...that their surveys are bogus, that we see them assume that the crappy answers they get are the fault of the respondents.
Back when McCain's campaign was maligning Bush in the 2000 primaries, I got a call from a pollster, obvious from the McCain camp, who offered the most leading questions and answer choices I've ever seen in such a poll. Of course, when I said that I thought McCain was a commie, and that I didn't agree with even a tenth of his allegedly 'conservative' positions, the guy started shuffling to end that interview. I am certain my survey responses got flushed.
...byproducts of the computer age and developments like this, even if they don't lead to widespread use, are a genuine testament to the value of being able to hack on our own machines and try out new ideas. Sadly, very few people understand that little stuff like this is where the big stuff comes from in 10 years.
James Burke should be required reading in American High Schools.
You don't melt iron. You melt -steel-, which is an alloy of iron and carbon, with a variable melting point depending on the carbon content(more carbon, lower melting point).
The question about the microwave use is not my issue.;)
I was listening to a computer expert rail about the HP/Compaq deal and spew a lot of invective about how MBA's think that all you have to do is draw a few boxes, make a few new lines and tell someone to do it. These people usually don't know what they are asking in the first place, and don't care so long as they get their big, fat bonus checks.
Shoot the lawyers, then go after the MBAs. Shakespeare had it right.
Actually, Xecu.net is able to serve DSL customers within 25000 feet of the Verizon Central Office in Frederick. What torques me is that they won't run the fiber to the rural areas at all, which all have ISDN capability.
All of Verizon's service area supposedly has ISDN now. ISDN makes them more money, because it's metered, which is why Verizon is dragging its feet on getting broadband out. No surprise there, considering who they used to be.
These neighboring counties are languishing too. Verizon isn't serious about serving them, either. I'd pay taxes to have broadband and see Verizon have to suck up their losses. There are lots of people who want broadband out in the countryside, who are close to central switching facilities, that Verizon won't serve. It's easier to get a T1 out here, which is scary.
You start by taking the current version, apply the patches for all the known holes, and then put it in a fancy new box and tell your sales force to lie, cheat, and steal to get it on every machine possible. Those who do not assimilate are destroyed.
Meaning, that the next 3 versions don't have a -prayer- of being secure.
It's actually funnier with the above added for spice.
Instead, Ballmer said companies like Sun Microsystems, whose relationship with Microsoft is notoriously prickly, would dedicate themselves to frustrating Microsoft engineers.
"Sun Microsystems (can) go buy 10,000 copies, and they can have people just sit there and generate work requests to us every minute of every day," Ballmer said. "Somebody could say, 'Look, I want to make Microsoft's life miserable; so I'll tell you what, I'll pay you $10 million a year to torture Microsoft."'
$10 million a year is chump change, given how much money M$ has spent frustrating everyone else's engineers.
Nope. Sorry. Holding the meeting in Ghana is designed to keep the public at large and other interested parties out of the ICANN Star Chamber. ICANN has proven absolutely ineffective at being anything other than a political whore to the interests of the Corporate Plutocracy that wants to take the internet away from everyone.
It's really good to see that RIPE NCC is standing up to these losers.
...over one stupid rendering library. Yes, it's the rendering library for graphics or something. It's the same stupid one that they shove into Macs that crashes the thing anytime you fire up Mozilla.
It's also the -exact- reason why I removed ALL MS software from the Macs in my house. You get tired of machines locking up all of the time and I was beginning to understand what the BSOD was like, so there was no choice.
Hey, I know women who would completely fall for a guy who brought them such a cute and useful networking device. It's a matter of knowing a girl well enough to know whether she wants the ethernet switch or the USB hub more.
They could only have gotten the info from WHOIS. In fact, they were trying to get my husband, who does the high end geek stuff on our system. MS goes after the technical contacts, in most cases, and if you're female, these pricks talk down to you.
Of course, after being treated like a mere woman by this flunkie, the tune changed when I calmly informed the maladjusted toadstool that I was the owner of the business. They tried very hard to do the high pressure sell on me when they found out that I made the purchasing decisions--all talking in simple, bandwagon language(because I'm female). Mind you, I don't own any MS software, don't want to, and find being gotten out of bed at 8am by their contract telemarketing flunkies who are treating me like a girl and trying to tell me that using Microsoft B-Central and IIS will bring me untold riches to be about as annoying as it gets before raising my voice.
I did tell them to put me on their 'do not call' list, which means we'll get one more call from some sales rep who wants to push their B-Central abortion.
