It's the implementation that I object to. The weak security model, coupled with it being all over the place in MS apps and Win98/NT means that all those using MS desktops (whether willingly or otherwise) are endlessly vulnerable to bored script kiddies with nothing better to do.
If you think that the media in America is free then you really are blind. And if capitalism is all about freedom, why are they so keen on trading with that most repressive of regimes, China. Maybe you should try finding out the difference between the vicious dictatorships that called themselves socialist and what socialism actually is. BTW capitalism != democracy.
No we should gas them all, ridding us of an inconvenient burden on the state and save us billions a year. Idiot. What's wrong with being a socialist anyway?
Surely not. I've paid for a fair bit of Linux software and will carry on doing so. I hope they release a trial version first however, so I can see if I want to buy it (all software makers should do this IMNSHO)
I didn't mean failing in general, but failing to provide the leadership required to get space research moving. As for financial benefits, these CAN be calculated, by adding up how much money has been saved by being able to instantly communicate with anyone in the world, the amount of revenue from satellite TV, the amount saved by being able to more accurately predict the weather etc, etc. This is not something that should be stuck within national boundaries and petty short-term concerns, it should be one of the most important concerns of the human race, along with the ending of poverty and war.
MS probably won't be nearly as anal as Sony approving a game. Sony (and to a much worse extent, Nintendo) is notorious for their strong-arming over final approval.
Indeed. Microsoft have never been known for strongarm tactics and bullying 3rd-party vendors. I think MS will be just as bad, because they'll be certifying everything, so they have to get it right. They won't be able to blame crashes on anyone but themselves this time, so hassles galore.
Considering that the financial benefits to mankind of space research have been estimated at about 6 times the cost of it, why aren't NASA pointing this out in six inch high letters on prime-time TV. Because all that the media focus on is the short-term cost (blah blah blah tax dollars) instead of the medium to long term benefit. Let's hope that the other space-enabled blocs are not as short-sighted. Fat chance of that though. There should at the very least be a scientific base on the Moon by now, paid for by all the countries of the world. Instead of focusing purely on why the US government is failing, start focusing on why the various governments aren't pooling their resources and co-operating on this. It's too important to let petty national differences get in the way.
Same reason people buy Windows even though options are now available. Microsoft is a household name, who the f**k are Indrema? But until I see this piece of vapour solidify who cares anyway? As far as I can see, this is more about trying to damage PSX2 sales by convincing people to keep using their PCs until the all new X-Box appears.
Exactly. I think this is vapourware designed to hurt the PSX2. Specs may be available and respected programmers may be talking about it, but I think it's more about hurting the sales of a machine that could be a PC replacement and has nothing to do with Microsoft. Actually though I hope it isn't and Microsoft try to take on Sony and Nintendo. That would be very entertaining. Until I see one in the shops I'm not going to give a toss.
What commies, where? Oh my god, reds under the bed, reds in my hard drive, the ILOVEREDS virus on the internet, where is it going to end? Will General McCarthy come back in our hour of need and save us from the Soviet menace.
PS the Cold War is over and Communism is dead(except in North Korea and Cuba - China is not Communist any more). I thank you.
Exactly, if they can't buy the company then they enter the market with a crappier product and use their monopoly to push that company out. Hee hee let the flaming begin.
I never have been totalitarian so that adjective is stupid and irrelevant. As to prick, it's just an opinion that the shareholders of a huge American corporation have more than enough money compared to South American farmers who have less than enough. Now why don't you just go and play with th traffic you braindead idiot.
Who are Chiquita to say who lives or dies in South America. Fuck you you dumb yank who doesn't even have the guts to log on and flame me. I believe in democracy and human rights far more than you do. Put those blinkers on and pretend the world doesn't matter, one day it'll be you that gets it.
I'm talking about the past when British farmers were just as arrogant as the French ones are now, and I feel no sympathy for them. As for criticizing countries that don't obey the rule of law, take a look at the UK arms industry as an appalling example of the flouting of international and European law. The French farmers/lorry drivers may piss people off, myself included (I was working in Luxembourg when the bastards closed the border for the day), but the Brits can hardly resort to mud-slinging.
