Kuro5hin was my second favorite "unbiased" news site next to Slashdot. CNN sucks (but only twice a day), MSNBC sucks Bill Gates' dog, CNET sucks less, Salon doesn't suck yet, and ZDNet sucks galaxies through a soda straw. Can't wait for Kuro5hin to come back on the stream and return to counteracting some of the mass suckage out here.
Easier yet, rm -rf $HOME/.netscape. Its in my crontab to run every week. Sure, I have to accept the EULA and click two OKAY buttons again, but it beats having a buncha crap that I ain't sure what it does laying around on the drive worrying me.
I used to be a contractor that sysadminned a handful of classified *nix boxes. The civil servant who was in charge of security auditing my systems had absolutely no knowledge of unix or networking, and could just barely log into a Windoze box themself. All this person had was a checklist that they filled out by asking me questions. A lot of it was multiple choice, and it was so out-of-date technologically that there was often no means to provide a correct response. Anyway, this techno-illiterate career clerk would check off what they personally perceived was the closest answer, so the result was horribly inaccurate. I tried a few times to get them to change something because I knew it was incorrect and they wouldn't. The whole thing was a complete joke, and a ridiculous waste of my time and taxpayer money.
The situation is probably worse than the study reported.
that's not nearly as cool as the cell towers behind the goalposts of our local high school football field. what the hey, its revenue; they sure don't get enough money from our taxes after the city morons divvy it up for their relatives.
The most enjoyable Linux book I've glommed thus far has got to be Nicholas Wells' "Linux: I didn't know you could do that...". It's got some fifty or so tips and tricks for Linux, plus RPMs and.tgzs for the examples in the book. Lots of useful info, like undeleting files, playing music, etc. While not "dumbed down" by any means, it would still be a good read for the clueful Win9x user wanting to play around with Linux.
> 2600 is reaping the harvest they have sown the last few years.
I would've thought the MPAA was reaping the harvest they've sown as well. Half-a-century of churning out scandalously tasteless productions glorifying crime and criminals, promoting antisocial conduct, and cinematically flushing morals and ethics down the toilet. Wouldn't surprise me if Hollyweird's not already pounding on Corley's door for the movie rights to this nightmare....
"I'm rather jubilant now. What Judge Kaplan did was blow away every one of these brittle and fragile rebuttals. He threw out fair use; he threw out reverse engineering; he threw out linking."
(Jack Valenti, quoted at salon.com)
So the concept of "fair use" is now officially dead. Two-hundred years of constitutional protection down the crapper. This is the scariest thing I believe I've ever read....
Now is one of those times when I wish we could all moderate the original story down. Then we could maybe make it disappear quickly and save us from the inevitable troll-baiting that's bound to happen in the Linux newsgroups - i.e. "[] and you linonuts pissed and moaned about Mindcraft and now you pull the same crap." Oh well....
CRASH! "Federal agents! Search warrant! Get down! GET THE F*CK DOWN! NOW!! On your stomach, get on your stomach NOW! I don't give a f*ck if you're pregnant, YOU GET ON YOUR FACE NOW OR I'LL BLOW YOUR MOTHERF*CKING HEAD OFF!! Don't move. Don't even breathe, or we'll kill you." "Good. Now where do you have the DeCSS T-shirts hidden..."
The more I read about Microsoft's new initiative to take over the internet, it sounds more and more like they've "re-innovated" X. With one important exception; it'll only run on Microsoft.
...when corporations countered bad publicity by solving and correcting the problem that got them the bad press to start with? Get a grip, corporate America; if you'd spend as much money on service improvements as you do on restraining orders and stupid witchhunts like this you'd have fewer people complaining in the first place. The fee this outfit charges ($5000 US) could have bought an awful lot of good will instead.
Corporate cluelessness reaches a new alltime high with this one.
The fact that an inferior product commands 90-95% of the office software market is symptomatic of a greater illness, a disease called "proprietary file formats". We should be attacking the agent responsible for the disease instead of simply treating the symptoms. WINE is like smoking cigarettes to cure cancer.
So according to a poll, WINE's first priority should be running ridiculously overpriced bloatware from a company made infamous for its repeated misuse of undocumented APIs? Arrrgh!
But for all those thousands of development hours wasted on WINE, KOffice or one of its friends could be kicking some serious Redmond butt by now. So when is this rumored post-MSFT era gonna start?
