As I said at a meeting one day as people were pulling their hair out over the latest MS worms, and the failures of all of the "automatic patch deployment"-type tools out there, "Maybe the large numbers of Microsoft workstations present an intractable problem". Stunned silence. I half expected to be stoned to death as a heretic. When Corporate America stops sucking on the Microsoft Tit, we'll finally see real improvements in security. As long as paper-engineers and golf-club-wielding PHBs are entrusted with decision making, I see no chance for improvement.
I was sort of on the fence about the Green Party, but now I've made up my mind. I will never, ever, EVER vote for you guys, and as I make a significant amount of money, and donate it when I feel appropriate, let me say this:
The next 20 poor, powerless slobs that you whip up into a frenzy to vote to confiscate my ends to justify their means will be effectively countered by my donations to both mainstream parties.
Put that in your racist, egalitarian, Europe-loving, (medical marijuana|crack) pipe, and smoke it.
The AC submitter chose to smuggle the little "altruism=good" gem into the article, and michael let him get away with it. Clearly not many people noticed, but undeniably the seed was planted, if you are equating "donating $1.000.000.000 to the world" with "a good man".
if you REALLY want "everything to integrate with everything else". True story: A friend retired his powerbook, bought a new one. He linked them via Firewire, and _dragged his home folder from 1 to the other_. That's it, it just magically copied all his settings, desktop setup, applications, EVERYTHING. Ever try to back up a Windows box? Look at Mozilla, some stuff in C:\Docuements and Settings\Foo\Application Data\Mozilla, others in C:\WINDOWS\mozilla.org, some other stuff, well, who knows where. MS apps are worse. Not trying to troll, I have XP and like it, but heck, if you want an "appliance", i.e. something that just works with no fuss or futzing, then get a new Mac.
Because he chose not to capitalize commercially on the Web? How is the measure of your altriusm the measure of your heroism? I understand that many people DO feel that way, but nobody has ever really explained WHY heroism is a necessary consequence of altriusm. Why is someone who makes a profit necessarily evil? The man who invented a corrugated-cardboard coffee-cup holder holds a patent on it; every Starbucks coffee sold puts a penny in his pocket. Why is that wrong?
You're quoting two blogs as PRIMARY sources to back up your claim, which itself is being made in another blog (Slashdot)? Son, you're not going to convince anyone that way. I could quote the GNAA and gain as much credibility as your two sources give you. Point people at real documentation (think: ACM, Intel or AMD whitepapers, IEEE publication, etc). Otherwise, crawl back under your bridge.
Warning, this Roland fellow submits (and they get accepted!) stories all the time, which link to his personal blog site. All his posts have the same format. Stop feeding him page views!
stu pid. So a level 5 PC will have a medium processor. What is this, D&D? And what happens next year when last year's "medium" is this year's "suck" chip? This whole thing strikes me as horribly condescending, although perhaps its the logical extension of the Intel/AMD/Cyrix "Performance Rating" stupidity. And if so, does Joe Sixpack DESERVE the condescension, for buying into the crap before? Either way, a static rating system for PC performance is instantly outdated the minute that its implemented. Geesh.
for granting Congress the power to legislate trade between the States. That little crack has widened to an enormous breach, to the point where these days, in America, the Soviet Russia jokes troll you. As the Oracle said in the Matrix "What do all men with power want? More power." As long as State and Federal legislatures exist, they will continue to pass laws. They're never "done". So of course they'll step up and slap down communities for doing this, its legally their perogative, and this is what they DO, they make laws. Not to mention the fact that they're probably all in the pockets of the telecom companies (Valenti, anyone?)
Hardly a worthy comment for someone who claims both to be "Atlas" and who advocates for a website called 'promethean-fire'. Our new subscription-based overlords will be a 'mediocrity' in the true sense of the word. If it's wrong, and bad for business, how can you support it, whether it provides you livelihood or not? Can you not find a job without someone pushing broken products?
will consist of deployment of a crappy too-thick-to-be-thin client, with poor response time, and broken widgets. The vendor will claim that it is due to either 1) client-side misconfigurations, or 2) unanticipated variations in the environment, both of which will be ironed out via a Professional Services contract accompanying the software "delivery". The end result will be the creation of numerous roles at the client's expense to "manage" and "coordinate" the software delivery, frustration at the end-user level, raises and kudos for the middle managers who jumped on the bandwagon, and fat wallets on the part of the shovelware designers.
This guy, Roland Piquepaille, plugs products in his blogs and submits links to Slashdot, which, incredibly, are accepted. Check out his other posts, he has had a submission accepted every day for the last 4 days, all the submissions are the same style and format, and all have a link to some new product. STOP FEEDING HIM PAGE VIEWS!
So who is "trusted" enough to administer the system? I assume that this really means "dont let just any old voter near it", but can you trust the sysadmins, the guys who move the machines, the voting site admin people, etc.?