Just like the British government sat back and ignored farmers blatant disregard of the law and allowed a fatal and incurable disease (BSE/CJD) to enter the food chain.
No, he thinks corporations are a bad thing. Just as an aside, do you know why Jose's cheese, among other things, are subject to huge tariffs? It's because the EU insists on allowing poor South American farmers to have part of the import quota of bananas. Chiquita, that terribly impoverished corporation, protested this as a restriction on 'free' trade (i.e. Chiquita can undercut these poor farmers quite easily), to Clinton, Clinton, ever mindful of his corporate paycheck, threatened action, the EU promptly told him to go to hell and here we are in the middle of a trade war. So let's see now, poor South American farmers should starve because Chiquita wants to give more money to people who already have more than enough. American values eh? Gotta love em.
But he was attacking a corporation from a country that has an insular and xenophobic culture. Would the pot please refrain from insulting the kettle. Thank you.
But you wouldn't be able to buy PCs at $400 without the selfless labour of these third-world folk who work 13 hours a day just so the average American can have Windows crash on him/her.
Well I'm sitting in an office which is about 60/40 men/women. But then all the men in the office wash at least every 2 days, don't wear sandals, don't have a beard you could hide a continent in, and generally have a life outside of coding. But then we're mainly mainframe dinosaurs, so you wouldn't be interested anyway. (I'm joking - spare me the flames)
Oops yes not Cisco at all - I blame too many beers the night before. Fords have always consistently out-sold Volkswagens here in the UK, despite the fact that Volkswagens have always been better quality (although to be fair to Ford they are finally getting there). My point is that suckers will always buy well-marketed crap rather than take some time to find out if there are better alternatives.
What he's saying is that telnet and ftp are insecure and that sysadmins are not doing anything to address that issue, which is fair enough. Telnet should not be used over the internet, ssh should be instead, and any anonymous ftp server should not give a black hat access to the rest of the network. This is not a 'ban ftp' thing but merely a take care and always read the security announcements.
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It's the implementation that I object to. The weak security model, coupled with it being all over the place in MS apps and Win98/NT means that all those using MS desktops (whether willingly or otherwise) are endlessly vulnerable to bored script kiddies with nothing better to do.
Sounds like good news to me.
If you think that the media in America is free then you really are blind. And if capitalism is all about freedom, why are they so keen on trading with that most repressive of regimes, China. Maybe you should try finding out the difference between the vicious dictatorships that called themselves socialist and what socialism actually is. BTW capitalism != democracy.
No we should gas them all, ridding us of an inconvenient burden on the state and save us billions a year. Idiot.
What's wrong with being a socialist anyway?
Surely not. I've paid for a fair bit of Linux software and will carry on doing so. I hope they release a trial version first however, so I can see if I want to buy it (all software makers should do this IMNSHO)
I didn't mean failing in general, but failing to provide the leadership required to get space research moving. As for financial benefits, these CAN be calculated, by adding up how much money has been saved by being able to instantly communicate with anyone in the world, the amount of revenue from satellite TV, the amount saved by being able to more accurately predict the weather etc, etc. This is not something that should be stuck within national boundaries and petty short-term concerns, it should be one of the most important concerns of the human race, along with the ending of poverty and war.
MS probably won't be nearly as anal as Sony approving a game. Sony (and to a much worse extent, Nintendo) is notorious for their strong-arming over final approval.
Indeed. Microsoft have never been known for strongarm tactics and bullying 3rd-party vendors.
I think MS will be just as bad, because they'll be certifying everything, so they have to get it right. They won't be able to blame crashes on anyone but themselves this time, so hassles galore.
Considering that the financial benefits to mankind of space research have been estimated at about 6 times the cost of it, why aren't NASA pointing this out in six inch high letters on prime-time TV. Because all that the media focus on is the short-term cost (blah blah blah tax dollars) instead of the medium to long term benefit. Let's hope that the other space-enabled blocs are not as short-sighted. Fat chance of that though. There should at the very least be a scientific base on the Moon by now, paid for by all the countries of the world. Instead of focusing purely on why the US government is failing, start focusing on why the various governments aren't pooling their resources and co-operating on this. It's too important to let petty national differences get in the way.