They didn't restrict their screwing to the small-meduim sized business customer. I used to work for a government agency in Oregon, and they regularly gave us the shaft. It got so bad, that they could be disqualified from competitive bidding as non-compliant without hardly any due-diligence research on our part at all. Well, I'm at another gov agency in another US Worst state, and we've placed more than two hundred orders with them in the last two months and they've totally screwed up about thirty percent of those on the first attempt. We had a small department relocate to a new facility six months ago and I'm still trying to sort out the mess that US West has made of the telephones. Will this merger be an improvement? No. Not only no, but hell no. They've spent decades hiring shiftless morons who can't be fired, and it'll take decades to turn that around.
Just knowing that Windows NT has been successfully evaluated at C2 makes me doubt the validity and usefulness of the entire TPEP program. Might as well just design a new security spec(OSS-SEC) around the existing Linux kernel and submit the product for testing.
The people in power where I work (as a gov employee) really _do_ want it to happen. We're just having a difficult time finding a competent e-commerce architect for US $16.06 an hour. We can't realign payscales to reflect the private sector without increasing taxes or cutting services elsewhere. We're not going to attract venture capitalists, we'll never have an IPO, and there's no stocks to share. That makes us a hugely unattractive employer in a highly competetive market for a limited pool of talent.
these morons sure have balls of steel(tm) to drop a bombshell(tm) like this. time to kill(tm) any copies of duke nukem(tm) that might remain on my hard drive.
After I got rid of my C-64 ten years ago, I went without any kind of computer in the home until this year. One of the first things I bought for it was MSFS98, "as real as it gets" so the self-congratulatory blurb on the box states. Installed it, rebooted, and WOW! Nothing had changed since Sublogic Flight Sim for the C-64 except the external views; they were no longer wire-frames. Everything else was identical. I don't mean close, I mean identical. I swear I have never seen such an unchanged software product in my life. Fifteen years of raking in profits and this is all MSFT has done? I wonder how many of the other "innovations" in MSFS are from BAO and others outside of Redmond? Oh, and you're right about one other thing too... you don't have to hit the ground to "crash" in MSFS .
Sob, whimper, moan.... I missed dinner again last night buzzing the Seattle skyline. I've got FU95, FU-II, and FU-III. Even their early stuff makes MSFS2K look like an amateurish ripoff. Oh wait, it is....
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Kuro5hin was my second favorite "unbiased" news site next to Slashdot. CNN sucks (but only twice a day), MSNBC sucks Bill Gates' dog, CNET sucks less, Salon doesn't suck yet, and ZDNet sucks galaxies through a soda straw. Can't wait for Kuro5hin to come back on the stream and return to counteracting some of the mass suckage out here.
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Easier yet, rm -rf $HOME/.netscape. Its in my crontab to run every week. Sure, I have to accept the EULA and click two OKAY buttons again, but it beats having a buncha crap that I ain't sure what it does laying around on the drive worrying me.
I used to be a contractor that sysadminned a handful of classified *nix boxes. The civil servant who was in charge of security auditing my systems had absolutely no knowledge of unix or networking, and could just barely log into a Windoze box themself. All this person had was a checklist that they filled out by asking me questions. A lot of it was multiple choice, and it was so out-of-date technologically that there was often no means to provide a correct response. Anyway, this techno-illiterate career clerk would check off what they personally perceived was the closest answer, so the result was horribly inaccurate. I tried a few times to get them to change something because I knew it was incorrect and they wouldn't. The whole thing was a complete joke, and a ridiculous waste of my time and taxpayer money.
The situation is probably worse than the study reported.
that's not nearly as cool as the cell towers behind the goalposts of our local high school football field. what the hey, its revenue; they sure don't get enough money from our taxes after the city morons divvy it up for their relatives.
The most enjoyable Linux book I've glommed thus far has got to be Nicholas Wells' "Linux: I didn't know you could do that...". It's got some fifty or so tips and tricks for Linux, plus RPMs and .tgzs for the examples in the book. Lots of useful info, like undeleting files, playing music, etc. While not "dumbed down" by any means, it would still be a good read for the clueful Win9x user wanting to play around with Linux.
> 2600 is reaping the harvest they have sown the last few years.
I would've thought the MPAA was reaping the harvest they've sown as well. Half-a-century of churning out scandalously tasteless productions glorifying crime and criminals, promoting antisocial conduct, and cinematically flushing morals and ethics down the toilet. Wouldn't surprise me if Hollyweird's not already pounding on Corley's door for the movie rights to this nightmare....
"I'm rather jubilant now. What Judge Kaplan did was blow away every one of these brittle and fragile rebuttals. He threw out fair use; he threw out reverse engineering; he threw out linking."
(Jack Valenti, quoted at salon.com)
So the concept of "fair use" is now officially dead. Two-hundred years of constitutional protection down the crapper. This is the scariest thing I believe I've ever read....