Another great reason to hate Microsoft and wish a rain of firey boulders on Redmond.
At issue is a simple question of whether or not a vendor is negligent in the manufacture of a product. Simple consumer product law applies here, believe it or not.
In the case of Microsoft, you can demonstrate a pattern of negligence in the way they test and release their product. The company also publically denies that there are problems until it is too late for users to do much of anything to protect themselves and their networks. The last thing MS wants is administrators migrating their operations off MS products in favor of more controllable risk(like Open Source or a different and better tested proprietary one). I say controllable risk, because no software is bug-free and it is the job of the administrator to manage the technical arena and minimize risks to their networks.
With the Redmond mis and disinformation machine, you can never be sure of what the truth is in terms of real support from the vendor. Afterall, this latest round with UPnP pretty much proved that the company puts profits over security. I mean, only Microsoft would try to tell the FBI that a security disaster waiting to happen wasn't one. It IS how they maintain their 'edge'.
And it's sad to think that we'd let corporate interests stamp out this kind of experimentation and hardware hacking because it interefered with their conception of intellectual property.
Maryland Residents should be writing our dear Mr. Curran, explaining the problem in simple terms, explaining that making users go into the internet for the patch is not sufficient for dealing with this faulty product, and demanding to see the OS recalled and a fraud investigation initiated.
Might want to copy the DoJ, even if Ashcroft is a sell out to Redmond.
The government is still so busy licking Gates' buttcheeks that they are still running mission critical operations on Windows machines. Outside of DoD and some quarters of the military, all you need to do is get something into a computer behind one of those MCSE maintained firewalls and it's gameover.
Just because no one has bothered to erase hard drives with these vulnerabilities before now, doesn't mean that it isn't coming.
This is probably one of the most stupid things a terrorist could have done. Most reporters have a liberal slant. That's no secret. If they weren't targets of anthrax, they may have intruduced a liberal bias into their reporting as civilian casualties mounted. Or they could have simply tried to find something negative about the war effort. No since they are pissed off at being target they may simply say screw the bastards and give a more hawkish bias into their reporting.
This assertion is utter nonsense. This is a *dream* come true for both terrorists and media mogul alike. They sent it to the press, because they damn well -know- that the press will exhibit certain panic behavior and throw it in the public's face as much as humanly possible to sell ads and newspapers. The public, seeing way overblown reporting, panics, incites the Congress to act and viola! We have lawmakers rolling over to gve Ashcroft everything he wants.
If you ask me, this is all perfectly researched, planned, and executed--and most of the people around us are more than willing to fall for it.
You don't try to kill of the peacemakers.
That is, unless you want to incite the ultimate global conflict.
I used back in 1995 when I did my first page generated all kinds of basics in HTML 2.0. You didn't need to write a single line of HTML to make a webpage with it.
But just because the Discordian religion probably appeared first in a fictional novel doesn't mean that the beliefs are not valid, even if a bit loony.
Discordia was actually worshipped in Rome. This was the source of a lot of angst in the Empire, since they were uptight about a lot of things, and especially people religiously inclined to buck the system.
The Greeks were much more laid back about the whole deal, so Eris herself enjoyed little to no known worshippers. Well, at least not that anyone would admit to seeing.
Actually, if you get enough of a population of something located in an area, what they are and their needs become important. Heavily Jewish areas of the US, for instance, often have vast influence over the local school schedules, since many of the kids aren't in school on those days.
What this means is that in the UK, should they amass enough Jedi Knights, that they will possibly have to make special considerations for facilities and transportation. Very serious stuff indeed.
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...that their surveys are bogus, that we see them assume that the crappy answers they get are the fault of the respondents.
Back when McCain's campaign was maligning Bush in the 2000 primaries, I got a call from a pollster, obvious from the McCain camp, who offered the most leading questions and answer choices I've ever seen in such a poll. Of course, when I said that I thought McCain was a commie, and that I didn't agree with even a tenth of his allegedly 'conservative' positions, the guy started shuffling to end that interview. I am certain my survey responses got flushed.
James Burke should be required reading in American High Schools.
You don't melt iron. You melt -steel-, which is an alloy of iron and carbon, with a variable melting point depending on the carbon content(more carbon, lower melting point).
The question about the microwave use is not my issue. ;)
Yeah, especially when you pay out those huge bonuses and stock options to your executives, even when supposedly not making money. ;)
Shoot the lawyers, then go after the MBAs. Shakespeare had it right.