Same reason people buy Windows even though options are now available. Microsoft is a household name, who the f**k are Indrema? But until I see this piece of vapour solidify who cares anyway? As far as I can see, this is more about trying to damage PSX2 sales by convincing people to keep using their PCs until the all new X-Box appears.
Exactly. I think this is vapourware designed to hurt the PSX2. Specs may be available and respected programmers may be talking about it, but I think it's more about hurting the sales of a machine that could be a PC replacement and has nothing to do with Microsoft. Actually though I hope it isn't and Microsoft try to take on Sony and Nintendo. That would be very entertaining.
Until I see one in the shops I'm not going to give a toss.
What commies, where? Oh my god, reds under the bed, reds in my hard drive, the ILOVEREDS virus on the internet, where is it going to end? Will General McCarthy come back in our hour of need and save us from the Soviet menace.
PS the Cold War is over and Communism is dead(except in North Korea and Cuba - China is not Communist any more). I thank you.
Exactly, if they can't buy the company then they enter the market with a crappier product and use their monopoly to push that company out.
Hee hee let the flaming begin.
I never have been totalitarian so that adjective is stupid and irrelevant. As to prick, it's just an opinion that the shareholders of a huge American corporation have more than enough money compared to South American farmers who have less than enough. Now why don't you just go and play with th traffic you braindead idiot.
Errrrmmmm but I'm British, so I have every right to criticise.
Who are Chiquita to say who lives or dies in South America. Fuck you you dumb yank who doesn't even have the guts to log on and flame me. I believe in democracy and human rights far more than you do. Put those blinkers on and pretend the world doesn't matter, one day it'll be you that gets it.
I'm talking about the past when British farmers were just as arrogant as the French ones are now, and I feel no sympathy for them. As for criticizing countries that don't obey the rule of law, take a look at the UK arms industry as an appalling example of the flouting of international and European law. The French farmers/lorry drivers may piss people off, myself included (I was working in Luxembourg when the bastards closed the border for the day), but the Brits can hardly resort to mud-slinging.
Just like the British government sat back and ignored farmers blatant disregard of the law and allowed a fatal and incurable disease (BSE/CJD) to enter the food chain.
That's true, it's just that America does it bigger and nastier than everyone else.
No, he thinks corporations are a bad thing. Just as an aside, do you know why Jose's cheese, among other things, are subject to huge tariffs? It's because the EU insists on allowing poor South American farmers to have part of the import quota of bananas. Chiquita, that terribly impoverished corporation, protested this as a restriction on 'free' trade (i.e. Chiquita can undercut these poor farmers quite easily), to Clinton, Clinton, ever mindful of his corporate paycheck, threatened action, the EU promptly told him to go to hell and here we are in the middle of a trade war. So let's see now, poor South American farmers should starve because Chiquita wants to give more money to people who already have more than enough. American values eh? Gotta love em.
But he was attacking a corporation from a country that has an insular and xenophobic culture.
Would the pot please refrain from insulting the kettle. Thank you.
someone will undercut you, using your own work As if such a thing never happens in the closed-source world, except then it gets called innovation.
But you wouldn't be able to buy PCs at $400 without the selfless labour of these third-world folk who work 13 hours a day just so the average American can have Windows crash on him/her.
Well I'm sitting in an office which is about 60/40 men/women. But then all the men in the office wash at least every 2 days, don't wear sandals, don't have a beard you could hide a continent in, and generally have a life outside of coding. But then we're mainly mainframe dinosaurs, so you wouldn't be interested anyway.
(I'm joking - spare me the flames)
Oops yes not Cisco at all - I blame too many beers the night before. Fords have always consistently out-sold Volkswagens here in the UK, despite the fact that Volkswagens have always been better quality (although to be fair to Ford they are finally getting there). My point is that suckers will always buy well-marketed crap rather than take some time to find out if there are better alternatives.
What he's saying is that telnet and ftp are insecure and that sysadmins are not doing anything to address that issue, which is fair enough. Telnet should not be used over the internet, ssh should be instead, and any anonymous ftp server should not give a black hat access to the rest of the network.
This is not a 'ban ftp' thing but merely a take care and always read the security announcements.