I have a suggestion, instead of either sputtering, bitching, or flaming, why don't you try making a coherent arguement? You should be glad users like Zico are around to question the Conventional Slashdot Wisdom. I've been lurking at this site for a few months and am not at all impressed by the vacuity, cenceit, or the arrogance of thought found on some subjects here, Microsoft being one of them.
This should be a place where intelligent people discuss the subjects, not a Linux Uber-Alles site. Why do you think there are so many ugly flames at 0 and -1. I think it's in part because they see the vacuity of much of the "serious" discussion. Notice that when a topic is posted that generates more intelligent and informed discussion, like the one last night about diesel engines, there are far fewer obscene flames.
...Initial reports of a "back door" in Microsoft Corp.'s FrontPage server software -- a deliberate security hole put in to allow illicit access -- now seem to be, for the most part, incorrect.
Also, from the same ZDnet article: "It breaks the absolute wall between Web sites on a shared server," said Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security response center. "But you can't see anything that you're not authorized to by the access controllers."
No no, children should be exposed to as much porn as possible. It'll do them good to be sexualized at an early age. Especially by the more derivative sexuality that is so common on the web. And filters are ridiculous! It's the parents that should be more responsible - preferably standing there watching every page the kids view - even at school and at the library.
Guys, I hate to be counter-intuitive, but what's the big deal? There are still lots of media companies that aren't in conglomerates.
Sometimes maybe it's useful to get companies together when their services can complement each other. Can anybody name one real reason why Time/Warner and AOL shouldn't merge if their stockholders want them too? Isn't this a free country?
Anyway, if they don't like being conglomerated, or if it doesn't work out, they can just separate again, and we'll be back to where we are now. What's wrong with big companies? Are they all supposed to stay the same size forever?
It's true that Linux could be a boon to a country without the wealth to purchase proprietary OS's. But let's face it - Linux isn't all that easy to use, even for a Westerner who grows up surrounded by electronic devices. Please don't flame me, but wouldn't it be better to give them an easier path? Windows is a lot easier to use, and MS could do a huge licensing agreement with the Indian gov't, since most people couldn't afford to buy it.
I KNOW this sounds silly, but think - so many of you reading this got your start using Windows, and moved on to a superior OS when you got more experience. Why should you assume the same thing wouldn't work for up and coming Indian computer geeks?
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There no reson to be going to other planets to have our pictures taken when we could be using the money to feed all the malnourished and starving people around the world. Have you ever watched anybody starve to death? It's horrible. Feeding them is much more important for the human race than sending a few people to some other big rock to stand on.
And your implication that a mission to Mars would be merely 'Flag and footprints', like the Apollo missions, is woefully uninformed and out of date
Oh really? If I'm so uninformed, please tell me what use the trip would be? Would such a use compare to the joy of feeding starving multitudes? Have you ever watched a person die of hunger? Have you? And you'd rather stand on Mars than save them?
If you think it's pointless to feed starving people around the world, would you sugges that all such programs be stopped immediately, and the money saved be put towards sending people to other planets to have their photographs taken? Please don't take offense but that is sort of heartless.
It really bother me that this would even be considered! There are people starving all over the world - 40 million go hungry in the wealthy USA every day. A billion people around the globe are malnourished. Most of them don't even know know about the four basic food groups since they've only seen one or two of them before.
I propose that, instead or sending five or six people across empty space to stand on Mars and pose for pictures - I propose that instead of this, we spend the 20 or 30 billion each year of NASA's budget on basic necessities of the poor! With that much money you could feed the world, and even those four or five spacemen would have to be happy about that.
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This should be a place where intelligent people discuss the subjects, not a Linux Uber-Alles site. Why do you think there are so many ugly flames at 0 and -1. I think it's in part because they see the vacuity of much of the "serious" discussion. Notice that when a topic is posted that generates more intelligent and informed discussion, like the one last night about diesel engines, there are far fewer obscene flames.
Also, from the same ZDnet article:
"It breaks the absolute wall between Web sites on a shared server," said Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security response center. "But you can't see anything that you're not authorized to by the access controllers."
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No no, children should be exposed to as much porn as possible. It'll do them good to be sexualized at an early age. Especially by the more derivative sexuality that is so common on the web. And filters are ridiculous! It's the parents that should be more responsible - preferably standing there watching every page the kids view - even at school and at the library.
Sometimes maybe it's useful to get companies together when their services can complement each other. Can anybody name one real reason why Time/Warner and AOL shouldn't merge if their stockholders want them too? Isn't this a free country?
Anyway, if they don't like being conglomerated, or if it doesn't work out, they can just separate again, and we'll be back to where we are now. What's wrong with big companies? Are they all supposed to stay the same size forever?
I KNOW this sounds silly, but think - so many of you reading this got your start using Windows, and moved on to a superior OS when you got more experience. Why should you assume the same thing wouldn't work for up and coming Indian computer geeks?
There no reson to be going to other planets to have our pictures taken when we could be using the money to feed all the malnourished and starving people around the world. Have you ever watched anybody starve to death? It's horrible. Feeding them is much more important for the human race than sending a few people to some other big rock to stand on.
Oh really? If I'm so uninformed, please tell me what use the trip would be? Would such a use compare to the joy of feeding starving multitudes? Have you ever watched a person die of hunger? Have you? And you'd rather stand on Mars than save them?
If you think it's pointless to feed starving people around the world, would you sugges that all such programs be stopped immediately, and the money saved be put towards sending people to other planets to have their photographs taken? Please don't take offense but that is sort of heartless.
You have no idea at all what you're talking about. There are literally thousands of small publishers.
I propose that, instead or sending five or six people across empty space to stand on Mars and pose for pictures - I propose that instead of this, we spend the 20 or 30 billion each year of NASA's budget on basic necessities of the poor! With that much money you could feed the world, and even those four or five spacemen would have to be happy about that.