That would be Microsoft.
All of Verizon's service area supposedly has ISDN now. ISDN makes them more money, because it's metered, which is why Verizon is dragging its feet on getting broadband out. No surprise there, considering who they used to be.
Are you thinking 'vanity press', or someone like Xlibris?
Meaning, that the next 3 versions don't have a -prayer- of being secure.
It's actually funnier with the above added for spice.
Instead, Ballmer said companies like Sun Microsystems, whose relationship with Microsoft is notoriously prickly, would dedicate themselves to frustrating Microsoft engineers.
"Sun Microsystems (can) go buy 10,000 copies, and they can have people just sit there and generate work requests to us every minute of every day," Ballmer said. "Somebody could say, 'Look, I want to make Microsoft's life miserable; so I'll tell you what, I'll pay you $10 million a year to torture Microsoft."'
$10 million a year is chump change, given how much money M$ has spent frustrating everyone else's engineers.
It's really good to see that RIPE NCC is standing up to these losers.
It's also the -exact- reason why I removed ALL MS software from the Macs in my house. You get tired of machines locking up all of the time and I was beginning to understand what the BSOD was like, so there was no choice.
Of course, after being treated like a mere woman by this flunkie, the tune changed when I calmly informed the maladjusted toadstool that I was the owner of the business. They tried very hard to do the high pressure sell on me when they found out that I made the purchasing decisions--all talking in simple, bandwagon language(because I'm female). Mind you, I don't own any MS software, don't want to, and find being gotten out of bed at 8am by their contract telemarketing flunkies who are treating me like a girl and trying to tell me that using Microsoft B-Central and IIS will bring me untold riches to be about as annoying as it gets before raising my voice.
I did tell them to put me on their 'do not call' list, which means we'll get one more call from some sales rep who wants to push their B-Central abortion.
Another great reason to hate Microsoft and wish a rain of firey boulders on Redmond.
In the case of Microsoft, you can demonstrate a pattern of negligence in the way they test and release their product. The company also publically denies that there are problems until it is too late for users to do much of anything to protect themselves and their networks. The last thing MS wants is administrators migrating their operations off MS products in favor of more controllable risk(like Open Source or a different and better tested proprietary one). I say controllable risk, because no software is bug-free and it is the job of the administrator to manage the technical arena and minimize risks to their networks.
With the Redmond mis and disinformation machine, you can never be sure of what the truth is in terms of real support from the vendor. Afterall, this latest round with UPnP pretty much proved that the company puts profits over security. I mean, only Microsoft would try to tell the FBI that a security disaster waiting to happen wasn't one. It IS how they maintain their 'edge'.
Death by a 1000 cuts.
Of course, it's also funny as hell. Go geeks! :)
Maryland Residents should be writing our dear Mr. Curran, explaining the problem in simple terms, explaining that making users go into the internet for the patch is not sufficient for dealing with this faulty product, and demanding to see the OS recalled and a fraud investigation initiated.
Might want to copy the DoJ, even if Ashcroft is a sell out to Redmond.
Here's your chance, Maryland! Do us all proud.
Just because no one has bothered to erase hard drives with these vulnerabilities before now, doesn't mean that it isn't coming.
This assertion is utter nonsense. This is a *dream* come true for both terrorists and media mogul alike. They sent it to the press, because they damn well -know- that the press will exhibit certain panic behavior and throw it in the public's face as much as humanly possible to sell ads and newspapers. The public, seeing way overblown reporting, panics, incites the Congress to act and viola! We have lawmakers rolling over to gve Ashcroft everything he wants.
If you ask me, this is all perfectly researched, planned, and executed--and most of the people around us are more than willing to fall for it.
You don't try to kill of the peacemakers.
That is, unless you want to incite the ultimate global conflict.
It worked for Noam Chomsky. *shrug*
I used back in 1995 when I did my first page generated all kinds of basics in HTML 2.0. You didn't need to write a single line of HTML to make a webpage with it.
Discordia was actually worshipped in Rome. This was the source of a lot of angst in the Empire, since they were uptight about a lot of things, and especially people religiously inclined to buck the system.
The Greeks were much more laid back about the whole deal, so Eris herself enjoyed little to no known worshippers. Well, at least not that anyone would admit to seeing.
What this means is that in the UK, should they amass enough Jedi Knights, that they will possibly have to make special considerations for facilities and transportation. Very serious stuff indeed.
*SMIRK*