The writer talks about how the average person has trouble with minor challenges in geography (true enough), but then goes on to talk about Microsoft programmers:
1, Not knowing where Jammu-Kashmir is, exactly, and not knowing that Indian law prohibits considering it part of anything but India. (Never mind that the law has its own counterpart in Pakistan; you can't avoid breaking the law on this one.)
2, In a similar vein, having to offend Kurds so as not to offend the Turks with regard to the depiction of Kurdistan.
3, Offending the Saudis by showing churches turned into mosques by invading Muslim armies...never mind that the exact opposite happens when a Christian army takes over a mosque in the game.
4, Didn't know that "woman" in one dialect of Spanish means "bitch" in another.
None of these things seem to me to be so hard to imagine. Do Nicaraguans know that the word "cracker" can be used as a racist term here? Do Indians know that the Argentines go completely apeshit when you refer to the Faulkand Islands as such, rather than by their preferred name for them? And his assertion that Microsoft leaves their employees facing arrest in other countries seems baseless; he didn't mention a single instance. The worst he came up with was "questioned," and that was for calling Taiwan by it's real name. It's not Microsoft's fault that China has a wild hair up their ass over that one, either.
I had this "Future Technologies" book when I was a kid, and it explained how we could create pressure-safe undersea domes using this exact technology. Steel grid dome, apply electricity, wait for the minerals, then wait for the coral, eventually you'd have a water-tight, hollow dome. I think this book also talked about a nuclear reactor in every home, so maybe it wasn't 100% accurate. Still, nice to see some technologies actually being applied.
Nicer still, if the philosophical evil which teaches people that causality is merely an arbitrary construct could be abolished. Then maybe these cyanide and dynamite fishers would learn that you cannot both have and eat your cake.
It means that everyone else in your society (US, Canada, wherever you live) is picking up the tab. It's not "Santa Government", it's sucking 10% from everyone healthy's paycheck to pay for the 1 in 10 who can't cut it. Yes, -1, Flamebait, but +1, Not Mean If Its True
Must be nice to suck off the Public Teat. Gee, I was broke in college, but healthy and worked my ass off shovelling snow and mowing lawns. I guess I don't qualify for anything - I have the privilege of strength, but you have the right of weakness, eh?
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As I said at a meeting one day as people were pulling their hair out over the latest MS worms, and the failures of all of the "automatic patch deployment"-type tools out there, "Maybe the large numbers of Microsoft workstations present an intractable problem". Stunned silence. I half expected to be stoned to death as a heretic. When Corporate America stops sucking on the Microsoft Tit, we'll finally see real improvements in security. As long as paper-engineers and golf-club-wielding PHBs are entrusted with decision making, I see no chance for improvement.
I was sort of on the fence about the Green Party, but now I've made up my mind. I will never, ever, EVER vote for you guys, and as I make a significant amount of money, and donate it when I feel appropriate, let me say this:
The next 20 poor, powerless slobs that you whip up into a frenzy to vote to confiscate my ends to justify their means will be effectively countered by my donations to both mainstream parties.
Put that in your racist, egalitarian, Europe-loving, (medical marijuana|crack) pipe, and smoke it.
Who happen to be sharing copyrighted material, i.e. breaking the law.
Lets call a troll a troll, here.
The Search for More Money
Christ, its like she's Linus or Madonna. OSSpews is just a blog, get over it, and maybe it will get over itself.
The AC submitter chose to smuggle the little "altruism=good" gem into the article, and michael let him get away with it. Clearly not many people noticed, but undeniably the seed was planted, if you are equating "donating $1.000.000.000 to the world" with "a good man".
See, the difference?
-3, Anonymous Coward.
if you REALLY want "everything to integrate with everything else".
True story: A friend retired his powerbook, bought a new one. He linked them via Firewire, and _dragged his home folder from 1 to the other_. That's it, it just magically copied all his settings, desktop setup, applications, EVERYTHING.
Ever try to back up a Windows box? Look at Mozilla, some stuff in C:\Docuements and Settings\Foo\Application Data\Mozilla, others in C:\WINDOWS\mozilla.org, some other stuff, well, who knows where. MS apps are worse.
Not trying to troll, I have XP and like it, but heck, if you want an "appliance", i.e. something that just works with no fuss or futzing, then get a new Mac.
Because he chose not to capitalize commercially on the Web? How is the measure of your altriusm the measure of your heroism? I understand that many people DO feel that way, but nobody has ever really explained WHY heroism is a necessary consequence of altriusm. Why is someone who makes a profit necessarily evil? The man who invented a corrugated-cardboard coffee-cup holder holds a patent on it; every Starbucks coffee sold puts a penny in his pocket. Why is that wrong?
$ su -
# uname
Linux
# iptables -P INPUT -j DENY
# iptables -A INPUT -m state --state=ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
# exit
$
You're quoting two blogs as PRIMARY sources to back up your claim, which itself is being made in another blog (Slashdot)? Son, you're not going to convince anyone that way. I could quote the GNAA and gain as much credibility as your two sources give you. Point people at real documentation (think: ACM, Intel or AMD whitepapers, IEEE publication, etc). Otherwise, crawl back under your bridge.