Now is one of those times when I wish we could all moderate the original story down. Then we could maybe make it disappear quickly and save us from the inevitable troll-baiting that's bound to happen in the Linux newsgroups - i.e. "[] and you linonuts pissed and moaned about Mindcraft and now you pull the same crap." Oh well....
CRASH! "Federal agents! Search warrant! Get down! GET THE F*CK DOWN! NOW!! On your stomach, get on your stomach NOW! I don't give a f*ck if you're pregnant, YOU GET ON YOUR FACE NOW OR I'LL BLOW YOUR MOTHERF*CKING HEAD OFF!! Don't move. Don't even breathe, or we'll kill you." "Good. Now where do you have the DeCSS T-shirts hidden..."
Another right on. From an American. Not all of us are clueless microserfs, contrary to popular belief.
The more I read about Microsoft's new initiative to take over the internet, it sounds more and more like they've "re-innovated" X. With one important exception; it'll only run on Microsoft.
... they'd do likewise for msoft@buddy.ebay.com. That'd lower the asshole quotient on the site by a few orders of magnitude.
...when corporations countered bad publicity by solving and correcting the problem that got them the bad press to start with? Get a grip, corporate America; if you'd spend as much money on service improvements as you do on restraining orders and stupid witchhunts like this you'd have fewer people complaining in the first place. The fee this outfit charges ($5000 US) could have bought an awful lot of good will instead.
Corporate cluelessness reaches a new alltime high with this one.
The fact that an inferior product commands 90-95% of the office software market is symptomatic of a greater illness, a disease called "proprietary file formats". We should be attacking the agent responsible for the disease instead of simply treating the symptoms. WINE is like smoking cigarettes to cure cancer.
So according to a poll, WINE's first priority should be running ridiculously overpriced bloatware from a company made infamous for its repeated misuse of undocumented APIs? Arrrgh!
But for all those thousands of development hours wasted on WINE, KOffice or one of its friends could be kicking some serious Redmond butt by now.
So when is this rumored post-MSFT era gonna start?
I've got MS Word documents that are only a few years old that I can no longer read, now its gonna be the same with music and motion pictures.
They didn't restrict their screwing to the small-meduim sized business customer. I used to work for a government agency in Oregon, and they regularly gave us the shaft. It got so bad, that they could be disqualified from competitive bidding as non-compliant without hardly any due-diligence research on our part at all. Well, I'm at another gov agency in another US Worst state, and we've placed more than two hundred orders with them in the last two months and they've totally screwed up about thirty percent of those on the first attempt. We had a small department relocate to a new facility six months ago and I'm still trying to sort out the mess that US West has made of the telephones. Will this merger be an improvement? No. Not only no, but hell no. They've spent decades hiring shiftless morons who can't be fired, and it'll take decades to turn that around.
Just knowing that Windows NT has been successfully evaluated at C2 makes me doubt the validity and usefulness of the entire TPEP program. Might as well just design a new security spec(OSS-SEC) around the existing Linux kernel and submit the product for testing.
> so what's the difference ? The difference is that now it'll be done by convicted felons. Sorta makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over....
The people in power where I work (as a gov employee) really _do_ want it to happen. We're just having a difficult time finding a competent e-commerce architect for US $16.06 an hour. We can't realign payscales to reflect the private sector without increasing taxes or cutting services elsewhere. We're not going to attract venture capitalists, we'll never have an IPO, and there's no stocks to share. That makes us a hugely unattractive employer in a highly competetive market for a limited pool of talent.
Maybe you would prefer that all the apps started with the letters MS?
these morons sure have balls of steel(tm) to drop a bombshell(tm) like this. time to kill(tm) any copies of duke nukem(tm) that might remain on my hard drive.
Just tell them "no".
After I got rid of my C-64 ten years ago, I went without any kind of computer in the home until this year. One of the first things I bought for it was MSFS98, "as real as it gets" so the self-congratulatory blurb on the box states. Installed it, rebooted, and WOW! Nothing had changed since Sublogic Flight Sim for the C-64 except the external views; they were no longer wire-frames. Everything else was identical. I don't mean close, I mean identical. I swear I have never seen such an unchanged software product in my life. Fifteen years of raking in profits and this is all MSFT has done? I wonder how many of the other "innovations" in MSFS are from BAO and others outside of Redmond? Oh, and you're right about one other thing too... you don't have to hit the ground to "crash" in MSFS .
Sob, whimper, moan.... I missed dinner again last night buzzing the Seattle skyline. I've got FU95, FU-II, and FU-III. Even their early stuff makes MSFS2K look like an amateurish ripoff. Oh wait, it is....