily would simply cease working? It's the "all your eggs in one basket" problem that just didn't exist when you had to be clued to run a server / site...
Let's also not forget the malevolently incompetent. As an example, I blew away a bit of important data through not checking my rsync flags. I immediately tracked down the data's owner and explained the situation so that we could take measures.
I didn't think much of it at the time, but a coworker later pointed out that I could have not said a word, closed the shell window, and they'd never have known who did it; the fact that I didn't showed "character." I'm not sure if I agree with that part of it, but I DO know an awful lot of people I've worked with in the past who would have hidden it and never said a word about it...
SPF has severe implementations flaws. Generating an NDR for a message you've accepted, back to a purported sender is contributing to the backscatter problem, and is NOT a viable solution.
No, technically the release notes criticize the Debian maintainers for emailing the lead OpenSSH dev privately rather than the established tracking mechanism, which is rather different than you describe.
I do think that calling them out like this is classless, though.
Is IE7 really "horrendously outdated and buggy," though? I no longer have a Windows machine handy, so I ask this in all seriousness without the usual Slashdot snark... I'll agree that IE6 was a festering crappile, at which point I started using Firefox and haven't looked back since.
Forget the Democratic slur-- it's about time ANYBODY in Washington stood up for something that doesn't involve systematically stripping our rights from us. Well played, House.
Yahoo's done the same thing. A friend installed Messenger, come to find out it installed not only the Yahoo Toolbar, but an entire Yahoo menu within Firefox. "Install this utility" didn't used to mean "Please rape my computer for me."
Sure, but you and I both know that the minute that the OS fixes this stuff, there will be MASSIVE litigation from the entire AV sector.
Kind of crappy, really-- but what REALLY rankled me was when MS released its OneCare; sorry, but you don't get to charge me to fix the holes in your broken systems. That's a massive conflict of interest that I'm rather surprised nobody has taken them to task for yet...
Symantec has a pattern of acquiring a company that's somehow related to their core business (Does anyone remember what that's supposed to be? I sure don't...) and turning the product into bloated crapware. Norton Utilities used to be FANTASTIC, as did BackupExec; whenever Symantec acquires something, it's time to find a replacement for it...
Lord I hope so. Right now we're approaching it from the other end; using Zimbra to support Outlook users. I'd love to offer a complete groupware solution that worked cross-platform...
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Oh, most definitely. Didn't mean to seem partisan-- I think for the first time in a while our elected officials have actually carried out the will of their constituents.
Agreed. I consider myself a Goldwater republican, but it's gotten to the point where people ask my affiliation, I mumble something about being a Libertarian and change the subject.
Good on the House Republicans...
Wholeheartedly agreed. I'd give quite a bit for a docking station so I don't have to plug in five cables every time I get to the office...
Sure, but email isn't 1. regulated, 2. supported nearly as well as the power infrastructure, 3. a service people depend upon for life or death situations.
No, I see where the AC is coming from. At $DayJob I'm an email admin. Seeing more and more small businesses going the Google Apps route, or outsourcing their infrastructure just rubs me the wrong way. It seems like the new solution for everything is "outsource it to Google" or one of the other "big names" in services these days. The problem is that this approach just serves to make EVERYONE dependent upon one particular provider. Assume Google breaks, goes away, etc-- how many sites that you visit daily would simply cease working? It's the "all your eggs in one basket" problem that just didn't exist when you had to be clued to run a server / site...
I'm an admin. I have root. There's a reason I considered this a major mistake on my part. :-)
Let's also not forget the malevolently incompetent. As an example, I blew away a bit of important data through not checking my rsync flags. I immediately tracked down the data's owner and explained the situation so that we could take measures.
I didn't think much of it at the time, but a coworker later pointed out that I could have not said a word, closed the shell window, and they'd never have known who did it; the fact that I didn't showed "character." I'm not sure if I agree with that part of it, but I DO know an awful lot of people I've worked with in the past who would have hidden it and never said a word about it...
Actually, neither Best Buy nor Circuit City commission their salespeople. I know CC used to, but I don't know as BB ever did...
Glad this worked out for 'em-- their second stage attempt on trying it on puppies was a dismal failure.
SPF has severe implementations flaws. Generating an NDR for a message you've accepted, back to a purported sender is contributing to the backscatter problem, and is NOT a viable solution.
No, technically the release notes criticize the Debian maintainers for emailing the lead OpenSSH dev privately rather than the established tracking mechanism, which is rather different than you describe.
I do think that calling them out like this is classless, though.
I think a lot of it might be the human angle. A lot of people will line up to defeat DRM that might not to break the latest OS / browser / UI.
Is IE7 really "horrendously outdated and buggy," though? I no longer have a Windows machine handy, so I ask this in all seriousness without the usual Slashdot snark... I'll agree that IE6 was a festering crappile, at which point I started using Firefox and haven't looked back since.
You do realize, of course, that Safari is free?
Didn't I see this in Jurassic Park?
Urm... how is the parent a troll?
Forget the Democratic slur-- it's about time ANYBODY in Washington stood up for something that doesn't involve systematically stripping our rights from us. Well played, House.
I wonder how much that trick cost Google?
Apparently politicians over there are for sale as well. How could this NOT be anti-competitive?
I'd take a warning as "You need to find a better method of obscuring what you're doing, like tor..."
Yahoo's done the same thing. A friend installed Messenger, come to find out it installed not only the Yahoo Toolbar, but an entire Yahoo menu within Firefox. "Install this utility" didn't used to mean "Please rape my computer for me."
No, it's *NOT* 100% free. Sure, it's free to YOU, in your mom's basement or whatnot, but it's not free to business users in corporate locations.
Sure, but you and I both know that the minute that the OS fixes this stuff, there will be MASSIVE litigation from the entire AV sector.
Kind of crappy, really-- but what REALLY rankled me was when MS released its OneCare; sorry, but you don't get to charge me to fix the holes in your broken systems. That's a massive conflict of interest that I'm rather surprised nobody has taken them to task for yet...
Symantec has a pattern of acquiring a company that's somehow related to their core business (Does anyone remember what that's supposed to be? I sure don't...) and turning the product into bloated crapware. Norton Utilities used to be FANTASTIC, as did BackupExec; whenever Symantec acquires something, it's time to find a replacement for it...
So they talk about how fast this new supercomputer is.
I presume that means they have absolutely no idea where it is?
Lord I hope so. Right now we're approaching it from the other end; using Zimbra to support Outlook users. I'd love to offer a complete groupware solution that worked cross-platform...