You're fucked.
Does it run Windows? I guess not, so maybe you'd have to run a real operating system on it.
Warning, this Roland fellow submits (and they get accepted!) stories all the time, which link to his personal blog site. All his posts have the same format. Stop feeding him page views!
stu pid.
So a level 5 PC will have a medium processor. What is this, D&D? And what happens next year when last year's "medium" is this year's "suck" chip? This whole thing strikes me as horribly condescending, although perhaps its the logical extension of the Intel/AMD/Cyrix "Performance Rating" stupidity. And if so, does Joe Sixpack DESERVE the condescension, for buying into the crap before? Either way, a static rating system for PC performance is instantly outdated the minute that its implemented. Geesh.
for granting Congress the power to legislate trade between the States. That little crack has widened to an enormous breach, to the point where these days, in America, the Soviet Russia jokes troll you. As the Oracle said in the Matrix "What do all men with power want? More power." As long as State and Federal legislatures exist, they will continue to pass laws. They're never "done". So of course they'll step up and slap down communities for doing this, its legally their perogative, and this is what they DO, they make laws. Not to mention the fact that they're probably all in the pockets of the telecom companies (Valenti, anyone?)
Hardly a worthy comment for someone who claims both to be "Atlas" and who advocates for a website called 'promethean-fire'. Our new subscription-based overlords will be a 'mediocrity' in the true sense of the word. If it's wrong, and bad for business, how can you support it, whether it provides you livelihood or not? Can you not find a job without someone pushing broken products?
will consist of deployment of a crappy too-thick-to-be-thin client, with poor response time, and broken widgets. The vendor will claim that it is due to either 1) client-side misconfigurations, or 2) unanticipated variations in the environment, both of which will be ironed out via a Professional Services contract accompanying the software "delivery". The end result will be the creation of numerous roles at the client's expense to "manage" and "coordinate" the software delivery, frustration at the end-user level, raises and kudos for the middle managers who jumped on the bandwagon, and fat wallets on the part of the shovelware designers.
This guy, Roland Piquepaille, plugs products in his blogs and submits links to Slashdot, which, incredibly, are accepted. Check out his other posts, he has had a submission accepted every day for the last 4 days, all the submissions are the same style and format, and all have a link to some new product. STOP FEEDING HIM PAGE VIEWS!
So who is "trusted" enough to administer the system? I assume that this really means "dont let just any old voter near it", but can you trust the sysadmins, the guys who move the machines, the voting site admin people, etc.?
I made a mod out of my poop once.
The writer talks about how the average person has trouble with minor challenges in geography (true enough), but then goes on to talk about Microsoft programmers:
1, Not knowing where Jammu-Kashmir is, exactly, and not knowing that Indian law prohibits considering it part of anything but India. (Never mind that the law has its own counterpart in Pakistan; you can't avoid breaking the law on this one.)
2, In a similar vein, having to offend Kurds so as not to offend the Turks with regard to the depiction of Kurdistan.
3, Offending the Saudis by showing churches turned into mosques by invading Muslim armies...never mind that the exact opposite happens when a Christian army takes over a mosque in the game.
4, Didn't know that "woman" in one dialect of Spanish means "bitch" in another.
None of these things seem to me to be so hard to imagine. Do Nicaraguans know that the word "cracker" can be used as a racist term here? Do Indians know that the Argentines go completely apeshit when you refer to the Faulkand Islands as such, rather than by their preferred name for them? And his assertion that Microsoft leaves their employees facing arrest in other countries seems baseless; he didn't mention a single instance. The worst he came up with was "questioned," and that was for calling Taiwan by it's real name. It's not Microsoft's fault that China has a wild hair up their ass over that one, either.
I had this "Future Technologies" book when I was a kid, and it explained how we could create pressure-safe undersea domes using this exact technology. Steel grid dome, apply electricity, wait for the minerals, then wait for the coral, eventually you'd have a water-tight, hollow dome. I think this book also talked about a nuclear reactor in every home, so maybe it wasn't 100% accurate. Still, nice to see some technologies actually being applied.
Nicer still, if the philosophical evil which teaches people that causality is merely an arbitrary construct could be abolished. Then maybe these cyanide and dynamite fishers would learn that you cannot both have and eat your cake.
It means that everyone else in your society (US, Canada, wherever you live) is picking up the tab. It's not "Santa Government", it's sucking 10% from everyone healthy's paycheck to pay for the 1 in 10 who can't cut it.
Yes, -1, Flamebait, but +1, Not Mean If Its True
Must be nice to suck off the Public Teat. Gee, I was broke in college, but healthy and worked my ass off shovelling snow and mowing lawns. I guess I don't qualify for anything - I have the privilege of strength, but you have the right of weakness, eh?